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2016 College Football Season: Upsets, Blowouts & Rankings Effect
An interesting (and too spread out) opening weekend to the 2016 season in college football, with LSU stunned by unranked Wisconsin, Houston doing the game to Oklahoma, while USC suffered one of the worst losses in school history, by making the mistake and agreeing to meet Alabama on neutral ground. Obviously, rankings are going to shift due to some of these results, although it is just week 1.
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College Football: Week 1 Scores & Standings
The 2016 season began before this Saturday, but the main course was finally served, and included four ranked teams (Oklahoma, LSU, Texas A&M, USC) losing their season opener, Alabama crushing in a demonstration of what a number one team should be, and both Ohio State & Michigan breezing at home against week opposition. Clemson had to sweat to get their win, but even with an Auburn team having a rough time, their visit was never going to be easy.
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2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Friday Night Scores
The foray into the 2016 college football season continued in friday night, as Stanford enjoyed another stellar performance from Christian McCaffrey to put away a pesky Kansas State team, Baylor had no problem dispatching of Northwestern State at home with Seth Russell doing a great job, and Michigan State struggled against FCS side Furman, not showing too much promise for the upcoming season.
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10 Oldest Head Coaches in College Football
Among the 10 oldest active coaches in college football, two are over 70, and seven of them are working for power 5 conference programs. All of the coaches in the group are 61 or older at the time of this post being written. Tommy Tuberville, Cincinnati: 61 Born on September 18, 1954, Tuberville will turn […]
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2016 College Football Season: Week 1 Thursday Night Scores
Two ranked teams played on the Thursday that officially kicked off the 2016 college football season: Tennessee, struggling at home against Appalachian State, and Louisville, having no problem crushing Charlotte, as Lamar Jackson put on a show for the Cardinals, involved in 8 touchdown plays.
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2016 College Football Season: Biggest Games of Week 1
The official opening weekend of the 2016 college football season has some massive non-conference games to kick things off right, with Oklahoma playing in Houston against the Cougars, or Ole Miss travelling to Orlando and playing Florida State, who think they have a shot at returning to the playoffs this year. The biggest game in name will be in Dallas, where #20 USC are hoping not to get beat up too badly by defending national champions and number one ranked Alabama.
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7 Most Played Matchups of Week 1 Games in the 2016 Season
Of the 31 games involving at least one P5 conference team in week 1 (Hawaii games get counted twice here), only 7 feature matchups between teams with a history of at least 5 games between them, excluding two conference games in the ACC and the SEC.
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2016 College Football Season: Preseason Rankings
As expected, the first preseason poll puts Alabama on top of the rankings, favorites to defend their national title. They were among seven teams, including Clemson, Oklahoma, Florida State, LSU, Ohio State and Michigan to receive first place votes.
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Most BCS/New Year’s Six Bowl Game Appearances 2008-2015
In another attempt to determine the most dominant programs in College Football over the last 8 seasons, we took a look at the number of major bowl game appearances for schools since 2008, which means either a BCS Bowl or a New Year’s Six Bowl Game since the era of the College Football Playoff was ushered in. We narrowed the list down to six schools with at least 4 such appearances. The Pac-12 is the only conference with two on the list, which could suggest quality, or simply parity.
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10 Newest Stadiums in College Football
College Football is often about celebrating the old and tradition in general, but there’s always room for a little bit of glorifying the new, especially if it means much better stadiums. With the recent rush of stadium openings coming in 2014 (Baylor, Houston, Tulane), there are 10 stadiums in the FBS which have made their debuts in the last 10 years.