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College Football – Upsets Won’t Shake Up Rankings Too Much
The first weekend of the 2015 College Football season won’t give us a major shakeup to the preseason rankings, as the losses by Stanford, Arizona State and Wisconsin are all by teams outside the top 14, while favorites to contend for a playoff spot like TCU, Alabama, Baylor and Michigan State didn’t run in to any problems.
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College Football 2015 Season – Week 1 Scores & Standings
The opening weekend of the 2015 college football season opens with three ranked teams losing: Wisconsin to Alabama in the AdvoCare Classic (not a surprise) and two less predictable results; Northwestern stunning Stanford and Texas A&M crushing Arizona State. National championship and playoff hopefuls like TCU, Baylor, Michigan State, Auburn and Oregon looked impressive enough considering the stage of the season and their weak opponents for the most part.
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NCAA Tournament – Kansas & Virginia Make it a Bad Day for Number Two Teams
While two Number one seeds, Duke and Wisconsin, kept the chains moving and advanced to the Sweet Sixteen, two number two seeds said goodbye to the tournament rather early, as Wichita State upset in-state rivals Kansas and Michigan State, for a second straight year, stood in the way of Virginia.
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NCAA Tournament – Villanova First Number One to Go Home
The first number one seed to get knocked out of the 2015 NCAA Tournament are Villanova, losing to number-eight North Carolina State, sending them home before the Sweet Sixteen, while Kentucky, Arizona and North Carolina didn’t seem to have so much trouble in an excellent day for the ACC, still perfect after three days of basketball.
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NCAA Tournament – Big 12 Collapses, Upsets Everywhere & Favorites Advance
How to describe the first day of the 2015 NCAA Tournament? All five Texas teams are out, three Big 12 teams lost, two #14 seeds (Georgia State and UAB) advanced while the favorites to reach the Final Four like Kentucky and Villanova, unlike other high ranked programs, didn’t run into too much trouble.
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College Basketball – Upsets From Wall to Wall
As the regular season in college basketball winds down, there’s nothing like a set of upsets to get everyone excited about what the selection committee is going to do, with Maryland (by beating Wisconsin), Syracuse (winning against Notre Dame) and North Carolina State (shocking North Carolina) stirring things up with surprising wins.
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College Football – Rivalries Possibly Decide Final Playoff Rankings
While week 14 of the 2014 College Football season was dubbed rivalry week for the history in most of its encounters, the focus went to the division and conferences titles to be decided, and what the results meant for the next playoff rankings to be released, as the SEC (with Alabama and Missouri) was finally decided, Oregon found it it’ll play Arizona for the Pac-12, Wisconsin are the ones who get to play Ohio State for the Big Ten and Florida State remain the only undefeated team in the nation after Marshall lost in something that looked like a basketball game.
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College Football – Rankings & Playoff Picture Go Through a Major Change
It was a nice run by Mississippi State to stay undefeated for most of the College Football season, but then came Alabama and brought things back to normality and the recognized in the SEC West, which means a big change at the top of the rankings and what the playoff picture currently looks like, especially with Florida State conjuring another big escape to remain one of the two undefeated teams along with the irrelevant Marshall.
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College Football – Only Three Undefeated Teams Left
Just one SEC West team is left undefeated after the LSU Tigers beat Ole Miss to leave just three teams this season without a loss in College Football: Mississippi State, beating Kentucky to remain number one, Florida State that had a week off and Marshall, who didn’t really impress in a win against Florida Atlantic.
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College Football – Only Ten Undefeated Teams Left
The first weekend of College Football in October completely changed the outlook of the rankings and what the playoffs will be like according to the current situation, as only ten teams in the nation remain undefeated: Three in the SEC (Auburn, Ole Miss, Mississippi State), two in the ACC (Florida State, Georgia Tech), two in the Big 12 (Baylor, TCU), one in the Pac-12 (Arizona), Notre Dame among the Independents and Marshall from Conference USA.