I started posting this thread on this board last year, but have been putting it up elsewhere for number of years. For the first several weeks of the season, it will look at the remaining undefeated teams and as the list narrows start to break them down a bit more. After awhile, it will expand to look at the 1 loss and winless teams too.

Teams with 1st loss week 1:
Akron
UNLV
Tulsa
Connecticut
South Alabama
North Carolina
Utah State
Vanderbilt
Rutgers
Hawaii
Western Michigan
Florida Atlantic
Southern Methodist
Kansas State
Buffalo
Massachusetts
Purdue
Toledo
Florida International
Louisiana Tech
Rice
Temple
Central Michigan
Mississippi State
Syracuse
Brigham Young
Iowa
Louisiana-Lafayette
Virginia Tech
Oregon State
Washington State
South Florida
Louisiana-Monroe
Idaho
Miami (OH)
Southern Miss
UAB
Kentucky
Iowa State
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Wyoming
San Diego State
Georgia
TCU
Nevada
Boise State
California
Ohio U.
Colorado State
Pittsburgh


Week 1 Thoughts: This year felt very interesting for a week 1 to me. We had a record 8 I-AA (FCS) teams beat I-A (FBS) teams. This is quite relevant to the season as a whole as a few of those losses could easily be the difference between bowl eligibility and non for a few teams. It also goes to show just how much parity there is across most of college football.


The other thing that's big to look for in this final year of the BCS are the undefeated non-AQ teams. If there is an undefeated team from one of the 4 non-AQ conferences. they'll probably be in the BCS. Last year we had a 1 loss MAC champ even make it in. (Note: The American is AQ this year, but will not have a bowl tie with the CFP next year). We saw a lot with the week 1 results. Everyone's first choice, Boise State, got drilled by Washington will probably not be in any BCS bowl this year. The Mountain West as a whole had a disaster of first week, but Fresno State beat Rutgers and is probably going to be the team to watch the rest of the way from that conference.


Week 2 Thoughts: If I counted right, we have 17 games next week between two undefeated I-A teams. Traditionally (well since I've been doing this) week 2 has closer to the same number of first losses compared to week 1 than you'd expect, but I think that will likely be different this year thanks to all the 1-AA losses.


Remaining Undefeated Teams: ACC: 11, American Athletic: 5, Big 12: 7, Big Ten: 10, Conference USA: 7, MAC: 5, Mountain West: 3, PAC-12: 9, SEC: 10, Sun Belt: 4, independents: 3, total: 73

Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami (FL)
Virginia
Baylor
Kansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Louisville
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
East Carolina
Marshall
Memphis
Central Florida
Houston
Tulane
UTEP
Bowling Green
Kent State
Ball State
Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois
Air Force
Fresno State
Oregon
Stanford
Washington
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
UCLA
USC
Utah
Florida
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Arkansas State
Middle Tennessee
North Texas
Troy
Western Kentucky
San Jose State
Texas State
UTSA
Army
Navy
Notre Dame

Reposting since original post will be updated.

I started posting this thread on this board last year, but have been putting it up elsewhere for number of years. For the first several weeks of the season, it will look at the remaining undefeated teams and as the list narrows start to break them down a bit more. After awhile, it will expand to look at the 1 loss and winless teams too.

Teams with 1st loss week 1:
Akron
UNLV
Tulsa
Connecticut
South Alabama
North Carolina
Utah State
Vanderbilt
Rutgers
Hawaii
Western Michigan
Florida Atlantic
Southern Methodist
Kansas State
Buffalo
Massachusetts
Purdue
Toledo
Florida International
Louisiana Tech
Rice
Temple
Central Michigan
Mississippi State
Syracuse
Brigham Young
Iowa
Louisiana-Lafayette
Virginia Tech
Oregon State
Washington State
South Florida
Louisiana-Monroe
Idaho
Miami (OH)
Southern Miss
UAB
Kentucky
Iowa State
New Mexico
New Mexico State
Wyoming
San Diego State
Georgia
TCU
Nevada
Boise State
California
Ohio U.
Colorado State
Pittsburgh


Week 1 Thoughts: This year felt very interesting for a week 1 to me. We had a record 8 I-AA (FCS) teams beat I-A (FBS) teams. This is quite relevant to the season as a whole as a few of those losses could easily be the difference between bowl eligibility and non for a few teams. It also goes to show just how much parity there is across most of college football.


The other thing that's big to look for in this final year of the BCS are the undefeated non-AQ teams. If there is an undefeated team from one of the 4 non-AQ conferences. they'll probably be in the BCS. Last year we had a 1 loss MAC champ even make it in. (Note: The American is AQ this year, but will not have a bowl tie with the CFP next year). We saw a lot with the week 1 results. Everyone's first choice, Boise State, got drilled by Washington will probably not be in any BCS bowl this year. The Mountain West as a whole had a disaster of first week, but Fresno State beat Rutgers and is probably going to be the team to watch the rest of the way from that conference.


Week 2 Thoughts: If I counted right, we have 17 games next week between two undefeated I-A teams. Traditionally (well since I've been doing this) week 2 has closer to the same number of first losses compared to week 1 than you'd expect, but I think that will likely be different this year thanks to all the 1-AA losses.


Remaining Undefeated Teams: ACC: 11, American Athletic: 5, Big 12: 7, Big Ten: 10, Conference USA: 7, MAC: 5, Mountain West: 3, PAC-12: 9, SEC: 10, Sun Belt: 4, independents: 3, total: 73

Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami (FL)
Virginia
Baylor
Kansas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas Tech
West Virginia
Cincinnati
Louisville
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
East Carolina
Marshall
Memphis
Central Florida
Houston
Tulane
UTEP
Bowling Green
Kent State
Ball State
Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois
Air Force
Fresno State
Oregon
Stanford
Washington
Arizona
Arizona State
Colorado
UCLA
USC
Utah
Florida
Missouri
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
LSU
Ole Miss
Texas A&M
Arkansas State
Middle Tennessee
North Texas
Troy
Western Kentucky
San Jose State
Texas State
UTSA
Army
Navy
Notre Dame

Awesome post. After week 3 we'll really see it start to narrow down

(09-03-2013 11:38 PM)Gamecock Wrote:  Awesome post. After week 3 we'll really see it start to narrow down

As it should!