Teams with 1st loss: 43
North Carolina
Central Florida
Central Michigan
Vanderbilt
Michigan
Idaho
Minnesota
Tulane
UTSA
Colorado
Georgia State
Southern Methodist
Western Michigan
Army
Washington
Louisiana-Monroe
Stanford
Kansas
Washington State
Kent State
Louisville
Virginia
UTEP
Florida Atlantic
Penn State
Nebraska
Eastern Michigan
Bowling Green
Wyoming
Troy
Arizona State
Akron
Louisiana-Lafayette
Texas
New Mexico State
Georgia Southern
UNLV
Wisconsin
Texas State
Southern Miss
Arkansas State
Purdue
Virginia Tech


Percent of Teams with 1st Loss Week 1: 33.59% (43 of 128)
For Comparison: Week 1 last year saw 31% of teams lose the first time and week 1 in 2013 saw 41.13% lose.

Number of Possible Undefeated Teams at the End of the Regular Season: 12-At most one team from conference plus BYU and Notre Dame.

Week 1 Thoughts:
-It probably seems weird to see only about a third of teams suffer their first loss this week, but by my quick count (which might be off by a couple), there were 48 scheduled games between I-A and I-AA (FBS and FCS). While there were a few losses on the 1-A side in that, most were still wins.

-Too early to say much about individual teams. On the conference level, the conference which did the best this week was almost certainly the SEC. They did have Vanderbilt lose at home to Western Kentucky, but everyone else won or didn’t play (LSU’s game was cancelled) including in some games.

Week 2 Thoughts:
-We have 24 games between undefeated I-A teams next week (at least by my quick count).
-We have 6 games between winless I-A teams.
-Boise State plays at BYU next week. If Boise State wins it, it will be a very big early favorite for the Group of 5 New Years 6 Bowl. BYU meanwhile needs it to hope to end in the top 12 or so and get in one of the bowls themselves.
-Some conference action getting started next week.

Remaining Undefeated Teams: ACC: 10, American Athletic: 9, Big 12: 8, Big Ten: 8, Conference USA: 9, MAC: 7, Mountain West: 10, PAC-12: 7, SEC: 13, Sun Belt: 2, independents: 2, total: 85

Boston College
Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
Duke
Georgia Tech
Miami (FL)
Iowa State
Kansas State
Missouri
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Pittsburg
Rutgers
South Florida
Syracuse
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan State
Northwestern
Ohio State
East Carolina
Marshall
Memphis
Houston
Rice
Tulsa
Buffalo
Miami (OH)
Ohio U.
Ball State
Northern Illinois
Toledo
Air Force
Brigham Young
Colorado State
New Mexico
San Diego State
Texas Christian
Utah
Arizona
California
Oregon
Oregon State
Southern California
UCLA
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Louisiana State
Mississippi State
Ole Miss
Florida International
Middle Tennessee
North Texas
Boise State
Fresno State
Hawaii
Louisiana Tech
Nevada
San Jose State
Utah State
Navy
Notre Dame
Temple
Western Kentucky
Massachusetts
South Alabama
Appalachian State
Old Dominion
(Charlotte)

(09-07-2015 11:16 PM)ohio1317 Wrote:  -Boise State plays at BYU next week. If Boise State wins it, it will be a very big early favorite for the Group of 5 New Years 6 Bowl. BYU meanwhile needs it to hope to end in the top 12 or so and get in one of the bowls themselves.

The sad reality is that BYU can beat Boise St. by 50 points this Saturday and Boise St.'s path to the Fiesta Bowl is still 100 times easier than BYU's path. Still, I'm glad that BYU's only goal isn't the NY6.