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198: The price of a win (opens the original)
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College football is in a constant state of change. The off-the-field news is exhausting. Lawsuits, preliminary injunctions, emergency motions. It’s hard to keep up.On the field, one trend that keeps holding is that there are fewer possessions per game. According to Brian Fremeau’s data at bcftoys.com, the total number of drives per game has steadily declined since 2015, and early returns show the same is happening in 2026. Teams are playing slower, putting a premium on drive efficiency, and r
197: Conferences don't play each other, teams do (opens the original)
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Week 3 was a whirlwind. It also marks the pause in cross-conference games between the power four leagues: SEC, ACC, Big 12, and Big Ten. Over the first four weeks of the season, 25 games were played in non-conference matchups featuring teams from two different power conferences. If we lump in Notre Dame, that number jumps to 27 games. The next nine weeks of the season will feature zero non-conference games between two teams from different power leagues. Notre Dame’s schedule has no conference ga
196: Week 2 had everything (opens the original)
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A sign that college football is back is the overwhelming feeling of so many things happening as Saturday comes to an end. 86 games were played in Week 2 over the past few days. We saw tons of weather-related delays, a 24-point favorite lose outright1, both teams block a punt for a touchdown in the same game2, and a team come back from down 20 points in the fourth quarter and win the game. Week 2 had everything<a class="
195: Blowouts and a Hail Mary (opens the original)
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After a litigious offseason, college football is back.Over the past 10 days, 98 games have been played featuring at least one FBS team, and 50 of those games put two FBS opponents against each other.Week 1 is the perfect time for overreactions, and there is some cooperation from the numbers. Since 2014, no week of the regular season with at least 10 FBS vs FBS games has produced a higher average margin of victory than this season’s Week 1 at 25.4 points. The next closest is Week 2 of 2016, when
194: Space, Time, and the Belichick Era (opens the original)
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624 days.As of today, that’s how long it has been since North Carolina hired Bill Belichick as its head football coach on December 11, 2024.A lot has happened over those 600-plus days, and much of it has come off the field. A planned series with HBO’s Hard Knocks fell through, Hulu later announced and canceled a docuseries around the program, Belichick released a book and gave an awkward interview, and there have been lots of staff changes. When Carolina opens the 2026 season in Ireland against
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