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The Athletic: Ranking 136 college football teams entering 2025, from Penn State to Kent State

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-> 83. UConn: Most of the pieces return from an explosive offense that powered a nine-win season.

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BlueandOG said:
This list is a load of nonsense. We dropped 30 spots from last year's list, and we are a better team. We should be ranked mid-50s.
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Given the amount of roster turnover on defense, I think it’s fair we drop some but I’d say around 70 feels right until we see them in action. These preseason lists are a true guessing game with all the transfers
 
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BlueandOG said:
This list is a load of nonsense. We dropped 30 spots from last year's list, and we are a better team. We should be ranked mid-50s.
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50s or 70s doesn’t much matter. Ultimately how the team finishes matters a heck of a lot more than how they start. Based on your schedule UConn should be favored in as many as 8-9 games which was unthinkable just a few years ago. Enjoy the return to respectability.
 
Ldandy said:
50s or 70s doesn’t much matter. Ultimately how the team finishes matters a heck of a lot more than how they start. Based on your schedule UConn should be favored in as many as 8-9 games which was unthinkable just a few years ago. Enjoy the return to respectability.
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Thanks so much for the reassurance.
 
BRS24 said:
Been waiting for this to post. Had to wade through some weird copy/paste crud. Here's our slate for the upcoming season. Let them sleep on us. I'l do the weekly updates with +/- starting in week 1.

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Buffalo is becoming a bit of a media darling. A lot of people seem to be forgetting what UConn did to them last year lol
 
  • Delaware is not 128th. I suspect they are much better than the podcasters think.
  • Buffalo went 9-4 last year? holy moly i thought they'd tank after what we did to them. That game could be dangerous for us.
 
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beerfan said:
How does a predicted 4-8 UCF team get ranked ahead of us?
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They fired Malzahn and hired Frost. There's some excitment about the season for them. I don't necessarily think they should be ranked higher than us, but that's probably why.
 
Ucf did win a national title in football recently They have the rings to prove it.
 
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Here we go, sports fans. Here are the rankings of UConn and opponents. Sorry, The Athletic doesn't have a share option. I'll post each week results here.

(Note - if any copy/paste errors, please forgive. I'm on the road, en route home to FL from a glorious 2 months in the great state of CT)

And on edit - why does it seem like every time Syracuse loses, they never move at all?

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Ranking 136 college football teams after Week 1: Can LSU, Florida State back up hot starts?

This list will be volatile early in the season, with big risers and fallers as data starts to come in. And Week 1 was loaded with data.
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Week 2 results - Four of top 25 (in The Athletic rankings) lost - Arizona State, Michigan, Florida, and SMU. Duke among the biggest losers this week. UConn still holding steady at "4th place" among opponents. Poor Florida got Gramatica-ed.

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Ranking 136 college football teams after Week 2: September surprises lead to big moves

With multiple overtime games, upsets and close calls, Week 2 provided a lot of results to shake up The Athletic 136.
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(note that undefeated teams' scores will copypasta as X-1, so hopefully I caught them all)
 
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Week 3 results - 5 of top 25 The Athletic 136 lost - ND, Clemson, USF, SC, and TN. Oh how the mighty hav fallen, Clemson.

UConn drops to 7th place among opponents. Our (not) friend northeast of us was the biggest loser. Delaware is the biggest winner.

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(note that undefeated teams' scores will copypasta as X-1, so hopefully I caught them all)
 
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We didn't drop as far as I feared. Let's regroup and come out fast and strong against Ball State.
 
Week 3 results - 4 of top 25 The Athletic 136 lost - Illini, Auburn, Utah, Tulane.

UConn up to 6th place among opponents. Syracuse, Duke, and Buffalo among the biggest +/- from last week. Oh the mighty have fallen, Illinois.

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(note that undefeated teams' scores will copypasta as X-1, so hopefully I caught them all)
 
BRS24 said:
Week 3 results - 4 of top 25 The Athletic 136 lost - Illini, Auburn, Utah, Tulane.

UConn up to 6th place among opponents. Syracuse, Duke, and Buffalo among the biggest +/- from last week. Oh the mighty have fallen, Illinois.

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(note that undefeated teams' scores will copypasta as X-1, so hopefully I caught them all)
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Las week was critical win for us - stop the slide. My biggest question is I think so far we have one of the worse defenses in Division 1. Can they start to pull it together?

They have hit rock bottom - where they go from here - well it makes every game interesting, that’s for sure.
 
Week 5 results - With all the "marquis" games this past week, 7 of the top 136 ranked lost. FSU, GA, LSU, PSU, TCU, Auburn, USC. NGL, was screaming at Cal for all those penalties at the end of the game. The anger runs deep. Hubby had no idea until I told him about the ACC history. He snorted, and said, even though you're from MA, you hate them?

UConn back up to 5th place among opponents. And yes, I'm petty enough to include BCU in biggest drops, even though I usually cut it off at 10 or so. SNS.

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(note that undefeated teams' scores will copypasta as X-1, so hopefully I caught them all)
 
BRS24 said:
Week 5 results - With all the "marquis" games this past week, 7 of the top 136 ranked lost. FSU, GA, LSU, PSU, TCU, Auburn, USC. NGL, was screaming at Cal for all those penalties at the end of the game. The anger runs deep. Hubby had no idea until I told him about the ACC history. He snorted, and said, even though you're from MA, you hate them?

UConn back up to 5th place among opponents. And yes, I'm petty enough to include BCU in biggest drops, even though I usually cut it off at 10 or so. SNS.

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My god if we can’t get bowl eligible with this schedule…
 
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