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

[RSTuthill]

The NYT's uses The Athletic for all their sports. Not sure if they own The Athletic or what.

 

[huskymedic]

The NYT's uses The Athletic for all their sports. Not sure if they own The Athletic or what.

They own The Athletic since 2022-ish.

 

[Kolumbo]

Pretty questionable algorithm when FAU moves up 21 spots by beating one of the worst FBS teams (UAB at 129th).

People confuse rankings with grades. Rankings are not in a vacuum but against other programs. You have to compare FAU to the programs they moved past and at 3-3, 101 seems fair. CBS has FAU +9 to 101.

UConn is +2 to 68 in the CBS rankings, cuse -4 to 69. It's all good. rutgers is -8 to 67 and bcu -8 to 96 because they actually played. Huge opportunity for UConn at Joey Chestnut this weekend.

UConn is officially in the top 50%!

 

[king conn]

You mean like the AP or Coaches Poll? 😉

Well that's not what I said now is it? In fact its the opposite. But thanks for chiming in.

 

[Kolumbo]

I'm not gonna quibble over placement, good to be in the mix. Took me a while to figure out who #20 is. They only beat UMass 21-3

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm not gonna quibble over placement, good to be in the mix. Took me a while to figure out who #20 is. They only beat UMass 21-3

Delaware isn't ahead of us..

No Temple?

Memphis ahead of USF?

Kind of a garbage list.

 

[Kolumbo]

Delaware isn't ahead of us..

No Temple?

Memphis ahead of USF?

Kind of a garbage list.

No Delaware isn't ahead of us
what, because Temple beat UMass?
USF and Memphis are a toss up
You're garbage

 

[giddyup]

Those 2 losses are like a pebble in each shoe. Can’t shake them lose and they just inflict a painful reminder with every step forward. Got to keep marching though. Let’s get a P4 W this week.
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[UCan3]

Those 2 losses are like a pebble in each shoe. Can’t shake them lose and they just inflict a painful reminder with every step forward. Got to keep marching though. Let’s get a P4 W this week.
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I have no problem with us at about 70 we do need to beat some better teams. Close doesn’t count and we need to knock out BC this weekend if we want to seriously be a top 60 team in my opinion

 

[ZooCougar]

No Delaware isn't ahead of us
what, because Temple beat UMass?
USF and Memphis are a toss up
You're garbage

Delaware should be.

Temple has a one point loss to Navy and a win againts UTSA which is better than anything we have.

Even the people who made the ranking admitted that they screwed up in the comments.

You don’t know ball at all.

 

[Kolumbo]

Delaware should be.

Temple has a one point loss to Navy and a win againts UTSA which is better than anything we have.

Even the people who made the ranking admitted that they screwed up in the comments.

You don’t know ball at all.

One error and you say the rankings are garbage. Maybe Temple deserves it but who cares, it's one omission

Why should UConn be lower than what did Delaware, because of head-to-head? That's not how it works. Alabama lost to FSU

CBS has UConn 68 and +26 Delaware 94

Sagarin has UConn 78 and +35 Delaware 113

 

[ZooCougar]

One error and you say the rankings are garbage. Maybe Temple deserves it but who cares, it's one omission

Why should UConn be lower than what did Delaware, because of head-to-head? That's not how it works. Alabama lost to FSU

CBS has UConn 68 and +26 Delaware 94

Sagarin has UConn 78 and +35 Delaware 113

They are better until they do something to show that they aren't. A close loss to WKU doesn't do that, in fact it just makes us look worse since we couldn't win there.

The list is nonsensical.

 

[Kolumbo]

They are better until they do something to show that they aren't. A close loss to WKU doesn't do that, in fact it just makes us look worse since we couldn't win there.

The list is nonsensical.

so you are saying Delaware is way too low or UConn is way too high. I know which way I'm leaning. share your own sensical list since you seem to be the all-knowing college football guru. Let's see how you do.

 

[Purple Stein]

WKU got their doors blown off by FIU last night. Move us up one slot!

 

[How Sway?!]

They are better until they do something to show that they aren't. A close loss to WKU doesn't do that, in fact it just makes us look worse since we couldn't win there.

The list is nonsensical.

Well they lost to WKU who just got demolished by FIU who we demolished just two weeks ago. Is that enough now?

 

[ZooCougar]

so you are saying Delaware is way too low or UConn is way too high. I know which way I'm leaning. share your own sensical list since you seem to be the all-knowing college football guru. Let's see how you do.

We’ll see how it shakes out this weekend. The truth is that most of these teams are pretty bad and there isn’t much separating them.

We still lost on the same field that WKU won on. And FIU looked like a different team last night.

 

[Hoophound]

We needed to get our D acclimated, so many new guys. It seems like they are somewhat more adjusted at this point and they are stopping big plays. That and a few Fagnano scrambles and we are 6-0. Since there is recency bias in polls, I like us over Delaware in the rankings.