Michigan St, Iowa St both lose at home to unranked opponents. Not the way to leave week 2 still in contention for a national title. For that matter Tennessee can't escape the elimination either losing at home to unranked UCLA. Thats three more teams off the board and its only week 2. What kind of championship system kills off a team before their third game is even played? I'm keeping Kansas St alive because I want to be as absolutely conservative as I can about whom to eliminate. Kansas St lost to Louisiana Lafayette, and normally that would do it for me, but they did lose on the road so I don't want to get too hasty. One more loss and we wont have to think twice though. I'm also keeping Oklahoma St active despite suffering easily the most embarrassing loss of the week. Its unlikely they'll fall totally off the top 25 but they are not a team that could lose again.
Here are the games that no longer matter:
Michigan St @ Illinois
Michigan St v Western Michigan
Iowa St @ Kent St
Iowa St v Army
Iowa St v Colorado
Tennessee v Ohio
Tennessee v Memphis
7 more games are irrelevant, 3 more teams are irrelevant.
In D1AA news there were two fantastic games played with CAA teams, James Madison loses in overtime to Maryland and New Hampshire beats Ball St. The CAA is good, really good. At the end of the year I wouldn't be surprised to see a better record v D1A out of conference in the CAA than the Sun Belt, and the great thing is those teams will be battling all year for a shot at the national title. Delaware's 15-16 loss to Richmond wont disqualify them from the playoffs, its just one of many amazing games left to play.
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