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The legendary Sesame Street character, The Count, has been known to say, “Ten is the number for today!”
This week, there are now only ten unbeaten squads remaining out of the 130 FBS Large college teams. At the other end of the spectrum, there also just ten teams with either one or zero wins remaining comprising the bottom of my FBS poll.
10! Ahh-ha-ha! Boom!
After Week #8 of the college football season Saturday, the SwampSwami College Football Top 25 now says “Good-bye” to Wisconsin and Boise State from the ranks of last week’s dozen undefeated teams.
Wisconsin was a 30-point favorite on the road at 2-4 Illinois. After the Badgers took an early lead, the Fighting Illini came roaring back and scored a game-winning field goal on the final play to win 24-23.
Also on the road, the Boise State Broncos lost their first game of the 2019 season 28-25 to 2-4 BYU. The Brigham Young Cougars have likely ended the Broncos chances for a highly profitable major New Year’s Day bowl game.
On the other end of the scale, it’s time to reveal my Bottom ten teams.
I find it surprising that only ten teams out of 130 remain with one or zero wins at this point in the season. I would have figured this group to be a little larger.
If your favorite school is one these unfortunate ten teams, the end of the 2019 season can’t come quickly enough. The biggest surprise of the group is 1-5 Northwestern Wildcats of the Big Ten conference. After four straight winning seasons and significant bowl games, it looks like the “Mildcats” of yesteryear have returned, and the Tidy Bowl may be their future after this season.
Of the bottom ten, there are seven one-loss teams and still three teams without a win this season.
#128 Rice (now 0-7) played 6-1 Louisiana Tech into overtime in Houston before losing earlier this year. Meanwhile, #129 Akron and #130 New Mexico State are also 0-7, but the Zips of Akron had an 11 point loss to 6-1 UAB while the New Mexico State Aggies’ loss to 6-1 San Diego State was by 21 points.
By virtue of the larger loss by New Mexico State, the Aggies are now mired at the bottom of my SwampSwami.com poll through Week #8.
On the positive side, let’s turn our attention to the Top 25 teams, and welcome three new teams into this week’s poll.
From Conference USA, the UAB Blazers are now 6-1 and are ranked #25.
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons of the ACC beat conference foe Florida State Saturday to move to 6-1 and are now back into the survey at #24.
Finally, the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs are making their first appearance in my survey after three years of knocking on the door. The Dogs crashed the party at #23 with a convincing 45-30 win over 4-3 Southern Miss Saturday afternoon in Ruston. At 6-1 on the season, “How ‘bout them Dogs?“
Now let’s reveal the entire listing of the SwampSwami College Football Top 25 rankings through the week ending Saturday, October 19, 2019:
