Men's College Basketball schedules are mostly loaded. Postseason projections are running. The computer likes the Duke Blue Devils to win it all, although there are 24 teams with at least a 1% of winning the tournament.

Regular season updates will begin as soon as there are games. And there are always a few early season kinks to work out on the site. Please be patient.

As always, good luck to your teams and enjoy the season.

Down to 15. The list:

• Alabama Crimson Tide
• BYU Cougars
• Duke Blue Devils
• Georgia Bulldogs
• Indiana Hoosiers
• James Madison Dukes
• Miami Hurricanes
• Nebraska Cornhuskers
• North Dakota State Bison
• Noite Dame Fighting Irish
• Pittsburgh Panthers
• Texas Longhorns
• Texas Tech Red Raiders
• UCLA Bruins
• Utah Utes

There are still a few surprising teams on this list. I do want to point out that North Dakota State remains. I said at the beginning of the season that they are the most interesting team in the FBS. The computer now has them favored in all of their remaining games except @ New Mexico on October 24. I am very curious as to how long they can keep winning and where they end up ranked (currently 29th according to the computer).

The list of teams the computer does 't think can win the playoff grows a bit.

Newly added:

• #136 Delaware Blue Hens (2-3)
• #109 Marshall Thundering Herd (3-2)
• #120 Rice Owls (1-4)
• #105 Tulane Green Wave (2-2)

The complete list:

• Akron Zips
• Arkansas Razorbacks
• Arkansas State Red Wolves
• Ball State Cardinals
• Boston College Eagles
• Bowling Green Falcons
• Buffalo Bulls
• California Golden Bears
• Charlotte 49ers
• Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
• Colorado State Rams
• Delaware Blue Hens
• Eastern Michigan Eagles
• Florida International Panthers
• Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
• Hawai'i Rainbow Warriors
• Jacksonville State Gamecocks
• Kennesaw State Owls
• Kent State Golden Flashes
• Marshall Thundering Herd
• Miami (OH) RedHawks
• Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
• Missouri State Bears
• Navy Midshipmen
• Nevada Wolf Pack
• New Mexico State Aggies
• Northern Illinois Huskies
• Old Dominion Monarchs
• Rice Owls
• Sacramento State Hornets
• Sam Houston State Bearkats
• San Diego State Aztecs
• San Jose State Spartans
• South Alabama Jaguars
• Southern Miss Golden Eagles
• Stanford Cardinal
• Syracuse Orange
• Troy Trojans
• Tulane Green Wave
• UAB Blazers
• UConn Huskies
• UL Monroe Warhawks
• UNLV Rebels
• Utah State Aggies
• UTEP Miners
• Washington State Cougars
• Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
• Wyoming Cowboys

My ballot this week in the Solid Verbal Top 12

1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. Ohio State
5. Miami
6. Indiana
7. Notre Dame
8. Utah
9. Ole Miss 10 Texas Tech
10. Oregon
11. Mississippi State

I suspect this is the last week that I have Texas in the top spot. They haven't really looked all that impressive, and the Georgia/Alabama winner likely take that spot next week. Alabama looks really impressive. I was tempted to go ahead and move them to number one but decided to wait. The computer has them there already. I really wasn't expecting this much from the Tide this year. I figured next year would be their year. They may be a year early. Time will tell.

Once again, I am dissatisfied with my choices from 8 to 12. I still have about a dozen teams that all could make a claim to fit there. Hopefully will get a bit easier after the next few weeks.

Starting next week, I may do an entire top 25.

CJB Ratings, AKA Sports Ratings III, is a data-driven analytics platform designed to evaluate teams, project future performance, and provide transparent, reproducible rating systems across multiple sports. We currently do three sports:

• NCAA FBS College Football
• NCAA Division I Men's College Basketball
• NFL football

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