North Dakota State lost their first game of the year to UNLV yesterday. I have not yet had a chance to watch the game. Thy play New Mexico in a couple of weeks, which should also be a very interesting matchup.

I continue to be impressed with the Bison in their first year in the FBS.

The computer drops some more team from its playoff simulations. New this week to the "better luck next year" list:

• #132 App State Mountaineers (3-2)
• #104 East Carolina Pirates (3-2)
• #105 Michigan State Spartans (2-4)
• #61 NC State Wolfpack (3-3)
• #72 Penn State Nittany Lions (3-3)
• #134 Temple Owls (2-4)
• #98 Tulsa Golden Hurricane (3-3)

The complete list:

• Akron Zips
• App State Mountaineers
• 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
• East Carolina Pirates
• 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
• Michigan State Spartans
• Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders
• Missouri State Bears
• Navy Midshipmen
• NC State Wolfpack
• Nevada Wolf Pack
• New Mexico State Aggies
• Northern Illinois Huskies
• Old Dominion Monarchs
• Penn State Nittany Lions
• 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
• Temple Owls
• Troy Trojans
• Tulane Green Wave
• Tulsa Golden Hurricane
• UAB Blazers
• UConn Huskies
• UL Monroe Warhawks
• UNLV Rebels
• Utah State Aggies
• UTEP Miners
• Washington State Cougars
• Western Kentucky Hilltoppers
• Wyoming Cowboys

Nine teams remain:

• BYU Cougars
• Georgia Bulldogs
• Indiana Hoosiers
• James Madison Dukes
• Miami Hurricanes
• Notre Dame Fighting Irish
• Texas Tech Red Raiders
• UCLA Bruins
• Utah Utes

Several of these teams have big games this week. The list will continue to shrink.

This week's Solid Verbal Top 12

1. Georgia
2. Ohio State
3. Notre Dame
4. Miami
5. Alabama
6. Indiana
7. Texas
8. Texas Tech
9. Utah
10. BYU
11. UCLA
12. Kentucky

A couple of notes about this week's ballot. First, I should have put Notre Dame 2nd and Ohio State 3rd. I would switch those if I could. Second, and even worse, I completely forgot about Ole Miss and accidentally left them off my ballot entirely. I would have them at 11, and UCLA at 12, with Kentucky falling off the ballot to 13.

Sticking with the existing ballot, here's the bottom half of my top 25:

13. Ole Miss
14. Missippi State
15. Northwestern
16. Boise State
17. Oklahome State
18. Missouri
19. LSU
20. Wake Forest
21. Iowa
22. Nebraska
23. Houston
24. Oregon
25. Oregon State

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.

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

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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