With the combat of the second weekend, there was some clarification as to who were the have-nots. Some teams got the notice in the mail that the season was already finished for them while others were given a new lease on life. This is just a simple view of all the NFL teams and how [...]

With another week comes with more answers and more questions, yet there isn’t any clear nationally dominant team at this time. This is still an image that takes so many more contests to clarify. This is a week-by-week process and we bring you the upsets and quick climbers. With only the Top 12, you get [...]

After the opening hoopla, there is a little residual smoke and the glitter is still on the faces of those asleep at the wheel, but some of us are busy assessing where everyone has placed themselves thus far. When you try to look at this, you have to take both sides of the line into [...]

With only a slightly clearer picture than last week, it isn’t an easy job taking the cream of the crop out of 120 teams. Yet, here I put myself with all of you out there taking pot shots at me for the selections I make. Sure, I hold the schedulers responsible for putting FCS teams [...]

Without a preseason poll to lead me wrong with a huge assumption based on bias and remembrance, I enter into this first look at the season with a clear gaze. There is no bias that will cause unexplainable changes as in so many of the computer rankings. This is the first Top 12 : #12 [...]

With no #1 seeds standing and Cinderella wearing combat boots, this is the Final Four of the Apocalypse. With the world railing at their lack of qualifying wins and lesser conference contests, VCU rides the White Horse with the righteous fury of Conquest. In the National Semis, they will use the arc to pull apart [...]

Using the seeds I had evaluated the teams to have earned, the games we had to watch were commonly of quality and evenly-paired despite the seemingly random evaluation of the Selection Committee. We were given games with only the rare occasional game setting up for a blow-out before tip-off. Butler and the Badgers was an [...]

How Did They Do? Comparing my own seeding with the Selection Committee shows just what a quality job this crew did in placing these teams this season. Take a look at my seeding article and you will see sound team placing, but only 9 teams are still alive that were placed in top 4 seeds [...]