Just a little sports chatter

Needless to say it has been a couple weeks since I have been able to write on here and it sucks because a lot has been on my mind but when your previous employer has you working around 50 hrs a week before firing you because of performance issues (figure that one out) you have been more than a little bit tired. But alas, I have some free time and a good write up on a number of teams in some trouble. We are heading into Week 5 of the season and a lot of teams that normally be in the playoff hunt are in some serious trouble and in need of a run. Gonna talk about some of those teams and look at the percentages of potentially making a run and backdooring themselves into the playoffs. All of these teams currently have losing records or are .500 with a non-FBS or FCS victory to their credit. Also, even though their only route into the playoffs is winning the conference, I will include conference champions from last year. And we shall do this in alphabetical order by conference Big Sky ...

Well well...week one has come and gone and what an interesting 4 days of football we had. Thursday to Sunday, storylines abound as we a bevy of interesting and surprising results through the week. So how this will work is I will do some general thoughts then go thru each day and talk about more about the games featured on those days. So while I got some Steely Dan in my head and a full cup of coffee... let's get started FCS over FBS When looking at the matchups this weekend you knew there was a chance for a few FCS schools to get some victories over some FBS schools but you know the middle is becoming muddier when you only see five FCS victories and are disappointed. While Villanova (Temple) and NC A&T (E. Carolina) wasn't a huge surprise in terms of FCS victories, Nicolls (Kansas), UC Davis (San Jose St), and N. Arizona (UTEP), definitely had you doing a double take as the score hit the bottom line. And what makes the five wins that much more disappointing wer...