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Tennessee tries to reverse a trend. Texas without Quinn Ewers. Oregon State's offense. Iowa State and Baylor in a defensive slugfest. What the underlying stats tell us about Week 4.

I don’t know about you, but whenever I start a new job, I always feel like I’m drowning. It doesn’t really matter if I’ve done something like it before. There’s always a new wrinkle, new responsibilities, new bosses, new procedures, new coworkers that make me feel out of sorts. Confronted with this, I know I ...

When you're off to a dismal start, the old playbook goes out the window. This week, I'm again trusting my gut, forgetting about point spreads, and picking the games that feel like the biggest mismatches.

College football fans are simple creatures. We have only one question: is my team any good? We’re like an overly attached boyfriend with deep-seated self-esteem issues. We just want to be told we’re enough, that we’re worthy of praise and affection. Today, let’s examine a handful of Power 5 squads we didn’t expect to be ...

Week 2 shook our expectations around. And now we're in the period of calm air right after that wild ride, wondering if it'll happen again. If you were a fan of a team that lost in unexpected or close fashion last week, even if you hope that turbulence was a fluke, it doesn't really comfort you when everything feels unsettled and out of control.

I won’t sugarcoat it: We’re off to a horrendous start in 2022. The subset of picks that I’ve chosen to put on this website has been comically bad. Why trust me now? Because this is the week we PUT IT ALL TOGETHER. With data from two weeks, we’re able to start building more accurate profiles ...

Welcome to the Week 3 edition of the 2022 Sneaky Stats series! If you joined us the for the first two weeks or at all last year, you already know the drill. The Sneaky Stats series is your one-stop shop for all the most intriguing, predictive, goofy, and perhaps “sneaky” stats that define the biggest matchups of the college football season.

By now, I think we all understand the top 10 is a social construct. Every week, the Associated Press ranks college football teams for the chief purposes of adding weight to games and, perhaps more importantly, blatantly disrespecting your favorite team. Therefore, it doesn’t really make sense to react strongly when a top-10 squad loses. ...

It can be really hard to get out of a food rut. What’s that, you ask? Well, it’s my own term for the habit I’m pretty sure most humans get into of ordering the same thing at their local restaurants, eating the same five meals at home in rotation, and buying all the same groceries. ...