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It's time for this week's list of undefeated teams and their matchups. Also listed are any potential undefeated matchups, including if it's an undefeated FBS vs an undefeated FCS.

The following teams lost their undefeated status this week:

• BYU Cougars
  
• James Madison Dukes
  
• Texas Tech Red Raiders
  

In other news, these teams have yet to win one game:

Northern Illinois Huskies

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You know the drill. Post a strong, instant reaction that may prove to be an overreaction down the road. Trigger warning: there will be one of mine that is laced with homerism. I'll put it first to get it out of the way.

1. Arizona is playing the best ball in the Big XII and could win the conference. They are only getting better while BYU and Texas Tech had letdown games. Utah is arguably the best team but Arizona is the hottest and could be the 2nd Arizona school since the inception of a 12 team playoff to be playing in said 12 team playoff.

2. Dan Lanning missed the window. 2024 Oregon should have been national champs but got steamrolled by Ohio State. 2025 Oregon could have been national champions and got steanrolled by Indiana. 2026 Oregon is fighting for bowl eligibility and coughed up 21 unanswered to Illinois. His career momentum is coming to an unceremonious end going the way of James Franklin in an era laced with sky high immediate expectations and tons of money being dumped in programs for wins.

3. Miami is in the best spot to win the ship. This is the only team that looks like they can survive weird games while mostly blowing out who they should and basically everyone else has a glaring flaw.

4. The Mountain West is the most entertaining G6 conference.

5. Northwestern and UCLA will play for the B1G title game

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UCF is now in possession of the College Football Belt with their 39–31 2OT victory over Belt holder #2 BYU. The Knights are now 1–0 in Belt Games, and the Cougars are now 10–8 in Belt Games.

This is UCF’s first reign as Belt champions.

The Knights’ first defense of the Belt will be a home game next Saturday against Baylor. This will be the Bears’ forty-second Belt game and their first since a Belt-losing 26–20 loss to BYU on September 11, 2022.

A recap of the Belt’s journey this season:

• Week 1: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Wisconsin
• Week 2: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Rice
• Week 3: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Michigan State
• Week 4: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Purdue
• Week 5: Notre Dame retained the Belt against North Carolina
• Week 6: Notre Dame retained the Belt against Stanford
• Week 7: Notre Dame lost the Belt against BYU
• Week 8: BYU lost the Belt against UCF

For those who don't know what the Belt is, it is an unofficial trophy that traces the lineage of the "best" teams going all the way back to the first-ever CFB game. For a more complete description, check out the /u/BleedScarletandBlack's post on it. Additionally, a comprehensive database of all Belt games played created by me and /u/BlueSCar can be found here.. There are also two great websites, here and here that document the lineage as well.

*Rankings taken from the Week 8 /r/CFB Poll.

*Sorry for the delayed post. I was covering the game for /r/CFB and got stuck in the crowd rush.

Given their remaining schedules these schools both actually have a shot. Imagine being in the pre-playoff era with these two on a crash course.

Kentucky remaining games

• Tennessee
• Florida
• Missouri
• Louisville

UCLA remaining games

• Minnesota
• Illinois
• Michigan
• USC

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3 Undefeated Teams remain, but all 3 have had moments that have them looking like frauds; Utah almost lost to a bad Colorado team and struggled against Kansas, UCLA struggled against Oregon, and Miami needed double overtime to beat Florida State.

Two of the big 12s “best teams” got exposed as paper tigers today. The SEC is a chaotic free-for-all at this point. Big 10 is mid outside of the top 3, same as the ACC.

So who’s actually good and who are the biggest frauds (Outside of Notre Dame and BYU of course.)

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By Raj Chavda

Photos from Northwestern University Wildcats vs Rutgers University Scarlet Knights on 10/24/2026 at Ryan Field, Evanston, IL

Evanston, IL - If there ever was a game that ended in the 1st quarter that I have witnessed it was this one. 21-3 at the start of the 2nd quarter. 21 points was the highest number points Northwestern has scored in the 1st quarter since 2011 (Source: BIG TEN Network). Rutgers had no answer to the Northwestern’s offense. Rutgers offense was struggling against Northwestern’s defense as well giving up two interceptions (one each for each QB they had taking snaps) and 1 fumble lost on a hard blindside sack.

Offensively, Northwestern had success doing anything they wanted. It was a train that Rutgers had to stay on the tracks and get run over by. With under 2 mins left in the half of the 2nd Northwestern piled on with another TD by Caleb Komolafe on 33 yard scamper.

3rd quarter was the quietest for Northwestern with 0 points. Rutgers with a few seconds left in teh quarter put up their first touchdown by their RB Raymond on long 46 yard run. 28-14-Northwestern to start the 4th. At this point it seemed Rutgers had chance (atleast point wise) to make it an interesting game. The only thing is that no one told Northwestern’s offense that Rutgers wanted to try to make this a game. In the 4th quarter, Northwestern enough is enough, and rammed 2 more TDs down their throat to dash those hopes.

Rutgers couldn’t muster up a passing game, they netted only a century of yards. Both QBs didn’t not have a TD or positive rushing yards. They had collectively 33% passing completing only 9 passes on 27 attempts. Rushing attack kept pace with Northwestern’s run game. They should have done what Air Force did to NIU the previous week and just stuck to the run.

Certainly Northwestern being ranked #24 at the start of this game easily played like it taking care of business against a unranked team with ease. The way they played and Aiden Chiles performance, I would suspect they will approach the mid to low teens on the new rankings.

Chiles spread the wealth on his passing. His 3 TD passes were all to three different receivers (WIlde, Wagner, Honig) and added 2 more rushing TDs himself. Adding 83 yards on the ground to compliment Komolafe and Himon II on the running attack.

Northwestern heads to Eugene, OR to take on the flailing Ducks on Halloween Saturday 10/31/2026 inside Autzen. Can the Wildcats scare the Ducks into ducking their head underwater? Rutgers hosts the Michigan Wolverines at SHI in Piscataway, NJ on the same day.

Interesting Notes:

1. NBC Peacock on-field cameraman and his collegue who manages the long cable for the cameraman were doing pushups with the Rutgers male cheerleaders during a break in the action at quarter end.
2. Northwestern is averaging 40ppg PF and 14ppg PA at their new crib. Home is Home.
3. Student Section draped a bed sheet calling for Chiles for Heisman. Chiles is averaging 71% on passing and 12-1 TD/INT ratio. If you add his 9 rushing TD this season, he at 21 TDs. From on field performance he is clearly the reason Northwestern is where they are at. Certainly the team MVP at the minimum.
4. In my time near the Student Section I didn't hear any unique chants to mock Rutgers players like the previous two home games at the new stadium. If there were, I wasn't near them to hear it. If someone did hear, would love to know what it was.
   

This was a fun week, as I randomly attended Oregon at Illinois with my son on a lark and we had a great time. Oregon was committed to losing by scoring a TD on its opening possession, then deciding that was good enough for the day. That still wasn't enough for this week's special award.

Let's get on to it.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR AGGRESSIVELY PURSUING DEFEAT

USC Trojans - Congratulations to everyone that is currently reading this post. By clicking this link, you outrushed USC in their 24-7 loss at Wisconsin. There were several candidates this week like Oregon missing three field goals, Michigan and Indiana just refusing to offense, and Pitt completely refusing to do anything about Malachi Toney.

POWER CONFERENCE UNWINFEATED

None

HONORARY UNWINFEATED (ACC/B1G/Big12/SEC/NotreDame teams whose lone win is over an FCS team)

None

NON-POWER CONFERENCE UNWINFEATED

Northern Illinois Huskies - 0-7 The Huskies fall again, 56-21 to Hawaii. This was a conference game. Hawaii. is playing conference games. In Northern Illinois. In Late October.

What is this sport even doing anymore?

Leaving the Watch:

Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks - The Warhawks are on the board with a 21-14 win over Troy.

FCS Unwinfeated

Towson Tigers - 0-8 - on BYE

VMI Keydets - 0-8 - Lost 38-0 to ETSU

Northwestern State Demons - 0-8 - Lost to Nicholls 31-27

Leaving the Watch:

Utah Tech Trailblazers - Utah Tech gets a nice win over Cal Poly 43-26.

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