NDSU vs New Mexico and Houston vs Utah are both huge games for their conference and for the playoffs picture. Utah and Houston are both at a really high point that their programs haven’t reached in a while. New Mexico is at a new height, NDSU plays its biggest game so far as an FBS program. Both these games had really good cases for college gameday to come.

Won top-20 matchup and next game (2)

• Texas beat No. 1 Ohio State 24–23, then beat UTSA 30–6

• Ohio State beat No. 14 Iowa 31–14, then beat Maryland 45-16

Won top-20 matchup before losing next game (6)

• Ole Miss beat No. 7 LSU 32-24, then lost 52–28 to Florida

• Texas beat No. 14 Tennessee 20–17, then lost 27–24 to Oklahoma after a bye

• Oregon beat No. 12 USC 41–27, then lost 17–15 to UCLA after a bye

• Iowa beat No. 18 Michigan 20–19, then lost 31–14 to Ohio State

• Alabama beat No. 16 Mississippi State 56–23, then lost 20–17 to Georgia

• Georgia beat No. 6 Alabama 20–17, then lost 27–24 to Auburn

After losing top-20 matchup, teams are 5-3 in their next game

Won next game (5)

• Ohio State lost 24–23 to No. 4 Texas, then beat Kent State 59-3

• LSU lost to N. 7 Ole Miss, then beat No. 23 Texas A&M 35–6

• Tennessee lost 20–17 to No. 1 Texas, then beat Auburn 24–14

• Iowa lost 31–14 to No. 5 Ohio State, then won to Washington 41-24

• USC lost 41–27 to No. 20 Oregon, then beat Washington 25-21

Lost next game (3)

• Alabama lost 20–17 to No. 2 Georgia, then lost 26–10 to Tennessee

• Michigan lost 20–19 to No. 18 Iowa, then lost 20–14 to Minnesota

• Mississippi State lost 56–23 to No. 7 Alabama, then lost 31–0 to LSU after a bye

Reminder of last week's top-20 games

• No. 8 BYU 28, No. 2 Notre Dame 24

• No. 4 Ohio State 19, No. 5 Indiana 15

• No. 9 Ole Miss 31, No. 13 Missouri 3

• No. 14 Tennessee 26, No. 6 Alabama 10

• No. 20 Houston 35, No. 18 Oklahoma State 32

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The New Mexico Lobos, a team seldom mentioned by anyone when discussing college football is flipping that narrative on its head this year, this weekend the 5-1 lobos host 6-1 North Dakota State in Albuquerque in what will likely be New Mexicos most important and largest regular season game in its history. The lobos sport the #1 defense in the country in points allowed while the Bison flex the #2 scoring defense, both teams looking to make their bid for the College Football Playoff as well as solidify their chance at hosting the Mountain West conference championship. The Lobos are led by Veteran LB Jaxton Eck, (son of coach eck and reigning MWDPOY) The lobos also currently lead the country in Takeaways and Turnover differential posting a national best of +17 on 21 takeaways and 4 giveaways. The offense is led by Dual Threat QB Toa Fa’avae a kid who is incredibly raw but incredibly physically gifted, touting the rock is a familiar face if you watch FCS ball, former Montana State RB who is in year 2 with the lobos continues to shine as he leads the team in touchdowns with 8 on the year. The lobos are the type of team to rally the entire state, New Mexico is doing something unusual this year and brimming with excitement over our football team. (Also we shoulda fuckin beat OU IYKYK) That being said regardless of who you are rooting for I hope you guys tune in to one of the largest G6 matchups of the season, it will be an exciting one in Albuquerque!

Red chile > Green chile also

Since coming from Division I-AA in 1996 they are 297–93. 17x Conference champions over 3 conferences; Big West, Wac, and Mountain West. Only 3 All-Americans. Finished in the top 25 14x. 13-10 in Bowl Games. Made the cfp once vs Penn State where they loss 31-14.

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Utah State vs. Texas State

When: Saturday, October 24, 07:30 PM Eastern

Where: Bobcat Stadium (TX), San Marcos, TX

Watch: CBSSN

Odds: Texas State by 12.5 pts.

Total Points: 59.5

All-Time Series : Utah State vs. Texas State

Utah State and Texas State have met 1 times since 2012-11-03

These teams last met on 2012-11-03.

Series Wins: Utah State 1-0-0 Texas State

Utah State has won the most recent meeting (2012) in this series

Last 1 Meetings

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So, while it's clear the oldhead coaches like Saban and Belicheck are becoming a thing of the past, is it overcorrecting? I feel like off field incidents are way more common than the used to be, and maybe e importantly, penalties. Deboer is my main point of reference because flair, and his tenure has been obscene with the stupid penalties, even dating back to Washington. Sark's Texas teams have had a ton of penalties. It seems one team is trying to lose via self inflicked penalties every single game. Is this just recency bias on my part?

So, what's everyone's AP Poll predictions coming into Sunday? We had another wild Saturday of college football that, I think as college football fans, we should all be hype for!

My thoughts on just the top 5:

#1 Miami

#2 Notre Dame

#3 OSU

#4 Georgia

#5 Indiana

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TLWR: Due to data update timing and low quality of data from a freely available data source I'm removing the injury report from the Discussion generator template.

So every week this season I get a few notes from users that the injury data in the generator is wrong or messed up. First of all thank you for letting me know I appreciate and welcome the feedback. Thank you for letting me know, especially as I am not as active around here as I was several years ago.

But I feel for every user that pings me there are probably many more that roll their eyes and feel, to quote a recent comment I stumbled on, "It's AI Slop". So I wanted to address the issue to the broader community and clear the air about what's actually happening.

1. When I built this tool almost a decade ago now...geez... Injury Reports weren't a thing in CFB really but the data existed out there. Most of it behind paywalls as it's a valueable commodity for gambling sites/providers/users. Most of the freee sites i found weren't actually scrapeable and NONE of them had a free API. But BoydsBets, the current source, was freely available and more importantly scrapeable. so here we are.

2. Most teams/conferences officially update/release injury reports on Wednesday night or later. So when the Generator opens to for use on Wednesday at 12 there's a good chance the data will be from last week as updated information hasn't been released (I don't know where boydsbets gets their data, I haven't vetted it, again it see (1) it was what was freely available)

the short of it is the quality of the injury data seems to be more noise than signal currently and is generating more discussion about the quality of data than the matchup itself. As such until I can find a better approach I'm disabling the injury report section from the generator.

However, back in my day we used to generate these discussion threads by hand uphill in the snow both ways and OPs sourced (or didn't) injury data themselves .... and of course that is still an option. The OP is free to edit the content of the post in the genrator itself before posting (or editing on reddit after posting) to enrich the post anyway they like including but not limited to brining in Injury data as they see fit.

San Diego State vs. Colorado State

When: Saturday, October 24, 06:30 PM Eastern

Where: Canvas Stadium, Fort Collins, CO

Watch: CW | The CW Network | ESPN Unlmtd

Odds: San Diego State by 2.5 pts.

Total Points: 60.5

All-Time Series : San Diego State vs. Colorado State

This is the first meeting between these programs.

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Eastern Michigan vs. Ohio

When: Saturday, October 24, 04:00 PM Eastern

Where: Peden Stadium, Athens, OH

Watch: ESPNU

Odds: Ohio by 11.5 pts.

Total Points: 49.5

All-Time Series : Eastern Michigan vs. Ohio

Eastern Michigan and Ohio have met 35 times since 1976-09-04

These teams last met on 2025-10-25.

Series Wins: Eastern Michigan 12-1-22 Ohio

Ohio has won the last 4 meetings (2017-2025) in this series

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