Teams with first loss week 1:
UCLA
Western Kentucky
Georgia Tech
Florida International
Texas State
Kent State
Brigham Young
Rice
Tulsa
South Florida
Massachusetts
Utah State
Purdue
Colorado State
Oregon State
Florida Atlantic
Florida State
Ball State
Toledo
East Carolina
Akron
Louisiana-Lafayette
Mississippi
South Alabama
Coastal Carolina
Duke
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia Tech
Northwestern
Liberty
Arkansas State
Middle Tennessee
Pittsburgh
Miami (OH)
Georgia Southern
Oregon
Vanderbilt
Missouri
Louisiana Tech
New Mexico State
Fresno State
Houston
Louisville
Maximum number of Undefeated Teams at the End of the Regular Season:
12: The 10 conference champs, plus Notre Dame and Army. That's two fewer than last week thanks to several independent teams losing.
Teams with 1st loss:
Week 0 and 1: 35.38% (46 of 130)
Week 1 Thoughts:
With college football, even these early season games can prove a big deal for the whole season. It's the beauty and the tough part of the sport. I'm not going to go super in depth, but here are a few random thoughts.
The PAC-12 is going to have an uphill battle for the playoff bowls. It, by no means, is out of the race, but the conference was going to have an uphill battle in most cases regardless and Oregon beating Auburn would have been a real showplace for it. The close loss leaves less margin for error.
Group of Five NY6 bowl bid very wide open, but once again looks like biggest competitors between American and Mountain West teams. Boise State comeback win vs. Florida State is very big for keeping them higher in the early discussions this year and Nevada came away with a good win vs. Purdue. The American is probably in best position again though with UCF's blowout win, Memphis's win vs. Ole Miss, and Cincinnati taking out UCLA.
Every conference had it's issues. Best overall weekend seemed to be Big 12 as they went undefeated, but was not a challenging week (still getting by without any loses always great).
Week 2 Thoughts:
If I counted right, we have 26 games between undefeated FBS teams this week. Biggest deal games are probably: LSU @ Texas (this one will be a very big deal for the Big 12 with a Texas win) and Texas A&M @ Clemson (Clemson losing starts the ACC pretty low this season).
Remaining Undefeated Teams: ACC: 7, American Athletic: 8, Big 12: 10, Big Ten: 12, Conference USA: 8, MAC: 7, Mountain West: 9, PAC-12: 8, SEC: 9, Sun Belt: 4, independents: 2, total: 84
Boston College
Clemson
Maryland
North Carolina State
Wake Forest
North Carolina
Virginia
Colorado
Iowa State
Kansas
Kansas State
Nebraska
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
Cincinnati
Connecticut
Rutgers
Syracuse
West Virginia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Ohio State
Penn State
Wisconsin
UAB
Marshall
Memphis
Southern Mississippi
Central Florida
Southern Methodist
Tulane
UTEP
Bowling Green
Buffalo
Ohio U.
Central Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Northern Illinois
Western Michigan
Air Force
New Mexico
San Diego State
Texas Christian
UNLV
Utah
Wyoming
Arizona State
California
Southern California
Stanford
Washington
Washington State
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Alabama
Arkansas
Auburn
Louisiana State
Mississippi State
Louisiana-Monroe
North Texas
Troy
Boise State
Hawaii
Nevada
San Jose State
Army
Navy
Notre Dame
Temple
UTSA
Georgia State
Appalachian State
Old Dominion
Charlotte
