It’s Week 9 in the 2022 college football season, and although there’s a pretty clear gap between the College Football Playoff frontrunners and everyone else at this point, there have been plenty of surprises this season. And that includes the number of undefeated teams left.
Compared with recent seasons, there are notably fewer undefeated teams remaining going into Week 9. This year, there are only six left with perfect records, down from nine teams ahead of Week 8. (Ole Miss, UCLA and Syracuse have since departed after we incorrectly predicted they’d win last week.)
Now, there are two SEC teams, two Big Ten teams, an ACC team and a Big 12 team left.
Now, as much as we wish we could, we can’t actually predict the future. But that’s not stopping us from attempting to educatedly guess which currently undefeated FBS teams will fall for the first time in Week 9.
Here are our predictions for this week’s undefeated teams, based on their upcoming opponents, how they’ve played so far, ESPN’s FPI projections and betting info from Tipico Sportsbook. (All games are on Saturday unless otherwise noted.)