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CFN – AP Top 25 Poll, Rankings Prediction: Week 6

Will Notre Dame find themselves ranked again on Sunday?

What will the Associated Press college football top 25 look like when it’s released on Sunday after another exciting Saturday of games but no major upsets?

Pete Fiutak of College Football News always likes to project how the writers are going to vote and releases his AP Top 25 Poll rankings prediction after the major games get done each Saturday.

Notre Dame fans might be happy to know Fiutak has the Irish making their way back into the top 25 after their 28-20 win over BYU in the Shamrock Series. Fiutak has the Irish checking in 23rd. Check out his entire list of 25 at College Football News.

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What the experts are predicting: Notre Dame vs. BYU

Looks like not many people have faith in the Irish.

After a week off, Notre Dame is back in action for its annual Shamrock Series game, which is in Las Vegas this year. BYU is the school that gets to face the Irish in an event that typically goes Notre Dame’s way. Will it happen again?

Let’s look at what some college football experts, including fellow College Wire sites, are predicting for this game:

What the experts are predicting: Notre Dame at North Carolina

The experts appear to be split this week.

Notre Dame will attempt to get to .500 for the first time this season Saturday when it visits North Carolina. It’s all part of the quest to still make a respectable bowl game. We’ll see how far they’ve come in a week and whether that particular bowl goal remains a possibility.

Let’s look at what some college football experts, including fellow College Wire sites, are predicting for this game:

Tennessee ‘has an offense that’s going to rip through everything in its path’

Analysis: In 2022, Tennessee has an offense that’s going to rip through everything in its path

Tennessee kicked off fall training camp Aug. 1 in preparation for the 2022 season under second-year head coach Josh Heupel.

The Vols will kick off its 2022 campaign Sept. 1 against Ball State at Neyland Stadium. The season-opening contest will kick off at 7 p.m. EDT (SEC Network).

Ahead of the 2022 season, the preseason USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll was released Monday. The Vols are not ranked, while receiving 163 points.

Following the preseason USA TODAY Sports AFCA Coaches Poll being released, Pete Fiutak of College Football News provided analysis of underrated teams in 2022.

Below is Fiutak’s analysis regarding underrated teams to start the 2022 season.

Notre Dame football 2022: Is 10-2 acceptable?

What is a fair W/L expectation for Notre Dame this fall?

If you’re a Notre Dame fan and you could signup to accept the Irish finishing the regular season 10-2 would you take it right now?

Or do you think the expectation for this team should be College Football Playoff or bust?

As we’re in the final days of July and the light at the end of the off-season tunnel gets brighter each day, it’s time to start really focusing in on what the 2022 season is ultimately going to bring for Notre Dame.  A trip to Ohio State to start is about as tough of task as you can ask for, but September then features incredibly winnable games against Marshall, Cal, and North Carolina.

BYU presents a challenge in Las Vegas to start October but again, the month sees home games against Stanford and UNLV that should be be wins while a trip to Syracuse on Halloween weekend isn’t exactly daunting.

Clemson comes to Notre Dame Stadium to open November in the biggest home game of the year before contests against Navy and Boston College bridge the gap to the USC rivalry game at November’s end.

With that schedule in mind are you signing up for 10-2?  I ask that record specifically because of where Pete Fiutak of College Football News projects Notre Dame to play this postseason as he’s released his preseason bowl projections.

NEXT: Where Fiutak sends Notre Dame this bowl season

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UGA Football Live with J.C. Shelton – S1, Ep. 6 – Arthur Lynch, SEC football and Kentucky Preview

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by special guest, former Georgia tight end Arthur Lynch, plus I break down Kentucky and SEC football.

Your friends at “UGA Football Live” and UGA Wire present your one-stop shop for all things Georgia football!

We are releasing episodes and interviews each week during the 2020 college football season, with a little bit of everything sprinkled in between.

In this week’s episode, I’m joined by special guest, former Georgia tight end Arthur Lynch (2009-2013) to talk about his playing days at Georgia and how he transitioned from NFL player to U.S. Army 2nd lieutenant.

Plus collegefootballnews.com‘s Pete Fiutak stops in to help breakdown SEC football as we are now halfway through the 10 game conference-only schedule.

Also I talk:

 

Kentucky Preview 

  • What do the Wildcats look like for Saturday’s matchup.

Dawgs in the NFL

  • My top former Bulldogs from NFL week-7 action.

J.C. vs. the Spread 

  • Last weeks picks turned out horribly, but my five picks this week are immortal locks.

Listen here on Spotify:

Or here, on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uga-football-live-with-j-c-shelton/id1533295384#episodeGuid=Buzzsprout-6116629

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Make sure to subscribe, rate and review! And check out our other episodes featuring former Georgia greats like Aaron Murray (Ep. 2) Tavarres King (Ep. 3) and Keith Marshall (Ep. 4).

 

CFN 1-130 Rankings: Where do Notre Dame, opponents fall?

Where does CFN rank Notre Dame and all their opponents ahead of the 2020 season? Find out here what the Irish are in store for this fall!

We’re in the time that we’re supposed to be counting down the days until college football kicks off.  Although we’re counting days, nobody has any clue what date we’ll actually see games since the pandemic doesn’t appear to be going away anytime soon.

However, Pete Fiutak over at College Football News did his annual project where he puts together team previews of all 130 teams in Division 1 and ranks the teams 1-130.

Where does Notre Dame rank?  And where do the teams Notre Dame’s scheduled to play fall in?

We’ll give them to you in different categories that we determined on our own:

Great: Top 5
Really Good:  Top 20
Pretty Solid:  21-40
OK:  41-55
Meh:  56-75
Bad: 76-90
Awful:  91-130

Let’s start with the lowest and work to the highest:

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Bowl Projections in April?! – We may as well react…

Perhaps even more absurd is trying to project bowl projections right now in a season that may or may not be played and at that, very possibly would at least start after a significant delay.

Quick – name something absurd you’ve done during your time having to stay home during the Coronavirus pandemic we’re all living through.

I’ll start:

I stayed up until almost 3 a.m. on Saturday night and into Sunday morning as I not only started but completed the entire seven episodes of “Tiger King” on Netflix.  Thoughts:  humans are just the worst, I’ve never rooted so hard for a team of tigers in my life and, uh, I have a lot of questions but will save them for another place and time.

Perhaps even more absurd is trying to project bowl projections right now in a season that may or may not be played and at that, very possibly would at least start after a significant delay.

Now enter Pete Fiutak, my partner on the College Football News Podcast (I’ve got technical issues on my end so recording has hit a snag for the time being).  Pete runs College Football News and his idea for fun was to try and project each and every bowl game for the 2020 season.

On April 1.

Yes, he’s crazy but we already knew that.  Now to answer your immediate question of “Where did he put Notre Dame!?!!”

The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl facing off against Florida.

He had a lot of positive things to project about Notre Dame a few days back when he claimed they’ll knock off Clemson and be a player for a College Football Playoff spot but in his projections kept them just short of the CFP here.

Take all complaints up with @PeteFiutak.

Would this count as satisfying for you as a Notre Dame fan?  For me it’d be satisfying, sure, but it’s not often a schedule sets up to be both as strong but also as favorable in terms of being very top-heavy but also allowing for a potential playoff berth even if there is a loss in there.