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College football chaos arrives, from Sun Belt stunners to the hot seat: Saturday takeaways

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Catch your breath yet? We’re only done with Week 2 and we need to pace ourselves, but college football may not let us. Just two (or three) weeks into the season, anything seems possible, coaches are on the hot seat and the season feels almost totally wide-open. Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Nebraska all lost at home on the same day for the first time in the AP poll era — and they all lost to Sun Belt teams. With BYU topping Baylor late at night, three top-10 teams lost…

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Notre Dame, Texas A&M and Florida go the way of the Big Ten West

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Three Sun Belt wins over Power 5 opponents, including two in the Top 10. The No. 1 team in the country very nearly loses to a 20-point underdog. Kansas is 2-0. Notre Dame is 0-2. Here are 23 Final Thoughts from a spectacularly upside-down Week 2. 1. Well, when I boarded the plane to Austin on Friday I was reasonably certain three things would happen on my trip: 1) I was going to eat barbecue at some point (check); 2) I was going to get to Torchy’s at some point…

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James Madison makes instant FBS statement, plus CFP expansion and more: G5 Drive

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One of the most dominant performances of Week 1 in college football came from a team playing its first game as a Football Bowl Subdivision school. James Madison knows how to win. The Dukes haven’t had a losing record since 2002 and they’d been a Football Championship Subdivision powerhouse for the past six years, with a 70-11 record. But they were also just 6-22 against FBS teams in their history as an FCS program. So last Saturday’s 44-7 win against Middle Tennessee was an eye-opener. The Dukes outgained the Blue…

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