Understanding that 2026 isn't 2025, it's important to get a bit of perspective on which teams were / were not meaningful competition for top teams. FEI rankings for each from 2025: East Carolina (played Bama) - 55th Boise State (played Oregon) - 63rd Western Michigan (played Michigan) - 71st Texas State (played Texas) - 82nd Fresno State (played USC) - 85th Stanford (played Miami) - 88th Marshall (played Penn State) - 93rd Oregon State (played Houston) - 118th Ball State (played Ohio State) - 132nd Alabama thumping East Carolina is the most impressive thing no one is talking about. They had an SEC caliber front last year and may again this year. Oregon struggling with Boise State should be just as alarming as Michigan with Western Michigan (moreso given Oregon's ranking). Miami is getting too much hype for the Stanford game, given that Stanford is quite possibly (even likely) a worse team than, say, Texas State.

I’ve always been of the opinion that if a clear officiating error causes a team to win on a last play that clearly shouldn’t have happened, then that’s the one time you can reverse an outcome. What should do if the clock hit 0:00 and the B1G refs handed the win to Michigan?