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    The Chaos Index, Week One: Meet The New Year

    Wow. It's like 2015 never left us. Sitting right where we left them are college football's reigning Cajun Kings Of Chaos, and the Crimson Tide are still rolling all over the rest of the sport. The next thing you know Oklahoma will be overrated and Tennessee won't quite get over the hump...
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    The Chaos Index: Oops, We're Doing It Again

    Yea verily, spaketh He unto the masses and sayethed: "Forget ye your spreadsheets, your sheetrock, or whatever other chains to which ye are bound and rejoice! Verily is it time to watcheth thy college football until well past the normal time of the sleeping (especially if ye are upon the...
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    C’est La TV: College Football Is About To Change In Five Huge, Bizarre Ways

    Good point, though - and this is just my gut - both programs will be safe, due to the incredibly strong regional pull of the state.
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    C’est La TV: College Football Is About To Change In Five Huge, Bizarre Ways

    If you've worked in media for a while, you've seen a boatload of what we lovingly call "consolidation" over the last couple decades. For those of us who've seen enough consolidation, what's happening with college football looks awfully familiar, and we know what's about to change. Everything...
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    The Chaos Index, Final Regular Season: Cajuns Batcrap Crazier Than Longhorns!

    It's time to mock an entire regular season's worth of ridiculousness before we move on to mocking the bowl season. It's my opportunity to salute the courageous decisions to fire coaches, not fire coaches when your preferred replacement decides not to come and to otherwise f up matters in so many...
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    Countdown To Chaos: The Kinda Meh Championship Week Edition

    Welcome to Championship Week! This year, we're featuring four relatively mundane Power 5 title games, some even more pedestrian Big 12 matchups, and finally, some really good mid-major contests. Way back in September, weren't you daydreaming about watching decisive matchups involving programs...
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    The Chaos Index, Week 13: Madness In B.R., Sadness Elsewhere

    It's the week that bullets were dodged! Against all odds, LSU kept its Hat on straight. It's the week that it became clear that Nebraska, K-State, and maybe one more losing team will dodge the "no bowl for you" bullet. 'Bama and Clemson both barely missed out on Clemsoning. Finally, the Big 12...
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    Countdown To Chaos, Rivalry Week: Time To Get Your Hate On!

    Hot damn, it's Rivalry Week! (Unless your rivalry game got moved up a week – or more – by the lame scheduling nonsense that Big TV now imposes on the sport.) It's a time when the stakes – and the hate – don't get any bigger. Well, at least until the conference championship games next week...
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    The Chaos Index, Week 12: SEC, OSU Go Boom!

    It happens every year. Heading into November, there are way too many undefeated teams, setting off a general panic about how everything will work out. By the time we get to Thanksgiving, we're debating which one-loss teams are the most worthy. And here we are down to two undefeated teams, one...
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    Countdown To Chaos, Week 12: It's Pre-Playoff Playoff Time!

    All hail the backloaded schedule! After eleven typically chaotic (if not entirely satisfying) weeks, we have finally arrived at the three weeks that will reveal all. Okay, not all, but a whole lot. Strangely, the most interesting stuff is happening in the conferences that are the most...
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    The Chaos Index, Week 11: Bad Hangovers In L.A. and LA

    Okay, so it wasn't exactly a good week for interim coaches, was it? It wasn't much better for the Power Five's too westernmost conferences. 1. Pac-12 – Is it parity, or is it just that the entire conference is vaguely above average? Whatever it is, the vast majority of America can rest...
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    Countdown To Chaos, Week 11: Nothing Weird About To Happen - Nope, Nothing At Al

    You'd think that, for Week 11, we'd get a more interesting schedule than this. (For a point of reference, see last week.) Of course, we've reached that point in the year when THERE ARE GOING TO BE SO MANY UNDEFEATED AND ONE-LOSS TEAMS THAT THINGS ARE GOING TO BE A MESS!!! In other words, we've...
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    The Chaos Index, Week 10: Dreams Die In Oxford, Tallahassee (But Not Elsewhere)

    Once again, our Saturday combatants remind us that chaos can be good, bad, or wildly confusing. While you adjust your expectations for the coming month, look no further than our top six for evidence of all of the above as you prepare for a week in which the best game might actually be a...
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    Countdown To Chaos, Week 10: Showdowns & Trap Games & #MACtion...Oh My!

    The best treat that goes with Halloween? Howzabout the end of bad October schedules? Oh sure, we get a couple decent games every weekend, but check out the first week of November and start making pizza delivery plans now. Yours truly seriously considered boarding a plane for either Bama or...
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