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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/usffan on 2025-05-22 16:38:24+00:00.
The cumulative link to the preseason rankings can be found here.
Thanks to Bill Connelly’s updated SP+ rankings, the cumulative rankings have shifted a bit. So for purposes of the countdown, it will look funky for a couple of days since he upgraded Buffalo enough that they moved up the rankings.
Fresno State (high = 80, low = 102) breaks into the rankings today, projecting to be the 5th best team in the Mountain West in 2025 after a 4th place finish in 2024 and an OT loss in the Famous (sic) Idaho Potato Bowl to Northern Illinois. Frankly, few teams were probably happier to put 2024 behind them than the Bulldogs after former coach Jeff Tedford stepped away and Tim Skipper stepped in to serve as interim coach last year. Now they’ll be helmed by former North Dakota State coach Matt Entz, who led the Bison to two FCS titles and a third championship game berth since 2019. We’ll definitely get a read on how much is the X’s and O’s vs. Jimmy’s and Joe’s from Fresno this season, because they pair the 116th best returning production in the country, which ranks > 100th on both sides of the ball, with the 104th ranked recruiting class and 99th ranked transfer portal class, so the cupboard appears to be as bare as Fresno’s bank account these days. QB Mikey Keene is gone to Ann Arbor, and it looks like former Owls (Rice AND Temple) QB EJ Warner will be stepping in, throwing to a wide receiver corps that hasn’t gone for over 100 yards in a season in house. The schedule sets up with 6 games against teams ranked above the Bulldogs, so it looks like there’s not a lot of margin for error if they want to go bowling this season.