Collegefootballfan.com 2019 Top Ten

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In 2019, Collegefootballfan.com attended 24 NCAA football games. Among the competitors, we attended games played by 22 FBS programs, six FCS teams, four D-II’s, and four D-III’s. In games played by the 22 FBS teams, 17 made it to post-season bowl games (“everybody gets a bowl game”). We made it to only two of those contests this season, both blow-outs.

We saw the best, No. 1 LSU, and the worst, UMass, 1-11. In between, teams featured on our schedule fell well interspersed among the existing 130 FBS teams competing for bowl games. Teams who competed on our schedule finished 10-7 in bowls, but three of these bowls featured teams we saw play on this year’s schedule against one another. In the end , we saw some of the best of the best of 2019. Seven teams finished in the AP Top 25. So based on our summary of teams we saw play this year, our Top Ten for 2019 finished as follows:

  1. LSU, 15-0, National Champs, saw them decimate No. 4 Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl CFP
  2. Minnesota, 11-2, No. 10 in AP defeating No. 9 Penn State and impressively over No. 14 Auburn in the Outback Bowl
  3. Penn State, 11-2, No. 9 defeated No. 15 Iowa, No. 18 Michigan, and No. 17 Memphis in the Cotton Bowl
  4. Oklahoma, 12-2, No. 7 Big Twelve champs beat No. 13 Baylor twice and No. 25 Texas
  5. Navy, 11-2, No. 20 won close, exciting competitive games we attended this year against No. 22 Air Force, Tulane, and SMU before doing the same vs. Kansas State (who beat Oklahoma) in The Liberty Bowl
  6. North Dakota State, 16-0, FCS National champs, watched them whip Delaware, but this team can match up with most Top 25 FBS teams
  7. Air Force, 11-2, No. 22 lost close games at No. 23 Boise and at No. 20 Navy, but manhandled most of their schedule including Washington State in the Cheez-It Bowl
  8. Texas, 8-5, No. 25 beat Kansas State in our game, whipped No. 16 Utah in the Alamo Bowl, and gave No. 1 LSU a tussle early in the season.
  9. SMU, 10-3, unranked lost to AAC foes No. 17 Memphis and No. 20 Navy by six and seven respectively before falling to FAU (11-3) in Boca Raton Bowl
  10. Louisville, 8-5, unranked defeated Wake Forest in our game 62-59 and beat Mississippi State in Music City Bowl

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