That's right! Our extensive Following Football tiering system has divided the 128 FBS teams into twenty tiers of six or seven members (as always, we refuse to specifically rank teams until the end of the season), for your viewing and arguing pleasure! We start with the bottom five tiers, in the Basement Levels:
Tier U (aka, the Bottom Six):
No changes here from last week, and we still include four Sun Belt Conference also-rans in Georgia State, Idaho, New Mexico St, and Troy; along with MAC bottom-feeder Kent St and our lone remaining winless team, from the American Athletic Conference (used to be the Big East), the SMU Mustangs.
Tier T (aka the rest of the Bottom 13):
Also very similar to last week, with one-win Tulsa and UConn from the AAC, and two-win teams Appalachian St (Sun Belt), New Mexico (Mountain West), North Texas (Conference USA), and the two MAC entries, Miami-OH and UMass.
Tier S:
Ball St (3-5, 2-2 MAC), Eastern Michigan (2-6, 1-3 MAC), Hawaii (2-6, 1-2 MW), Old Dominion (3-5, 1-4 Sun), UNLV (2-6, 1-3 MW), and UT-San Antonio (2-6, 1-3 C-USA).
Tier R:
The fourth level from the bottom (if you like, call them rankings #104-109) contains Akron (4-4, 2-2 MAC), Army (2-5 as independent), Iowa St (2-5, 0-4 Big 12), Kansas (2-5, 0-4 Big 12), Tulane (2-5, 1-2 AAC), and Western Kentucky (3-4, 1-3 Sun).
Tier Q:
Finally (for this post in the Basement Level), there are seven teams - Buffalo (3-5, 1-3 MAC), Florida International (3-5, 2-2 C-USA), South Alabama (5-2, 4-1 Sun), Southern Miss (3-5, 1-3 C-USA), UL-Monroe (3-4, 2-2 Sun), Vanderbilt (2-6, 0-5 SEC), and Wake Forest (2-6, 0-4 ACC).
[Just a reminder - the most important rule of placing teams in tiers is, If the teams played on a neutral field, would they be close? Or would one team definitely win? If there's a significant difference, they should be in different tiers. But that's why South Alabama (at 5-2) can be in the same tier as 2-6 Vanderbilt, winless in the SEC: Wouldn't SA be winless there, too?]
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