"We're beyond the midpoint of the 2025 season and there's not a conference in the country that has a clear-cut front-runner. There are 60 FBS schools with no more than one conference loss, and ESPN's FPI metric gives 29 of them at least a 10% chance of winning their league. All of that means we're probably in for one of the wildest Novembers in recent memory, with every conference up for grabs and the playoff picture as murky as ever. Good luck with all that, committee."
"The Hurricanes are unquestionably the most talented team in the ACC, but a Week 8 loss to Louisville exposed some glaring weaknesses in the run game, a lack of a perimeter threat in the passing game, and saw Carson Beck revert to the worst of his Georgia era when trying to force things. Then there's SMU, which came within a whisker of winning the conference last year, and the Mustangs still haven't lost a regular-season ACC contest since joining the league."
Sixty FBS programs have no more than one conference loss, and ESPN's FPI assigns 29 of those teams at least a 10% chance to win their league. That distribution creates an unusually open landscape across conferences, producing a chaotic race toward November. The ACC exemplifies the uncertainty, with Georgia Tech favored despite inconsistent play, Virginia surviving multiple late comebacks, Miami showing talent but key weaknesses, and SMU remaining unbeaten in ACC regular-season play since joining. Duke and Pitt retain plausible paths, while Florida State and Clemson are notably absent from the top contenders.
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