The Cincinnati Bearcats are going undefeated in the regular season ... probably. There is no such thing as a guarantee in college football, and this year has already proven to be especially unpredictable. Just this past weekend we had an upset victory by a 32.5-point underdog, while a team ranked in the top three in the AP poll lost for the third straight week to an unranked opponent.
The Bearcats have ascended to the No. 2 ranking in the AP poll this week, and they have climbed to No. 5 overall in my FEI ratings. It is at this mid-October point in the season when I used to remove all preseason projection data from the FEI ratings formula and publish numbers based exclusively on results to date.