ESPN.com · Oct 23, 2025
Week 9 preview: Conference title contenders, key matchups and more
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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.
It's not even just the sheer volume of contenders, it's the surprising teams that are in the mix (hello, Virginia, Cincinnati and Vanderbilt).
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. -- David Hale
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