Editor’s note: The Athletic 134 is a weekly ranking of all FBS college football teams.
Welcome back to college football, now bigger and weirder than ever.
We only have nine conference championship games this year. There’s a 12-team College Football Playoff. Conferences stretch literally from coast to coast.
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And the size of the Football Bowl Subdivision has grown again. Welcome to Kennesaw State, the suburban Atlanta program that began play in 2015 and has now moved to the FBS as part of Conference USA.
These rankings began with 130 teams in 2017, decreased to 76 to start the pandemic-impacted 2020 season, returned to 130 in 2021, grew to 131 in 2022, expanded to
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