Most college campuses across the country are either gearing up for Finals Week or have already completed it and are emptying out for the mid-semester break.\u00a0 That means that the non-conference whirlwind of games has slowed to a crawl, as teams eye up the heavy conference slate that awaits them around the turn of the New Year.<\/p>\n
As for the Forgotten 40<\/em>, there were only 4 teams that graduated from our list since the last edition, two weeks ago.<\/p>\n The unbeaten Tigers of LSU got a single vote in this week’s AP Poll, while the similarly unbeaten Wyoming Cowboys got several after taking care of Colorado.\u00a0 Boise State, who was #7 on our list did get recognition after beating up on Creighton, and the Va Tech Hokies are the biggest surprise in the ACC this year, suffering their first loss this weekend, by 1 point at West Virginia.<\/p>\n While most teams here actually played their way off the list – St. John’s, Purdue, Vermont, Kent State, Loyola, Indiana State, San Francisco – others were just victims of circumstance and a crowded F40 this week.\u00a0 As more and more teams play their way off the list either by winning and getting noticed or losing, there will be more and more spots available for some of the deserving teams that have even been overlooked by a list designed to give attention to overlooked teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most college campuses across the country are either gearing up for Finals Week or have already completed it and are emptying out for the mid-semester break.\u00a0 That means that the non-conference whirlwind of games has slowed to a crawl, as … Continue reading The Graduates<\/span><\/h2>\n
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