HLS Top 25

#HLSrecap Top 25, brought to you weekly during college football season.

#HLSRecap Top 25: Final 2015 Standings

January 29, 2016 by andrewwinn

Now it's time to reveal which ND fan entertained us on Twitter while the Irish played in 2015. It's a new champion. No one will be shocked by the name (if you've followed along with us this year.) Ah, tangent. Thank you to the 627 Twitter users who contributed to our recap this year. We truly could not have done it without you. I'm going to unveil the final Top 25 poll, but first some fast facts about the Fiesta Bowl recap: Newcomers: We had 20 of those. It's also good to diversify the ...

Why, No, We Didn’t Forget About the HLS Top 25!

November 29, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

Ok, so last week was nuts. Staff was busy and their genius editor-in-chief forgot the spreadsheet that calculates everything was on his work laptop that was at work. My bad. Anyways, we pick back up once again, although both Twibby and Biscuit sadly were not able to vote this week unfortunately. No matter though, the show must go on! ...

HLS Top 25 – Election Day Edition

November 6, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

The ballots are in. The votes are tallied. The staff here at HLS has done our patriotic duty to exercise our right to vote on the top 25 teams in all of college football...save for one staff member that abstained... America! ...

Notre Dame #2 in HLS Top 25

November 2, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

It's been quite the crazy week and it delayed getting this together. Sadly the computer rankings are also delayed as I am running into some coding issues. Yes, I am just full of delays, but the show must go on! ...

Alabama No Longer Unanimous #1 in HLS Top 25

October 25, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

After spending the past seven weeks as the unanimous #1 in the HLS Top 25, a couple of the HLS staff members have seen enough to cast their first place votes elsewhere. However, the Tide keeps their #1 spot and the rest of the top of the poll remains rather stable. Most of the shuffling this week came at the bottom of our list, but it is only a matter of time before another large shake up. It's the calm before the storm. ...

HLS Top 25 – Week 7

October 18, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

The HLS Top 25 hit a bit of a delay thanks to some work travel on my end. No big analysis this week, let's get straight to the rankings: ...

HLS Top 25 – The Reckoning

October 9, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

This is the time of college football season that I love the most. It's the time when we begin the cream of the college football crop rises to the top. No longer are teams able to shield themselves with weak out-of-conference opponents. Now they have to play teams on their own level. Thanks to that, we've had the most movement ever in the HLS Top 25. For the first time ever, we had a team dropped that was previously in the top 15. Three teams dropped more than ten spots. We have three new ...

HLS Top 25 Lights a Tree on Fire

October 4, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

This week's rankings would've been rather pedestrian if not Washington's upset of Stanford. There was very minimal movement save for the nose dive the Stanford Cardinal took. If there's one thing that's been consistent thus far, you lose, the HLS staff punishes you. Just how far did they fall? Let's find out: ...

Better Late Than Never: HLS Top 25

September 27, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

Our goal is to usually get our top 25 out at the beginning of the week, but everyone on the HLS staff ended up being slammed. We need more hours in the day. Thank God this is a bye week. ...

Stanford, Notre Dame Biggest Winners in HLS Top 25

September 17, 2012 by Ryan Ritter

Week 3 has brought serious movement to the HLS Top 25. While the membership of the top 25 remains largely unchanged (only three teams dropped this week), Stanford's upset of previously ranked #3 USC and Notre Dame's drumming of previously ranked #11 Michigan State created quite the domino effect. Only four teams kept their previous week's rankings, three of which are in the top ten. Here's how everything shook out this week: ...