Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #59 - Nicole Uphoff

Nicole Uphoff

Germany

Equestrian Dressage

Overall Ranks

#2 among Dressage Riders

#2 among German Olympians

Olympic Results

1988

Individual - Gold

Team - Gold

1992

Individual - Gold

Team - Gold

Total

Events - 5

Gold - 4

Nicole Uphoff was born on January 25, 1967 in Duisburg, West Germany, and began riding in competitions with her horse, Rembrandt, when she was 18 years old, and by the time she was 21, she was recognized as one of the best in the world, and made her first Olympic team, riding for West Germany.

In the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, her first event was the team competition, where up to 4 riders from each nation went through the process, and the three highest scores counted toward the overall score. Uphoff was the highest scorer of any competitor overall, and with one of her teammates finishing in 3rd, the German team won easily, 138 points above the Swiss, who came in second.

The top 18 riders advanced to the final in the individual event, with only 3 per nation allowed to compete, leaving one West German out. Uphoff had scored 1458 in the team round, just 3 points ahead of the next qualifier, but in the final, she was nearly perfect, and raised the bar to 1521 points, which allowed her to run away with the gold by 59 points.

She followed up her pair of Olympic golds with 2 pairs of World Championship golds, and she was the favorite heading to Barcelona in 1992, competing for the newly reunified Germany. In the team event, she again had the highest score, with 1768 under a different scoring system than before, and she was 6 points ahead of Isabell Werth, her teammate, which helped them win the team gold by nearly 500 points.

The top 16 riders advanced to the individual final, except that the 4th German rider was left out again, even though they were #4 in qualifying. In the final, the German trio again finished at the top, sweeping the medals, with Uphoff finishing 75 points ahead of Werth to successfully defend her gold medal, becoming just the second rider in history to win twice in a row, while Rembrandt became the first horse ever to repeat as champion. 

In the next World Championship, she ended up only in second place, and by 1996, she failed to make the German team for the Atlanta Olympics, but as defending individual champion, she had the right to compete in the individual event, which she accepted. That event was expanded by a round that year, and she was in 9th after qualifying and 8th after the first round of the final, but dropped out before the final round, which was won by Werth, her teammate.

Rembrandt retired after the 1996 Olympics, and Uphoff spent a few years looking for a new horse. She won a competition in 1999 on a new horse, Borbet Rubinstein, but again failed to make the Olympic team in 2000, and never again attempted to return to the Olympics, though she didn't officially retire until 2013. While she was at the top of her game, she was unbeatable, winning all 4 of her Olympic gold medals in blowout fashion, making her one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #60 - Marit Bjorgen

Marit Bjorgen

Norway

Cross Country Skiing

Overall Ranks

#4 among Norwegian Olympians

#3 among Cross Country Skiers

#2 among Norwegian Cross Country Skiers

#1 among Female Norwegian Olympians

Olympic Results

2002

Relay - Silver

2006

10 km - Silver

2010

Sprint - Gold

10 km - Bronze

30 km - Silver

Skiathlon - Gold

Relay - Gold

2014

30 km - Gold

Skiathlon - Gold

Team Sprint - Gold

2018

10 km - Bronze

30 km - Gold

Skiathlon - Silver

Relay - Gold

Team Sprint - Bronze

Total

Events - 24

Gold - 8

Silver - 4

Bronze - 3

Marit Bjorgen was born on March 21, 1980 in Trondheim, Norway, and though her Olympic career started slowly, by the time she retired she was undoubtedly one of the all-time greats. She made her first Olympic team in 2002, when she was 21 years old, competing in Salt Lake City.

Her first Olympic event was the 15 km race, where she finished in 50th place, more than 7 minutes behind the gold medalist. She then took the first leg for Norway in the relay, where they were expected to win due to Russia losing a couple of their best skiers to doping. Bjorgen had Norway in 4th place after her leg, 14 seconds behind Germany, but the next skier took the lead back late in her leg, and they held it until the final 100 meters, when the final German skier shot ahead and took the gold, leaving Norway to take silver after losing by 1.3 seconds.

She also competed in the 30km, where she finished in 14 place, just over 6 minutes behind the official champion, but nearly 8 minutes behind the original champion, who lost her medal to doping. In 2003, she broke through at the World Championship, winning gold in the sprint, then followed that up with 3 golds, a silver, and a bronze in 2005. 

Expectations were high for Bjorgen heading to Turin, but she got bronchitis the week before the games, and it affected her performance. She withdrew halfway through her first event, the skiathlon, where she was a pre-race favorite. In the team sprint, the Canadian skier snapped a pole early in the final, and the Norwegian coach gave her a new one, enabling her to stay with the leaders. Norway never took the lead, but remained close for most of the race, eventually finishing in 4th. Many were angry at the coach for helping an opponent, but the Canadians, who finished 2nd, were very grateful.

She was the favorite in the 10km race, but Sara Renner of Canada led most of the race, until she dropped off in the final quarter of the race. At that point, Kristina Smigun of Estonia took the lead, and she pulled away from the pack to win easily. Bjorgen had her best finish of the Olympics though, outskiing the rest of the pack to come in second and earn a silver medal.

In the relay, Bjorgen was assigned to the anchor leg, and they were one of the favorites. They stayed near the front for the entire race, and Bjorgen was in 2nd place when she took off for her leg, but she didn't ski well, and the team dropped to 5th and out of the medals. She failed to advance out of the quarterfinal round in the sprint, and left Turin before the 30km, which would have been her final event.

She didn't perform well in the next two world championships, but returned for the 2010 Olympics, where she would finally perform up to her potential. She started out in the 10km race, where she was able to finished in 3rd place, earning a bronze medal to open the games. 

Her second event was the sprint, and she was the fastest qualifier this time, then went on to win both of her heats to advance easily to the final. In the final, Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland kept it close for a while, but in the final 300 meters, Bjorgen pulled away to win by over a second, and she finally had her first Olympic gold medal.

Next up was the 15 km skiathlon, and Bjorgen was able to stay with the lead pack for most of the race, which consisted of 7 skiers at the halfway point, when they switched out their skis. The lead pack was down to 4 by the final section of the race, when Bjorgen pulled away from the others to win gold by 9 seconds, while the other three finished within half a second of each other.

She was again assigned the anchor leg in the relay. Sweden led them by 2 seconds after the first leg, then Italy took the lead in the second leg, with Norway 8 seconds back, but their third skier took the lead right at the switch-over point, barely ahead of Italy, but Bjorgen left Italy in the dust, and by the end, she coasted to the finish line and won the race by over 25 seconds.

Before her final event, the 30 km, her chief competitor, Kowalczyk, questioned her use of an asthma drug, which was normally banned, but for which Bjorgen had a valid exemption. There were several skiers close together through 20 km, but at that point Bjorgen and Kowalczyk pulled away from the field, with Bjorgen eventually gaining a 6-second advantage with just a few kilometers to go. On the final climb, Kowalczyk caught up, and it came down to a final sprint to the finish, with Bjorgen coming up just short, losing by 0.3 seconds and finishing up her great Olympics with a silver.

She won 4 golds and a silver in each of the next 2 World Championships, meaning that expectations were still high in Sochi. She started out with the skiathlon, where she was the defending champ. A group of 6 reached the midway point together, and five of them remained together for the entire second half. On the final climb, Charlotte Kalla of Sweden tried to break away, but Bjorgen kept pace, and the pair ended up in a sprint for the finish, which Bjorgen won by 1.8 seconds.

In the sprint, she qualified in third, and advanced to the semifinal, but in that race she finished last and failed to make the final. In the 10km, Bjorgen was in second place for the majority of the race, behind Kowalczyk's time, but she faded over the final 2 km and finished in 5th. They were also expected to win the relay, but fell behind early and were never able to make up group, spending nearly the entire race in 5th place.

After a few disappointing finishes, she finally put it back together in the team sprint. Norway was in second when she started her first leg, but she took the lead quickly, and they never gave it back, extending it each time that Bjorgen was on the course, and they ended up winning the gold medal by over 9 seconds over Finland.

In the final event, the 30km, Bjorgen and two Norwegian teammates pulled away from the field after 10 km, extending their lead to a full minute and maintaining it for the remainder of the race. The three took turns in the lead, working as a team until the final 2 km, when Bjorgen and Therese Johaug left their teammate behind, then sprinted it out for the finish, which Bjorgen took by 2.6 seconds to win her 3rd gold of the games.

She came back for one final run at the Olympics in 2018. She entered 5 events, the first of which was the skiathlon, which she had won the last two times. She was in the back of the lead pack of 9 with 3 km to go when Kalla pulled away from the pack, and she had to fight her way through the pack before pursuing Kalla, and by that point it was too late, though Bjorgen was able to come through with a silver medal.

Bjorgen was one of the favorites in the 10km, and she was the first of the favorites to compete, setting the mark to beat. Unfortunately, two were able to beat it, and Bjorgen ended up having to settle for bronze. In the relay Bjorgen skied the anchor leg again. Norway was behind early, 30 seconds behind Russia at the midway point, but the third skier closed the gap, and Bjorgen was only 3 seconds behind when she took over, and she soon took the lead over Sweden and their sprint champion. She maintained the lead, never allowing a chance to get passed, and ended up winning the gold medal by 2 seconds.

In the team sprint, Norway, Sweden, and the USA were together heading into the final downhill, with Sweden leading and Norway in second heading into the final sprint, when Jessie Diggins of the USA passed Falla of Norway, then caught Nilsson of Sweden at the finish line to take the gold, while Norway ended up with a bronze medal.

In her final Olympic event, the 30 km, Bjorgen left no doubt who would win from the start. She broke away from the pack at the 10 km mark, and was 51 seconds ahead by the midway point, and 80 seconds ahead with 10 km to go. Her lead ballooned to over 2 minutes in the final kilometers, when she finally slowed down to celebrate, which cost her some time, leaving her a win by "only" 1 minute and 50 seconds.

She retired after the 2018 Olympics as the most decorated Winter Olympian of all time, with 15 total medals, which is #3 among all Olympians ever. She also had the most Winter Olympic golds of all time until this year, when she was passed by Johannes Hosflot Klaebo, also of Norway, who currently has 11. Even though she only won a single medal at each of her first two Olympics, she overcame and retired as one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #61 - Yukio Endo

Yukio Endo

Japan

Artistic Gymnastics

Overall Ranks

#14 among Gymnasts

#8 among Male Gymnasts

#6 among Japanese Olympians

#5 among Japanese Gymnasts

Olympic Results

1960

Team - Gold

1964

Individual All-Around - Gold

Team - Gold

Floor Exercise - Silver

Parallel Bars - Gold

1968

Team - Gold

Vault - Silver

Total

Events - 24

Gold - 5

Silver - 2

Yukio Endo was born on January 18, 1937 in Yanaisado, Japan, the son of a pharmacist, and participated in gymnastics as a youth, but graduated from college before he made the Japanese Olympic team for the first time in 1960.

When they arrived in Rome, the Soviet team had won the past 2 team gold medals, with the Japanese taking silver in 1956. Endo was the 3rd-highest-scoring member of the team during the team event in Rome, and for the first time in their history, the Japanese won team gold, beating the Soviets by 2.5 points.

The individual all-around medals were determined based on performances during the team event, and Endo finished in 5th place among all participants, falling behind 2 of his teammates, and 2 members of the Soviet team. The top 6 in each individual apparatus qualified for the event finals, and Endo qualified for 2, the vault and the horizontal bar. He was tied for 6th on the parallel bars, but the tiebreaker went to Yury Titov of the USSR. He ended up finishing 4th in the horizontal bar and 5th in the vault, putting him in the top 5 in four events, but he earned only the team medal that year.

In 1962, he won the World Championship in the floor exercise, his only individual win in the world championships. By 1964, he had become the strongest member of the Japanese team, and when they went to defend their gold medal in Tokyo, they were successful, once again beating the Soviets by 2.5 points.

When the individual all-around scored were tabulated, Endo had pulled off a gold medal victory that was a small surprise. He had taken all-around silver at the last world championship, but he dominated this time, winning by 0.55 points, which was more than the gap between 2nd and 8th place. He also qualified for 5 of the 6 event finals, failing only in the pommel horse.

Endo was the top qualifier in floor exercise, and was the defending world champion, but in the final, he had his worst performance, and fell down to silver, while Franco Menichelli of Italy leapfrogged him for gold. He was the #3 qualifier in the vault, but another poor performance dropped him to 6th after the final.

The parallel bars were different, however. He was the top qualifier once again, but barely ahead of 3 others. He put up a 9.9 score in the final to run away with the gold, while nobody else exceeded 9.7. He was third qualifier in the horizontal bar, but fell to 5th after the final, and finished 6th in the rings despite qualifying at the top. He finished his home Olympics with 3 golds and a silver, but he could have had so much more.

Endo was back for his 3rd Olympics in 1968, but he was no longer the star of the Japanese team. He still performed well in the team event, but was 5th best on the strong Japanese team, as they won their third straight gold medal, this time beating the Soviets by 4.8 points.

Even though he was the 5th-best member of the Japanese team, that still was good enough to place him 8th overall in the individual all-around, and he qualified for 2 event finals, the vault and the horizontal bar. Endo was tied for second after qualifying in the vault, but after teammate Takeshi Kato struggled in the final, Mikhail Voronin of the USSR moved up to gold, while Endo stayed in silver medal position. Endo was put in the horizontal bar final after Sawao Kato decided not to compete, but he didn't improve from his 6th place entry into the final.

He retired after the 1968 Olympics, and became a coach and professor. He coached the Japanese team at the 1972 Olympics, where they again won gold, and was later president of the Japanese Olympic Committee. He died of cancer in Tokyo on March 25, 2009. With his qualifying scores, especially in 1964, he could easily have ended up with 11 Olympic medals, but he did end up with 7, five of them gold, including a dominant all-around win, making him one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #62 - Dalilah Muhammad

Dalilah Muhammad

USA

Athletics

Overall Ranks

#20 among American Olympians

#16 among Track & Field Athletes

#12 among American Track & Field Athletes

#6 among Female American Olympians

#5 among Female Track & Field Athletes

#3 among Female American Track & Field Athletes

Olympic Results

2016

400m Hurdles - Gold

2020

400m Hurdles - Silver

4x400m Relay - Gold

Total

Events - 3

Gold - 2

Silver - 1

Dalilah Muhammad was born on February 7, 1990 in Jamaica, New York, and began training as a runner when a local coach saw her running through the streets at age 7. When she was 17, she won the World Youth Championship in the 400m hurdles, then after graduating from high school, moved across the country to attend USC.

While at USC, she competed in the 2012 US Olympic trials, but failed to make the team. The next year, she took silver in the World Championships in the hurdles, but injuries slowed her down over the next couple of years, and she returned to competition just before the 2016 Olympic trials, where she won, earning her place on the team heading to Rio.

When she got to the Olympics, the favorite was Zuzana Hejnova of Czechia, who had won the last 2 World Championships, but Muhammad started to get noticed after running the fastest time in the semifinal round. By the fourth hurdle in the final, Muhammad had a clear lead, and she never let anyone else make it close, winning the race by 0.42 seconds to become the first American woman to ever win the event.

After finishing second in the 2017 World Championships, she set a new world record at the US Championship in 2019, then added a World Championship win later that year, also setting a new world record in the process. But at the 2021 Olympic trials, she finished second behind Sydney McLaughlin, who broke the world record again, setting it at 51.9 seconds.

The pair was expected to fight it out for gold in Tokyo, and the race lived up to expectations. Muhammad took the lead early, and was a step ahead of McLaughlin and Femke Bol of the Netherlands through the 8th hurdle, but McLaughlin closed the gap by the final hurdle, then had a better finishing kick to win gold. Both runners broke the previous world record, but Muhammad lost by 0.12 seconds.

Both of them also competed in the 4x400m relay later that week, and the squad that ran in the final was one of the strongest ever assembled. McLaughlin ran the first leg, and held a slight lead when she handed off to Allyson Felix, who extended the lead to 5 meters when Muhammad took the baton and pulled away, leaving a gap of 15 meters at the final handoff. Athing Mu (#85 in this countdown) ran the anchor leg, and the USA won by nearly 4 seconds.

She tried to make the US team for the 2024 Olympics, but did not qualify after the trials. She is still running, and has even started running the 800 meters this year, possibly with an eye toward the 2028 games, but she is starting to age out of competitive running. Even with her limited Olympic experience, she had two very strong gold medal wins, plus a silver medal that was faster than the world record, and she stands today as one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #63 - Jason Kenny

Jason Kenny

Great Britain

Track Cycling

Overall Ranks

#2 among British Olympians

#1 among Track Cyclists

Olympic Results

2008

Sprint - Silver

Team Sprint - Gold

2012

Sprint - Gold

Team Sprint - Gold

2016

Sprint - Gold

Keirin - Gold

Team Sprint - Gold

2020

Keirin - Gold

Team Sprint - Silver

Total

Events - 10

Gold - 7

Silver - 2

Jason Francis Kenny was born on March 23, 1988 in Bolton, England, and learned to ride a bike early like most children, then fell in love with track cycling when he was introduced to it by his uncle as a teenager. He began competing on the senior circuit in 2006, and made his first Olympic team in 2008, at the age of 20.

Kenny's first Olympic event was the team sprint, where he was the #2 racer on the British team, behind Chris Hoy (#131 in my countdown). The team beat Germany by over a second in their prelim heat, then beat the American team by over 2 seconds in the semifinal, which put them in the final round against France, who had beaten them in the most recent World Championship. Britain held the lead through the entire race, avenging their earlier loss by over half a second, and Kenny began his Olympic career with a gold medal.

His only other event in Beijing was the sprint, where Hoy was one of the favorites, and Kenny was more of an unknown. Each round before the semifinals consisted of a single winner-take-all race, but the final 3 rounds were all best-of-three. Both Kenny and Hoy won every single race on their way to an all-British showdown for gold. In the end, the favorite came through to defeat the newcomer, but Kenny still came away with an unexpected silver medal.

He was back in 2012 to compete in his home Olympics in London, and again teamed up with Hoy in the team sprint event, where they were favored to repeat as champs. The team set a new Olympic record in the first round, then a new world record in the semifinal, before breaking it again in the final against France, giving them another gold medal.

In the sprint event, Hoy was not competing, instead focusing on other events, but Kenny was still not the favorite, as Gregory Bauge of France had won the last 3 World Championships. Both Kenny and Bauge were undefeated all the way to the final, but in the final, Kenny pulled off the upset this time, winning both races against Bauge to take the gold.

In 2016, Kenny was back for more in Rio, but Hoy had retired after the London Olympics, and his space in the team sprint was filled by Callum Skinner. New Zealand was the defending world champion and the favorite, but it was Britain that set a new Olympic record in the first round, which the Kiwis broke in the semifinal, leading to a showdown for gold. New Zealand took the lead on the first lap, but Kenny was able to overtake them during his turn, after which Skinner pulled away to set another Olympic record, and give the Brits their third straight gold in the event.

In the sprint, Kenny had struggled since the previous Olympics, so he wasn't necessarily the favorite, but he set a new Olympic record in qualifying, then won all of his races up to the semifinal round, where he lost his first race to Denis Dmitriyev of Russia, then had to fight back to win two straight races to advance to the final. In the final, he faced Skinner, his new teammate, and beat him in two straight races to successfully defend his gold from London.

He also raced in the keirin for the first time in the Olympics in 2016, where Hoy had won the past two golds. He was able to reach the final after winning each of his first two heats, and in the final, he was in third place for most of the race, but when the two leaders began to fade on the final lap, Kenny came around them on the outside to beat them both to the gold, tying Hoy for the most gold medals ever for a British Olympian in the process.

Kenny came back for one final Olympic run in Tokyo, where both of his teammates in the team sprint had been replaced, and their longtime coach had left to coach the Dutch team. The Dutch ended up setting new Olympic records in all 3 rounds, while the British were able to make it to the finals, but were no match for the Netherlands, who beat them by over 3 seconds, leaving a silver for the Brits.

In the sprint, where Kenny was 2-time defending champion, he was able to win his first two races, but lost in round 3 to Dmitriyev, forcing him into the repechage pool. He won that race to advance into the quarterfinal, but there he lost again, to Harrie Lavreysen of the Netherlands, who went on to win the gold medal, while Kenny missed out on a medal for the first time in his Olympic career.

In the keirin, Kenny was back to defend his gold as well, but came in 4th in his first round heat, dropping him into the repechage. He won that heat to get back into the field in the quarterfinal, where he advanced after finishing #2 in his heat. He ran his strongest race in the semifinal to get back to the final, where he changed strategies, sprinting ahead as soon as the pace bike was removed, and the change worked, as his surprised opponents didn't follow soon enough, and Kenny was able to finish his career off with one final gold medal.

Kenny married fellow British track cyclist Laura Trott in 2016, and she is a 5-time Olympic gold medalist herself. Kenny retired after Tokyo, and now coaches the British track cycling team. His 7 gold and 9 medals overall are both British records, as well as records for cyclists, making him easily one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Top 150 Olympic Athletes: #64 - Wille Grut

Wille Grut

Sweden

Modern Pentathlon

Overall Ranks

#1 among Swedish Olympians

#1 among Modern Pentathletes

Olympic Results

1948

Individual - Gold

Total

Events - 1

Gold - 1

William Oscar Guernsey Grut was born on September 17, 1914 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of Torben Grut, the architect who designed the Olympic stadium in Stockholm for the 1912 Games. His father had also been a very good tennis player, but Wille became a swimmer and won several national championships. He even made the 1936 Olympic team as a relay alternate, but didn't end up competing.

While he was in Berlin, he saw the modern pentathlon, and decided to switch events. World War II cancelled the next two Olympics, but in 1948, Grut was ready to compete. The first part of the modern pentathlon is the equestrian steeplechase, and Grut had experience riding horses in the army. He mastered the course, never missing a jump, and finishing in the fastest time to receive the top score for that portion.

The next part was a round-robin epee fencing tournament, where placement was determined by number of wins against the field. There were 44 competitors, so this took a couple of days, but in the end, Grut had won 28 matches, the most of anyone, and he again earned the top score.

The third portion was rapid-fire pistol shooting, with a total of 200 points possible per competitor. Grut hit 190, which put him in 5th place out of the field, while his nearest competition through the earlier events finished in 21st, dropping him way behind the lead. Next was a 300m freestyle swimming race, which again played to Grut's strength, and he easily won that portion, by more than 4 seconds over anyone else.

The final event was a 4000 meter cross country race. Grut was far from the lead in this portion, finishing more than a minute behind the leader, but he still came in 8th among 42 racers who finished, giving him the gold medal by a mile over anyone else. No other competitor finished in the top 10 in more than three portions, while Grut was top 10 in all of them, and won three parts outright. It remains the most dominant modern pentathlon performance in history, and makes him one of the greatest Olympians of all time.

Football Predictions - 9 Sep thru 14 Sep

Upset picks are in italics.

Wednesday

New England at Seattle - Seahawks by 7

Thursday

Florida A&M at (7) Miami - Hurricanes by 47.5

San Francisco vs. LA Rams - Rams by 7.5

Friday

Villanova at (24) Louisville - Cardinals by 27

Norfolk State at (25) Virginia - Cavaliers by 30.5

Richmond at NC State - Wolfpack by 22

Rutgers at Boston College - Eagles by 28

(23) Missouri at Kansas - Jayhawks by 0.5

Saturday

Howard at (5) Indiana - Hoosiers by 42

(6) Oregon at Oklahoma State - Ducks by 14.5

Arizona State at (10) Texas A&M - Aggies by 14.5

(11) Oklahoma at Michigan - Sooners by 3.5

(16) Penn State at Temple - Nittany Lions by 14.5

Washington State at Kansas State - Cougars by 4.5

East Tennessee State at North Carolina - Tar Heels by 21.5

Old Dominion at Virginia Tech - Hokies by 2.5

Wake Forest at Purdue - Demon Deacons by 2

South Florida at Army - Black Knights by 2

App State at East Carolina - Pirates by 14

Wofford at Kent State - Golden Flashes by 6

Wagner at James Madison - Dukes by 16.5

Gardner-Webb at Liberty - Flames by 23.5

Western Kentucky at (2) Georgia - Bulldogs by 23.5

UT Martin at West Virginia - Mountaineers by 9

Colgate at Central Michigan - Chippewas by 10

Holy Cross at Miami (OH) - Warhawks by 13.5

Stony Brook at Ball State - Cardinals by 14.5

Rice at (3) Notre Dame - Irish by 38

(12) Alabama at Kentucky - Crimson Tide by 15

Arizona at (15) BYU - Cougars by 8.5

Utah State at (19) Washington - Huskies by 35.5

Mississippi State at Minnesota - Gophers by 2

Weber State at Colorado - Buffaloes by 27.5

UCF at Pittsburgh - Panthers by 15.5

California at Syracuse - Orange by 18.5

Duke at Illinois - Blue Devils by 2

Eastern Michigan at Michigan State - Spartans by 24

Maryland at UConn - Huskies by 3.5

UTSA at Texas State - Bobcats by 5

UL Monroe at UAB - Blazers by 14

Robert Morris at Akron - Zips by 10.5

Central Connecticut at Toledo - Rockets by 23

Sacred Heart at UMass - Minutemen by 20.5

UNLV at North Texas - Mean Green by 12

UC Davis at (17) SMU - Mustangs by 35.5

Northern Colorado at Wyoming - Cowboys by 4.5

Mercyhurst at New Mexico - Lobos by 21

Alabama State at Troy - Trojans by 0.5

Delaware at Vanderbilt - Commodores by 12

Campbell at Florida - Gators by 23

Memphis at Boise State - Broncos by 12.5

Buffalo at FIU - Golden Panthers by 27.5

Jacksonville State at Ohio - Bobcats by 10

Monmouth at Western Michigan - Broncos by 30

(18) Tennessee at Georgia Tech - Volunteers by 4.5

Southern at (22) Houston - Cougars by 14.5

Towson at South Carolina - Gamecocks by 21

Western Carolina at Cincinnati - Bearcats by 19

Bowling Green at Nebraska - Cornhuskers by 34.5

Southern Utah at Colorado State - Rams by 11

Tulsa at Sam Houston - Bearkats by 8

Illinois State at Northern Illinois - Huskies by 11.5

South Alabama at Tulane - Green Wave by 20.5

West Georgia at Arkansas State - Red Wolves by 15

Georgia State at Kennesaw State - Owls by 10

Middle Tennessee at Marshall - Thundering Herd by 14

Lindenwood at Missouri State - Bears by 15

San Diego State at UCLA - Bruins by 20

Western Illinois at Wisconsin - Badgers by 17.5

(1) Ohio State at (4) Texas - Longhorns by 6.5

Louisiana Tech at (8) LSU - Tigers by 19.5

(13) Texas Tech at Oregon State - Red Raiders by 3

Iowa State at (21) Iowa - Hawkeyes by 11.5

Georgia Southern at Clemson - Tigers by 10

Navy at FAU - Midshipmen by 3

Fordham at Coastal Carolina - Chanticleers by 16.5

Charlotte at (9) Ole Miss - Rebels by 44

Southern Miss at Auburn - Tigers by 13

Grambling at TCU - Horned Frogs by 16.5

Prairie View at Baylor - Bears by 21

Cal Poly at San Jose State - Spartans by 17.5

Texas Southern at UTEP - Miners by 9.5

North Dakota State at Air Force - Falcons by 8

Arkansas at (20) Utah - Utes by 17

Sacramento State at Fresno State - Bulldogs by 18

Montana State at Nevada - Wolf Pack by 17

Louisiana at (14) USC - Trojans by 20

New Mexico State at Hawaii - Warriors by 4

Sunday

Tampa Bay at Cincinnati - Bengals by 4

New Orleans at Detroit - Lions by 18.5

NY Jets at Tennessee - Titans by 7

Baltimore at Indianapolis - Colts by 1.5

Atlanta at Pittsburgh - Steelers by 3.5

Chicago at Carolina - Bears by 10.5

Cleveland at Jacksonville - Jaguars by 26

Buffalo at Houston - Bills by 0.5

Miami at Las Vegas - Dolphins by 6.5

Green Bay at Minnesota - Packers by 3.5

Arizona at LA Chargers - Chargers by 8.5

Washington at Philadelphia - Eagles by 7.5

Dallas at NY Giants - Cowboys by 6.5

Monday

Denver at Kansas City - Chiefs by 1

Results

NCAA: 82-9 (.901) 87-12 overall (.879)

Upsets: 2-3 (.400) 2-4 overall (.333)