The Tuesday Drop · Week 1
Updated Aug 30, 2026We went 5-1 in Week 0 — the TailgateNinjas Tuesday Drop for Week 1 of the 2026 college football season. Updated August 29, 2026.
Straight-up record on games we called, from the Ledger.
Our model's current top five, with each team's chance to make the playoff.
The sharpest disagreements between our ranking and the AP poll.
We're higher
Voters are higher
Clear market favorites our model still isn't sold on.
Published weekly. Every number here comes from the same computation that feeds the email and our social posts, so the three can never disagree — and every call is graded in public afterwards.