With non-conference games all but finished for the season and few FBS vs FCS matchups to worry about any longer, it's time to pay a lot more attention to recent performances, point spread streaks, etc. -- especially those handful of teams that have fattened up on soft non-league schedules and are now finding the going a bit more treacherous in conference play against upgraded opposition.

By the midway point of the season, some patterns are well-defined, but others are still about to emerge. This is why we pay particular attention to a couple of our weekly calculations, specifically the point spread streaks and "away from spread" calculations. Now is the time when many teams historically begin to ascend in the second half of the season; correspondingly, now is often the starting point for

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