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Author: Travis McTravelFace

Travis McTravelface is the False Nine’s road correspondent. He pretty much lives on the road collecting way too many airline and hotel points supporting the Verde in todas partes.

Power Rankings Week 10

Posted on April 30, 2025April 30, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, we are huge fans of 4 consecutive kickoffs on Sunday. Heck, we could start with an east coast match at 1 PM ET, and make it 5 MLS matches each Sunday, keeping 10 matches on Saturday. Apple, you have a brilliant idea here that we urge you to take advantage of.

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Week 9 Power Rankings

Posted on April 22, 2025April 22, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, this week didn’t have any Sunday matches due to Easter, which makes sense, but 15 MLS matches on one day was almost overwhelming. At least we could mostly be on our couches watching MLS 360 for it after our early win.

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Power Rankings After 8 Weeks

Posted on April 16, 2025April 16, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, our Verde and Black got their asses thoroughly kicked up north of the border over the weekend, which gave us plenty of reasons to watch the rest of the league play. That being said, it’s not surprising that the Whitecaps lead our rankings this week.

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MLS Power Rankings After Week 7

Posted on April 9, 2025April 9, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

At least our team got these rankings out in the middle of the week! It’s been a busy time around the compound with our springtime activities, so we’ll be a bit more brief than usual:

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MLS Power Rankings Post Week 6

Posted on April 4, 2025April 4, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Here at the compound, the weeks are always better when the Verde and Black win, especially after winning somewhere we have never won before. While we are shooting up these rankings, we are not at the top yet, as Inter Miami remains simply too good.

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Power Rankings After Week 5

Posted on March 24, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

So yeah, I know we missed the rankings last week, since we were too busy with other stuff. Turns out tracking the international break and following MLS combined with our personal travel just means we fell behind here. However, our voters were rocking and rolling this week, so we were able to get out our…

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Week 3 MLS Power Rankings

Posted on March 12, 2025March 12, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Well this past week’s MLS play was only mildly absurd by league standards. We didn’t have Miami beating Charlotte with only 10 men for a half and no Messi or Chicago scoring 3 goals after the 80th minute (and saving a PK in that stretch) to win the Brimstone Cup up in Frisco, but it…

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The False Nine Power Rankings (1.0 in Week 2)

Posted on March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 by Travis McTravelFace

Well, since we are two weeks into the new MLS season, a number of us gathered around the compound and started looking at the Power Rankings from MLS, ESPN, Backheeled, and other sources. And while many of the people are doing amazing work over there, some of their analysis is just lazy. To be fair,…

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The Alignments of the West

Posted on April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 by Travis McTravelFace

Lawful Good: Vancouver Neutral Good: Real Salt Lake Chaotic Good: San Jose Lawful Neutral: Colorado True Neutral: Seattle Chaotic Neutral: Minnesota Lawful Evil: LA Galaxy Neutral Evil: LAFC Chaotic Evil: St. Louis CITY We were watching Sunday night’s primetime match between the LA Galaxy and the San Jose Earthquakes at the compound. First off, Don…

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How to make a Bad Situation Worse: The Austin FC II Open Cup Ticketing Mess

Posted on March 6, 2024March 6, 2024 by Travis McTravelFace

After the 2023 season, our expectations for 2024 Austin FC were pretty low. We just finished a miserable season, and Rodo made it pretty clear that the rebuild of the first team was going to take multiple transfer windows. Maybe come close to a play-in game in the West, get smashed in Leagues Cup, somehow…

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