It was Cupcake Saturday for a lot of teams, mostly in the SEC, but, surprisingly, Ohio State as well. Georgia and Ohio State both won 56-7. The difference was that Georgia played Charleston Southern and Ohio State played #7 Michigan State. If you look just at the final score, it certainly seemed like Ohio State… Read More Ohio State Just Beat #7 Michigan State 56-7 😧
Can’t believe we’ve only got two more regular season college football Saturdays remaining in the 2021 season, but here we are. My power ratings through 11 weeks: Alabama has retaken the #1 spot from Georgia, although this is probably because Alabama played a stat-padder opponent, New Mexico State, this past weekend. But it does go… Read More College Football Week 12 Power Ratings
Over the summer, it became clear that expansion of the playoff is inevitable. While the details have yet to be worked out, and by no means are all the conferences on the same page right now, there seems to be broad agreement that 4 teams is not enough and things have to change. The current… Read More How to Fix College Football
This is where we stand after 10 weeks of college football (although of course most teams have had a bye so they’ve only played 9 games). Georgia and Alabama remain solidified at the top in a class of their own, while Ohio State and Michigan are a bit lower in a tier of their own:… Read More CFB Power Ratings: Week 10
The Committee’s first playoff rankings are in: Okay, at first glance, there are a few interesting takeaways, namely that Oregon is all the way up to #4 despite being #7 in the AP poll. But it’s no surprise that the Committee put Oregon over Ohio State given the head-to-head result. That’s how it should be.… Read More Initial CFP Rankings: 1. Georgia, 2. Alabama, 3. Michigan State, 4. Oregon, 5. Ohio State, 6. Cincinnati
If you read my mid-season college football report from a few weeks back, I concluded it with predicting Georgia and Ohio State meeting in the National Championship Game in Indianapolis. Yesterday’s games for both teams represented their biggest tests of the second-half of the season to this point, and I want to go into a… Read More Georgia Rolls Florida; Ohio State Survives Penn State
I tweaked the formula a bit because last week my ratings were only able to get 62% of the straight-up game outcomes correct, and that’s not good enough. Here is the new formula: In addition to having Net Yards, I now have net rushing yards, net passing yards and net YPC. I also have added… Read More College Football Week 9 Power Ratings
It is becoming a cardinal rule of college football these days: No matter how good Michigan looks early in the season, do not buy into the hype. They will disappoint you. It is inevitable. But for much of this game, it looked like Michigan was actually going to pull it out and march onward unbeaten.… Read More DOWN GOES MICHIGAN
I overhauled the formula for my college football power rating system. At first, I was only evaluating the teams in the AP Top 25, but now that I’ve figured out how to scrape data from sports data websites, I am now able to evaluate all 130 teams in the FBS. This makes the system a… Read More College Football Week 8 Power Ratings
In what feels like the blink of an eye, we’re already through week 8 of the 2021 college football season. It has certainly been a fun season, of course, but it’s more than halfway done. While this weekend wasn’t viewed as a great slate of games (that’s next weekend), there were actually quite a few… Read More College Football Week 8 Recap: 9 OTs in State College, Okie State Goes Down, OU’s Williams Rips Ball From Teammate in Heroic, Game-Winning Play
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