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
Tonight at 8pm central time on ESPN-U, you can watch Isidore Newman (New Orleans) take on Berkeley Prep (Tampa) in some Friday Night Lights action. Notable about Isidore Newman is that it is where Arch Manning, possibly the most hyped-up and celebrated high school football player ever, plays. Now, I’m 30, so my memory of… Read More Where Will Arch Manning Play College Football?
That is a real photo of a Purdue lineman chugging a beer that was thrown onto the field in the third quarter of the game. Was it a little early to start celebrating? Maybe, but Iowa, despite having one of the best secondaries in college football, had no answer for the Purdue passing game all… Read More College Football Week 7 Recap: IOWA Bounced By Beer-Drinking Boilermakers, Orgeron Officially Out, Tennessee Fans Fling Food on Field–PLUS: the Best QB in the Nation Nobody’s Talking About
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