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
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
It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the 2021 college football season, but here we are. College football schedules are typically back-loaded, though, meaning the biggest and best games of the season are saved for the end. While we have already seen some heavyweight non-conference bouts, like Georgia-Clemson and Oregon-Ohio State, most of the… Read More College Football Mid-Season Report: The Stats That Will Decide “Who’s In”
We are now entering year 8 of the College Football playoff era. Starting 2014, college football adopted a 4-team playoff format, discarding the old BCS formula that simply pitted #1 vs. #2 in the National Championship Game. Although I’ve written at length about why I think the CFP has, seemingly paradoxically, decreased parity in college… Read More The 5 Greatest Playoff Games of the CFP Era
Man, college football is awesome this year. My only complaint thus far was that for as much chaos as there has been in the rankings, Bama and Georgia were solidly at the top of the rankings and clearly way ahead of everyone else. Because of how many upsets we’ve seen, people were comparing this season… Read More College Football Week 6 Reactions: BAMA GOES DOWN; Iowa Beats Penn State in Comeback Fashion
So four top-10 teams went down this weekend. This has been a really fun college football season, but the problem is the two teams at the top just look completely untouchable. It now looks as if Bama and Georgia have just left the rest of the SEC behind. I know we always say the SEC… Read More College Football Week 5 Reactions: Georgia is DOMINANT, Lots of Ranked Teams Lose
After a fairly wild Saturday in a season that has already seen the most-ever losses by top-25 teams lose through the first two weeks, college football’s National Title hunt feels like it’s basically up for grabs. #1 Alabama jumped out to a 21-3 lead in the first quarter, but had to hang on for dear… Read More College Football Is Wide Open
Last Saturday, Oregon walked into Columbus and beat Ohio State for the first time in program history. Prior to Saturday, Oregon was 0-9 against Ohio State including a loss in the 2014 National Championship, as well as a loss in the 2009 Rose Bowl. While the final score of 35-28 might not seem like a… Read More What Has Happened to Ohio State’s Defense?
Saturday night, #3 Clemson and #5 Georgia squared off in Charlotte in the most anticipated college football matchup of the new season. It was the marquee game of the opening kickoff weekend, a matchup between two of the true heavyweights of college football. Georgia secured the win, 10-3, and put itself in great position to… Read More For Clemson, Life After Trevor Lawrence May Be Rough
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