Notes from the weekend: That was a great game between LSU and Alabama. The 9-6 affair last year could have used some offense–I don’t care how great SEC defenses are. No. That wasn’t a good game. It was a snoozefest. I don’t want to pretend like I like games with no touchdowns just because that’s …
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Two notes about this college football rating system: 1. AccuDrew is designed as a reward-based system: did you win, did you lose, and who did you beat? This system is not designed to predict who will win a hypothetical game between two teams or to rank teams by strength. Think about it: if college rating systems were …
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First, I apologize for changing the name of the rating system every year. Second, I apologize for thinking anyone cares. I am happy that the college football powers have decided to go to a 4 team playoff. It’s a step forward. A very small step forward, but the first step is the hardest. It’s a …
From the Daily Mail: Eight out of ten women involved in a car crash denied it was their fault and looked for something – or someone – else to blame. This latest research is bound to bring a smile to lips of many a man who has found himself at loggerheads with females drivers. Women will rarely …
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I do more than my fair share of complaining, especially with regards to college football–heck, I did some more of it last night on my Alabama friend’s Facebook status, which is never a good idea. I also read a lot of complaints (again, about college football) in the form of articles, tweets, blogposts, etcetera. And …
So I started writing this diatribe against the current college football system and all its dysfunction when I realized that maybe we’re all taking the wrong approach. One of the first things you learn in public speaking–a class I have taught numerous times in all my stuttering, rambling glory–is that you have to analyze your …
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Well here we are. The BCS has rendered the SEC championship game as useless as the Meineke Car Care Bowl. You see, if LSU beats Georgia this Saturday, they keep the #1 spot and go the national title game. On the other hand, if they LOSE…they go to to the national title game anyway. Mark …
Here are the projected playoff matchups that won’t actually be played because the BCS is a ridiculous system. Remember, top 6 seeds go to conference champs, and the top 4 champs host playoff games on December 17: (Seeding and overall ranking listed) #8(4) Alabama @ #1 Oklahoma State in Stillwater, OK #7(3) Oklahoma @ #2 …
I know we’re only 7 weeks into the college football season, but we’re more than halfway there. So let’s take a look at potential matchups for the 2011 College Football Playoffs* (which, by the way, don’t exist). *FYI, you can read about my playoff proposal [Part 1 and Part 2]–only change is that I now …
The conventional thinking is that spectator sports act as distractions from our day-to-day lives. But sometimes you have to live in the reality, like this past Saturday when my wife and daughter were in our friend’s wedding. Somehow Becky Li thought a celebration of love was more important than people mashing their heads together with …
Minor flaw in my rating system that slightly favors independent teams: because conference strength-of-schedule is part of the AI formula, I have to put in something there for independents, so I use their individual SOS. If an independent team has played a really tough schedule, they get rewarded twice. And so Notre Dame sits at …
Using my patented* AI Team Rating Formula, here are the three biggest college football games of the weekend (PGV=pre-game value): #7 Alabama @ #12 Florida – 7 pm central, CBS (81.5 PGV) #9 Texas @ #8 Iowa State – 6 pm central, FX (81.4 PGV) #6 Clemson @ #16 Virginia Tech – 5 pm central, …
(Scroll down for amazing defensive schemes.) UPDATE: I have officially applied for the position. December 13, 2010 Belmont Hall University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station Austin, TX 78712 Dear Director Dodds and search committee, It is with great enthusiasm that I apply for the position of Defensive Coordinator for football in the athletic …
Texas was so close this season! We would be in the hunt for the National Championship if we just won 7 more games. This close. In all seriousness, Auburn and Oregon deserve to have a shot at the national championship. And you know who else does? TCU. “Well then let’s just have a three-team playoff!” …
My rankings are below. Yesterday, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium–two professional baseball venues–played host to college football. The big story at Wrigley was that there wasn’t enough room around the east end zone, as you can see in the picture on the right. Big Ten conference officials were worried about player safety (and by “player …
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