Fairweather or Efficient? – Week 10 Ratings

I texted a friend to come watch the Texas game on Saturday.  His response: He might as well have said: “Texas is bad at football this season.  Therefore I am no longer interested in them.”  While some might call him a fairweather fan, I think this is actually rather efficient. Sometimes in sports we talk …

Even Cam Newton’s Formula has Auburn at the Top – Week 9 Ratings

It’s November, so I feel like we’re close enough to start looking at prospective playoff matchups.  The way I would seed playoffs goes like this: top 6 conference champions, then the next two highest-rated teams.  If they are also conference champs, or if they’re championship game losers, or Notre Dame, or West Canaan, so be …

Let’s Make a Football Team! – Week 8 Ratings

UC Davis played University of South Alabama (USA) this past weekend.  We lost on a last-second missed field goal.  Did you know that this is only USA’s second football season?  They just started playing last year, and they have not lost a game yet.  USA have played all home games against community colleges and military …

Week 7 Ratings

There are 10 undefeated teams left, and one of them (LSU/Auburn) will lose this coming Saturday.  Otherwise, the remaining 9 are from 6 different conferences.  I hope we end the season with 6 undefeated teams and the BCS dies from shock.

Oklahoma at the Top – Week 5 Ratings

Oklahoma has jumped to the top of my rankings due to their strength of schedule.  Boise State is starting to drop because they are playing such weak teams.  No it’s not their fault, but to be number one you have to play a great schedule and win.  Teams like Oklahoma, LSU, and Alabama have done …

College Football Ratings 2010 – Week 2

Boise and Fresno still have the highest strength of schedule because they have each played a very good team and no bad ones.  So they’re still on top.  Obviously they are going to play more games this season, so just hold on–it will shake itself out. Also, strength of schedule for the better conferences will …

What is the Question? College Football Ratings 2010 Week 1

Question: Do you think UNC dropped further in the polls this week because of suspensions? Better question: Should it matter? Yes and no.  My guess is that voters took the suspensions into account when determining how “good”* they think UNC is.  But they shouldn’t.  Imagine if a great team went 12-0, won their conference championship, …

CompuDrew final rankings: If only…

Okay, now that my heart has restarted after the Texas/Nebraska game, let’s talk about actual matchups for a playoff.  First, let me tell you what I like and don’t like about these matchups: If you won your conference this year and you played reasonably well, you’re in. Conference champions are starred below in the rankings.  …

CompuDrew Rankings – The Three Classes

I got some good feedback after posting my playoff system proposal last week.  One thing that makes this year really strange in terms of proposing such a system is that there have been three distinct classes of playoff worthy teams this year and I think the case could be made that a cutoff after the …

CompuDrew – Playoff Proposal Part 2

Let’s take a quick look at the current CompuDrew ratings.  Part 2 of my playoff proposal is below (read Part 1). So based on Part 1, the top 7 6 conference champions make the playoffs, as well as the two highest-ranked at-large teams  (I called it a wildcard last week, but I’ll use the popular college …

CompuDrew – Playoff Proposal Part 1

Here are the latest CompuDrew rankings.  The first part of my playoff proposal is below. Before I detail my playoff system, I should let you know that its biggest strength lies in appeasing all of college football constituencies: the teams, the schools, the conferences, the bowls, and most importantly, the fans. CompuDrew Playoff Proposal Part …

CompuDrew Week 4

Okay, this is a little embarrassing.  I was looking at my formula and I realized that when we get to the end of the season, the combined reward-punishment of both teams playing in a conference’s championship will be negative.  Put another way, the ratings would favor teams that don’t even play in those games.  So …