The last few years one of my daily blogs has listed all the True Freshmen at each position and given you an idea of how many actually played in their first year on campus. I will go thru each position over the next few blogs and show you how many have played the last four […]
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I have been tracking the Conference YPG vs conference record from 2001 all the way thru this past year so I have 21 years of research invested in this Metric. It seems like right now a lot of people use Metrics. Way back in 1995, I put the first Metric article (Metrics was not a […]
Read More… from Conference YPG vs Conference Record – Which teams are going up/down this year?
In the spring I did blogs on the which teams faced the toughest and easiest schedules in each conference. Now I am a guy that follows nothing all year but College Football. No NBA, no college basketball, no baseball, no soccer. I barely even follow the NFL. COLLEGE Football. I realize most of you follow […]
Last year Oklahoma St was not the second-best team in the Big 12 but had the best schedule and they landed in the Big 12 title game. With the Power Four conferences going to as many as 18 team leagues, who you play and who you miss is even more important. Today I we look […]
Every year in late February, I put out my Projected AP Top 10 basically six months ahead of the AP Top Ten release. Here we are in July and while my top 10 remains the SAME, I will make two very minor modifications to the order since that February posting. It is important to make […]
Read More… from The AP Top Ten for 2024, Six Months in Advance. 95.3 % over 15 years!
A couple of years ago, I was wondering if there was any value in predicting future success/failure for teams that pulled a bunch of upsets a year prior and on the flip side of that, teams that were upset numerous times in the previous year. My hypothesis going into my research was that teams that […]
Today we take a look at the opening win totals for all of the FBS teams for 2024. Listed below are the consensus opening odds for the 2024 Win Totals (Over-Under) betting odds market for the four major college football conferences and the five Group of Five leagues. These odds are from the Vegas Insider […]
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In my July 8th blog I detailed how happy I was with the results of the Experience Chart when used as a predictor for the upcoming season. Basically 70% of the Top 15 on the Experience Chart had an improved or the same record and 66% of the top 31. The results at the bottom […]
Read More… from Experience Chart vs Previous years’ Experience Chart.
I have had the Experience Chart in the magazine since 2002. That 2002 was Volume 8 of the magazine and the 2nd year since moving from black and white on newsprint up to color print and glossy pages. That first Experience chart had 8 categories. They were Senior Starters then Seniors in the two deep, […]
Read More… from The Experience Chart – How much does Experience count?
This is the week of July 4th and fireworks will be shooting off all over the country and it is also the official on sale date week for Barnes and Noble and my magazine! Some Barnes and Nobles got their magazines last week and put them out already. Here are some tweets and Instagram posts […]
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