NEW ORLEANS — The Sun Belt Conference announced its 2024 football schedule Friday. The Sun Belt is coming off a 2023 campaign in which it defeated a conference-record four autonomy five programs, hosted ESPN’s College GameDay for a second-straight season and produced a conference-record and FBS-leading 12 Bowl Season participants. After opening the 2023 season with four-straight weeks with […]
IRVING, Texas – Commissioner Mike Aresco has announced the American Athletic Conference’s 111-game football schedule, including the 56-game conference schedule, as the conference begins a historic season in 2024. The 2024 season will be the second in which The American has 14 teams under its banner, and the first with Army West Point as a football-playing member. The […]
Spring football has already begun for some teams and every year in late February, I put out my Projected AP Top 10 basically six months ahead of the AP Top Ten release. This year I got an extra day with February 29 and took advantage of it! It is important to make the point that […]
Read More… from The AP Top Ten for 2024, Six Months in Advance. 95.3% over 15 years!
Every year in the magazine I give you the Strength of Schedule for the upcoming season and give it to you using two methods. The NCAA uses opponents win loss percentage from last year. I list this in the magazine each year and then list my strength of opponent for the upcoming season. I point […]
Read More… from Opponents Win/Loss percentage Pre 2023 and Post 2023
The NFL released the list of players invited to the 2024 NFL Scouting Combine on Tuesday 2/13/24. A total of 321 prospects have been invited to attend this year’s event, which will take place in Indianapolis from February 26 through March 4. Here is the list by Team sorted Alphabetically. Then below by Position. List […]
In the middle of February. So far only the SEC, Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac 12 and CUSA have announced their schedules with dates for 2023. Last year I waited until April when all the conferences had their official schedules updated. The good news is that for the remaining 4 conference’s they have announced […]
On every right-hand team page in the magazine, I list that teams’ current home power ratings. These home ratings go from a low of two points to a high of six points. I have nine sets of power ratings, and this is the adjustment I give to the home team. As I have mentioned in […]
Read More… from HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE PART 7: CAPACITY/ATTENDENCE/% of CAPACITY
On every right-hand team page in the magazine, I list that teams’ current home power ratings. These home ratings go from a low of two points to a high of six points. I have nine sets of power ratings and this is the adjustment I give to the home team. Is home field really an […]
Read More… from Home Field Advantage Part 6: Difference Between Home and Away AGG
On every right-hand team page in the magazine, I list that teams’ current home power ratings. These home ratings go from a low of two points to a high of six points. I have nine sets of power ratings and this is the adjustment I give to the home team. Is home field really an […]
Read More… from Home Field Advantage Part 5: Home Field Edge Calculations
This is a multi-part series of how I grade the home field edges. On the right-hand pages of the magazine for all 134 teams (Kennesaw St added this year), I list the home field advantage. I think college football crowds are the best in sports and some teams have larger home field edges than others. […]
Read More… from Home Field Edge Part 4: Last 5 Years Home ATS Records.
For information purposes only © 2022 Phil Steele Publications
1-866-918-7711