tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58800702024-03-13T21:32:49.114+01:00SportPunditSports
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CompetitionUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-22224066290480945832020-01-19T11:32:00.000+01:002020-01-20T09:44:04.790+01:00Color-Coded into Performance Levels - the SportPundit FBS Final College Football Rankings 2019/2020 After Bowls and Playoffs Color-Coded Performance Levels - The SportPundit FBS Final College Football Rankings 2019/2020 After Bowls and Playoffs. These levels provide what we think are realistic goals for teams in 2020/2021 to advance to the next level or two, if possible. Note the large 1 touchdown rating gap between the top four teams and the fifth placed team.
LEVEL 1 - CHAMPIONS - rating (plus) +2.50 and higher : Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-34615878853684162312020-01-15T21:52:00.002+01:002020-01-15T23:34:48.969+01:00The Best College Football Teams of All Time -- What About the 2019 LSU Tigers National Championship Team?The question has been raised online about whether the current national champion 2019 season LSU Tigers are among the best college football teams of all time, and the answer is clearly a "yes", according to an analysis of yards per play ("ypp") stats for previous highly-rated national championship teams which we posted years ago at
The Best College Football Teams of All Time Can Be Narrowed Down Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-21604880396365481132020-01-14T16:53:00.000+01:002020-01-14T17:03:57.402+01:00SportPundit FBS Final College Football Rankings 2019/2020 Season After Bowls and PlayoffsSportPundit FBS Final College Football Rankings 2019 After Bowls and Playoffs
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in many cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net AverageUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-79939069499252181452020-01-14T16:12:00.000+01:002020-01-14T16:12:10.751+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Bowl Games and Playoffs 2019-2020 and Cumulative Season ResultCollege Football FBS Prediction Results for Bowl Games and Playoffs 2019-2020
and Cumulative Season Result
For the "Bowl Games" of the 2019 FBS college football season we finished:
30-12 in calling the winner
20-21-1 against the spread, and
17-25 against the over/under
so that our cumulative 2019/2020 FBS football season stats were as follows:
667-220 in calling the winner (75+%)
444-427-16 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-5963130939571473982019-12-13T00:48:00.000+01:002019-12-22T22:25:13.449+01:00College Football Predictions FBS Bowl Games and Playoff Games 2019-2020College Football Predictions Army-Navy Game, Bowl Games, Playoffs 2019-2020
Below are our FBS college football predictions for the Army-Navy game, for the Bowl Games, and for the College Football Playoff games 2019-2020. Our own subjective national championship favorite is LSU, i.e. Joe Burrow and Coach O's LSU Tigers.... but one can easily root for any of the other three top football teams.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-86513139367423659672019-12-08T11:00:00.000+01:002019-12-08T11:00:46.536+01:00SportPundit NCAA Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 15SportPundit NCAA Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 15
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-51280520061433581512019-12-08T09:36:00.000+01:002019-12-08T09:36:04.738+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 15 2019 FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 15 2019 FBS Season
We finished Week 15 of the 2019 FBS college football season as follows:
8-2 in calling the winner
5-5 against the spread, and
4-6 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 15 stands at:
637-208 in calling the winner (75%)
424-406-15 against the spread, and
416-407-11 against the over/Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-76501282715732951162019-12-06T12:05:00.001+01:002019-12-06T12:07:25.635+01:00College Football 2019 Mock 32-Team Playoff Bracket SportPundit RankingsCollege Football 2019 Mock 32-Team Playoff Bracket SportPundit Rankings
To handle the "bowl" aspect, selected playoff games should in advance be assigned a "bowl" status, assigning all the bowls in that manner. That way, one can have playoffs and retain the bowls.
We have assigned the initial game positions so as to avoid -- as much possible in early playoff phases -- any games between teams Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-84387389171518409882019-12-05T01:56:00.003+01:002019-12-06T09:31:52.794+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 15 2019 FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 15 2019 FBS Season
This is the week of college football conference championship games.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 14 stands at:
629-206 in calling the winner (75%)
419-401-15 against the spread, and
412-401-11 against the over/under ("total").
If possible, we compete against the quoted opening odds ("the line", "the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-58405660666196167362019-12-04T11:18:00.001+01:002019-12-04T11:18:54.393+01:00College Football Rankings FBS 2019 After Week 14SportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 14
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average YardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-10832367774471621122019-12-01T10:29:00.000+01:002019-12-01T10:29:05.180+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 14 2019 FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 14 2019 FBS Season
We finished Week 14 of the 2019 FBS college football season:
44-20 in calling the winner
33-31 against the spread, and
36-28 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 14 stands at:
629-206 in calling the winner (75%)
419-401-15 against the spread, and
412-401-11 against the over/under ("Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-89798346120443817022019-11-26T23:01:00.000+01:002019-11-30T23:44:35.666+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 14 of the 2019 FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 14 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 13 stands at:
585-186 in calling the winner (76%)
386-370-15 against the spread, and
376-373-11 against the over/under ("total").
If possible, we compete against the quoted opening odds ("the line", "the spread") as available online (e.g. Vegas Insider, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-17464474675242726292019-11-25T01:19:00.001+01:002019-11-25T01:19:12.011+01:00FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 13 by SportPunditSportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 13
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average YardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-21410908747265191162019-11-24T10:48:00.000+01:002019-11-24T10:51:53.817+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 13 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 13 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
We finished Week 13 of the 2019 FBS college football season as follows:
47-17 in calling the winner
39-24-1 against the spread, and
36-27-1 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 13 is now:
585-186 in calling the winner (76%)
386-370-15 against the spread, and
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-25507912272304921952019-11-18T22:52:00.000+01:002019-11-21T09:33:00.220+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 13 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 13 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 12 is:
538-169 in calling the winner (76%)
347-346-14 against the spread, and
340-346-10 against the over/under ("total").
If possible, we compete against the quoted opening odds ("the line", "the spread") as available online (e.g. Vegas Insider, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-45765986329580940142019-11-18T10:03:00.001+01:002019-11-18T10:03:28.247+01:00SportPundit College Football Rankings FBS 2019 After Week 12SportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 12
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average YardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-5268688745789246392019-11-16T11:39:00.000+01:002019-11-17T11:39:12.420+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 12 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 12 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
We finished Week 12 of the 2019 FBS college football season as follows:
45-10 in calling the winner
27-27-1 against the spread, and
27-27-1 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 12 is:
538-169 in calling the winner (76%)
347-346-14 against the spread, andUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-76185269498065501302019-11-14T19:39:00.002+01:002019-11-15T16:16:39.650+01:00Sports and Politics: The Attempted Control of Events by Faceless Committees as a Blight on Our EraA question up front....
WHO runs the world?
The answer is....
WE do. ALL of us.
But this does not stop "committee-type thinkers" from thinking
that THEY do, or should, run things.
Hubris. Arrogance. Monopolistic thinking.
No, thank you. YOU do not run the world. WE do. WE ALL do. Think about it.
The so-called "rankings" of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee are an example of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-65754488292456441372019-11-13T23:12:00.000+01:002019-11-14T08:41:21.242+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 12 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 12 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 11 is:
493-159 in calling the winner (76%)
320-319-13 against the spread, and
313-319-9 against the over/under ("total").
If possible, we compete against the quoted opening odds ("the line", "the spread") as available online (e.g. Vegas Insider, OddsSharkUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-66365069492136756232019-11-11T11:53:00.002+01:002019-11-11T11:53:56.022+01:00SportPundit NCAA Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 after Week 11SportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 11
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average YardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-89621688696685985772019-11-10T11:25:00.000+01:002019-11-10T11:27:23.263+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 11 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 11 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
We thus finished Week 11 of the 2019 FBS college football season as follows:
32-16 in calling the winner
27-21 against the spread, and
23-23-2 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 11 is:
493-159 in calling the winner (76%)
320-319-13 against the spread, and
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-42486643396452281802019-11-06T22:12:00.001+01:002019-11-06T22:13:23.797+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 11 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 11 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
This week two banner games match unbeaten FBS teams:
LSU vs. Alabama and Penn State vs. Minnesota.
We finished as follows for Week 10 of the 2019 FBS college football season:
37-11 in calling the winner
24-24 against the spread, and
23-25 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-46604126646103141592019-11-04T14:25:00.001+01:002019-11-04T14:25:14.409+01:00SportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 10SportPundit Division I FBS College Football Rankings 2019 After Week 10
YPP stats from cfbstats.com
Schedule Difficulty (SD) is based on the Massey Ratings
-- but in some cases we have adjusted them and marked those by an asterisk *
(* = adjusted).
Schedule Difficulty stats are rough approximations - just compare the ColleyMatrix to see how much they can diverge.
NAYPPA = Net Average YardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-29181304987398451562019-11-03T13:14:00.000+01:002019-11-03T13:20:45.887+01:00College Football Prediction Results for Week 10 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Prediction Results for Week 10 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
We finished as follows for Week 10 of the 2019 FBS college football season:
37-11 in calling the winner
24-24 against the spread, and
23-25 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 10 is:
461-143 in calling the winner
293-298-13 against the spread, and
290-296-7 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880070.post-55694414379022212932019-11-02T17:06:00.000+01:002019-11-02T17:09:21.912+01:00College Football Predictions for Week 10 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS SeasonCollege Football Predictions for Week 10 of the 2019 NCAA Division I FBS Season
We finished Week 9 of the 2019 FBS college football season as follows:
38-17 in calling the winner
18-36-1 against the spread, and
31-24 against the over/under.
Our cumulative FBS prognostication record for 2019 after Week 9 is:
424-132 in calling the winner
269-274-13 against the spread, and
277-271-7 against the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0