I am not a big college football fan since there is no playoff in place.
The idea of selecting a national champion by voting just really sucks.
I am comfortable with using computers to rank the teams since you have to somehow logically put it into numbers.
So just to see how it would come out I made my own spreadsheet to make it work.
Most of the calculations are based on straight numbers such as current win/loss, scoring both earned and allowed, yardages gained and lost etc.
I do have a bit of tradition in my body so as part of the individual power rankings I used the win/loss percentages from all time (over 100 years), then 25 years, then 10 years, then 5 years, then now. The idea was to gauge the lifetime strength of the various teams while weighting it to the more current programs. So the current W/L outweighs the 5 year W/L etc. And, the power stat is used as a tiebreaker only.
So, here is my results and surprisingly enough if there were a playoff of these teams I would not have a problem with it.
Since no two folks are alike, how do y'all make your calls?
The idea of selecting a national champion by voting just really sucks.
I am comfortable with using computers to rank the teams since you have to somehow logically put it into numbers.
So just to see how it would come out I made my own spreadsheet to make it work.
Most of the calculations are based on straight numbers such as current win/loss, scoring both earned and allowed, yardages gained and lost etc.
I do have a bit of tradition in my body so as part of the individual power rankings I used the win/loss percentages from all time (over 100 years), then 25 years, then 10 years, then 5 years, then now. The idea was to gauge the lifetime strength of the various teams while weighting it to the more current programs. So the current W/L outweighs the 5 year W/L etc. And, the power stat is used as a tiebreaker only.
So, here is my results and surprisingly enough if there were a playoff of these teams I would not have a problem with it.
Since no two folks are alike, how do y'all make your calls?
HTML:
<table>
<td>Team Wins Losses Conference Win PCT POWER</td>
<td>Ball State 11 0 MAC-W 100.00% 38.27</td>
<td>Alabama 11 0 SEC-W 100.00% 37.26</td>
<td>Boise State 11 0 WAC 100.00% 32.41</td>
<td>Utah 12 0 MWC 100.00% 28.79</td>
<td>Penn State 11 1 Big 10 91.67% 27.23</td>
<td>Oklahoma 10 1 Big 12-S 90.91% 43.44</td>
<td>Florida 10 1 SEC-E 90.91% 36.31</td>
<td>Texas 10 1 Big 12-S 90.91% 30.64</td>
<td>Texas Tech 10 1 Big 12-S 90.91% 30.01</td>
<td>USC 9 1 PAC-10 90.00% 35.14</td>
</table>
