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My Final Computer Rankings Formula

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:11:52 +0000

All right everyone, I have finally figured out my college football ranking formula. It is going to be epic. It is going to look at five different variables, rank teams accordingly, then take your average ranking to give you an overall rating. So based on how you rank in the five categories, that’s where you will end up in the overall rankings. So let me explain each category and how it works.

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2012 Preseason College Football Rankings

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:14:51 +0000

It’s that time of year again, the time when one season ends and all the hype starts to build for the next season. And nowhere is preseason hype for 2012 more evident than in 2012 preseason college football rankings. Just like I did with the 2011 preseason rankings, the 2010 preseason rankings and the 2009 preseason rankings, I’m going to pool together all of the way too early 2012 preseason rankings and combine them to give you an idea of what the actual preseason rankings for 2012 will look like when they are released in August.

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The Annual CFC Rankings Are Done

Sloppy Joe — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:51:28 +0000

As is now tradition, I run my own formula to determine fair computer rankings at the end of each season. I’m working on doing this for all teams and doing it each week throughout the season, but I have to find a programmer for that to happen. In the mean time I calculate these myself and I got some very surprising numbers this year. But first, a bit about the rankings.

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A Solution To The Human Polls

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:21:12 +0000

In the BCS ranking system, 1/3 of the ranking is determined by an average of 6 computer polls. Of the remaining 2/3, half is determined by the Harris poll of former players and such and half is determined by the coaches poll. Does it seem a little backward that the polls most open to error and bias count for 6 times as much as one computer poll? Me too, so here’s a solution.

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2011 Preseason College Football Rankings

Sloppy Joe — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:28:25 +0000

ALL NEW: Be sure to go see our 2012 preseason college football rankings!

***UPDATED: The USA Today Coaches Poll was released 8/3/11 and is included below. The AP Poll was released 8/20/11 and is included below.***

USA Today Poll

1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. Oregon
4. LSU
5. Florida State
6. Stanford
7. Boise State
8. Oklahoma State
9. Texas A&M
10. Wisconsin
11. Nebraska
12. South Carolina
13. Virginia Tech
14. Arkansas
15. TCU
16. Ohio State
17. Michigan State
18. Notre Dame
19. Auburn
20. Mississippi State
21. Missouri
22. Georgia
23. Florida
24. Texas
25. Penn State

Others receiving votes: Arizona State; West Virginia; Utah; Miami (Fla.); Iowa; Northwestern; Arizona; Central Florida; Michigan; Air Force; North Carolina; Houston; South Florida; Hawaii; Clemson; Tennessee; Southern Miss; Brigham Young; North Carolina State; Northern Illinois; Oregon State; Pittsburgh; Washington; Georgia Tech; Nevada

AP Poll

1. Oklahoma
2. Alabama
3. Oregon
4. LSU
5. Boise State
6. Florida State
7. Stanford
8. Texas A&M
9. Oklahoma State
10. Nebraska
11. Wisconsin
12. South Carolina
13. Virginia Tech
14. TCU
15. Arkansas
16. Notre Dame
17. Michigan State
18. Ohio State
19. Georgia
20. Mississippi State
21. Missouri
22. Florida
23. Auburn
24. West Virginia
25. USC

Others receiving votes: Texas 114, Penn State 75, Arizona State 67, Miami (FL) 32, Utah 25, Southern Miss 20, Iowa 19, Brigham Young 15, North Carolina State 15, Air Force 14, Houston 13, Pittsburgh 9, Michigan 7, Tennessee 5, UCF 5, Northern Illinois 4, Hawaii 4, Tulsa 3, Arizona 2, Maryland 2, Nevada 1, Northwestern 1, Washington 1

The 2010 college football season is now behind us, so we can look forward to the 2011 preseason college football rankings which will be officially released in August. The actual preseason rankings from the AP and USA Today may not be released until August, but plenty of people have given their thoughts as to what those rankings should be. As we did with the 2010 preseason rankings and with the 2009 preseason rankings, we’re going to compile as many 2011 college football preseason rankings as we can find and give you a very accurate look at what the official rankings will look like this year.

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Projected Final 2010 Rankings

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:57:41 +0000

The BCS championship game is nearly upon us. With its conclusion we’ll have the final rankings for this season and countless speculation as to the preseason rankings for next season. We’ll collect and compile them as usual, but I figured I would try my hand at something new at the end of this season: predict the final rankings before they come out.

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My First Rankings Data

Sloppy Joe — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:21:31 +0000

All right, it is still rough, but I’ve analyzed data from Boise State and Alabama last year to see who really deserved the national title. I found some interesting points. To recap this rankings methodology, here it is in a nutshell. After 6 games have been played, you take every teams average points per game scored and average points per game allowed. You then look at the averages of any given team vs. the averages of their opponents. Look at the actual scores of the games. Then each team gets another set of averages- how many more points do they score on their opponents than their opponents allow, and how many fewer points they allow than their opponents score on average. Still with me?

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Change your 2010 preseason picks…

Sloppy Joe — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:06:29 +0000

Some of you may have seen my post about the 2010 preseason college football rankings and noticed Oregon ranked pretty high. Well it was pretty consensus to say they would be top 5 in the preseason polls. But tragedy has struck. Oregon’s big time quarterback, Jeremiah Masoli, was suspended the entire year for stealing laptops and a computer.

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2010 Preseason College Football Rankings

Sloppy Joe — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:59:11 +0000

ALL NEW: Be sure to go see our 2012 preseason college football rankings!

Check out our new projections for the 2011 college football preseason rankings!

*UPDATED ON 8/20/10: The USA Today Coaches Poll and now the AP Poll have been released:

USA Today Poll
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Florida
4. Texas
5. Boise State
6. Virginia Tech
7. TCU
8. Oklahoma
9. Nebraska
10. Iowa
11. Oregon
12. Wisconsin
13. Miami (FL)
14. Penn State
15. Pitt
16. LSU
17. Georgia Tech
18. North Carolina
19. Arkansas
20. Florida State
21. Georgia
22. Oregon State
23. Auburn
24. Utah
25. West Virginia

Others receiving votes: Cincinnati, Houston, BYU, Arizona, Ole Miss, Clemson, Stanford, Uconn, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Washington, Missouri, Navy, Oklahoma State, Boston College, Michigan State, Arizona State, Cal, Texas Tech, South Florida, Texas A&M, Northwestern, Temple, Central Michigan, Mississippi State, Nevada, Northern Illinois, SMU

AP Poll
1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Boise State
4. Florida
5. Texas
6. TCU
7. Oklahoma
8. Nebraska
9. Iowa
10. Virginia Tech
11. Oregon
12. Wisconsin
13. Miami (FL)
14. USC
15. Pitt
16. Georgia Tech
17. Arkansas
18. North Carolina
19. Penn State
20. Florida State
21. LSU
22. Auburn
23. Georgia
24. Oregon State
25. West Virginia

Others receiving votes: Cincinnati, Stanford, Utah, South Carolina, Houston, Uconn, Notre Dame, Missouri, BYU, Arizona, Clemson, Texas Tech, Navy, Washington, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Oklahoma State, Middle Tennessee, Central Michigan, Temple, UCF, Boston College, SMU

It is that time of year again, where everyone is speculating about the 2010 preseason college football rankings. Just like we did for the 2009 preseason rankings, we are doing again this year for the college football preseason rankings 2010. I found nine different places posting what they think the rankings should be this year, and have once again added them up to get a good sense for what they will be this year when they are released in August by the AP Poll and USA Today Poll.

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What do recruiting, preseason rankings and the NFL draft have in common?

Sloppy Joe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:50:50 +0000

Yes, they are all very, very connected to the idiocy that is the system of college football. Rivals.com is probably one of the big players in recruiting. They rank players, give them stars, all that junk. Well, we know that a lot of how programs are ranked is by how they recruit, right? How can you rank someone in the preseason? Base it on last year’s performance, how many players left, and the caliber of players recruited. Well, the NFL draft tells us what kind of players these guys really are. Who is at the top? Not the same faces as 4 years ago.

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