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The Athletic: Ranking 136 college football teams entering 2025, from Penn State to Kent State

KryHavok said:
There's rankings, which are subjective, and then there's win-loss records, which are less prone to feelings (note I am disregarding strength of schedule). I looked up Massey's rankings and saw something that made my day. You know my fellow Boneyarders, I don't want to gloat, but I surely will. It sure was FRACKING FANTASTIC seeing who occupies the 2nd from the bottom slot when all 136 FBS teams are ranked by wins and losses!!!
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Interesting seeing Okie St ranked so low at 131th...didn't they think we shouldn't be in the notsoBig12? I guess it's because they are having such a stellar year. v^_^v

For comparison, we are in 28th for now by W-L record:
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Well, that's all I wanted to say. But it bears repeating, isn't it great seeing our northern neighbor enjoy 2nd place of worst FBS record? Have yourselves a lovely Wednesday.
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We will learn a lot about Georgia Tech when they play Georgia.
 
KryHavok said:
There's rankings, which are subjective, and then there's win-loss records, which are less prone to feelings (note I am disregarding strength of schedule). I looked up Massey's rankings and saw something that made my day. You know my fellow Boneyarders, I don't want to gloat, but I surely will. It sure was FRACKING FANTASTIC seeing who occupies the 2nd from the bottom slot when all 136 FBS teams are ranked by wins and losses!!!
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Interesting seeing Okie St ranked so low at 131th...didn't they think we shouldn't be in the notsoBig12? I guess it's because they are having such a stellar year. v^_^v

For comparison, we are in 28th for now by W-L record:
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Well, that's all I wanted to say. But it bears repeating, isn't it great seeing our northern neighbor enjoy 2nd place of worst FBS record? Have yourselves a lovely Wednesday.
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As a Huskies fan, I'm proud of what we've done with Jim Mora. However, I'm not going the gloat about BCU or UMass, because we were there before. I hope UMass will get better and even BCU, because the writers can see that New England is an underrated area for FB.

I'm concerned about one thing - Jim Mora getting a P4 job. Of course, I doubt DB will hire a PP or a BD. I'd love to see UConn spread their wings and recruit from overseas - Europe and Asia. It might take money, but Asia and the Middle East are fastest growing areas for American Football.
 
Scrutineer said:
That's possible, but it could also be immensely deflating to go from 10-0 to undefeated, make the playoff and get swamped by the 5 or 6 seed.

Not trying to be negative, just not sure we're ready for that level of opponent in what will be a high profile matchup the talking heads will beat on every day for two weeks.
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We don't want to be on the poster for the "12 is too many" crowd...
 
Today's update - another day of figuring out how to copy pasta from the website into excel, lol. UConn ends the season at the top of the list of opponents, #43. From a historical perspective (and yes, last year's slate was different), UConn started 9 of 12 last year, and ended in 3rd place. This year, UConn started 5th of 12, and ended #1.

I don't usually play "what ifs", however 3 OT losses away from going undefeated has me dreaming over a cup o joe ...

At this point for us, the rest of the season comes down to the Army Navy game (Beat Army!), and hoping that our adopted War Eagle team can take down Alabama and push them out of the playoffs (currently at #10 spot according to The Athletic).

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What is the new metric that took the place of RPI? Even if you looked at RPI or better yet, KRACH, UConn would fall way down in the rankings due to SoS. Where have you gone, Patman, we need an end of season KRACH ranking.
 
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The 9 teams we beat have combined winning % of 39.8% and the team's we lost to have a 39.4% winning %. Check my math as I did this on my phone but we have not played a single good team. Best record we faced is 6-5
 
Windham4th said:
The 9 teams we beat have combined winning % of 39.8% and the team's we lost to have a 39.4% winning %. Check my math as I did this on my phone but we have not played a single good team. Best record we faced is 6-5
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That is why we need a KRACH ranking to assess whom UConn would stand a chance against.
 
Interesting but you play the teams that are on your schedule. And most of them were scheduled 3-5 years ago. And we beat 9 of them. The only late addition was BC to replace UMass and if you tell me you thought they would be this bad, I know you are not telling the truth. Like everyone else you thought we replaced a sure win with at best a tough game.

We don’t need RPI. We don’t need any other nonsense mathematical model. We played a 12 game season on the field and went 9-3.
 
Don’t care about the metrics or buttKRACH. Transitive stuff doesn’t work in football anyways.

We play up or down to the competition. That’s been consistent.
 
I'm too lazy to do it, but I'd like to see someone take teams 40-60 and list their three best wins.

I think our fan base would be surprised how few quality wins there are amongst teams once you get outside the top 30-35.

And then do the reverse. Take teams 40-60 and list their three worse losses.
 
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freescooter said:
Interesting but you play the teams that are on your schedule. And most of them were scheduled 3-5 years ago. And we beat 9 of them. The only late addition was BC to replace UMass and if you tell me you thought they would be this bad, I know you are not telling the truth. Like everyone else you thought we replaced a sure win with at best a tough game.

We don’t need RPI. We don’t need any other nonsense mathematical model. We played a 12 game season on the field and went 9-3.
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Well, OK, but if you are trying to figure out which P4 teams might be within reason beatable by UConn, you can't assume UConn's 9-3 is equivalent to any P4's 9-3 which is what you are implying. The P4 teams UConn might knock off will finish more like 6-6. And about half of those could spank UConn without question. That is where mathematics could be useful.
 
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As we’ve seen bowls are a crapshoot. Especially for P4 teams it’s more about who shows up. Remember Florida State going to the bowl 12-0 then basically having to start the bowling team after so many guys went to the portal or sat out for the NFL draft. I think they lost by 60 or so. Often one team wants to be there and another doesn’t much care. Or worse.
 
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ok, I ran the same model one with a win getting a weight of 0.9 of a win and .1 loss and then the other on 0.9999 of a win and 0.0001 of a loss. UConn was ranked 75 on both, the sharper second one may have more FCS schools that are higher.

This is about where UConn was last year.

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UConn undefeated is #5 at .9999, #6 at .9995, #7 at .999, #13 at .995, #18 at .99, #38 at .95, and 52 at .9

Personally I like ((n_games-.5)/n_games) as a fudge. Can't figure out how to make it dynamic to balance for both teams... since everybody has played about 11 games, I'm going to punt in 10.5/11 so for the undefeated stuff it'll be around 38 or so.... but we aren't undefeated.

Code: 
 rnk               teams.list  w  l  ratings.out sos.calc srnk
   1 Mississippi              10  1   9.28501669   4.7075   13
   2 Georgia                  10  1   8.89248972   4.8005   12
   3 Indiana                  11  0   8.64397440   3.6152   47
   4 Texas A&M                11  0   8.53784956   4.4796   18
   5 Oklahoma                  9  2   8.25387901   5.5534    5
   6 BYU                      10  1   8.05594743   4.0433   26
   7 Ohio St                  11  0   8.01996691   3.5460   49
   8 Alabama                   9  2   7.95858749   5.5311    6
   9 Texas Tech               10  1   7.93849939   2.8650   71
  10 Oregon                   10  1   7.68001980   3.6107   48
  11 Texas                     8  3   7.47358220   4.2981   20
  12 Vanderbilt                9  2   7.24910036   4.6166   16
  13 Tennessee                 8  3   6.76534918   3.6323   45
  14 Utah                      9  2   6.67215315   3.7050   39
  15 Michigan                  9  2   6.55014043   3.6948   40
  16 Notre Dame                9  2   6.49814904   4.0132   29
  17 USC                       8  3   6.13262608   4.2985   19
  18 LSU                       7  4   6.12535573   4.7047   14
  19 Missouri                  7  4   6.02454817   4.8497    9
  20 Arizona St                8  3   5.86705121   4.0579   25
  21 Miami FL                  9  2   5.53534847   3.8449   33
  22 Tulane                    9  2   5.31028990   3.0579   62
  23 North Texas              10  1   5.30830840   1.7864   87
  24 Illinois                  7  4   5.24888482   3.8196   34
  25 Navy                      8  2   5.23659721   2.3270   81
  26 Washington                8  3   5.21078022   2.9735   67
  27 South Florida             8  3   5.19415107   3.0656   59
  28 Iowa                      7  4   5.17678407   3.7380   36
  29 Arizona                   8  3   5.12066418   3.4437   50
  30 Georgia Tech              9  2   4.96209794   2.8894   70
  31 Kentucky                  5  6   4.93240598   5.3889    7
  32 Virginia                  9  2   4.90783317   2.8573   72
  33 Iowa St                   7  4   4.90420786   4.0879   23
  34 TCU                       7  4   4.80803643   3.9139   31
  35 South Carolina            4  7   4.80745012   6.2011    2
  36 Houston                   8  3   4.79050437   3.1063   57
  37 Mississippi St            5  6   4.74428961   5.0740    8
  38 Florida                   3  8   4.66474597   6.3501    1
  39 Pittsburgh                8  3   4.59851420   2.6278   77
  40 SMU                       8  3   4.46380349   3.0237   64
  41 NC State                  6  5   4.42222394   4.1716   22
  42 Cincinnati                7  4   4.40110458   3.6947   41
  43 James Madison            10  1   4.36977725   1.1117  114
  44 Nebraska                  7  4   4.26706893   3.0007   66
  45 Wake Forest               8  3   4.24900937   2.9428   68
  46 Northwestern              6  5   4.23351493   3.7100   38
  47 Auburn                    5  6   4.17316757   4.8092   11
  48 Wisconsin                 4  7   4.13817821   5.8619    3
  49 Louisville                7  4   4.02025129   3.1074   56
  50 East Carolina             7  4   3.90732716   2.5832   79
  51 Duke                      6  5   3.81421086   3.2441   54
  52 Memphis                   8  3   3.70401005   1.6255   93
  53 Baylor                    5  6   3.67738652   3.9734   30
  54 Minnesota                 6  5   3.63277625   3.2561   53
  55 Kansas St                 5  6   3.42703094   3.7178   37
  56 New Mexico                8  3   3.42586903   1.4835   98
  57 Penn St                   5  6   3.32293875   3.8831   32
  58 Florida St                5  6   3.32121945   3.6195   46
  59 UNLV                      9  2   3.29218718   1.4341   99
  60 Old Dominion              8  3   3.28105872   1.3544  102
  61 UT San Antonio            6  5   3.20949944   2.8530   73
  62 Rutgers                   5  6   3.19547197   3.6330   44
  63 San Diego St              9  2   3.17902182   0.9378  121
  64 West Virginia             4  7   3.10621308   4.0316   27
  65 Kennesaw                  8  3   3.08628398   1.1866  111
  66 Clemson                   6  5   3.07538407   3.1471   55
  67 Kansas                    5  6   3.05612797   3.6668   42
  68 Boise St                  7  4   2.98444711   2.1218   84
  69 N Dakota St              12  0   2.93251368  -1.3158  164
  70 Colorado                  3  8   2.90381787   4.8143   10
  71 California                6  5   2.74319519   2.2301   83
  72 UCLA                      3  8   2.74144570   4.6049   17
  73 Maryland                  4  7   2.72368943   3.6563   43
  74 Connecticut               9  3   2.51395785   0.7926  123
  75 WKU                       8  3   2.50153089   0.7929  122
  76 Utah St                   6  5   2.48979619   1.6722   92
  77 Virginia Tech             3  8   2.46363703   4.2497   21
  78 Army                      5  5   2.42330575   2.4593   80
  79 Temple                    5  6   2.42271091   3.0225   65
  80 UCF                       5  6   2.41751396   3.0686   58
  81 Tennessee Tech           10  1   2.39526988  -3.2718  214
  82 Tarleton St              11  1   2.37032834  -2.3351  187
  83 Missouri St               7  4   2.35562019   1.0490  118
  84 Stanford                  4  7   2.34640284   3.3648   52
  85 Hawaii                    7  4   2.33784819   1.5822   95
  86 Washington St             5  6   2.28573717   3.0342   63
  87 Syracuse                  3  8   2.21597625   4.0640   24
  88 Montana St               10  2   2.20769440  -0.5632  146
  89 Fresno St                 7  4   2.12499643   1.2870  106
  90 North Carolina            4  7   1.89874310   2.8057   74
  91 Rice                      5  6   1.89274617   2.6660   76
  92 Arkansas                  2  9   1.82212376   5.5829    4
  93 Coastal Car               6  5   1.81665990   1.1200  113
  94 Montana                  10  1   1.80217481  -1.2393  162
  95 W Michigan                7  4   1.79622786   1.0836  117
  96 Florida Intl              6  5   1.78064401   1.6118   94
  97 Troy                      7  4   1.73909761   0.7673  127
  98 Southern Miss             7  4   1.73085359   0.7895  124
  99 FL Atlantic               4  7   1.69641276   2.6210   78
 100 Jacksonville St           7  4   1.67076497   0.3682  132
 101 Ohio                      7  4   1.66907832   0.3861  130
 102 Toledo                    7  4   1.53873447   0.4503  129
 103 Michigan St               3  8   1.44138447   3.7648   35
 104 Louisiana Tech            6  5   1.32414208   1.3033  105
 105 Miami OH                  6  5   1.31580844   0.9522  120
 106 Texas St                  5  6   1.27988461   1.2399  108
 107 Ga Southern               5  6   1.27149925   1.7280   89
 108 Tulsa                     4  7   1.21487215   2.0322   86
 109 UAB                       3  8   1.15121710   3.0610   61
 110 Purdue                    2  9   1.07931754   4.6219   15
 111 C Michigan                7  4   1.07848293  -0.4351  143
 112 Marshall                  5  6   1.07486625   1.2853  107
 113 Louisiana                 5  6   1.04690131   1.4005  101
 114 Delaware                  5  6   1.04559008   1.1901  110
 115 Lehigh                   12  0   1.00139713  -2.8554  199
 116 Arkansas St               5  6   0.96099181   1.4115  100
 117 SF Austin                 9  2   0.83383439  -1.7596  174
 118 S Dakota St               8  4   0.75116807  -0.5141  145
 119 Abilene Chr               8  4   0.72032772  -0.9490  153
 120 South Dakota              8  4   0.63145776  -0.4519  144
 121 Harvard                   9  1   0.60850693  -2.5630  191
 122 UC Davis                  8  3   0.56480688  -0.7283  149
 123 Air Force                 3  8   0.53588157   2.3111   82
 124 Illinois St               8  4   0.48525122  -1.2015  160
 125 Yale                      8  2   0.37141908  -1.9079  177
 126 Appalachian St            5  6   0.35263176   1.1024  115
 127 Youngstown St             8  4   0.34373842  -1.3258  165
 128 New Mexico St             4  7   0.32210232   1.3403  103
 129 North Dakota              7  5   0.31972040  -0.5662  147
 130 South Alabama             4  7   0.22792551   1.7028   90
 131 Wyoming                   4  7   0.21605279   1.2375  109
 132 Liberty                   4  7   0.16867189   0.9806  119
 133 San Jose St               3  8   0.15940313   1.7325   88
 134 Nevada                    3  8   0.11588707   1.6753   91
 135 Colorado St               2  9   0.07716187   2.6871   75
 136 SE Louisiana              9  3  -0.12228250  -2.9014  203
 137 West Georgia              8  3  -0.20618245  -2.1336  183
 138 Idaho St                  5  6  -0.21480570   0.0303  136
 139 S Illinois                6  5  -0.26020543  -0.8072  150
 140 ULM                       3  8  -0.31693685   1.5196   97
 141 Ball St                   4  7  -0.34056955   0.6467  128
 142 E Michigan                4  7  -0.41011793   0.3110  134
 143 Buffalo                   5  6  -0.41108213   0.1713  135
 144 Akron                     5  7  -0.50486372  -0.0188  137
 145 Northern Arizona          7  5  -0.50596095  -1.1479  158
 146 Southern Utah             7  5  -0.60606836  -0.8346  151
 147 Austin Peay               7  5  -0.64047704  -1.6700  172
 148 Lamar                     8  4  -0.70747463  -1.6519  171
 149 Villanova                 9  2  -0.71068682  -3.2519  213
 150 Oregon St                 2  9  -0.71246403   2.8991   69
 151 Dartmouth                 7  3  -0.76658498  -2.0192  181
 152 CS Sacramento             7  5  -0.85951736  -1.4925  169
 153 UTRGV                     6  3  -0.88545572  -2.3618  188
 154 MTSU                      2  9  -0.88852826   1.5746   96
 155 Kent                      4  7  -0.89420649   0.3787  131
 156 Sam Houston St            2  9  -0.92509387   1.1462  112
 157 Rhode Island             10  2  -1.00957004  -4.1518  241
 158 Bowling Green             3  8  -1.04665920   0.7816  126
 159 N Illinois                3  8  -1.10755558   1.0914  116
 160 Drake                     7  3  -1.15068699  -3.1162  209
 161 Penn                      6  4  -1.17271686  -1.6469  170
 162 Oklahoma St               1 10  -1.18992211   4.0184   28
 163 Mercer                    9  2  -1.22034916  -4.2453  244
 164 Cal Poly                  3  8  -1.45558065  -0.2416  140
 165 UTEP                      2  9  -1.49891473   1.3232  104
 166 Presbyterian              8  2  -1.60595033  -3.9530  236
 167 Weber St                  4  8  -1.64082166  -0.1266  138
 168 Lafayette                 8  4  -1.70800283  -2.9152  204
 169 New Hampshire             8  4  -1.70896825  -3.0941  208
 170 Charlotte                 1 10  -1.76750284   3.0614   60
 171 E Kentucky                5  7  -1.83428186  -0.8833  152
 172 San Diego                 8  4  -1.86874179  -2.6126  192
 173 Brown                     5  5  -1.90750137  -1.9210  178
 174 E Washington              5  7  -1.98093429  -1.4849  168
 175 TN Martin                 6  6  -1.98377291  -2.2727  184
 176 Incarnate Word            5  7  -2.00839513  -1.1699  159
 177 S Carolina St             8  3  -2.09463694  -4.7707  250
 178 Sacred Heart              7  4  -2.14303331  -3.3146  216
 179 Idaho                     4  8  -2.20416699  -0.9595  154
 180 Gardner Webb              7  5  -2.20931639  -2.6984  195
 181 N Colorado                3  8  -2.30900606  -1.0797  155
 182 Monmouth NJ               9  3  -2.32537605  -4.3833  246
 183 Nicholls St               4  8  -2.32727240  -1.2216  161
 184 Indiana St                2  9  -2.39471529   0.3498  133
 185 Princeton                 3  7  -2.45079733  -1.4841  167
 186 Lindenwood                6  6  -2.47366675  -2.5455  190
 187 St Thomas MN              6  5  -2.56644072  -2.7773  197
 188 Northern Iowa             3  9  -2.58425084  -0.4349  142
 189 McNeese St                4  7  -2.58667066  -1.3067  163
 190 Central Conn              7  4  -2.76864498  -3.4827  225
 191 Charleston So             5  7  -2.77927054  -2.4467  189
 192 Boston College            1 10  -2.77987939   3.4419   51
 193 Richmond                  7  5  -2.79917994  -3.8413  233
 194 Georgia St                1 10  -2.85733179   2.0650   85
 195 Duquesne                  6  5  -2.96450981  -3.4438  223
 196 Alabama St                8  2  -2.97751616  -5.9963  261
 197 Butler                    4  6  -3.03563058  -2.9309  205
 198 Dayton                    6  4  -3.05740334  -4.0354  238
 199 Cornell                   4  6  -3.08512486  -1.9555  179
 200 Cent Arkansas             3  9  -3.08603093  -1.1467  157
 201 Columbia                  2  8  -3.17091874  -1.3374  166
 202 Colgate                   5  7  -3.17442909  -2.6870  194
 203 LIU Post                  6  6  -3.26858875  -3.2194  211
 204 William & Mary            7  5  -3.35728027  -3.5732  229
 205 Portland St               1 11  -3.37173650  -0.2328  139
 206 ETSU                      7  5  -3.43443603  -3.8872  234
 207 Georgetown                6  6  -3.52282078  -3.5922  230
 208 SE Missouri St            4  8  -3.54397280  -2.0601  182
 209 Delaware St               6  4  -3.54969205  -4.8166  251
 210 Utah Tech                 2 10  -3.57189933  -1.0957  156
 211 Maine                     6  6  -3.61909189  -3.5032  228
 212 Holy Cross                3  9  -3.62970087  -1.8842  176
 213 Elon                      6  6  -3.66113055  -4.3890  247
 214 Murray St                 1 11  -3.68181070  -0.4047  141
 215 Stony Brook               6  6  -3.70978651  -3.7367  232
 216 Jackson St                8  2  -3.75628721  -6.4603  265
 217 Marist                    5  7  -3.76312480  -3.3475  219
 218 Prairie View              8  3  -3.77879306  -6.2672  263
 219 W Carolina                7  5  -3.82281143  -4.2755  245
 220 E Illinois                3  9  -3.83447579  -2.3217  186
 221 Mercyhurst                5  7  -3.84069798  -2.8351  198
 222 W Illinois                4  8  -3.85496832  -2.2852  185
 223 Morehead St               4  6  -3.90216081  -2.8732  201
 224 Bucknell                  5  7  -3.94965755  -3.4514  224
 225 Stonehill                 4  8  -4.05708659  -3.3565  220
 226 NC Central                7  4  -4.10249140  -6.1362  262
 227 Furman                    6  6  -4.19758708  -4.2155  243
 228 North Alabama             1 10  -4.29236470  -0.6689  148
 229 Wofford                   6  6  -4.36626397  -4.0281  237
 230 Wagner                    5  7  -4.44392241  -3.4938  227
 231 New Haven                 2  5  -4.52811231  -4.0986  240
 232 Merrimack                 3  8  -4.57245638  -3.0483  207
 233 Towson                    6  6  -4.58687028  -4.8507  252
 234 East Texas A&M            3  9  -4.66591638  -1.7363  173
 235 Chattanooga               5  7  -4.73440679  -3.3871  222
 236 Grambling                 5  4  -5.07582432  -4.9651  253
 237 Citadel                   3  8  -5.35472049  -3.6039  231
 238 Stetson                   2  8  -5.38030783  -3.3754  221
 239 Bethune-Cookman           5  6  -5.44298068  -5.1710  257
 240 Fordham                   1 11  -5.50849598  -3.0042  206
 241 Robert Morris             2  9  -5.51438257  -3.3367  218
 242 SUNY Albany               2 10  -5.62058127  -2.8964  202
 243 Davidson                  1 10  -5.62951329  -2.6745  193
 244 TX Southern               5  5  -5.82739848  -5.4620  259
 245 Valparaiso                1  9  -5.84317301  -2.7456  196
 246 Bryant                    2  9  -6.07585972  -3.1841  210
 247 Houston Chr               1 10  -6.26137653  -1.8675  175
 248 Florida A&M               4  6  -6.34345048  -5.4974  260
 249 Howard                    4  7  -6.57126790  -4.9724  254
 250 Massachusetts             0 11  -6.70036960   0.7847  125
 251 Alabama A&M               3  8  -6.95935793  -5.3974  258
 252 Alcorn St                 4  7  -6.98197838  -6.4335  264
 253 Tennessee St              2 10  -7.01042935  -3.3009  215
 254 Northwestern LA           1 11  -7.07786309  -2.0056  180
 255 Campbell                  2 10  -7.12183907  -3.2328  212
 256 St Francis PA             0 11  -7.29912016  -3.3226  217
 257 NC A&T                    2 10  -7.43662372  -4.0673  239
 258 Ark Pine Bluff            2  8  -7.45497745  -5.1286  256
 259 Samford                   1 11  -7.55269230  -2.8673  200
 260 Morgan St                 1  8  -8.37022151  -3.4836  226
 261 VMI                       0 11  -8.59254990  -3.9436  235
 262 Southern Univ             1 10  -9.19375775  -5.0031  255
 263 Hampton                   1 10  -9.76492644  -4.1802  242
 264 MS Valley St              0 10 -10.24218884  -4.7552  249
 265 Norfolk St                0 11 -10.24405364  -4.4495  248
 
From KRACH 64 to KRACH 80, make a choice. That is the addressable market ... uh, rather domain of feasible opponents designed for max ROI.

Somebody said JMU would kill UConn. That is what KRACH is showing. They are out of UConn's league. It shows the same for Duke on a neutral site which is probably true if you substitute beat for kill.
 
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RSTuthill said:
From KRACH 64 to KRACH 80, make a choice. That is the addressable market ... uh, rather domain of feasible opponents designed for max ROI.

Somebody said JMU would kill UConn. That is what KRACH is showing. They are out of UConn's league. It shows the same for Duke on a neutral site which is probably true if you substitute beat for kill.
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Of course it is also showing Alabama would beat Florida State, UConn would whip Rice, Syracuse and Delaware, and Miami would beat up SMU and Louisville. Of course none of those things happened because football games are played on the field by actual players under wildly differering conditions.

Reminds me of 1999 when Duke won the Saragin College basketball championship. It was a huge deal. One Shining Moment Playing in the background while Jim Nance talked about how…oh wait. Duke did get the Saragin title. But UConn won the real one.
 
freescooter said:
Of course it is also showing Alabama would beat Florida State, UConn would whip Rice, Syracuse and Delaware, and Miami would beat up SMU and Louisville. Of course none of those things happened because football games are played on the field by actual players under wildly differering conditions.

Reminds me of 1999 when Duke won the Saragin College basketball championship. It was a huge deal. One Shining Moment Playing in the background while Jim Nance talked about how…oh wait. Duke did get the Saragin title. But UConn won the real one.
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I’ll never understand how people continue to put stock in transitive nonsense for football.
 
freescooter said:
Of course it is also showing Alabama would beat Florida State, UConn would whip Rice, Syracuse and Delaware, and Miami would beat up SMU and Louisville. Of course none of those things happened because football games are played on the field by actual players under wildly differering conditions.

Reminds me of 1999 when Duke won the Saragin College basketball championship. It was a huge deal. One Shining Moment Playing in the background while Jim Nance talked about how…oh wait. Duke did get the Saragin title. But UConn won the real one.
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Neither of those systems should be viewed as a predictor. Rather more a predictor of probability. Now, was Duke out of UConn's league, so to speak, when Sagarin made its ranking? I forget, but I kinda doubt it.

I am just saying that if you are betting your imminent portal success or failure on your attractiveness established by your recent W-L record, on the value proposition to prospective transfers that your program will shortly be high profile, it is very unhelpful to do a high profile face plant in a bowl game just prior. Given that, best to play the probabilities. California or Kansas look most attractive to me if we had our choice.
 
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Our opponents' last games:

50 Duke v Wake Forest
94 Syracuse v Boston College
98 Rice v South Florida
103 Delaware v UTEP
107 FIU v Sam Houston
109 Buffalo v Ohio
110 Boston College v Syracuse
112 Florida Atlantic v E Carolina
117 UAB v Tulsa
118 Air Force v Colorado St
120 Ball State v Miami OH
 

NCAA College Football Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

The US LBM Football Coaches Poll, published by USA TODAY Sports, is conducted weekly throughout the NCAA college football season. See the latest Top 25 rankings from the game’s best head coaches.
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Others receiving votes: Iowa 85; Houston 73; Missouri 52; SMU 28; Washington 18; UNLV 17; Pittsburgh 15; South Florida 12; Illinois 9; Louisville 6; Connecticut 6; TCU 5; Penn State 5; Old Dominion 2; New Mexico 2; Arizona State 2; San Diego State 1.
 
huskymedic said:

NCAA College Football Coaches Poll | USA Today Sports

The US LBM Football Coaches Poll, published by USA TODAY Sports, is conducted weekly throughout the NCAA college football season. See the latest Top 25 rankings from the game’s best head coaches.
sportsdata.usatoday.com

Others receiving votes: Iowa 85; Houston 73; Missouri 52; SMU 28; Washington 18; UNLV 17; Pittsburgh 15; South Florida 12; Illinois 9; Louisville 6; Connecticut 6; TCU 5; Penn State 5; Old Dominion 2; New Mexico 2; Arizona State 2; San Diego State 1.
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I doubt that many coaches looked at tape of UConn's D before they voted.
 
RSTuthill said:
I doubt that many coaches looked at tape of UConn's D before they voted.
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Despite our weak D we went 9-3 leveraging an explosive offense. That is more than enough to garner attention in the current age of CFB.
 
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