Category: Weekly NCAA football rankings

NCAA Football Rankings: November 26, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. I am thrilled to announce that we have Wisconsin ranked #1. My composite rankings aggregate five rankings (using a Markov chain — hooray!) and all five have Wisconsin football ranked #1 and Clemson ranked #2. Oklahoma is ranked #4-#11, Alabama is ranked #3-#6, and Auburn is ranked #5-#7 in …

College Football Playoff forecast: November 19, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: Wisconsin Alabama Clemson Georgia Miami Oklahoma Ohio St Notre Dame Auburn Things are looking great for Wisconsin! As with last week. Wisconsin is my “most likely” to make the playoff here because Wisconsin has …

NCAA Football Rankings: November 19, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. I have Alabama at #1 and Wisconsin at #2. Georgia and Notre Dame tumble to #8 and #9, respectively. Various rankings that I aggregate have UCF in vastly different places. I have UCF at #6 in my aggregate rankings below, but I think that is high. I do not …

College Football Playoff forecast: November 12, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: Wisconsin Alabama Oklahoma Clemson Miami FL Georgia Ohio St Auburn Notre Dame Penn St Things are looking great for Wisconsin! They are my “most likely” to make the playoff here because Wisconsin has clinched …

NCAA Football Rankings: November 12, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. I have Alabama at #1 and Wisconsin at #2. Georgia and Notre Dame tumble to #8 and #9, respectively. Various rankings that I aggregate have UCF in vastly different places. I have UCF at #6 in my aggregate rankings below, but I think that is high. I do not …

College Football Playoff forecast: November 5, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: 1 Georgia 2 Alabama 3 Notre Dame 4 Wisconsin (woo hoo!) 5 Clemson 6 Michigan St 7 Miami FL 8 Washington 9 Ohio St 10 Penn St Things are looking good for Wisconsin! Ohio …

NCAA Football Rankings: November 5, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. I again have Georgia at #1 and Wisconsin at #6. The Ohio State University tumbled to #14. Various rankings that I aggregate have UCF in vastly different places. I have UCF at #5 in my aggregate rankings below, but I think that is high. I post my full rankings …

NCAA Football Rankings: October 29, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. This week we have a new #1! This ranking combines several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I post my full rankings on the NCAAF rankings tab every week. 1 Georgia 2 Alabama 3 Penn St 4 Notre Dame 5 UCF 6 Wisconsin 7 Clemson …

College Football Playoff forecast: October 22, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: Alabama Georgia Penn St Notre Dame Wisconsin (my fingers are crossed!) TCU Michigan St Clemson Miami Ohio St If you are interested in the rankings (the top ranked teams NOW), you can find them …

NCAA Football Rankings: October 22, 2017

Here are this week’s composite rankings. This ranking combines several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I post my full rankings on the NCAAF rankings tab every week. 1 Alabama 2 Penn St 3 Georgia 4 Wisconsin 5 TCU 6 UCF 7 Notre Dame 8 Clemson 9 Miami FL 10 Michigan …