Category: Weekly NCAA football rankings

Final 2017 College Football Rankings

Here are my final 2017 college football rankings after the bowl games and College Football Playoffs. Congrats to overall champion and top ranked team Alabama. And thank you to Wisconsin for a great season! The full rankings are here. Alabama Georgia Wisconsin UCF Ohio St Clemson Oklahoma Penn St Notre Dame Auburn Michigan St Boise …

NCAA Football Rankings: December 3, 2017 (Selection day!)

Here are my Selection Sunday NCAA football rankings. I was sad when I crunched the numbers this morning. The College Football Playoff has been announced, and it looks like Wisconsin was officially ranked sixth and will miss out on the playoff. For what it’s worth, I have Wisconsin ranked fourth. Compared to my rankings from …

College Football Playoff forecast: November 26, 2017

Top teams forecasted to make the College Football Playoff based on a simulation of the remaining season and conference championship games: 1 Wisconsin 2 Clemson 3 Oklahoma 4 Georgia 5 Auburn 6 UCF 7 Ohio St 8 Miami 9 Alabama It’s going to be an exciting finish to the college football season. Here is what …

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 …