Category: Weekly NCAA football 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 …

NCAA Football rankings: October 9, 2017

This year I am posting composite rankings that combine several of the Markov chain based rankings I’ve worked on over the years. I do so by wrapping a Markov chain around the rankings to identify how to order teams when different ranking models disagree about rank. I’ll post my full rankings on the NCAAF rankings …

Final NCAA college football rankings and football playoff bracket: January 10, 2017

Here are our final 2016 college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Clemson 3 Washington 4 Ohio State 5 Michigan 6 Oklahoma 7 Penn State 8 Wisconsin 9 Florida State 10 Western Michigan 11 Louisville 12 Western Kentucky 13 Southern Cal 14 Tennessee 15 Virginia Tech 16 Stanford 17 Colorado 18 Oklahoma State 19 Georgia Tech …

NCAA college football rankings and football playoff bracket: December 4, 2016

Badger Bracketology’s college football playoff bracket: 1 Alabama 2 Ohio State 3 Washington 4 Clemson I checked the code and and noticed that Clemson and Washington are tied for third place. I’ll leave the order as it stands, but I think Washington as a 4 seed makes sense and is consistent with what we found. …

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: November 28, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Ohio State 3 Michigan 4 Clemson 5 Washington 6 Penn State 7 Western Michigan 8 Louisville 9 Wisconsin 10 Colorado 11 Florida State 12 Southern Cal 13 Oklahoma 14 Tennessee 15 Boise State 16 Auburn 17 Nebraska 18 Stanford 19 South Florida 20 Western Kentucky …

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: November 21, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Ohio State 4 Clemson 5 Louisville 6 Washington 7 Penn State 8 Colorado 9 Wisconsin 10 Tennessee 11 Nebraska 12 Oklahoma 13 Western Michigan 14 Auburn 15 Boise State 16 Florida 17 Southern Cal 18 Oklahoma State 19 Texas A+M 20 Florida State …

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: November 14, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Ohio State 4 Louisville 5 Clemson 6 Washington 7 Penn State 8 Wisconsin 9 Western Michigan 10 Auburn 11 Tennessee 12 Oklahoma 13 Washington State 14 Nebraska 15 Boise State 16 Colorado 17 Western Kentucky 18 Southern Cal 19 Oklahoma State 20 Florida …

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: November 7, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Clemson 4 Ohio State 5 Louisville 6 Washington 7 Auburn 8 Penn State 9 Western Michigan 10 Wisconsin 11 Texas A+M 12 Colorado 13 Boise State 14 Tennessee 15 Nebraska 16 Washington State 17 Oklahoma 18 Oklahoma State 19 Appalachian State 20 Western …