Category: Weekly NCAA football rankings

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: October 31, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Clemson 4 Louisville 5 Ohio State 6 Washington 7 Texas A+M 8 Nebraska 9 Western Michigan 10 Auburn 11 Wisconsin 12 Tennessee 13 Penn State 14 Boise State 15 Florida 16 Colorado 17 Utah 18 South Florida 19 Oklahoma 20 Washington State 21 …

NCAA college football rankings and CFB Playoff forecast: October 24, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Louisville 4 Clemson 5 Ohio State 6 Western Michigan 7 Washington 8 Nebraska 9 Tennessee 10 Boise State 11 Texas A+M 12 Colorado 13 Auburn 14 Penn State 15 West Virginia 16 Utah 17 Wisconsin 18 Baylor 19 Florida 20 North Carolina 21 …

NCAA college football rankings: October 17, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings: 1 Alabama 2 Michigan 3 Clemson 4 Ohio State 5 Western Michigan 6 Texas A+M 7 Louisville 8 Washington 9 Nebraska 10 Boise State 11 Tennessee 12 Florida State 13 Houston 14 Baylor 15 Colorado 16 Utah 17 Florida 18 West Virginia 19 South Florida 20 North Carolina …

NCAA college football rankings: October 10, 2016

Here are our new college football rankings. These are current rankings. Another week’s worth of data has helped our rankings look better, and in a week or two we will start to forecast the rest of the season. Stay tuned! 1 Michigan 2 Alabama 3 Texas A+M 4 Ohio State 5 Clemson 6 Washington 7 …

NCAA college football rankings: October 3, 2016

We are kicking off our college football rankings a bit earlier this year, although we don’t really have enough completed games to use as input to our math model, and therefore some of the teams in our top 25 look like they don’t belong (We’re looking at you, Georgia Tech!). Stay tuned! In future weeks …

final 2015 NCAA Football rankings (including bowl games)

Here are the final ln(mLRMC) NCAA college football rankings including the results of all bowl games.Congrats to the B1G, which has 4 teams in the top 11 and to Wisconsin, who rose to #23 after beating USC in the Holiday Bowl. ================================================================ 1 Alabama 2 Clemson 3 Stanford 4 Ohio State 5 Michigan State 6 …

pre-championship game NCAA football rankings

Last week, we posted our college football playoff forecasts, from most likely to least likely to make the playoff. Our playoff forecasts then were as follows: 1 Oklahoma 2 Alabama 3 Clemson 4 Michigan State 5 Iowa We note that Oklahoma was #1 because they do not have any remaining games in their schedule. With …

NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 13

We are down to our final college football playoffs. Conference championship games are very important, but at this point every other game is inconsequential. There is no Big 12 championship, and both of our models have Oklahoma in the College Football Playoff in every simulation. It’s worth noting that Oklahoma is not currently ranked #1 …

NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 12

Wow, what an exciting weekend of games. Ohio State’s loss — and to a lesser extent Oklahoma State’s loss — changed the rankings and forecasts. We now forecast Clemson, Alabama, Oklahoma, Michigan State, and Notre Dame are likely to make the playoff. We see that the path to the playoff is easier for some teams …

NCAA football playoff forecasts, week 11

With the end of the season near, there are few teams that have a chance to make the playoffs. Both models agree that Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Notre Dame and maybe Oklahoma are the clear favorites. Others have a chance, but not a big chance. The two forecasting models we use work in the same …