Weekly NCAA football rankings

Welcome to Badger Bracketology 2.0! We have an updated methodology this year that relies on Markov chains, logistic regression, and simulation to forecast the four team college football playoff. Read more about it here. We …

Our final college football playoff rankings agreed with the committee’s final ranking in terms of who gets in, but our seeding was a bit different (we swapped Ohio State and Oregon).     Alabama   …

This will be our last forecasts for the 2014 College Football Playoff. With at most one game left in the season for most teams, we see that for all practical purposes all but nine teams …

There weren’t so many upsets among the best teams this week (mainly Ole Miss), so we see less shuffling around in terms of who will be ranked in the top 4 at the end of …

Several big upsets in this weekend’s games are reflected in our rankings and playoff forecasts. Most teams have about two games left plus maybe a conference championship game, so nearly all teams have been mathematically …

Another week of exciting games leads to the results that indicate that the SEC West is producing the best teams in the country. This is also the week that we are seeing that most teams …

With the end of the season coming up in about a month, we see that almost anything could happen in the NCAA football playoff. There were few upsets this week (Georgia, Arizona) and as a …

We have another week of NCAA playoff forecasts.  This weekend’s games included some exciting outcomes and upsets like the Illinois/Minnesota game. We noticed that these results shook things up in our model. With Minnesota’s loss …

This project is a tool created by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering for forecasting the first four team NCAA football playoff using Monte Carlo simulation and data analytics. I am …