Comparing Badger Bracketology to the AP and Coaches polls

It never amazes me how well analytics can transform a data into information. Below, I display the final, end-of-season rankings from the Associated Press (expert) and Coaches poll (expert) as well as our rankings at Badger Bracketology (analytics). Aside from a few exceptions (Tennessee, Clemson, Michigan), the analytics-based rankings are very close to those made by experts. Using analytics, we leverage box score data from a few hundred college football games to produce team rankings that are almost indistinguishable from those created by experts. To me, that is beautiful.  

Rank	Associated Press	Coaches Poll	Badger Bracketology
1	Ohio State	Ohio State	Ohio State
2	Notre Dame	Notre Dame	Notre Dame
3	Oregon	Texas	Texas
4	Texas	Oregon	Oregon
5	Penn State	Penn State	Penn State
6	Georgia	Georgia	Georgia
7	Arizona State	Arizona State	Indiana
8	Boise State	Boise State	Arizona State
9	Tennessee	Tennessee	Boise State
10	Indiana	Indiana	Ole Miss
11	Ole Miss	Clemson and SMU (tied)	BYU
12	SMU	–	SMU
13	BYU	Ole Miss	Michigan
14	Clemson	BYU	Iowa State
15	Iowa State	Iowa State	Alabama
16	Illinois	Illinois	Illinois
17	Alabama	Alabama	Miami
18	Miami	Miami	Oregon
19	South Carolina	South Carolina	Tennessee
20	Syracuse	Missouri	South Carolina
21	Army	Army	Syracuse
22	Missouri	Syracuse	Army
23	UNLV	Memphis	Clemson
24	Memphis	UNLV	Louisville
25	Colorado	Colorado	UNLV