It’s the last weekend of college football before the playoff committee announces its final rankings. In the video above, Neil Paine breaks down how FiveThirtyEight’s College Football Playoff model sees conference-championship weekend going, including how teams outside the committee’s top four can get into the playoff.
A few weeks ago, I wrote that Alabama might be on track to become the greatest college football team of the AP poll era, at least according to the Elo rating system we like to use here at FiveThirtyEight. At the time, the Crimson Tide had two regular-season games remaining: Home games against Chattanooga (an […]
A few weeks ago, I wrote that Alabama might be on track to become the greatest college football team of the AP poll era, at least according to the Elo rating system we like to use here at FiveThirtyEight. At the time, the Crimson Tide had two regular-season games remaining: Home games against Chattanooga (an […]
There will never be a definitive ranking of the most dominant college football teams of all time — and in a sport in which the subjective act of voting was the primary mode of determining a champion until only very recently, that’s probably fitting. Even the computer power ranking systems can’t always agree (as the […]
There will never be a definitive ranking of the most dominant college football teams of all time — and in a sport in which the subjective act of voting was the primary mode of determining a champion until only very recently, that’s probably fitting. Even the computer power ranking systems can’t always agree (as the […]
