• college basketball poll - week 8

    1 - Kentucky (15-0) (102.0546875) (2)
    2 - Purdue (13-0) (100.65625) (7)
    3 - Texas (13-0) (98.2109375) (3)
    4 - Kansas St (12-1) (97.59375) (1)
    5 - Kansas (13-0) (97.078125) (15)
    6 - Wisconsin (12-2) (96.875) (12)
    7 - Georgetown (11-1) (96.6875) (5)
    8 - Duke (12-1) (96.125) (9)
    9 - Syracuse (13-1) (94.90625) (6)
    10 - Pittsburgh (12-2) (94.609375) (22)
    11 - West Virginia (11-1) (94.28125) (4)
    12 - New Mexico (14-1) (93.40625) (13)
    13 - UAB (12-2) (92.9921875) (8)
    14 - Northern Iowa (12-1) (90.109375) (NR)
    15 - Gonzaga (10-3) (89.046875) (NR)
    16 - Richmond (11-4) (88.765625) (14)
    17 - Temple (11-3) (88.75) (10)
    18 - Wake Forest (11-2) (88.59375) (NR)
    19 - USC (10-4) (87.43359375) (NR)
    20 - Connecticut (10-3) (86.890625) (21)
    21 - Villanova (12-1) (86.546875) (11)
    22 - Mississippi St (12-2) (86.25) (16)
    23 - Notre Dame (12-3) (85.84375) (NR)
    24 - UNLV (11-2) (85.48046875) (18)
    25 - Missouri (11-3) (85.3125) (NR)
    dropped out: Clemson, Butler, Florida St, Mississippi, VA Commonwealth, Illinois

  • college basketball poll - week 7

    1 - Kansas St (10-1) (89.640625) (1)
    2 - Kentucky (13-0) (89.2421875) (3)
    3 - Texas (11-0) (85.18359375) (6)
    4 - West Virginia (10-0) (84.375) (23)
    5 - Georgetown (9-1) (82.578125) (10)
    6 - Syracuse (12-0) (82.265625) (9)
    7 - Purdue (11-0) (81.07421875) (4)
    8 - UAB (11-1) (80.8984375) (12)
    9 - Duke (9-1) (80.28125) (2)
    10 - Temple (9-2) (78.640625) (5)
    11 - Villanova (11-1) (77.890625) (7)
    12 - Wisconsin (10-2) (77.609375) (11)
    13 - New Mexico (12-1) (76.486328125) (8)
    14 - Richmond (9-3) (76.078125) (17)
    15 - Kansas (11-0) (75.9375) (NR)
    16 - Mississippi St (10-2) (75.7890625) (20)
    17 - VA Commonwealth (7-2) (74.546875) (13)
    18 - UNLV (11-2) (74.38671875) (NR)
    19 - Clemson (11-2) (74.0625) (18)
    20 - Florida St (11-2) (73.779296875) (15)
    21 - Connecticut (9-2) (73.6171875) (24)
    22 - Pittsburgh (10-2) (71.91796875) (25)
    23 - Mississippi (10-2) (71.734375) (14)
    23 - Illinois (8-4) (71.734375) (19)
    25 - Butler (8-4) (71.021484375) (22)
    dropped out: South Florida, St John’s

  • college basketball poll - week 6

    1 - Kansas St (9-1) (81.3828125) (1)
    2 - Duke (9-1) (76.140625) (9)
    3 - Kentucky (11-0) (75.67578125) (3)
    4 - Purdue (10-0) (74.595703125) (2)
    5 - Temple (9-2) (73.19921875) (5)
    6 - Texas (10-0) (72.580078125) (14)
    7 - Villanova (10-1) (71.748046875) (7)
    8 - New Mexico (12-0) (71.6923828125) (8)
    9 - Syracuse (11-0) (70.8798828125) (6)
    10 - Georgetown (8-1) (70.43359375) (4)
    11 - Wisconsin (8-2) (67.7890625) (11)
    12 - UAB (10-1) (67.71484375) (NR)
    13 - VA Commonwealth (7-2) (67.6796875) (17)
    14 - Mississippi (10-1) (66.15234375) (13)
    15 - Florida St (10-2) (66.0400390625) (NR)
    16 - St John’s (9-1) (65.71875) (NR)
    17 - Richmond (8-3) (65.2890625) (NR)
    18 - Clemson (10-2) (64.69921875) (24)
    19 - Illinois (8-3) (64.62890625) (10)
    20 - Mississippi St (9-2) (64.615234375) (NR)
    21 - South Florida (10-2) (63.98046875) (NR)
    22 - Butler (8-3) (63.9228515625) (NR)
    23 - West Virginia (8-0) (63.853515625) (12)
    24 - Connecticut (7-2) (63.73828125) (18)
    25 - Pittsburgh (9-2) (63.408203125) (NR)
    dropped out: William & Mary, Texas A&M, Michigan St, Harvard, Missouri St, Gonzaga, Kansas

  • college basketball poll - week 5

    Lots of movement, which is not surprising this early in the season. Yes, that’s Kansas State in the number one spot, not the Jayhawks.

    A found a bug in my script where non-Division I games were getting counted. Massey’s .csv files give these teams ID “0”. It looks like my script had lumped all these team 0’s together and treated them as one, which caused way more connections between teams than there should have been. That’s been fixed.

    1 - Kansas St (8-1) (67.3994140625) (7)
    2 - Purdue (9-0) (67.076171875) (2)
    3 - Kentucky (10-0) (63.4873046875) (9)
    4 - Georgetown (8-0) (63.16015625) (NR)
    5 - Temple (8-2) (62.3125) (NR)
    6 - Syracuse (10-0) (62.1826171875) (3)
    7 - Villanova (9-1) (61.70068359375) (4)
    8 - New Mexico (10-0) (61.56298828125) (17)
    9 - Duke (7-1) (60.814453125) (1)
    10 - Illinois (8-2) (59.2353515625) (NR)
    11 - Wisconsin (7-2) (58.4384765625) (8)
    12 - West Virginia (7-0) (55.572265625) (12)
    13 - Mississippi (8-1) (54.3544921875) (15)
    14 - Texas (8-0) (54.318359375) (NR)
    15 - Kansas (9-0) (54.1826171875) (NR)
    16 - St John’s (8-1) (54.146484375) (NR)
    17 - VA Commonwealth (6-2) (54.0335693359375) (NR)
    18 - Connecticut (6-2) (52.2412109375) (5)
    19 - Missouri St (9-0) (52.1416015625) (14)
    20 - William & Mary (6-2) (51.7578125) (6)
    21 - Gonzaga (7-2) (51.57421875) (20)
    22 - Harvard (7-2) (51.4951171875) (18)
    23 - Texas A&M (7-2) (51.3603515625) (21)
    24 - Clemson (8-2) (51.166015625) (24)
    25 - Michigan St (8-2) (50.943359375) (NR)
    dropped out: Florida, Washington, Notre Dame, Ohio St, Vanderbilt, Texas Tech, Miami FL, North Carolina

  • college football poll - week 15

    Okay, now we have the final regular season poll. The Army/Navy game didn’t have any effect on the top 10, but the Buckeyes jumped up two slots and Navy jumped a bunch.

    1 - Alabama (13-0) (42) (1)
    2 - Cincinnati (12-0) (41.59375) (2)
    3 - Texas (13-0) (39.25) (3)
    4 - Florida (12-1) (39.1875) (4)
    5 - LSU (9-3) (37.875) (5)
    6 - Miami (FL) (9-3) (37) (6)
    7 - Virginia Tech (9-3) (36.96875) (7)
    8 - TCU (12-0) (36.75) (8)
    9 - Oregon (10-2) (36.5) (9)
    9 - Boise St. (13-0) (36.5) (9)
    11 - Ohio St. (10-2) (36.140625) (13)
    12 - Pittsburgh (9-3) (36.125) (11)
    13 - Iowa (10-2) (35.8125) (12)
    14 - Southern California (8-4) (35.25) (14)
    15 - West Virginia (9-3) (34.875) (15)
    15 - Georgia Tech (11-2) (34.875) (15)
    17 - Oklahoma St. (9-3) (34.59375) (17)
    18 - Clemson (8-5) (34) (18)
    19 - Navy (9-4) (33.90625) (NR)
    20 - North Carolina (8-4) (33.375) (19)
    21 - California (8-4) (33.25) (20)
    22 - Connecticut (7-5) (32.984375) (21)
    23 - Arizona (8-4) (32.9375) (22)
    24 - Georgia (7-5) (32.78125) (23)
    25 - Stanford (8-4) (32.5625) (24)
    dropped out: Houston

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    Take that, spammers!

  • i jumped the gun

    D’oh – the Army/Navy game is this weekend, so the regular college football season is not yet over! I’ll release one more poll, because it could have some effect. For example, Iowa is just a nose above the Buckeyes right now. OSU beat Navy. So if the Midshipmen win (as they likely will), that could bump the Scarlet and Gray up a notch. We shall see!

    Oh, and what’s the deal with spammers getting through my Turing test? Argh.

  • regular season big ten rankings

    No commentary ‘cause I’m lazy. Just the facts.

    1 - Iowa (#12 overall)
    2 - Ohio St. (#13 overall)
    3 - Penn St. (#41 overall)
    4 - Wisconsin (#46 overall)
    5 - Northwestern (#52 overall)
    6 - Minnesota (#59 overall)
    7 - Purdue (#61 overall)
    8 - Michigan (#69 overall)
    9 - Michigan St. (#72 overall)
    10 - Illinois (#90 overall)
    11 - Indiana (#97 overall)

  • regular season conference rankings

    Here’s how the conferences stack up now that the regular season is behind us:

    1 - Southeastern (34.0833333333333)
    2 - Big East (35)
    3 - Pacific-10 (39.2)
    4 - Atlantic Coast (41)
    5 - Big 12 (44.8333333333333)
    6 - FBS Independent (55.3333333333333)
    7 - Big Ten (55.6363636363636)
    8 - Mountain West (75.8888888888889)
    9 - Conference USA (76.0833333333333)
    10 - Western Athletic (82.5555555555556)
    11 - Mid-American (85.6923076923077)
    12 - Sun Belt (101.333333333333)

    Ouch. It hurts to be a Big Ten fan. It’ll be interesting to see what happens after the bowl games.

  • my bcs bowl projections v. reality

    So, in this post, I made some BCS bowl projections based on my ranking system as of week 7. Now that the bowl matchups are public knowledge, let’s compare!

    National Championship Game
    My projection: Alabama v. Texas
    Reality: Alabama v. Texas
    Ding ding ding! Woohoo!

    Rose Bowl
    My projection: Iowa v. Oregon
    Reality: Ohio State v. Oregon
    As a diehard Northwestern fan, I was elated when my Wildcats dethroned the undefeated Hawkeyes, even if it did mean that my projection of them getting through the Big Ten unscathed and smelling the roses at season’s end wound up being false. I did predict the last man standing in the messy Pac-10 race though. That’s something, right?

    Orange Bowl
    My projection: Miami v. Pitt
    Reality: Iowa v. Georgia Tech
    At first glance, it looks like a massive fail. But I did project both the Hawkeyes and the Yellow Jackets making it to BCS bowls, correct? Just not this one.

    Sugar Bowl
    My projection: Florida v. TCU
    Reality: Florida v. Cincinnati
    Nailed the Gators, and TCU is BCS-bound, so not all that bad.

    Fiesta Bowl
    My projection: USC v. Georgia Tech
    Reality: TCU v. The Donks, er, I mean Boise State
    LOL. USC. LOL. At least I didn’t have them going to the Rose Bowl.

    Okay, analysis time. I got 7/10 teams correct, 4/10 teams in the correct game, and 1/5 matchups correct. Let’s compare with the week 7 projections from the ESPN analysts that get paid to do this, Mark Schlabach and Pat Forde.
    Schlabach: 7/10 teams, 4/10 teams in correct game, 2/5 matchups. Just beat me by a nose.
    Forde: 7/10 teams, 3/10 teams in correct game, 0/5 matchups. Woohoo! Take that, Pat Forde! Your football analysis skills can kneel before my Perl scripts! Muahaha!

    Ahem. ‘Scuse me.

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