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WORST. ONE-LOSS. TEAM. EVARR.
[This is a bit of a mess. It's near-impossible for it not to be a mess.] As Penn State continued to pile up ugly losses WINS since mid-September, many have labeled them the worst one-loss team in the nation. It's an argument perfectly suited for college football in the internet age -- senseless...
Do Good Recruiting Classes Make a Good Team?
Back in October I published an article looking at recruiting class ratings and Big Ten standings. While I don't have the time to conduct a formal statistical analysis, the cumulative effect of recruiting classes definitely influences results on the field. For this follow-up article, I weighted...
The Road Ahead
While the world sure seems like a better place for MSU football fans than it did last week at this time, our record is still on the wrong side of .500. At 2-3, the team needs to go 4-3 down the stretch to be technically eligible for a bowl game. That becomes 5-2 if the goal is to ensure the team...
Math isn't all that impressed with us
OR "We really need some actual college basketball competition to talk about." As part of its voluminous (1,232 pages!) College Basketball Encyclopedia, the good folks at ESPN got Jeff Sagarin to go back and compute his mathematical ratings for every college basketball season going back to 1938. ...
So You Think You Can Dance?
What started as a pipe dream is now, well, possible. And like all blue-bloods should when they fear their hopes are too high, let us turn to some third party projections. There have been a lot of big wins in the last six or seven years, but those wins were mostly remarkable because of how poorly...
Who Will Play Penn State for the BCS National Championship?
Humble, God-fearing college football pundit that I am, it's not normally my style to call anyone title contender elect. Especially not this early. But it dawned on me last night, as I was scooping steamed rice out of a Chinese take out container and watching No. 7 Texas Tech vulture No. 1 Texas...
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