Last year we introduced the Pigskin Rating System here at Sports Unbiased as an attempt to aggregate the most important facets of college football into one weighted ranking that evaluates relative strength across the spectrum of geographic, scheduling, and talent disparities that span what was then 127 full FBS members. This year the...
All that is left to wrap up before the start of the 2015-2016 postseason is to watch the Army-Navy Game and see who is handed the Heisman Trophy and the other individual awards. Sunday's announcement started the chain of events that culminated in the schedule of 38 bowl games, two playoff semifinals grafted onto two other traditional...
We are now officially through the regular season, and the College Football Playoff selection committee has tabbed the four teams that will play for the national championship and the eight other teams that will complete the field playing in the New Year's Six games this year.
Just as has been the case over the past few weeks, the BCS...
Why do we have a selection committee to determine the College Football Playoff field? Given the way this week's comparison to the BCS formula stacks up, we could go to an eight-team field and still have the same eight teams seeded in the exact same spots regardless of whether a dozen brainiacs are subjectively making the decision or we...
The only conferences that still have regular games to play are the Big 12 and the Sun Belt, while the other eight FBS leagues prepare for championship games that will determine a definitive team at the top of the respective standings for 2015. Army and Navy still have their traditional shootout in two weeks in Philadelphia, and then all...
For every contender left in the Access Bowl race in 2015, just one plot point remains for each of them as they all strive to present the strongest possible resume for the College Football Playoff selection committee to parse through. Four of the Group of Five conferences have winnowed down to their final two hopefuls in the race for the...
The Week 12 College Football Playoff rankings have been released this evening, and there are few surprises in the rankings when one compares the selection committee's top teams to where the old BCS formula would rate everyone:
So the committee favors Oklahoma over Notre Dame, setting aside the common opponent argument to place the...
We are getting to a point in the 2015 season where determining which teams will win their respective Group of Five conferences is oddly becoming more difficult. What we are seeing, however, is a clear hierarchy emerging between the mid-major conferences.
Not all conference championships are created equal. Even as undefeated teams have...
We are just a fortnight away from championship weekend, and most of the teams in the FBS ranks have played 11 of the 12 games on their regular schedules. Thanksgiving weekend is all that stands between now and either the offseason or the postseason for the majority of teams. 71 of 127 full FBS members have already notched their sixth...
There are only a few weeks left in the 2015 college football regular season, with conference championships and the final games taking place over the first week of December. For many teams, there are only two or three more opportunities to impress pollsters, and the computers, and the selection committee that holds the biggest sway in...
