At the start of this football season, I made the decision to not do power ratings this year. I simply did not want to invest the time in ratings teams in a season with so much capacity for chaos during a pandemic. Players out, games cancelled, etc. It just seemed like a futile exercise this year, just like resistance to the Borg.

But, with championship week upon us and the playoff, I decided to do my power ratings for the 25 teams in the College Football Playoff rankings. This is not a ranking of who should be in or out, but what my spreads would be in hypothetical matchups.

Alabama is the top team this year, and by 6-plus points over any other team. Only two teams are within single digits of them. If they cover the next three games, they have to be in the conversation for best teams of all time, even with fewer data points (games).

		IAW RTG
1	Alabama	0.0
2	Clemson	6.2
3	Ohio St	7.9
4	Georgia	12.9
5	Oklahoma	13.4
6	Notre Dame	14.7
7	Florida	15.0
8	Cincinnati	16.8
9	Texas A&M	17.9
10	Iowa St	18.6
11	BYU	18.8
12	Iowa	20.2
13	USC	21.2
14	UNC	21.2
15	Texas	21.6
16	Indiana	22.5
17	Miami	24.9
18	Oklahoma St	25.1
19	Northwestern	26.2
20	Coastal Carolina	27.3
21	LA-Lafayette	28.6
22	Tulsa	29.9
23	NC State	32.8
24	Colorado	33.3
25	San Jose St.	34.9

Home field advantage has been a crap shoot this year. There is a way to do regressive analysis to fine-tune for each team. Instead, I’m keeping it simple 1.5 if not a neutral site game.

Alabama -15 vs. Florida
Ohio St. -18.3 vs. Northwestern
Oklahoma -5.2 vs. Iowa St.
Coastal Carolina -2.8 vs. Lafayette
Clemson -8.5 vs. Notre Dame
Cincinnati -14.6 vs. Tulsa