This is the first week of the season I have gotten this done for public consumption. The below table has ratings for all FBS vs. FBS games this week, including the spread vs. the composite spread rating calculated here. Week … Continue reading College Football Week 6 Spread Picks
Here are this week’s composite college football power ratings, using six different rating systems. Sources: Steve Makinen, Adam Burke, SP+, FPI, Brad Powers, Collin Wilson. Some of these are behind a paywall, so I don’t share the full table. These … Continue reading 2024 College Football Power Ratings, Week 6
This is the first week of the season I have gotten this done for public consumption. The below table has ratings for all FBS vs. FBS games this week, including the spread vs. the composite spread rating calculated here. Continue reading College Football Week 5 Spread Picks
Here are this week’s composite college football power ratings, using six different rating systems. Sources: Steve Makinen, Adam Burke, SP+, FPI, Brad Powers, Collin Wilson. These ratings are spread related, not an AP-style ranking. To figure a spread, subtract one … Continue reading College Football Power Ratings, Week 5
Here is this week’s look at ranked teams who lost in college and NFL teams who got upset. College Ranked Teams Losing #11 USC at #18 Michigan, 27-24 #14 Oklahoma St vs. #12 Utah, 22-19 #15 Oklahoma vs. #6 Tennessee, … Continue reading This Week In Football Losers, 9-24-24
Here are this week’s composite college football power ratings, using six different rating systems. Sources: Steve Makinen, Adam Burke, SP+, FPI, Brad Powers, Collin Wilson. These ratings are spread related, not an AP-style ranking. To figure a spread, subtract one … Continue reading College Football Power Ratings, Week 4
A buddy sent me this nugget from the Woj story about him leaving ESPN today. And I read it as I take a break from editing golf photos, a few days after covering a game with a rain delay where the stats did not add up. I think I eventually got them close after going back on film. I was a kid who knew since junior high I wanted to be involved in sports somehow and journalism specifically. I have said it before, but sports are what likely kept me out of jail and saved my life. I am well … Continue reading Woj and Me: The Path That Chose Me
I joined Bruce this week for Take The Points, our weekly look at local and national sports and gambling. Lots of talk about the Olympics, along with MLB trade deadline and some football talk. Remember, Take The Points…fade the picks. … Continue reading Take The Points–Aug. 2, 2024
One exercise I like to do is to look at the NFL draft picks the way a commodity trader. Did the team get value with their pick. This is not an analysis of if it was a good pick on … Continue reading NFL Draft Values (Is that the Raiders near the top?)
Rickey Henderson, Ronnie Lott and Marcus Allen. For as long as I can remember, these have been my three favorite athletes of all time. There is zero debate on my top three. The order maybe, but not the top three. These posters and jersey are hanging up in my new office. The Rickey poster is new, but there is plenty of Rickey memorabilia under it with 30-40 years of age on it. I’ve had that Ronnie poster since high school, what was, ahem, 30 years ago. And the Marcus jersey was a gift I received a year or two after … Continue reading Mt. Rushmore Of Favorite Athletes
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