Hopefully, I can improve on my success rate in my final projections. In the past four years (not including COVID-19’s 2020 season), I have correctly projected 73% of the 234 bowl teams in the correct bowl. I’ll gladly take anything over 70% this year, ...
Working-class bowl games The main thing: bowls are designed to draw crowds and eyeballs. Ideally, they also reward the best teams. But this can mean a local team with a lot of fans getting a friendlier game than a team with a better record. I always try to keep this in mind when ...
It's been five days since AL.com's initial bowl projections were released and there have been some developments that have sparked some changes. Most notably, TCU moved up to No. 3 in this week's College Football Playoff rankings after a win over Texas. That makes it more difficult to s...
And so below, you'll find my updated NFL mock draft following the Super Bowl along with a look at the most interesting teams to follow at this year's draft and the selections that could completely change the board. Hopefully, this will help ease the pain of another NFL season ...
(or none at all, especially at the team level), and in a lot of spots, we do not get much clarity in terms of roles. As the season progresses, generally we have more confidence in our projections, and then reverts back to unknowns during the meaningless portion of bowl season. ...
Right around when November 2014 began, the SEC was maybe at its most powerful level ever, as I discussed in the 2014 rankings post. But bowl season didn’t go all that well for the league, and then it fell back to the pack pretty considerably. Mizzou fell by 49 spots in S&P+, South...