Well, the latest rankings experiment has more or less concluded. So I won’t beat that horse here. But how would a 16 team tournament really look in a more practical world? So as a fun cross check, I messed around a bit:
- I aggregated three publicly available rankings. Kenneth Massey and Jeff Sagarin‘s computer ratings along with the AP Poll. Normalizing, racking and stacking them – you get something like this – I only rank the top contenders and the conference champs to get to a list of contenders for the national title (scale 0 to 1):
- Alabama – 1.000
- Oregon – 0.966
- TCU – 0.899
- Ohio State – 0.892
- Florida State – 0.877
- Baylor – 0.873
- Mississippi State – 0.830
- Michigan State – 0.815
- Ole Miss – 0.812
- Kansas State – 0.732
- Georgia – 0.731
- Georgia Tech – 0.694
- Arizona – 0.673
- Auburn – 0.663
- UCLA…
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