The book explains their methodology but I haven't tried to understand all of it. They have good reasons for how and why they do things, but it's all very experimental.
Edit: those percentages are rounded to nearest whole percent, so its not literally zero, just .48% or less.
I got my 2012 FO Almanac over the weekend and have been reading the college section first. They use their F/+ formula to estimate victories in individual games and add up the probabilities for winning each game to get an average number of victories over the 12 game season. According to FO, win...
Back and forth with big plays, crowd was into it, cold weather night game. Those are hard to beat. I enjoy watching games where I don't have a rooting interest.
I was at that 91 Texas game too. Very hot and all I remember besides the weather is Michael Davis getting what seemed like 40...
I don't know of any other good ones besides the ones in the original post. I listen to the podcast the Ole Miss Rivals site produces. I'm not sure if MSU's site has one.
I was reading Keith Law's rankings the other day and he had Gray the #5 overall 2011 draft prospect and the #2 pitcher behind Gerrit Cole of UCLA. He's listed at 5'11''. Rare for a sub 6-foot college righthander to be rated that high so he must have great stuff.
MSU was criticized because in those days the East was considered vastly superior, and in 1998 MSU did not play Florida, Tennessee, or Georgia.
The West was down with Auburn, Alabama, and LSU combining to go 7-17 in conference play. This season those teams are 19-5 with most of the losses...
I was listening to Matt Wyatt this morning on first call this morning and he had Scott S on
TV has changed everything. Three tiers of bowls nowadays:
1. BCS
2. Bowls that you've heard of and want to go to if your team is invited
3. Bowls advertising products you've never heard of in random...