Hard to fathom it in a sport that did not have institutional parity until the NIL era, but college football π has had seven different champions in the past eight seasons. Only Georgia has won twice in that time frame.
Last preseason there were eight FBS teams with plus money payouts if they MISSED the playoffs. Four of those eight teams MISSED (Clem, Penn St, Texas, ND)
Which of the eight plus money teams MISS the playoffs this year?
How many theoretical wins would an average 2025 P4 team have against your 2026 schedule?
SEC :
- Easiest: Vandy (8), LSU (7)
- Tough: UF (3), Bama, Ark, UK, MS, OM, UT (4)
B1G:
- Easiest: UCLA (9), Illini, Mich, PS, UW (8)
- Tough: Nebraska (5), Ohio St, Purdue (6)
I know y'all are focused on March Madness right now, but this one's for the football junkies out there. 164 days until college football kickoff. @FDSportsbook has released their over/under win totals. Here's the #SEC (more later)
The 2025 (not a typo) college football season concludes tonight in Miami, with the highly improbable matchup of the Miami Hurricanes versus the Indiana Hoosiers. Do not adjust your set, this is NOT a basketball game. Can Miami, despite finishing the regular season completely out of the ACC Championship, return the trophy to the once-proud Hurricane name? Or can Indiana put a cherry on top of the most remarkable turnaround ever seen in sports? Cellar to stellar in just two years...it is absolutely stunning what Curt Cignetti has done in Bloomington. And all without the usual parade of 5-star talent seen in a championship game.
The DPS has been telling all of us that Indiana is the by far and away the best team in college football all season long. The Hoosiers have been #1 in average overall GSA every week but one, when they were a brief #2. But did we believe it? Nobody does this. No matter what happens in the game tonight, Indiana has already clinched no worse than the #2 all-time spot in Rodney's average GSA metric (teams from 2011+). That's better than 2019 LSU, 2018 Clemson, 2020 Alabama, 2023 Michigan, 2024 Ohio State, 2011 Alabama...all of them. The only team better in that metric is 2019 Ohio State, who famously did not win the Natty. This has been a statistically dominant Indiana team, relative to the quality of teams of this season.
Rodney is squarely on the Hoosiers tonight to win and cover.