Search Results for 'sagarin'
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Topic: SOS
Last week, Sagarin ranked the tdS’ SOS #112. Then they played no one last week…
…and their SOS rose to #106! How funny is THAT? For months now, the whYners had been defending their SOS, while jeering at us because we hadn’t played a game yet, whereas Ute fans had been jeering at THEM for having played no one either.
Now, after only 2 games, our SOS is ranked #7, and the zoobs’ SOS only moves up when they stop playing! Haha!
Topic: Quick Look at Texas stats.
Their SP+ is top 30. Sagarin has them as a top 20 team. Massey 26th.
Great offense, great special teams, and a mediocre defense. It will be like playing USC again.
Scoring offense is in the top 20.
Total Offense is in the top 15 in the country.
Red Zone Offense in the top 10 in the country.
3rd down conversion rate is in the top 10 in the country.
They pass for nearly 300 yards per game, while rushing for 172 on 4.66 yards per carry.
They do give up a lot of sacks, one of the worst in the country.
On defense, they are giving up about 29 points per game putting them in the middle of P5 teams.
Their passing efficiency defense is in the bottom 12 of P5 teams.
Total Defense ranks them 108th in the country.
Their rush D ranks about 50th in the country, giving up 4.2 yards a run for 140 YPG.
TO margin was fairly similar to Utah, both on the plus side.
With a great passing offense, losing Blackmon is going to hurt us. Losing Hubert will hurt. Let’s see how many others are going to sit out the game for the sake of their NFL future. Playing a big brand in a new bowl might be an incentive to be excited.
Does anyone know how one would predict the outcome if Utah were to play Minnesota? It seems likely that if Utah goes to the Rose Bowl, they have a very good chance of playing Minnesota. I’m just wondering what that theoretical match up would look like.
I know there are ways of doing this using Sagarin, FPI, and SP+ rankings – but I don’t know how to do it.
Frustrating that we arent getting a ton of credit for that win. Almost none nationally. That was a win over a top 20 caliber team in their building with one of the smartest matchup/schematic coaches in the country coming off a bye week. The wtf Stanford game is keeping their perception way down. Well below where their actual standing based off their entire satistical bodyof work places them. Not saying they deserve to be ranked top 20 by any means, but its arguably as tough of a win as…say…Baylor, who sits 3 spots behind UW in FPI and 9 spots behind is s/p (1 spot adv in sag), when you factor in their bye week its certainly close
Looking at a couple of computer rankings like Massey, Sagarin, and SP+, Utah’s strength of schedule is middle of the pack compared with the rest of top ten.
Utah doesn’t have a signature win, but overall their SOS is within reason and certainly better than even teams ranked above them. Utah has just played a bunch of teams hovering around .500. No Arkansas or Rutgers in conference play.
This is what make college footbal interesting, but also annoying. Quality losses, quality wins. What other sport is ever talked about in those terms?
Topic: Sagarin ratings
There is often a complaint about the PAC 12 strength of schedule and it impacting our rankings. I thought I would compare the AP top 10 teams” strengths of schedules as rated by Sagarin and Massey and rank them 1 to 10.
Sagarin Massey
LSU 4 3
Alabama 9 8
Ohio St 2 4
Clemson 10 10
Penn St 5 5
Georgia 8 9
Oregon 3 2
Utah 6 6
Oklahoma 7 7
Florida 1 1
Of one loss teams, both systems rank strongest schedules as follows: Oregon, Utah, Georgia and Oklahoma.
For interest:
My kids were taking some college prep stuff recently and we did some study with analogies.
I used the points awarded in each ranking to see the difference between strength of schedules to create these analogies:
Massey
Alabama is to Utah as SMU is to Alabama
Alabama is to Oregon as Temple is to Alabama
Sagarin
Alabama is to Utah as Middle Tennessee is to Alabama
Alabama is to Oregon as San Jose State is to Oregon
