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Rivalry Weekend Is Playoff Elimination Weekend

If Texas, Florida, or Alabama lose this week, then they will most likely be thrown from the BCS title race. While some people stomp for a large, 16-team playoff; the truth is that under that ...

Written by Crayton about 3 days ago 366 reads 1 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week 12

Again there is little change since last week 's games. LSU's inexplicable loss to Ole Miss makes the Tigers the biggest team to fall. In most larger playoffs Penn State has moved in to replace the Bayou Bengals...

Written by Crayton about 7 days ago 58 reads 0 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week 11

Last Week Nothing much has changed at the top of the BCS Standings since last week . Ohio State defeated Iowa in overtime to claim the Big Ten title, and a trip into our eight team playoff...

Written by Crayton about 15 days ago 240 reads 0 comments
College Football Playoff Predictions: Week 10

Some top quality teams fell this week. Well, they at least lost. LSU somehow avoided the fall and moved up a spot from No. 9 to No. 8 in the BCS. The teams behind the Texas and the Alabama/Florida combo keep dancing around each other in the standings...

Written by Crayton about 22 days ago 238 reads 0 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Nine

Oregon has taken the Pac-10 by storm and has supplanted USC as the highest ranked team in the conference. Texas held off Oklahoma State with ease in a battle for the Big 12 lead...

Written by Crayton about 27 days ago 301 reads 0 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Eight

The BCS experienced minimal shake-up this week as Florida, Alabama, and Iowa all pulled out close ones. Last week's No. 10, Miami, lost to Clemson in overtime, taking them out of the playoff picture...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 202 reads 0 comments
BCS Automatic Qualifications: Part Two

The BCS rankings are out, halfway through the 2009 season. While many people are watching, intrigued at the process by which computer polls can bless or curse certain teams, Some college football fans try and divine what is in the sport's future...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 142 reads 2 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Seven

This week's results are official. The BCS has finally released their first poll. All computers are in and Florida, Alabama, and Texas all seem to be in control of their own destiny...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 431 reads 3 comments
College Football Playoff Predictions: Week Six

One more week until the official BCS Standings come out. This week it looks like the standings have normalized a bit more as LSU falls to new No. 1, Florida. Virginia Tech has ascended to No...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 643 reads 0 comments
BCS Automatic Qualifications: Part One

What does it take to become a BCS Conference? Before 2005 the only criterion for becoming a BCS conference was averaging a ranking better than No. 14 for the conference's best team...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 111 reads 4 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Five

There was little change among the playoff proposals from last week. The largest change will actually be the fact that our poll no longer lists the size of each playoff but rather provides the name of the source...

Written by Crayton about about 1 month ago 370 reads 3 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Four

The people have spoken and tournaments of size eight and 16 are the overwhelming favorites. In my ever attempt to hone your interests I have added a modification of the Mountain West proposal to compete with the given Eight-Team playoff...

Written by Crayton about 2 months ago 335 reads 3 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Three

I am quite nearly appalled at last week's poll results which unequivocally favor the larger playoffs to the smaller, simpler playoffs...

Written by Crayton about 2 months ago 282 reads 5 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Two

Last week introduced the new College Football Playoff Predictions Series. After losses by Ohio State and Oklahoma State, there has been considerable movement in each playoff proposal...

Written by Crayton about 2 months ago 146 reads 4 comments
College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week One

Welcome to this new series, written for all of you who are thirsty for a playoff. Various proposals will be presented given the current BCS and conference ranks of all teams...

Written by Crayton about 2 months ago 101 reads 13 comments
Tectonic Shifts That Could Shake Up the BCS

From 2003 to 2005 we saw a dramatic shift in the conference alignment. Three Big East teams moved to the ACC, who were replaced by teams from Conference USA, who were in turn replaced by teams from the former WAC...

Written by Crayton about 3 months ago 245 reads 13 comments
FBS Playoff Series: Five Teams

Picking The Top Four If you were to pick four teams to put in a playoff before the bowls this past season, which four would you pick? Would you pick the top four by rank: No. 1 Oklahoma, No...

Written by Crayton about 3 months ago 220 reads 2 comments
A Playoff's Degredation of the Regular Season

A common argument against a playoff system for college football is that it lessens the value of the regular season. This would be especially true under a larger 16-team playoff format...

Written by Crayton about 4 months ago 86 reads 4 comments
The Big Ten Goes to Quads

An Expanded Big Ten Schedule The current scheduling system among Big Ten schools is that each team has two permanent rivals and rotates their remaining six conference games among the eight other schools in the conference...

Written by Crayton about 4 months ago 187 reads 5 comments
Sagarin's Top Teams of the Last Decade

Which teams are the best from the past 10 years? Does Florida's two national championships outweigh USC's six BCS victories? Lets take a look at Jeff Sagarin's season ending ratings for each year and figure it out...

Written by Crayton about 4 months ago 293 reads 7 comments
Updated 2003 BCS Standings

Following the 2003 fiasco when LSU and USC shared the National Title, the BCS conducted a major overhaul of its ranking formula. Ultimately their new formula was of sleak design and removed much of the double counting of losses and strength of schedule...

Written by Crayton about 4 months ago 351 reads 38 comments
Bowl Series (1986-1991): Cycle Zero

The Good Old Days Often cited when discussing a potential playoff scenario for college football is the “good old days” when teams played in traditional bowls and championships were voted on by coaches and sportswriters...

Written by Crayton about 7 months ago 83 reads 1 comments
NHL Playoff Scenarios (updated 4/9)

EASTERN CONFERENCE The Eastern Conference playoff berths were wrapped up yesterday with wins by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Canadiens to secure the last two spots...

Written by Crayton about 7 months ago 706 reads 0 comments
FBS Playoff Series: Three Teams

A Rigid Game with a Flexible Outcome When the final BCS standings come out, how often do we find the difference between the second and third place teams such that a random pick between the ...

Written by Crayton about 8 months ago 178 reads 6 comments
Tim Tebow and Gators Prepare for Fourth Straight National Championship Run

This isn't a title you will be seeing in newspapers as the kickoff of football season approaches, but such an alternate reality is not that far removed from our own...

Written by Crayton about 8 months ago 406 reads 13 comments

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Crayton Article Archive

Rivalry Weekend Is Playoff Elimination Weekend

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week 12

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week 11

College Football Playoff Predictions: Week 10

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Nine

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Eight

BCS Automatic Qualifications: Part Two

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Seven

College Football Playoff Predictions: Week Six

BCS Automatic Qualifications: Part One

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Five

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Four

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Three

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week Two

College Football Playoff Prediction Series: Week One

Tectonic Shifts That Could Shake Up the BCS

FBS Playoff Series: Five Teams

A Playoff's Degredation of the Regular Season

The Big Ten Goes to Quads

Sagarin's Top Teams of the Last Decade

Updated 2003 BCS Standings

Bowl Series (1986-1991): Cycle Zero

NHL Playoff Scenarios (updated 4/9)

FBS Playoff Series: Three Teams

Tim Tebow and Gators Prepare for Fourth Straight National Championship Run

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