Monday, December 31, 2012

Sun Bowl 2012

Today the Sun Bowl has the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets of the Atlantic Coast Conference playing against the USC Trojans of the PAC 12.  Let's take a look at each team using the NCAA FBS Production Model.

Georgia Tech finished the regular season at 6-7 (losing the ACC title game to Florida State) playing against an average strength of schedule.  Georgia Tech best game was a 68-50 win against currently ranked #20 North Carolina.  Their other five wins came against teams currently ranked 88th and higher.  Georgia Tech's worst game was a loss to currently ranked #74 Miami of Florida.  Georgia Tech is currently the #59 most productive team in the football bowl subdivision with the #36 ranked offense and the #82 ranked defense.

USC finished the regular season 7-5 playing a tougher strength of schedule than the average of the "league".  USC's best game was a 38-17 victory of #31 Arizona State and their worst game was a 36-39 defeat to #62 Arizona.  USC is currently ranked as the #29 most productive team in the NCAA FBS with the #27 ranked offense and the #37 ranked defense.

The model "predicts" that USC will be victorious over Georgia Tech in today's Sun Bowl.