Thursday, January 15, 2015

2014 NCAA FBS Competitive Balance

Now that the 2014 season is in the books, I want to take a short look at competitive balance in NCAA football.  For more background read my previous analysis of competitive balance in NCAA football. What I want to do in this blog is simply update the data over the past two seasons in terms of competitive balance.  Using the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance, I find that NCAA football was 1.43 in 2014, which is more balanced than the 1.65 in 2013.  Yet, overall, NCAA football does not seem to be much different in terms of competitive balance from year to year as you can see in the table that I give in the blog linked above.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

2014 NCAA FBS Final Ranking

Ohio State is the winner of the first bowl subdivision championship game! So now that all of the post season football games are finished, I have run the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model one last time for this season using the data from cfbstats.com.  Unlike the last few years, where the team ranked the highest in the model was also the "National Champion", this season Ohio State ranks as the #4 most productive team behind #1 Texas Christian, #2 Oregon (the runner-up in the championship game) and #3 Michigan State.  The highest ranked SEC team is #7 Alabama.

Rank Team
1 TCU
2 Oregon
3 Michigan State
4 Ohio State
5 Marshall
6 Baylor
7 Alabama
8 Georgia
9 Louisiana Tech
10 Wisconsin
11 Clemson
12 Memphis
13 Boise State
14 East Carolina
15 Georgia Tech
16 Mississippi
17 Georgia Southern
18 Mississippi State
19 Louisville
20 Stanford
21 BYU
22 Arkansas
23 Northern Illinois
24 Houston
25 North Carolina State


Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 16
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 15
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 14
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 13
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 12
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 11
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 10
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 9
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 8
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 7
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2