Action Network: LSU mathematically has best home field advantage

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There are many different factors to determine home-field advantage, from stadium capacity to straight-up records. At Action Network, we base home-field advantage on one metric: Does a team cover the closing number from oddsmakers? While most outlets assume 2.5 points for the home team, our calculations use a tangent to determine the final numbers. Based on against-the-spread numbers from a three- and 10-year sample, a Taylor series is used to deviate from the standard home-field advantage. The 10-year sample accounts for 80% of the deviation from 2.5 points, while the remaining 20% consists of the previous three years. While head coaches and recruiting classes come and go, this formula provides approximately 60 data points over a decade to determine home-field advantage.

With LSU taking over the top spot, here's the full list of college football home-field advantages that will be used to build win totals in 2024..

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Home Field Advantage (pts)
1.) LSU 3.9
13.) Oklahoma 3.3
16.) Alabama 3.2
25.) Texas 3.0
41.) Kentucky 2.7
50.) Mississippi State 2.6
51.) Auburn 2.6
56.) Texas A&M 2.5
60.) Missouri 2.5
61.) Florida 2.5
69.) Ole Miss 2.4
72.) Arkansas 2.4
74.) Tennessee 2.3
76.) South Carolina 2.3
104.) Georgia 1.8
128.) Vanderbilt 0.9