re: Top 25 teams since 1960 (power ratings)

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my model has
1.1995 Nebraska
2.2019 LSU
3.01 Miami
4.2020 Bama

let's get a vote and see which people think is better

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Right now, I have a Fan Poll on the site and you can go submit your ballot. But that's only for the current season. But I can add an all-time Fan Poll (Best teams of all time poll) if yall want.

That #20 LSU team would win every game on that list. You are telling me any of those secondary’s from the Nebraska dynasty could handle Joe and those receivers? No freaking way. What he did that season was must watch.

This is a "ranking". As opposed to the OP list, this is not predicting who would beat who. This is simply a measure of how dominant a team was against the field in the season they played. Running up the score is not rewarded, pulling starters late in the game is not punishing. It considers strength of schedule, quality wins, and bad losses.

* obviously, I don't have a solution yet for the Covid year. I'm trying to find an accurate, non-biased way of handling that. Anomalies are tough to deal with. I'd like to use injury and absence data, which I can already kind of do by inferring absences based on a player not having stats - the problem with this is that offensive lineman don't record stats and it's also common for defensive players to not record stats. For example, there are many games where a lockdown corner doesn't record a stat, because the other team didn't throw his way. Also, DLs have games where they don't record stats. So that was too inaccurate, so I took it out. I need actual depth chart data. I've been scouring the internet and this is really hard to find. Certainly hard to find going back decades.

This is 1960 forward. I do have an all-time ranking list. You'll notice there are a lot of ties, which I'm ok with. This is more like "buckets" of the best teams ever.

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but there is zero chance any of the teams pre 90s have a shot at beating an above average modern(bcs era to present) college football team.

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As opposed to the OP list, this is not predicting who would beat who. This is simply a measure of how dominant a team was against the field in the season they played.

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I guess even putting it in bold doesn't make you people read it..

I've always thought '01 Miami was a little overrated. Yes, they had a lot of 1st round picks and great NFL players. But what they actually did on the field at Miami has been overrated.

Don't twist my words, I think they are a top 10 team all time (don't know where I would put them), I just don't think they're top 3.

They played and beat one.. ONE top 15 team that year (Nebraska). Could they have beaten more, absolutely, but they didn't play them. As opposed to a team like 2016 Alabama who beat 9 ranked teams. I'm not saying 2016 Bama was better, but they at least proved themselves against a much tougher schedule. 2019 LSU played and beat 7 top 10 teams. The only thing that Miami team can say, relative to other all-time great teams, is "we had a lot of NFL players".

Sofa King We Todd Id.

Umm..we won by 559-221.....We literally doubled + the points scored on us.

who? what year? wtf are you talking about?

I will stand by my four best teams I have seen. In order by year.

1995 Nebraska
2001 Miami Hurricanes
2005 USC Trojans
2019 LSU Tigers




Delete, repeat.

Delete, changed it to top 5 because odd numbers are better.