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01/21/2025

11-0.

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01/20/2025

Either Notre Dame or Ohio State will make college football history Monday night, and it goes much deeper than winning the first 12-team College Football Playoff.

Either Notre Dame or Ohio State will make college football history Monday night, and it goes much deeper than winning the first 12-team College Football Playoff.

01/14/2025

CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EXPECTED SCORE

Ohio State 25.44, Notre Dame 23.68

Our expected scoring model correctly predicted the winner of each of this year's first 10 CFP games. Can we make it a perfect 11-0?

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01/09/2025

CFP SEMIFINALS EXPECTED SCORES

Notre Dame 28, Penn State 21
Ohio State 25, Texas 19

Our expected scores have correctly predicted the winner in each of the first eight CFP games this season.

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12/30/2024

CFP Quarterfinals Expected Scores

Penn State 30, Boise State 27
Texas 29, Arizona State 19
Ohio State 30, Oregon 23
Notre Dame 33, Georgia 20

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12/22/2024

We told you about Tennessee.

12/19/2024

CFP First Round Expected Scores, CFP Field Analysis and CFP Final Rankings Analysis now available.

BlindFold Sports objectively analyzes a subjective field, covering college football from a data-based viewpoint.

12/08/2024

FINAL 2024 MERIT RANKINGS

Sufficiently ready for the College Football Playoff Committee to tell the Ponies they have the wrong three letters that begin with "S" on their jerseys. Tennessee has the correct three letters on their jerseys.

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12/06/2024

2024 Conference Championship Game Previews:

Weighing two teams' relative points scored (RPS) against each other's adjusted scoring defense (ppg allowed against FBS teams in regulation) and their relative points allowed (RPA) against each other's adjusted scoring offense produces an expected outcome.

12/03/2024

Oregon enters Championship Week with more than a 20-point lead in the BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings—the largest lead at this point since the rankings began in 2014.

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11/27/2024

40 percent of the Top 25 have ZERO wins vs. the CFP's Top 25. Two teams (No. 6 Miami-FL and No. 18 Iowa State) have played ZERO games vs. the CFP's Top 25. 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

11/26/2024

No. 2 Ohio State inches closer to No. 1 Oregon, SMU climbs to No. 3 in this week's BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings.

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11/19/2024

Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, Georgia, Texas and SMU make up the top six in this week's BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings.

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11/14/2024

11/12/2024

Oregon remains atop the BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings for Week 12, widening the margin between themselves and No. 2 BYU to more than the margin between BYU and No. 5... Alabama.

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11/04/2024

Oregon sits atop the Week 11 BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings ahead of the initial 2024 College Football Playoff Rankings being announced Tuesday evening.

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09/14/2024

Florida State is the sixth preseason AP Top 10 team — and first since 1988 — to start the season 0-3. AP preseason rankings began in 1950. Florida State is the first to lose all three games to unranked opponents.

1963: #10 Washington ... finished 6-5-0
1974: #3 Arizona State (started 0-4) ... finished 4-7-0
1983: #4 Penn State ... finished 8-4-0
1984: #3 Pittsburgh (started 0-4) ... finished 3-7-1
1988: #10 Texas A&M ... finished 7-5-0

12/03/2023

Final 2023 BlindFold Sports Merit Rankings

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