American College Football - Rankings

• AP Top 25, USA Today/ESPN Top 25, CBS SportsLine Polls
• FCS Top 20 Fan Poll
• The Jag's Top 25 including Jag's and Father John's picks
• The NAIA Coaches Poll
• David Deuel's NCAA Div. I-A, I-AA, II & III Football Poll for Fans
• iTwentyFive college football poll with internet college football writers and some radio broadcasters
• FoxSports Top 25
• Axiom Poll
• Unofficial BCS Fan Poll
• NFL Draft Dog's College Football Rankings

Power Ratings & Rankings Systems

• Alphabetical list of college football ranking systems with "More" links to other information found at those sites

Power Ratings & Rankings General Information

• Kenneth Massey's Ratings and Rankings
• College Football Ranking Comparison
  • Summary with BCS Systems by Kenneth Massey
  • With all Systems by Kenneth Massey; I-AA
  • Rank of rating systems by Eugene Potemkin
  • Consensus Rating and "Wisdom of the Masses"
• Using the College Football Predictions
• Mark Hopkins' Rating Systems Comparison (Jeff Bihl's Reply) and Why All Rating & Polling Methods Are Wrong
• Scores from Peter Wolfe et al. and James Howell; Other Statistics
• NCAA and NAIA Divisional and Conference Affiliations
• Bob Kirlin's Case Against Math Formula Rating Systems
  • How to Fake Having Your Own Math Formula Rating System
  • Critique of James Howell's Retro-Ratings
  • Critique of Kenneth Massey's Retro-Ratings
  • Mark Hopkin's Defense of Howell and Massey and Eric Sandage's Response to Bob Kirlin
  • Steve Wrathell's Why Computer Rankings are Better than Polls
• Playoff Proposals from CollegePlayoffs.com, Vincent Ellerby, Eric B. Shaw, Russ Thorson, Chad Crabtree, Project Playoffs, Jeb Puryear and Clay Yearsley; Why playoffs won't happen by Mike Holaday
• Bibliography; The Infography about Sports Rating Systems
• Bowl Championship Series (BCS)
  • DecideItOnTheField.com BCS boycott site
  • The National Championship Issue by Ed Gunther
  • The Odds of the BCS Getting It Right by Goldie Locks
  • "The BCS is broken, but there is hope" by Neil Gandal, a 2004 BCS retrospect
  • BCS Explained
  • BCS Exposed (and also explained).
  • BCS Rankings Calculations
    • CollegeBCS.com
    • I-AA BCS-like Gridiron Power Index by College Sporting News
  • News and Comments on the BCS
    • Ray Wait's The Secret Desire of the BCS Ranking
    • Steve Wrathell to Congress
• Football Rankulator helps you construct you own rating system $30
• CompRatings email discussion group, ezboard's Football Ratings Forum, Sports Ratings blog
• Combining the best ratings systems: Superlist and Free Superlist Subscription
• Defunct systems
  • Hopkins, Mark's: Description
  • Zenor, Michael's: BOMB & JWB Description and Critique

David L. Wilson, College Football
email: dwilson@engr.wisc.edu