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It’s Football Time.

Aug 30

Posted by Jon Morse in Division II, Division III, FBS (aka I Couldn't Help Myself), FCS, NAIA | Comments off

After a weekend of NAIA action, for most people the season really begins today.  Excitement abounds, the trolling has begun in earnest on Twitter and message boards, and we’re actually going to get to watch football that matters on our televisions.

Of course, we here at TOG aren’t really all about that stuff, even though we care about it deeply and will be helplessly channel-surfing.

Anyway, we’ll get into fun stuff after the weekend; for the moment, here are the spreadsheets I use — for all five divisions this time (yes, I’m including FBS here as well, because I may as well share it) rather than just the NAIA workbook.  And that has been updated with last week’s games.  Right-click and save.

FBS -247kb

FCS -277kb

D-II -289kb

D-III -369kb

NAIA -145kb

Note: there are a couple of minor errors relating to the postponed games due to Hurricane Isaac.  Specifically, I forgot to note Oregon/Nicholls State as postponed, and listed Louisiana Tech as “idle” this week.  They’ll be fixed next time around.  There may be other postponements before the weekend is over, but it mostly looks like everything that hasn’t been postponed is carrying on as scheduled.

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Comparing the Divisions on the Field.

Sep 30

Posted by Jon Morse in Analysis, Division II, Division III, FBS (aka I Couldn't Help Myself), FCS, NAIA | Comments off

Since we’re actually (gasp) caught up, and I got all four previews up before a single game had been played at any level this week (oh, my), I actually have time to tinker with ideas.  So today, I thought I’d take a peek at the differences between the divisions on paper.  I’m using the Massey Ratings for this, since Richard includes every team down through the NAIA, and has a formula separate from the one he provides to the BCS in which he does include margin of victory.

Naturally, there’s not really anything surprising here.  I will argue as to the aesthetic superiority of the lower divisions in certain respects until I’m blue in the face, but none of those respects includes “quality of play”.  Mostly, this is just a fun look at how things compare both on average and on the margins.
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ICHM: The Narrative, It Sucks.

Oct 25

Posted by Jon Morse in FBS (aka I Couldn't Help Myself) | Comments off

Yeah, I know this blog is intended specifically not to cover FBS or D-I basketball, but sometimes I just have to get something off my chest and my potential audiences in other venues aren’t the appropriate ones.  At least this audience is, even if the venue may not be.

What am I irked about this morning?  Well, I’m still irked about the fact that Bill Snyder didn’t leave Chris Cosh standing on the runway in Waco, but this is something of more national interest.  Generally, “The Narrative” as crammed down our throats by the Worldwide Leader; specifically, the fact that I think that if they were going to stick us with one for the season, they picked the wrong one.

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