Week 8 KPI Prologue: “Big Games Remain”

The KPI caught some crap this week for USC being ranked so high (No. 7 this week).  They are the highest ranked two-loss team (#13 UCLA and #17 Clemson are next) and have road wins at Stanford and Arizona.  The Trojans have played five of six games against Power 5 […]

Week 7 KPI Epilogue: “Outliers Be Damned”

Just because one team beat another doesn’t mean they have to be ranked ahead of them.  Right? In this week’s KPI Rankings, TCU remains ahead of Baylor and Oregon moves ahead of Arizona despite the lower-ranked team having beaten the higher-ranked team in the last ten days.  What that means […]

Week 6 KPI Epilogue: “M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I”

The week of college football lived up to the hype. Boy, did it ever. The state of Mississippi was the center of the college football universe Saturday, and the two SEC schools from the state both beat top-10 foes on the same day for the first time ever. Next week, […]

Week 5 KPI Epilogue: “The Story Takes Shape”

We make sense! With most teams having played four games over the first five weeks, the rankings are making logical sense.  Florida State, UCLA, Oregon, Auburn, and Alabama round up the Top 5 in the current KPI Rankings not because of anything to do with last year, but because of […]

Week 5 KPI Prologue: “The Meat”

As the college football season nears October, the meat of the schedule starts approaching.  Two-thirds of the games played this week will be conference games, leading into a monster schedule on October 4. Conference Play Begins:  36 of 54 (67%) games in Week 5 are conference games, the highest percentage […]