O-H-I-O Number 1 All Time

[Scioto]

Read it and weep

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-stat ... ll-ranking

Been Reading the daily 100 teams in 100 years on Eleven Warriors over the summer,and there's no doubt that for that length of time Ohio State has the best college football program over the past 100 years. :tu:

 

[mtn cur]

congrats :tu:

 

[Scioto]

My post must have set off alarm bells. How did you get on that so fast!?! Call me impressed!

 

[Zulu]

Congrats to Ohio State for this honor, but I had my resident math geek take a look at the article, and he quickly pointed out the flaw in their methodology: using their system, the AP weighted all weekly polls identically, while in reality the later in the season a poll is taken the more accurate it should be, since those later polls are based on more data points (games). Of course, the only poll that really matters each season is the final poll.

A better and simpler way to do it would have been to take the final top 10 teams for each of the last 100 years. Give 10 pts for every #1 down to 1 point for every #10, and sum the total. That would have resulted in a equally weighted result of the most accurate poll for each year. Unfortunately it looks like the AP let a communications major try his hand at stats. :?


DISCLAIMER: My "resident math geek" is a Bama grad and current grad student. He is completing an emphasis is statistical analysis, fwiw.

 

[gator-n-buck]

Interesting list........

 

[Scioto]

Congrats to Ohio State for this honor, but I had my resident math geek take a look at the article, and he quickly pointed out the flaw in their methodology: using their system, the AP weighted all weekly polls identically, while in reality the later in the season a poll is taken the more accurate it should be, since those later polls are based on more data points (games). Of course, the only poll that really matters each season is the final poll.

A better and simpler way to do it would have been to take the final top 10 teams for each of the last 100 years. Give 10 pts for every #1 down to 1 point for every #10, and sum the total. That would have resulted in a equally weighted result of the most accurate poll for each year. Unfortunately it looks like the AP let a communications major try his hand at stats. :?


DISCLAIMER: My "resident math geek" is a Bama grad and current grad student. He is completing an emphasis is statistical analysis, fwiw.

Now let's not get carried away and bring in that rocket science stuff.

 

[buckaroo]

Heres a list of most wins, last few years has hurt the Vols

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Di ... ss_records

 

[gator-n-buck]

Heres a list of most wins, last few years has hurt the Vols

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Di ... ss_records

Not sure what this has to do with the OP????

 

[buckaroo]

Nothing really, congratulations OU

 

[mtn cur]

Heres a list of most wins, last few years has hurt the Vols

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAA_Di ... ss_records

Not sure what this has to do with the OP????

gotta get those vols in there. inferiority complex and all arty:

 

[wayne]

All names you would expect to be there.

 

[baddnole]

Congrats to Ohio State for this honor, but I had my resident math geek take a look at the article, and he quickly pointed out the flaw in their methodology: using their system, the AP weighted all weekly polls identically, while in reality the later in the season a poll is taken the more accurate it should be, since those later polls are based on more data points (games). Of course, the only poll that really matters each season is the final poll.

A better and simpler way to do it would have been to take the final top 10 teams for each of the last 100 years. Give 10 pts for every #1 down to 1 point for every #10, and sum the total. That would have resulted in a equally weighted result of the most accurate poll for each year. Unfortunately it looks like the AP let a communications major try his hand at stats. :?


DISCLAIMER: My "resident math geek" is a Bama grad and current grad student. He is completing an emphasis is statistical analysis, fwiw.

I don't think this would work since FSU has only been playing football for 68 years.