The Dr. Edward Kambour NCAA Football Ratings

Final 2009 Ratings

 
 
 

Below are the ratings for Division 1 Bowl Subdivision College Football. The first column is the school name, followed by the estimated power rating and home-field advantage. To forecast the outcome of a game simply subtract the visiting team's rating from the sum of the home team's rating and the home team's home field advantage. The difference is approximately the forecasted point-spread. Thus, if the result is positive, the home team is predicted to win, while if the result is negative, the visiting team is predicted to win. The teams are ranked by their ratings.

Predictions of this weekend's games can be found here.

  

                          Rating   HomeAd 
     Alabama           103.6582  -7.8108
     Florida            99.9825   4.3838
     Texas              99.9648   1.1428
     TCU                94.8142   7.3959
     Virginia Tech      93.8714   2.8059
     Ohio St            93.2676   0.7145
     Nebraska           93.0302  -3.8609
     Penn St            92.6151  -4.8371
     Iowa               91.4190 -11.2108
     Boise St           91.2588   2.6377
     Oklahoma           90.8621  14.1691
     Oregon             90.5453   3.6870
     USC                89.3449  -3.0917
     LSU                89.0927  -5.9406
     Texas Tech         88.7391   4.9605
     Georgia Tech       87.1681   3.2418
     BYU                87.1304  -5.0387
     Florida St         86.9443 -10.8194
     Cincinnati         85.9045   1.6707
     Mississippi        84.8730   7.4453
     Pittsburgh         84.5585   3.4113
     Clemson            83.9880  11.0421
     Georgia            83.8590  -3.1500
     Oklahoma St        83.4767   1.2108
     North Carolina     83.3308   0.9792
     Miami Fl           82.7476   9.1354
     Missouri           82.7350  -3.5510
     Oregon St          82.6576   2.8073
     Kentucky           82.5772  -5.6790
     Stanford           82.5618   3.3981
     Arkansas           82.4220   4.9779
     Navy               81.8699  -7.0259
     Utah               81.4725   3.0788
     Rutgers            81.3992  -3.8451
     Connecticut        80.9296   0.2158
     Tennessee          80.8079   5.4611
     West Virginia      80.2799   2.3241
     Michigan St        79.2097   1.0766
     Notre Dame         79.1619   3.5218
     Kansas             79.0575   1.8046
     Wisconsin          78.7493   8.1444
     Arizona            78.6981  10.2419
     Air Force          78.0036   5.1326
     Boston College     76.8605   9.0540
     Wake Forest        76.7865   1.2306
     California         76.6643   4.3438
     Auburn             76.5072  12.7844
     UCLA               75.7059   1.2216
     South Carolina     75.4085  10.4099
     Virginia           75.0864   1.3453
     Northwestern       75.0015  -6.9510
     East Carolina      74.4611   6.1169
     C Michigan         74.3267   8.3001
     Houston            74.3234  15.2065
     Fresno St          74.2542  -4.7056
     South Florida      74.2101   1.7499
     Mississippi St     74.2002   6.9449
     Duke               73.1842  -2.8868
     Arizona St         72.8275   4.4562
     Southern Miss      72.2169   6.6406
     C Florida          72.1915   2.6815
     Iowa St            72.1009  -0.4374
     Minnesota          71.9196   2.1827
     Baylor             71.5630   0.1814
     Vanderbilt         71.3500  -5.0571
     Michigan           71.3220   1.6055
     Purdue             71.2504   5.8974
     NC State           71.1520   0.8735
     Washington         70.6693  10.9096
     Texas A&M          70.2082  15.5825
     Bowling Green      70.0711  -5.3983
     Tulsa              69.6826   0.6673
     SMU                69.5282  -0.7072
     Kansas St          69.2575  12.1545
     Nevada             68.9375  11.8916
     Illinois           68.3496   6.7905
     Temple             68.2633   6.3265
     Colorado           68.0843   6.8779
     Middle Tenn St     68.0569   5.4165
     N Illinois         67.2196   8.3996
     Buffalo            66.5281  -1.6268
     Maryland           65.5907   4.8035
     Louisville         65.4948   1.1492
     Ohio               65.2814   4.2105
     Louisiana Tech     65.2601  15.2953
     Troy St            65.0637  14.2355
     Wyoming            64.0619  -0.9794
     Syracuse           63.8282   5.9560
     Marshall           63.6388   9.5536
     UAB                63.2644   8.0701
     Colorado St        62.6371   4.7577
     Indiana            62.2507   7.1546
     UNLV               62.1967   4.3610
     Hawaii             61.9708   1.1503
     Utah St            61.7786   4.6483
     Ball St            61.6231  -5.0018
     Idaho              61.1913   4.6777
     UL Monroe          60.4943  -1.8940
     San Diego St       59.7236   4.8044
     Kent               59.6373   1.7098
     Army               59.5220   0.6390
     Memphis            59.4368  -0.0988
     W Michigan         58.9230   6.5107
     Florida Atl        58.1693   4.1337
     Toledo             56.7907   4.0145
     Akron              56.3350  -2.3667
     New Mexico         56.0456   2.9719
     Texas-El Paso      56.0000  12.8972
     Arkansas St        55.9650   6.5909
     Florida Intl       55.0505   1.7683
     Rice               54.3342  -1.8130
     UL Lafayette       53.9307   3.5191
     North Texas        52.3385   1.4926
     Miami Oh           52.2914   1.2887
     Washington St      51.2667   2.4160
     San Jose St        50.6511   2.5534
     Tulane             49.7087  -0.1260
     New Mexico St      48.8626  -4.3772
     W Kentucky         47.9352  -0.6983
     E Michigan         47.9247  -1.9028



Ratings include all games through 1/8/2010.



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Note: These ratings are the result of a Dynamic Hierarchical Bayesian Linear Forecaster. The author has a Ph.D. in Statistics from Texas A&M. He specializes in Bayesian Forecasting. The forecasting method has been presented at four technical conferences, the 1997 and 1998 Conferences of Texas Statisticians, as an invited presentation at the 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings , and at a 2003 Houston INFORMS meeting. The powerpoint slides from the INFORMS talk are available here.

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