The Dr. Edward Kambour NCAA Football Ratings

2011 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           106.2180 -0.1849
     LSU               103.3526  1.7812
     Stanford           98.2722  0.1152
     Oregon             97.5971  1.1940
     Boise St           96.5305 -0.7770
     Oklahoma St        95.7296  1.7739
     Oklahoma           91.4339  4.0135
     USC                90.1470  0.0795
     Wisconsin          89.3476  7.3569
     Florida St         87.1162  1.4157
     Arkansas           86.9581  5.4107
     South Carolina     85.6669  5.9595
     Houston            85.3139  3.0858
     Michigan           84.8369  5.7692
     TCU                84.7556  3.3434
     Florida            83.6075  1.6818
     Missouri           83.1907  2.5207
     Notre Dame         83.0894  2.4530
     Michigan St        82.4568  7.1914
     Georgia            82.2599  6.5107
     Texas A&M          82.2255  5.8654
     Nebraska           81.6934  1.6659
     Texas              81.5329  2.9879
     Virginia Tech      80.8825  0.9080
     Arizona St         80.6706  6.2188
     Utah               80.2304 -0.2394
     Miami Fl           79.9426  1.7477
     Kansas St          79.7409  2.7368
     West Virginia      79.4409  3.7485
     Mississippi St     78.5916  4.4427
     Clemson            77.5849  5.0352
     Ohio St            77.5806  3.4157
     Vanderbilt         77.2131  1.7941
     Cincinnati         77.0019  3.1729
     Southern Miss      76.7757  3.0779
     Iowa               76.6955  4.8962
     California         75.7564  7.0187
     Penn St            75.5830  2.1906
     Auburn             75.4819  4.0044
     Tulsa              75.1671  0.9164
     Temple             75.0078  0.5009
     BYU                74.9813  0.4066
     Arizona            74.8298  3.7692
     North Carolina     74.4455  3.0816
     Louisiana Tech     74.3792  3.4827
     Rutgers            73.9864  2.2972
     Washington         73.8160  4.6821
     Georgia Tech       73.7320  2.1389
     South Florida      73.6548  2.4997
     Baylor             73.6105  6.7983
     Toledo             73.4964  0.9895
     Pittsburgh         72.9577  3.6045
     Louisville         72.6762  0.5489
     Tennessee          72.5274  4.4679
     Air Force          71.9278 -0.6603
     Northwestern       71.7968  1.7246
     Navy               71.7302 -1.3239
     Oregon St          71.6528  4.2301
     San Diego St       71.4556  4.1060
     Nevada             71.3456  6.6660
     NC State           70.9835  5.8703
     Texas Tech         70.7695 -1.0965
     Illinois           70.2474  4.0210
     Boston College     69.3849  1.3040
     UCLA               68.8667  5.5116
     Virginia           68.5880 -0.9294
     N Illinois         68.4134  6.3761
     Kentucky           68.2774  2.4989
     Iowa St            68.2216  3.7167
     C Florida          68.1605  5.8141
     Wake Forest        67.8176  3.4626
     SMU                67.6837  2.8350
     Connecticut        67.4923  4.2612
     W Michigan         66.8491  4.4278
     Washington St      66.4564  3.7721
     Syracuse           66.2226  3.6492
     Fresno St          64.9438 -0.2179
     Purdue             64.8871  2.9452
     UL Lafayette       64.8688  0.1519
     Minnesota          64.4848  2.6184
     Duke               64.3161  1.8063
     Ohio               64.1430  4.9491
     Hawaii             63.9176  3.0306
     East Carolina      63.7741  3.7465
     Florida Intl       63.6904  3.8616
     Arkansas St        62.7528  8.0962
     Maryland           62.5742  3.8572
     Utah St            62.4945  3.4828
     Mississippi        62.3774  2.8099
     W Kentucky         62.2467  1.9859
     Colorado           61.9892  8.5346
     Miami Oh           61.4928  2.6848
     Wyoming            61.4113  4.7350
     UL Monroe          60.6858  3.3183
     Texas-El Paso      60.3875  4.9353
     San Jose St        59.5553  2.4089
     Army               59.5435  6.8668
     Bowling Green      58.8918 -0.0830
     Rice               57.9504  3.8173
     Marshall           57.3641  7.1546
     Indiana            56.8157  4.4998
     Kent               56.3743  3.5520
     North Texas        55.6962  6.4932
     Kansas             55.6416  3.6037
     Ball St            55.6301 -1.2967
     Troy St            55.5356  0.6312
     C Michigan         54.1450  1.7818
     E Michigan         53.8956  2.2007
     Colorado St        52.6687  4.0977
     Idaho              51.7263  1.5820
     New Mexico St      50.7476  3.3253
     Tulane             50.5409 -1.9175
     Middle Tenn St     49.9612  1.9659
     UAB                49.6614  2.7388
     Buffalo            49.6490  5.1494
     UNLV               46.8398 11.4448
     Florida Atl        46.0702  0.0946
     Memphis            42.6063  1.7320
     New Mexico         41.0051  3.0764
     Akron              39.7275  2.5988



Ratings include games of 1/9/12.



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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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