Most of you have been buying Phil Steele’s College Football Preview for years and you know just how much that magazine has improved throughout the years. Thanks to your input I continue to make improvements and add information that you cannot obtain from any other magazine. I am extremely excited about the 3rd edition of Phil Steele’s NFL Magazine as I continue to make it better and I hope that it will rival my College Preview Magazine as being “the one the experts cannot do without”.
One of the new features I added to the 2010 CFB Preview was the team’s grade for each individual game. The grade represents not only how much the team won by or how much they outgained an opponent by but it’s also compared to what my computer forecasted. For example, TCU in week 2 last year played against Tennessee Tech. They won 62-7 and outgained them 452-150. That game grade was only 85.0 because the Horned Frogs were expected to win easily and in fact the game was rated as their second worst performance of the season! TCU, however did have the #2 best game grade of the entire NCAA last year with their dominating 47-7 win over an undefeated #6 Utah team on the road as they outgained the Utes by a 558-199 mark. Stanford’s win against Washington was #1 as the Cardinal knocked off the Huskies on the road in dominating fashion. While other teams won & outgained opponents by more (see Oregon vs New Mexico), when you add in the strength of opponent and where the game was played you get the true Phil Steele Game Grade. Read more…
Here are some of the top individual performances from this past bowl season. Tomorrow I will break down the top team performances.
| Rushing Leaders (Top 10) |
| Player, School |
Att |
Yds |
YPC |
Long |
TD |
| Ronnie Hillman, San Diego St |
28 |
228 |
8.1 |
37 |
3 |
| Marcus Coker, Iowa |
33 |
219 |
6.6 |
62 |
2 |
| Da’Rel Scott, Maryland |
13 |
200 |
15.4 |
91 |
2 |
| Delone Carter, Syracuse |
27 |
198 |
7.3 |
60 |
2 |
| Adonis Thomas, Toledo |
24 |
193 |
8 |
87 |
2 |
| Mikel LeShoure, Illinois |
29 |
184 |
6.3 |
24 |
3 |
| Chris Polk, Washington |
34 |
177 |
5.2 |
24 |
1 |
| Shaun Draughn, North Carolina |
23 |
160 |
7 |
58 |
1 |
| Doug Martin, Boise St |
17 |
147 |
8.6 |
84 |
1 |
| Chris Thompson, Florida St |
25 |
147 |
5.9 |
27 |
1 |
Read more…
The Daily blog will be undergoing some changes in the coming months now that the college football season is complete. Starting this week I will be going to a Monday, Wednesday and weekend blog format until magazine season is over in late spring/early summer. Today’s blog will start analyzing this years bowl games giving you the top players and performances from the past bowl season. In the next blog on Wednesday I will give you who has the longest winning/losing streaks overall, home and away in college football. This Saturday and Sunday I will give you my forecasts for the NFL divisional games played that day including my computer’s projected box score of the games. Next week will feature my projection of what the Preseason AP top 10 will be for 2010 and that will be coming after January 15th when juniors have to declare or not declare for the NFL Draft.
Here are some of the top individual performances from the past bowl season. Read more…
After 2008 was complete I devised a power ratings system which lets me analyze at what level each team played during a game. I talked about this new power ratings system in my blog onJune 19 . Today I will look at the Top 15 performances of the 2008 season picked out by my computer. Going over the top 20 it seems like a very legitimate list. Keep in mind this takes into account the yards rushing, yards passing, points scored, rushing yards allowed, passing yards allowed and points allowed and factors them in against the opponent played and even factors in the site the game was played at. In my earlier blog I noted that a Top 10 performance was 97.08 and that to be a top team performance it had to be one of the top 126 games. Read more…
