A Penalized Maximum Likelihood Approach for the Ranking of College Football Teams Independent of Victory Margins
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We introduce a penalized maximum likelihood approach for ranking all NCAA Division 1-A college football teams. The model does not consider margin of victory and is based solely on win/loss data. Despite the simplicity, the model leads to rankings which exhibit greater agreement with expert opinion (i.e. AP and Coaches polls) than the models historically and currently used by the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The model can be implemented using standard statistical software packages.
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