So Mike Vernon, notable KU fan / scooper and KState troll, published a book "The Complete History of Every Kansas State National Championship". Since KSU does not have any national titles in any sport, it's a hundred blank pages.

It's currently no. 5 for new releases for sports books, no. 6 for best sellers for football books, and no. 2 for best seller for bball books.

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Backup long snapper this season.

Made the SEC All-Freshman team last year when he stepped in after our starting long snapper got injured.

For full BCS data and breakdown, see this post

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CFP Rankings

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CFP Rankings

https://x.com/petethamel/status/1864097103825322141?s=46

After having had a couple of days to let the dust settle on the upset in Columbus and dive a little deeper into the game itself, I've come to this conclusion: I believe Ryan Day's gameplan was designed, in his mind, to demonstrate that Ohio State was the more "physical" team rather than the better team.

It seems obvious to me, and I'm sure others, that Ohio State focused far too heavily on inside runs rather than getting to the edge or going over the top on pass plays. Despite having injuries to key players on the offensive line, the Buckeyes continued to make running between the tackles the focal point of anything they did.

Some might say that the passing game was limited due to that unstable line and perhaps a lack of trust in Will Howard's ability to push the ball downfield. But if that was the case, why not build a gameplan around getting your backs in space on the edges, jetsweeps to get the ball into your receivers' hands, or a more intentional short/intermediary passing game that's designed to get the ball out quickly before the defensive line can pressure the QB?

Just seems like a stubbornness to prove that Ohio State was a tough team rather than the better team cost them the win.

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Totaled 14 tackles and 5 sacks this season

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I created my own metric to try and estimate strength of record for each team without using FPI and I wrote up a script to calculate it for me. This rabbit hole stole a couple hours of my evening, so I figured I might as well share it.

Methodology

• Do a simple calculation for each team to evaluate their wins and losses. Each win is worth a base 1 point plus +1 for FBS, +1 for P4 (or Notre Dame), +1 for ranked, +1 for top 10. Each loss is worth a base -1 point plus -1 for FCS, -1 for not P4 (or Notre Dame), -1 for unranked. So beating a ranked P4 team is worth +4 and losing to an ranked P4 team is worth -2.
• Linearly shift the calculated values to fit between 0 and 100 to determine the "Score". So the bottom team should have a "Score" of 0 and the top team should be 100.
• Take the "Score" of the opponents each team beat (FCS opponents count as 0) and add them up to determine "Win Score". So beating the top team adds 100 points to your "Win Score" while beating the bottom team (or an FCS team) adds 0.
• Take 100 minus the "Score" of the opponents each team lost to (FCS opponents count as 100) and add them up to determine a "Loss Score". So losing to the top team adds 0 points to your "Loss Score" while losing to the bottom team (or an FCS team) adds 100.
• Subtract the "Loss Score" from the "Win Score" to get each team's "Net Score".

The "Net Score" figure should serve as a rough estimate for how good a team's record is relative to other teams. For now I'm using the latest AP Poll for the rankings. If there's any interest, I can easily re-run this using the CFP rankings once they are released.

Key Flaws

• The initial "Score" calculation rewards extra for wins against P4 teams (and Notre Dame) and penalizes extra for losses to others. However, there are many examples of G6 teams being better than P4 teams. And since P4 teams naturally play more games against P4 teams, the "Score" for P4 teams is inflated across the board. Thus, this is a very poor metric for comparing between P4 and G6 teams.
• The "Win Score" and "Loss Score" calculations consider all FCS teams as equivalent to the worst FBS team. There are many examples where an FCS team is better than an FBS team, and there are probably some FCS teams well below even the worst FBS team.
• The initial "Score" calculation is dependent on subjective rankings, with arbitrary cutoffs at 25 and 10.
• As with all sports metrics, we can only reasonably judge teams by the games they play. Schedules can very wildly from team to team. The performance of a team can also very wildly from game to game. All we can do is make estimates with the limited data available.

Results

1. Oregon (622)
2. Texas (582)
3. Notre Dame (552)
4. Ohio State (533)
5. SMU (521)
6. Penn State (512)
7. Georgia (476)
8. Indiana (439)
9. Iowa State (431)
10. Alabama (416)
11. BYU (410)
12. Miami (406)
13. Arizona State (401)
14. Boise State (397)
15. South Carolina (379)
16. Syracuse (379)
17. Tennessee (360)
18. Illinois (340)
19. Louisville (318)
20. Ole Miss (316)
21. Missouri (315)
22. Clemson (312)
23. Colorado (304)
24. Michigan (304)
25. LSU (297)

Interestingly, this metric would likely put Iowa State and BYU comfortably in the CFP. As an Iowa State fan, this fits my narrative so I declare this metric to be perfect and infallible. Pay no attention to the "flaws" section.

Like I pointed out in the flaws, this metric is very preferential towards P4 teams which explains why UNLV, Army, and Memphis were dropped for Michigan and LSU. It also explains why Boise State dropped 4 spots.

No P4 teams were dropped when compared to the AP Poll. The SEC, B1G, and ACC each got an extra team in.

Biggest differences from the AP Poll:

• 9 Iowa State (+7)
• 11 BYU (+6)
• 16 Syracuse (+7)
• 17 Tennessee (-11)
• 19 Louisville (not ranked)
• 20 Ole Miss (-5)

Average difference in rank by conference:

• SEC: -2.4
• B1G: +1.2
• ACC: +3.0 (counting Louisville as +7)
• Big XII: +2.3

Average "Net Score" by conference:

• SEC: 219
• B1G: 172
• ACC: 142
• Big XII: 140

Here's a link to the script and its output for anyone interested:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DCZCgBMsnX7bSPN0dOn-_FTmP3g2213U?usp=sharing

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Follow along with the selection show here.

Once the full results come out, two threads will be posted: a thread with the results, and a serious discussion thread where jokes, memes, and off-topic comments will be removed.

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