Mentzer College Football Rankings in Review
How did the Mentzer Rankings do in the 32 Bowl Games?
Using the Regular season ending rankings found here, if the higher ranked team won, then that is one in the win column.
Overall 23 - 9 - Not too bad for a 72%
There were 16 bowl games that involved at least 1 team in the Mentzer Top 25. Of those games the rankings were 11 - 5 for a 69%
There were 9 bowl games that involved 2 teams in the Mentzer top 25. Of those games the rankings were 5 - 4 for a 56%.
Penn State was one of the losses for the rankings in all 3 categories as they bull-rushed through Tennessee and Ohio State, Michigan, and Notre Dame did not live up to their billing within the rankings accumulating the other 3 losses for the 9 game subset. The other loss in the 16 game subset was Virginia Tech getting beat by Georgia.
I hope you enjoyed the rankings, and if time allows, I'll post them again next year.
Be sure to review the final rankings with the 2007 NCAA National Champion of the Mentzer Rankings being the Boise State Broncos.
Interesting to see Penn State drop from 16 to 17 after a victory.
ReplyDeleteThe strength of Penn States ranking at 16 was based on a 0 loss Ohio State, a 1 loss Michigan, a 1 loss Wisconsin, and a 2 loss Notre Dame. 3 of those 4 teams lost their bowl games which weakened Penn States position. The win that Penn State got strengthened it, which is why they ended at 17.
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