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Miami joins powers Duke and Kentucky as the only schools with more than two Top 100 players in the early Value Add rankings, which appear here first and then will be updated on the www.valueaddbasketball.com list of all 4,000 players.

AUBURN – The SEC dominance that started with Florida’s destruction of Ohio State seven years ago ended today, as the ACC and Pac-12 capped off great seasons that put them ahead of the SEC in the final conference standings. Yes,

The following is an alphabetical list of all 351 college teams with their conference, current rating at www.kenpom.com, and then a grade of 0-10 on if they have lived up to their expectations so far.  Most teams are doing about

Harvard boosts the Ivy League, while Wichita State (Missouri Valley) and Gonzaga (West Coast) are near the top of the basketball world as we rank those conferences against the traditionally powerful Pac-12 and SEC in the countdown of the best

The college basketball season started Friday with 150 Division 1 games. The following are the Value Add Projections for the top 500 players this season. The top few players were revealed by Fox Sports on August 25, but there have

Kansas is within a point of Kentucky, but they will lose some conference games with three other top 12 teams and seven that seem like NCAA teams. Here are the team rankings and top-20 players based on www.valueaddbasketball.com: Rankings of

Though Delon Wright rates as our top player, his Utah team does not compare to Arizona, which has an unreal five of the top 82 players in the country. Here are the team rankings and top-20 players based on www.valueaddbasketball.com.

Auburn is projected to improve from 138th to 56th in the wake of Bruce Pearl’s arrival on campus and signing of players who can play now. Kentucky nudges out Kansas for No. 1 in the country, but will again be

SMU’s Markus Kennedy projects as the top player in the conference, but a recent report of him being lost for the Fall due to academic issues gives UConn and Memphis a chance for a headstart. The team rankings and top

Despite being the first to spot Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky as an All-American and touting the Big Ten as the top conference last year, we do have the Badgers a little lower at 10th and in a tough battle with eight

The Atlantic 10 attempts to establish itself among the traditional Power Conferences, but will need a couple of other teams to step up besides an incredible looking VCU. Briante Weber ranks as the best defender in the country. The team

If these projections all played out, the ACC would go 7-0 in the opening round of March Madness, and then have five Sweet 16 teams, and half of the Elite 8 and Final Four. NBC Sports guru Rob Dauster asks

After three straight Sweet 16s, Marquette collapsed and the conference did not have a single Sweet 16 team last season. Longtime Duke assistant Steve Wojciechowski already has a top-five recruit in a quest to bring MU back, but Villanova or

Gonzaga and Wichita State are loaded, and lead six teams that are good enough for at-large bids even though they are not in one of the top eight conferences. Georgia State is the potential huge surprise. Here are the top

College football took its first shot at selecting teams for a playoff Tuesday, and I believe they should follow a couple of key guidelines from the March Madness selection criteria. Pick teams that have proven they can beat good teams

ESPN’s Rod Gilmore played at Stanford and earned a law degree at Cal–and he is the one guy the selection committee should completely ignore when they announce their first college playoff seeds Tuesday. Gilmore seems to be one of those

The Pythagorean Ratings do not give Notre Dame high marks for barely surviving a UNC upset, plunging the Irish to a 17-point (39-22) underdog against Florida State Saturday in the marque game on the schedule below. Others excuse the Irish

The South has superior football for three reasons–obesity, poverty, and pride–Colin Cowherd told his national ESPN Radio audience on Wednesday. He referred to a piece this week in the Huffington Post, “How can two tiny states dominate in college football?,”

Florida State’s huge lead in the Pythagorean Ratings has shrunk to a fraction of a point against Mississippi and Mississippi State.  But the Seminoles held onto No. 1 in these rankings. Below each team is listed in order from 1st

After the release of last week’s Pythagorean Ratings critics jumped on how Michigan could be ranked so high (#71) and Penn State could be ranked so low (#79). Luckily the two teams that were the focus on the criticism happened

The school Jerry Falwell built gave the FCS another win over the FBS. Breitbart Sports projected Liberty would be in the Top 100 if they played in the FBS in our review of smaller programs. The ACC bounced back into

After one of the craziest week of upsets in college football history, the following are the updated ratings of each team, their conference, and the ranking of the team they beat and by what score this week. Florida State would

While most attention turned to conference play, big developments occurred in interconference play. Indiana propelled the Big Ten past the ACC and into a tie for the third-rated conference with the Pac-12, and Utah State stunned BYU to lead the

Upsets by Arizona, TCU, Mississippi, Utah State, and Mississippi State put the exclamation point on the craziest few days in recent college football history.  Breitbart Sports’ simplified scoreboard lists all 128 teams alphabetically. There is a row for each team.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 have now caught the ACC in a virtual tie for third best conference, while the Mountain West almost caught Conference USA and the American Athletic for the best non-Power 5 Conference. The following table updates

Yale scored the first Ivy League win over an FBS/D1 school in 28 years, while Akron (MAC) and Colorado State (MWC) both delivered huge upsets over ACC teams. The following are the results for every FBS team listed by conference.

A Canadian school founded in 1663, a Division II school, and a California Community College join seven FCS schools who we project would win about half their games against FBS teams. 10. College of San Mateo: Juniors good enough to

The ranks of Historically Black Colleges, Junior Colleges, Canadian Football, and lower NCAA divisions field a number of football teams that would likely win some games if they were able to play FBS schools. A list of the top-200 non-FBS

Cincinnati visits Ohio State at 6 p.m. in the last big conference clash–the start times and projections listed below for the 106 FBS teams in action this week show the attention turning to conference play as the conference pecking order

Florida State vs. Oregon and a rematch of last year’s Sugar Bowl would be the first semifinal playoff games in college football history if the Pythagorean Ratings stayed the same and were followed. It is highly likely that play within

The Big Ten is still ranked 5th, but is back within a field goal of 3rd after an incredible 12-1 mark Saturday that included upsets of teams from the SEC and ACC. The SEC kept a slim lead over the

Below are the final scoring margins vs. the projected margins for each FBS team. A separate post totals these by conference to update the conference ratings. East Carolina’s 70-41 win over North Carolina puts them in the driver’s seat to

Things could not have gotten any worse for the Big Ten. The conference’s teams were projected to barely break .500 with a 7-6 record on Saturday. Instead, the conference erupted with one upset after another to shoot out to a

Oklahoma hopes to replace Alabama as center of the football universe. Oklahoma moved up two spots past Alabama and into No. 2 in this week’s Pythagorean Ratings, and could easily move into No. 1 if they defeat a West Virginia

The Big Ten has one last day to impress, the Big 12 just missed when K-State blew what should have been a win over the SEC but Oklahoma still passed Alabama for second, and BYU gets a surprise chance to

Two years ago the Washington Nationals put together a 98-win playoff team on only $81 million in salaries, the 11th best deal since 1998 based on calculations detailed in a separate post. They paid more this year, and will not