# Sagarin's early College Football numbers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 24, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374 "2014-08-24T15:09:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374/1 "2014-08-24T15:09:48Z")

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Anybody want to take a crack at explaining [http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm](http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm) ?

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**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374/2 "2014-08-24T19:50:34Z")

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Even Sagarin admits that the ratings aren’t particularly accurate until the schedules are all connected (i.e. you can choose any two Division I teams, and connect a chain of opponents of games already played from one team to the other), which won’t happen until 9/21.

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**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374/3 "2014-08-25T16:52:05Z")

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No matter what the rankings, it seems that LSU & Wisconsin (who play on Saturday night) are always ranked adjacently.

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2014, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sagarins-early-college-football-numbers/696374/4 "2014-08-25T17:15:09Z")

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> [@fiddlesticks](#):
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> No matter what the rankings, it seems that LSU & Wisconsin (who play on Saturday night) are always ranked adjacently.

I’ve noticed that! Wonder if the game will be close or a runaway to show how silly the preseason rankings really are… 😃

One thing’s for sure: I WILL be watching that game.