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Predicting the Polls Week 9: AP and Coaches’ Poll

October 30, 2011
by harvardsports
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By John Ezekowitz and Chris Bruce Last week, we introduced our methodology for predicting the college football AP Poll before it came out. This week, we continue our prediction series and add the Coaches’ Poll, which is...

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Predicting the College Football Polls

October 23, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Chris Bruce and John Ezekowitz The poll ranking system in college football is essentially a popularity contest – sportswriters and coaches vote by ranking the teams, and the results are compiled into the AP and Coaches Poll...

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The Big Men on Campus – Keeping Top Football Recruits in State

February 4, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Nick Jaroszewicz The spectacle of signing day has made college football fans around America cognizant of the quality of their football teams recruiting classes. A good class can rejuvenate a down trodden fan base and a...

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The 2010 College Football Attendance Rankings

January 18, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Alex Koenig Earlier in the week I looked at trends in college football attendance, assessing the effect of a variety of factors on fan attendance from 2008 to 2010. Trends may be more telling than individual cases, but in...

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What Factors Contribute to Attendance in College Football?

January 17, 2011
by harvardsports
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By Alex Koenig A while back, John Ezekowitz and I tackled the question of attendance in the NBA and whether or not there are “must-see” road teams. Not surprisingly, our study showed that the opponent’s winning % was the...

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Does Coach Age Predict Performance? (Yes, but be careful.)

December 28, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher I’m introducing the Speed Limit Coaching Corollary. If the coach of your favorite team is older than 55, or if your team is about to hire someone who’s older than 55, there’s a good chance you...

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No Less Worth Despite Their Girth: A Study of Overweight Coaches

December 21, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher If you missed Saturday’s post on RAP, a new college coaching stat, you should read it here. When Kansas’ Mark Mangino and Notre Dame’s Charlie Weis departed at the end of the regular season, many...

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Should Pitt Have Pulled a Westbrook? Does Brian Kelly Play Madden?

December 5, 2009
by harvardsports
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By Daniel Adler This article also appears on Huffington Post. Today’s de facto Big East Championship between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati provides us here at HSAC another chance to analyze some interesting late game coaching...

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Yet Another Article on a Controversial 4th Down Call from a New England Team…Yale

November 22, 2009
by harvardsports
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By David Roher Harvard and Yale played their 126th football game (known around these parts simply as “The Game”) yesterday. We elected not to do a preview on the blog because the outcome was obviously a near...

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