Top Defense's in holding foes in ypg below their season average.
1. MIchigan 217.5
2 Clemson 175.9
3 Iowa St ! 148.3
4 Alabama 144.9
5 Iowa 144.2
6 Miami Fla 141.3
7 Miss St 127.6
8 Kentucky 124.3
9 Fresno St 113.6
10 Army 112.4
11 Washington 110.8
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2021 CFB Strength of Wins.
You get credit for every FBS win of opponent you defeat.
1. Georgia 38
2 Notre Dame 32
3 Wisconsin 30
4 Oregon & Michigan 28
6 Texas A&M, BYU and Boise 27
9 Alabama & Okla St 26
11 Ohio St & Cincinnati 25
5 tied at 13
One last shot. I have produced an FCS magazine four times and each time was shocked by the low number sold. This year I will give it one last shot. We will produce a Phil Steele 2018 FCS magazine and it will be 200+ pages and available on line. Are there any fans out there?
Strength of wins. You get credit for every FBS win of opponents you defeat.
1. Ohio St 62
2 Georgia 51
3 LSU 49
4 Wisconsin 46
5 Penn St 45
6 Michigan, Notre Dame 44
8 Boise St 43
9 Clemson, Cincinnati 41
10 Utah, Oklahoma, Baylor 40
13 USC, Iowa 38
Teams with Most Improved records in 2017
Fresno State 1-11 to 10-4
UCF 6-7 to 13-0
Florida Atlantic 3-9 to 11-3
Michigan St 3-9 to 10-3
Notre Dame 4-8 to 10-3
Iowa St 3-9 to 8-5
Georgia 8-5 to 13-1
TCU 6-7 tp 11-3
Marshall 3-9 to 8-5
Buffalo 2-10 to 6-6
Georgia St 3-9 to 7-5
Who has faced the toughest schedules so far?
1 Notre Dame
2 Colorado
3 Arkansas
4 Mich St
5 Texas
6 Texas A&M
7 Oklahoma
8 Maryland
9 BYU
10 Auburn
11 Oregon St
12 Louisville
13 Geor Tech
14 Ohio St
15 Texas Tech
16 Oregon
17 Indiana
Complete list on Phil Steele Plus
The 2023 Magazine is done! We even added portal additions today so it is up to date. Our man Todd is giving the pages one final look and sending them off to the printer. 6.5 months of work poured into it and now it is time for a beer! Thanks to the Staff for all their effort!!!
Strength of wins. For every team you defeat you get credit for each of than teams wins over an FBS foe.
1. Ohio St 20
2. Wisconsin 17
3. Auburn 15
4. LSU, Alabama, Penn St, Boise, Oregon 12
9 Clemson, Florida, Wash, Ariz St, Notre Dame 11
14 Michigan, SMU, Minny, Lville 10
I am optimistic that we will have a college football season this year! I have five more head coach interviews today, going over each of their teams 2020 depth charts as I continue to work on the 2020 College Football Preview.
It is official. Todd just sent the last page to the press and printing starts first thing in the morning. Our six months of working on the magazine is complete!!!
Miami Florida just lost to Pitt but it will not affect their chances of making the playoffs. If Miami beats Clemson next week, a one loss ACC champ Miami will get into the playoffs.
TCU has the Big 12's best defense and is holding conference foes to 140 yards per game below what they are averaging. How about this stat?
TCU has not allowed a single point in the 2nd half of the last FIVE GAMES.
FBS leaders in Offensive Yards Per Play
1. Memphis 8.7
2. Oklahoma 8.4
3. West Virginia 8.2
4. Ole Miss 8.0
5. Alabama 7.9
6. Georgia 7.6
7. Hawaii 7.6
8 Ohio State 7.6
9. Houston 7.5
10. Boise St, Clemson 7.4
12. Penn St, App St, Miss St, UCF 7.3
My average Game Grades only look at this years performance. Off & Def Yards, Points and strength of opponents
1. Ohio St 125.6
2. Oklahoma 117.84
3. Alabama 117.8
4. Wisconsin 116.4
5. Auburn 111.1
6. Clemson 110.3
7. Oregon 110.2
8. Georgia 109.7
9. LSU 109.4
10. Penn St 108.9
Here are the top offenses in gaining more yards than what their opponents allow in all other games.
1. Oklahoma +191.2
2. Alabama +162.5
3. Ole Miss +151.1
4. Ohio State +145.7
5. Clemson +124.5
6. UCF +115.2
7. Houston +115
8. Missouri +109.3
2021 CFB Strength of Wins thru Week 12.
You get credit for every FBS win of opponent you defeat.
1 Georgia 52
2 Notre Dame 47
3 Ohio St 45
4 Michigan, Okla St 44
6 Cincinnati, Wisconsin, Baylor 40
9 Alabama, Oregon 39
11 App St, Boise St 38
For those that are amazed at the the job that Bryce Love is doing tonight playing on basically 1 leg, he has been doing this the last FIVE games. Heart of a Lion.
Strength of Wins. You get credit for every FBS win of opponents you have defeated.
1. Notre Dame 66
2. Clemson 63
3. Alabama 59
4. Georgia 58
5. Ohio State 57
6. Michigan 55
7. Oklahoma 54
8. Boise St 52
9. UCF 48
10 Texas 46
11. Washington/Penn St 43
Strength of Wins. If you defeat an FBS team you get credit for every win that team has over an FBS team. Here are this season leaders
1 Alabama & Wisconsin 59
3 Georgia & Notre Dame 56
5 Clemson 55
6 USC 54
7 Miami 53
8 Penn St 51
9 Oklahoma 50
Just watched the Ole Miss "Spring Game". Got very little out of it. Dunk contest, Tug of war, Hot dog eating contest, obstacle course, no pads during 7 on 7 flag football game, 50 yard field. Not worth watching, don't waste your time.
Top Defenses holding foes to yards per game below their season average.
1 Ohio St 138.8
2 Penn St 133.8
3 Utah 131.0
4 Air Force 127.2
5 Alabama 119.0
6 Texas A&M 118.7
7 UCLA 118.1
8 Troy 114.2
9 Michigan 113.9
10 Georgia 111.3
11 Arizona St 106.8
12 Clemson 105.5
13 Notre Dame…
With the magazine done I am taking my first day off since Christmas and what better place than Cedar Point
@cedarpoint
with my daughter for the day?
Almost done. Todd is sending the pages to the printer and we have all 352 pages proofed and ready to go!!! EIGHT MONTHS were put into this years magazine!! A big thanks to everyone who put in so many long hours!
Strength of Wins/ Pain of Losses. You get credit for every FBS win of opp you beat and every loss of opp you lose to.
1 Michigan 37-0
2 Notre Dame 33-0
3 Clemson 32-0
4 Alabama 31-0
5 UCF 21-0
6. Georgia 31-2
7 LSU 30-3 Oklahoma 30-3
9 Buffalo 20-2
Finally getting started on ranking defensive lines for each conference and then nationally. Top 3 offensive lines in alphabetical order.
Clemson, Georgia, Oregon
Magazine update: We normally send the last page to the press June 1. This year that will most likely be early July and should start shipping out of office late July.
Seven more head coach interviews today as I get my pages in order.
The top offenses in yards per play
1. Oklahoma 8.69
2 Alabama 8.3
3 Memphis 7.67
4 Ole Miss 7.67
5 Houston 7.39
6 Clemson 7.24
7 Georgia 7.13
8 Purdue 7.07
9 West Virginia 7.05
10 Ohio U 6.98
11 UCF 6.92
12 USF 6.9
13 App St 6.89
Bowl standings up to date with Fiesta Bowl included
Big Ten 6-0
Sun Belt 4-1
Big 12 5-2
Independents 1-0
ACC 4-4
MWC 3-3
American 3-3
CUSA 4-5
SEC 1-3
MAC 1-4
Pac 12 1-8 (WOW!)
Oregon and Utah both figure to be at least a TD favorite in each of the last 3 games possibly setting up an 11-1 Utah vs an 11-1 Oregon for the Pac 12 title game with the winner having a decent chance of making the playoff.
Strength of Wins -
You get credit for every FBS win of a foe you defeat.
1 Ohio St 33
2 LSU & Penn St 27
4 Clemson 23
5 Michigan 21
6 SMU, Oregon, Wisconsin, Auburn 20
10 Minnesota, Cincy 19
12 Alabama Boise St, USC 18
15 Utah, Florida, Louisville 17
This is BYU's 5th home game this year and
FIRST one vs a foe that is not ranked
Utah was
#14
USC was
#24
Washington was
#22
Boise St was
#14
Liberty is not ranked
2020 CFB Strength of Wins.
You get credit for every FBS win of an opponent that you defeat
1. BYU 10
2. Clemson, Alabama, Virginia Tech 8
5. Miami Fla, North Carolina 7
7. SMU, Georgia, Louisiana 6
10 UAB, NCSt Coastal Carolina 5