If you haven’t read my previous post on picking bowl game winners with elote, this may not make a whole lot of sense, but basically I wrote a rating system, trained it on the college football season thus far, and used it to predict winners for every bowl game. In this post, I’m tracking how it did.
I’ll update this as the games happen, currently we’re at 6/15 wins, not great.
All matchups are in the format: “team I picked to win – team I picked to lose”
Matchup | Win / Loss |
West Virginia – Utah | |
N Illinois – Duke | |
UCLA – Kansas State | |
Florida State – Southern Miss | |
BC – Iowa | |
Purdue – Arizona | |
Missou – Texas | |
Navy – Virginia | |
Oklahoma St. – VT | |
TCU – Stanford | |
Michigan St. – Washington St. | |
Texas A&M – Wake Forest | |
Arizona St. – NC State | |
Northwestern – Kentucky | |
New Mexico State – Utah State | |
Ohio State – USC | |
Miss St. – Louisville | |
Memphis – Iowa St. | |
Penn St. – Washington | |
Miami – Wisconsin | |
USCe – Michigan | |
Auburn – UCF | |
LSU – Notre Dame | |
Oklahoma – UGA | |
Clemson – Alabama | |
N. Texas – Troy | WRONG |
Georgia State – WKU | RIGHT |
Oregon – Boise St. | WRONG |
Colorado St. – Marshall | WRONG |
Arkansas St. – MTSU | WRONG |
Grambling – NC A&T | WRONG |
Reinhardt – St. Francis IN | WRONG |
FL Atlantic – Akron | RIGHT |
SMU – Louisiana Tech | WRONG |
Florida International – Temple | WRONG |
Ohio – UAB | RIGHT |
Wyoming – C. Michigan | RIGHT |
S. Florida – Texas Tech | RIGHT |
Army – SDSU | RIGHT |
Toledo – App State | WRONG |
Houston – Fresno State |