1998 Bowl Games Results for College Football

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 82%   6 Tulane                  41 41.2,    48 Brigham Young           27 26.4
 74%  14 Penn State              26 40.3,    39 Kentucky                14 32.8
 71%  41 North Carolina          20 22.9,    57 San Diego State         13 15.8
 70%  22 Air Force               45 26.2,    35 Washington              25 19.3
 68%  25 Virginia Tech           38 23.4,    32 Alabama                  7 17.3
 67%   5 Ohio State              24 21.7,    11 Texas A&M               14 15.9
 63%  17 Georgia Tech            35 29.2,    27 Notre Dame              28 25.5
 58%  15 Missouri                34 27.8,    21 West Virginia           31 26.5
 55%  26 Texas                   38 30.4,    28 Mississippi State       11 29.5

 50%  38 Miami - Florida         46 36.0,    37 North Carolina State    23 36.1
 42%  23 Michigan                45 20.0,    18 Arkansas                31 21.6
 41%  13 Wisconsin               38 28.1,     9 California - Los Angel  31 29.9
 40%   3 Tennessee               23 20.5,     2 Florida State           16 22.8
 37%  10 Florida                 31 30.8,     4 Syracuse                10 34.8
 35%  60 Marshall                48 33.8,    47 Louisville              29 38.0
 35%  19 Arizona                 23 20.6,     7 Nebraska                20 25.7
 32%  30 Georgia                 35 17.7,    24 Virginia                33 23.6
 28%   8 Purdue                  37 32.7,     1 Kansas State            34 40.4
 24%  31 Colorado                51 24.0,    12 Oregon                  43 33.5
 22%  59 Mississippi             35 17.5,    34 Texas Tech              18 28.6
 13%  58 Texas Christian         28  8.0,    16 Southern California     19 28.2
  8%  91 Idaho                   42 13.0,    20 Southern Mississippi    35 42.3

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                5 0.71   8 0.58   6 0.68   2 0.59   1 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,num_right/expected):  22   9 0.60

  actual/expected = 1 -- model right on
  actual/expected > 1 -- model probabilities too low (more wins than expected)
  actual/expected < 1 -- model probabilities too high (less wins than expected)

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