2004 Bowl Games Results for College Football Division IA & IAA

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 86%   6 Utah                    35 42.5,    45 Pittsburgh               7 24.5
 84%  10 Georgia                 24 27.2,    52 Wisconsin               21 11.1
 82%  19 Bowling Green           52 46.2,    80 Memphis                 35 32.4
 76% 105 Southern Mississippi    31 28.6,   149 North Texas             10 19.0
 76%   3 Louisville              44 43.9,    14 Boise State             40 35.2
 74%   8 Texas                   38 29.6,    23 Michigan                37 21.0
 72%  36 Georgia Tech            51 25.6,    81 Syracuse                14 17.9
 72%  13 Florida State           30 24.3,    38 West Virginia           18 16.9
 67%   9 Miami - Florida         27 27.7,    17 Florida                 10 22.1
 65%  63 Northern Illinois       34 24.9,    94 Troy State              21 19.9
 63%  57 Colorado                33 29.1,    82 Texas - El Paso         28 24.7
 60%  35 Oregon State            38 25.4,    44 Notre Dame              21 23.3
 60%   5 Auburn                  16 20.6,     7 Virginia Tech           13 18.6
 53%  51 Boston College          37 25.2,    55 North Carolina          24 24.7

 48%  37 Minnesota               20 25.5,    34 Alabama                 16 26.0
 46%  78 Iowa State              17 21.1,    73 Miami - Ohio            13 21.9
 42%  46 James Madison           31 25.5,    41 Montana                 21 27.0
 40%  71 Navy                    34 17.1,    54 New Mexico              19 19.1
 40%  29 Ohio State              33 23.5,    24 Oklahoma State           7 26.0
 39%  76 Connecticut             39 29.7,    60 Toledo                  10 32.4
 39%  16 Iowa                    30 18.0,    11 Louisiana State         25 20.8
 38%   2 Southern California     55 22.2,     1 Oklahoma                19 25.4
 37%  25 Fresno State            37 24.0,    15 Virginia                34 28.4
 36% 106 Cincinnati              32 23.6,    84 Marshall                14 28.2
 34%  28 Arizona State           27 26.2,    18 Purdue                  23 31.5
 31%  39 Tennessee               38 25.1,    22 Texas A&M                7 31.8
 29% 122 Hawaii                  59 30.5,    96 Alabama - Birmingham    40 37.4
 24%  90 Wyoming                 24 23.9,    40 California - Los Angel  21 33.9
 23%  20 Texas Tech              45 25.5,     4 California              31 36.4

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                6 0.89  12 0.39   8 0.84   3 1.19   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,expected,num_right/expected):  29  14  19.4 0.72

  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)

NOTE: exact predicted scores are not released until after game time.

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