1999 Bowl Game Results for College Football

prob rnk winning_team        actual pred    rnk losing_team         actual pred

 90%   3 Kansas State            24 38.8,    45 Washington              20 16.3
 82%  12 Georgia Southern        59 35.2,    62 Youngstown State        24 20.1
 80%   6 Wisconsin               17 37.0,    31 Stanford                 9 23.1
 79%  16 Colorado                62 32.2,    63 Boston College          28 19.4
 79%   5 Miami - Florida         28 41.7,    27 Georgia Tech            13 29.3
 76%   1 Nebraska                31 26.2,     7 Tennessee               21 16.9
 68%  19 Southern Mississippi    23 24.7,    36 Colorado State          17 18.7
 67%  28 Illinois                63 33.7,    55 Virginia                21 27.9
 67%  26 Utah                    17 29.7,    53 Fresno State            16 24.1
 63%  11 Penn State              24 22.1,    20 Texas A&M                0 18.1
 59%  25 Marshall                21 21.5,    32 Brigham Young            3 19.8
 58%  13 Michigan State          37 22.6,    15 Florida                 34 21.0

 45%  54 Boise State             34 34.5,    48 Louisville              31 35.4
 44%  21 Oregon                  24 26.3,    17 Minnesota               20 27.5
 40%  14 Michigan                35 21.6,    10 Alabama                 34 23.6
 38%  69 Wake Forest             23 17.8,    51 Arizona State            3 20.9
 38%  34 Mississippi State       17 17.6,    22 Clemson                  7 20.6
 37%  76 Syracuse                20 25.4,    59 Kentucky                13 29.2
 33%  49 Texas Christian         28 20.1,    24 East Carolina           14 26.0
 33%   4 Florida State           46 20.6,     2 Virginia Tech           29 26.1
 27%  46 Georgia                 28 26.8,    18 Purdue                  25 34.8
 22% 156 Hampton                 24 17.3,    86 Southern                 3 29.2
 22%  33 Mississippi             27 20.2,     9 Oklahoma                25 31.6
 18%  41 Arkansas                27 20.7,     8 Texas                    6 35.6
 16% 112 Hawaii                  23 18.7,    30 Oregon State            17 35.2

  results by prob (number of games, actual/expected):
               50%-59%  60%-69%  70%-79%  80%-89%  90%-99%     100%
                5 0.69   9 0.68   6 0.65   5 0.72   0 0.00   0 0.00

  total results (num_games,num_right,num_right/expected):  25  12 0.68

  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: predicted scores are not released until after game time

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