The Selection of the Competitors for the NCAA Football Championship: A Retrospective

Abstract

A collection of various team rating, and ranking, strategies are described as well as some hybrid combinations of these strategies. How closely these approaches have matched the consensus regarding who the top college football teams have been, since the inception of having teams compete on the field for that sport’s national championship, is examined along with an evaluation of how well some of these methodologies have matched the current committee who decides which teams will be invited to this competition.