There’s no single formula to win a college football national championship, but after we crunched the numbers, we found several statistical similarities among those teams that finished the year on top.
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Introduction
I believe it was around this time last season (or maybe was it the year before? IDK…dates and times all sort of congeal together these days) when I wrote something about the infectious four-letter word that permeates college football fanbases during these final few weeks leading to kickoff: HOPE.
Ah, hope. Doesn’t matter if the confluence of events necessary for your school to reach college football’s four-team, made-for-TV Valhalla is semi-realistic, ridiculous, or reason for you to be institutionalized…hope provides license for outlandish prognostications. Penn State fans are obviously no strangers to hope. Heck, coming off a sub-.500 COVID campaign and the promising-to-painful progression of the Nittany Lions’ 2021 season, hope is really all we had to cling prior to last year.
Fast-forward 12 months, obviously a lot has changed. For Penn State HOPE has given way to HYPE, which got us thinking…
