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Wall Street Journal College Football Grid Of Shame (Wake is an "admirable weakling")

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Wall Street Journal College Football Grid Of Shame (Wake is an "admirable weakling")

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The Grid is a way of sorting out which fans can boast about their team—on and/or off the field—and who should think again before gloating. The horizontal axis assesses on-field strength for this upcoming season. We took the preseason ratings of all 128 major-college teams from several media outlets and predictive computer models, then averaged them together to smooth out the slight outliers. The better the team, the farther they are on the right.

The vertical axis measures shame. This is trickier to quantify, of course, but there is data to help the cause.

We decided the thin line between admirable and embarrassing with a weighted calculation of every team's academic performance, NCAA violation and probationary record, attendance figures, off-season arrests, total funding it takes from the university or state and amount that student fees subsidize the athletic department.
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http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-college-football-grid-of-shame-1409185352

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Clemson is an admirable powerhouse along with Wisconsin, Stanford, and UCLA?
 
I love that the only more embarrassing program than UNC is the one that touches kids.
 
I know Duke is coming off a good couple of seasons, but how in the heezy are they comfortably on the powerhouse side of the grid?
 
I would love to be an embarrassing powerhouse. As long as no kids got touched, of course.

Carolina is waaaay more powerhouse than they should be.

LSU behind UCLA, OK, UGA and fucking South Carolina on the Powerhouse scale? Put down the crack pipe. They have 2 Titles and 3 NC Games in the last 11 years.
 
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all we need to do is have a winning season and we'll be an Admirable Powerhouse like we were a few years ago
 
Funny that UCF is on the "weakling" side, and they went to a BCS bowl last year and rolled over Baylor which is on the far end of the "Powerhouse" side.
 
Have no idea how Mizzou/K-state/Michigan State/IU/Clemson etc are ahead of us on the "admirable" axis. From their criteria, the only one it seems we lose out on against those guys, in general, is attendance figures. Maybe it's weighted really heavily.
 
People, read the fine print! The powerhouse axis is based only on the upcoming season.
 
Good lord people, the weakling/powerhouse rating is not a program rating - it is based solely on this year's pre-season rating.
 
So did OU inherit DGB's problems that he had at Mizzou, or is Mizzou stuck with them? Judging from the axis, it looks like OU inherited them.

How did Indiana get on the powerhouse side of things?
 
PhDeac said:
Clemson is an admirable powerhouse along with Wisconsin, Stanford, and UCLA?
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Their graduation rates are pretty good. Course it helps when you don't have to go to class.

And I'm guessing their powerhouse/weakling ratings have more to do with how teams are projected to do this year. Teams like Indiana actually should be pretty decent this season
 
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scooter84 said:
Good lord people, the weakling/powerhouse rating is not a program rating - it is based solely on this year's pre-season rating.
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If so we may be the most over rated team in football history.
 
Let's go ahead and shift that logo a little further left
 
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