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Oct 1, 2018
college football poll - week 5

Notre Dame rises to the top after its win over Stanford, while LSU holds strong at #2 and Clemson comes in at the #3 spot after its QB drama-inducing game with Syracuse.

Nothing too surprising with this week’s poll except #13 Army. How did that happen? Well, Army pwned last week’s #5 team, Buffalo, with a score of 42-13. Buffalo in turn has a win over Temple, which has a win over Maryland, which has wins over Texas and Maryland, giving Army a whole mess of indirects “wins”. Army’s only losses are to still-undefeated Oklahoma and #15 Duke. We’ll see how long the Black Knights stick around.

1 - Notre Dame (5-0) (23.4559326171875)
2 - LSU (5-0) (22.521240234375)
3 - Clemson (5-0) (17.2684326171875)
4 - Oklahoma (5-0) (17.10546875)
5 - Ohio St. (5-0) (16.2164306640625)
6 - Alabama (5-0) (15.680237770080566)
7 - Stanford (4-1) (15.360107421875)
8 - Kentucky (5-0) (14.919281005859375)
9 - Georgia (5-0) (14.5322265625)
10 - Washington (4-1) (12.1318359375)
11 - Auburn (4-1) (11.552734375)
12 - West Virginia (4-0) (11.365694046020508)
13 - Army (3-2) (11.13201904296875)
14 - North Carolina St. (4-0) (10.889877319335938)
15 - Duke (4-1) (10.3558349609375)
16 - Miami (FL) (4-1) (10.248779296875)
17 - Texas (4-1) (10.1571044921875)
18 - Syracuse (4-1) (9.92388916015625)
19 - Michigan (4-1) (9.76513671875)
20 - South Fla. (4-0) (9.7073974609375)
21 - San Diego St. (3-1) (9.39111328125)
22 - Indiana (4-1) (9.3714599609375)
23 - Penn St. (4-1) (8.89959716796875)
24 - Michigan St. (3-1) (8.712890625)
25 - Cincinnati (5-0) (8.451995849609375)
Sep 23, 2018
missing years

With the return of the friedcheese.org, let’s see what happened during the missing years…

2017

Last year’s friedcheese.org national champions were … the Memphis Tigers? They went 10-3 and won the AAC West. Two of those losses were to undefeated UCF, so that helped. But still, a real head-scratcher.

My Northwestern Wildcats came in at #24, though!

1 - Memphis (53.890625)
2 - Georgia (53.640625)
3 - UCF (52.890625)
4 - Wisconsin (48.197265625)
5 - Alabama (47.921875)
6 - Miami (FL) (47.03125)
7 - Notre Dame (44.9296875)
8 - Ohio St. (44.01171875)
9 - Clemson (43.6015625)
10 - Oklahoma (43.017578125)
11 - Penn St. (42.5703125)
12 - Southern California (40.95703125)
13 - Michigan (36.7421875)
14 - Washington (35.48828125)
15 - Stanford (35.34765625)
16 - Auburn (34.59375)
17 - LSU (33.3046875)
18 - Iowa (32.5703125)
19 - Michigan St. (32.1953125)
20 - Oklahoma St. (31.8828125)
21 - San Diego St. (31.734375)
22 - TCU (31.00390625)
23 - Washington St. (30.7734375)
24 - Northwestern (29.3203125)
25 - Louisville (28.109375)

2016

1 - Alabama (64.5625)
2 - Western Mich. (53.984375)
3 - Ohio St. (53.02734375)
4 - Michigan (49.263671875)
5 - Clemson (44.4140625)
6 - Wisconsin (43.87109375)
7 - Washington (41.953125)
8 - Penn St. (40.7734375)
9 - Southern California (38.671875)
10 - Florida St. (37.6328125)
11 - Stanford (37.234375)
12 - Oklahoma (36.234375)
13 - Nebraska (35.576171875)
14 - Iowa (34.46484375)
15 - Colorado (34.0390625)
16 - West Virginia (32.7109375)
17 - LSU (32.234375)
18 - Tennessee (31.2734375)
19 - Florida (31.2421875)
20 - Illinois St. (30.796875)
21 - Houston (30.7734375)
22 - Texas A&M (29.859375)
23 - South Fla. (28.453125)
24 - Boise St. (28.4375)
25 - Georgia Tech (28.15625)
Sep 23, 2018
college football poll - week 4

The friedcheese.org College Football Poll returns!!!1!!

So beginning in the 2013 season, the NCAA took down their .csv file containing the scores of all their games. And when I bugged them about it, they even acted like no such thing had ever existed! From their response:

“At this time there are no plans to make bulk downloads of scores available to the general public. You can access all scores from our scoreboard pages or from team pages that are available for all teams.”

So that’s what I did. Well, five years later…

My old script was in Perl. I’ve been playing around with Python recently, so the new one is in Python. It uses BeautifulSoup to scrape the NCAA’s scoreboard pages and NetworkX for the graph theory stuff. You can find the source code at https://github.com/d-torrance/cfb-cor.

So without further ado, here’s the poll. Since the poll is based solely on a team’s resume, there’s usually a few surprises. The big ones this week are #5 Buffalo and #7 Kentucky, who come in at unranked and #17, respectively, in this week’s AP poll. There’s also a bunch of AP-unranked teams in the teens (Indiana, Maryland, Syracuse, North Texas, and Ole Miss).

1 - Alabama (12.8125)
2 - LSU (11.40234375)
3 - Duke (11.078125)
4 - Notre Dame (10.65625)
5 - Buffalo (10.19873046875)
6 - Georgia (9.8779296875)
7 - Kentucky (9.75)
8 - Oklahoma (9.67822265625)
9 - Clemson (8.23388671875)
10 - Penn St. (8.0927734375)
11 - Indiana (8.046875)
12 - Ohio St. (7.8984375)
13 - Stanford (7.625)
14 - Maryland (7.390625)
15 - Syracuse (7.234375)
16 - California (7.125)
17 - North Texas (6.998046875)
18 - Ole Miss (6.390625)
19 - Texas Tech (6.28125)
20 - Miami (FL) (5.935546875)
21 - Texas (5.65625)
22 - South Carolina (5.427734375)
23 - West Virginia (5.375)
24 - Missouri (5.3544921875)
25 - Iowa (5.35205078125)

I’ll probably be adding some more features in the coming weeks, e.g., keeping track of changes in ranking, W-L records, and a pic of the directed graph like I had in the Perl script.
Dec 13, 2014
friedcheese.org returns!

I’ve ditched the old PHP/MySQL site that I coded so many years ago for a shiny new GitHub Pages/Jekyll site. Pardon the dust while I get things up and running again…
Dec 9, 2012
college football poll - week 15

It’s the annual “how little did the Army-Navy game affect everything?” poll. This year, Nebraska and Clemson swap places.

1 - Notre Dame (12-0) (49.625) (1)
2 - Alabama (12-1) (39.6484375) (2)
3 - Florida (11-1) (39.3984375) (3)
4 - Ohio St. (12-0) (37.3828125) (4)
5 - LSU (10-2) (34.5859375) (5)
6 - Georgia (11-2) (33.8984375) (6)
7 - South Carolina (10-2) (32.3984375) (7)
8 - Texas A&M (10-2) (32.1484375) (8)
9 - Oregon (11-1) (30.9658203125) (9)
10 - Stanford (11-2) (29.712890625) (10)
11 - Kansas St. (11-1) (27.989990234375) (11)
12 - Oklahoma (10-2) (25.3582763671875) (12)
13 - Oregon St. (9-3) (22.119140625) (13)
14 - UCLA (9-4) (21.4609375) (14)
15 - Texas (8-4) (20.94873046875) (15)
16 - Nebraska (10-3) (20.619140625) (17)
17 - Clemson (10-2) (20.6044921875) (16)
18 - San Jose St. (10-2) (19.48046875) (18)
19 - Iowa St. (6-6) (18.8818359375) (19)
20 - Michigan (8-4) (18.625) (20)
21 - Baylor (7-5) (18.55029296875) (21)
22 - Arizona (7-5) (18.41796875) (22)
23 - TCU (7-5) (18.3115234375) (23)
24 - West Virginia (7-5) (17.6552734375) (24)
25 - Southern California (7-5) (16.72265625) (25)
Dec 2, 2012
college football poll - week 14

The Tide leapfrog the Gators and Buckeyes after their SEC championship win.

1 - Notre Dame (12-0) (49.625) (1)
2 - Alabama (12-1) (39.6484375) (4)
3 - Florida (11-1) (39.3984375) (2)
4 - Ohio St. (12-0) (37.3828125) (3)
5 - LSU (10-2) (34.5859375) (6)
6 - Georgia (11-2) (33.8984375) (5)
7 - South Carolina (10-2) (32.3984375) (7)
8 - Texas A&M (10-2) (32.1484375) (8)
9 - Oregon (11-1) (30.9658203125) (9)
10 - Stanford (11-2) (29.712890625) (10)
11 - Kansas St. (11-1) (27.989990234375) (11)
12 - Oklahoma (10-2) (25.3582763671875) (13)
13 - Oregon St. (9-3) (22.119140625) (14)
14 - UCLA (9-4) (21.4609375) (16)
15 - Texas (8-4) (20.94873046875) (15)
16 - Clemson (10-2) (20.6201171875) (17)
17 - Nebraska (10-3) (20.619140625) (12)
18 - San Jose St. (10-2) (19.48046875) (19)
19 - Iowa St. (6-6) (18.8818359375) (22)
20 - Michigan (8-4) (18.625) (18)
21 - Baylor (7-5) (18.55029296875) (23)
22 - Arizona (7-5) (18.41796875) (21)
23 - TCU (7-5) (18.3115234375) (20)
24 - West Virginia (7-5) (17.6552734375) (24)
25 - Southern California (7-5) (16.72265625) (NR)
dropped out: Vanderbilt
Nov 25, 2012
college football poll - week 13

Florida leapfrops OSU and Bama after taking out the ‘Noles.

1 - Notre Dame (12-0) (49.3125) (1)
2 - Florida (11-1) (39.4609375) (4)
3 - Ohio St. (12-0) (37.1953125) (2)
4 - Alabama (11-1) (36.8984375) (3)
5 - Georgia (11-1) (35.0234375) (8)
6 - LSU (10-2) (34.5859375) (5)
7 - South Carolina (10-2) (32.3984375) (10)
8 - Texas A&M (10-2) (31.3359375) (9)
9 - Oregon (11-1) (30.7236328125) (7)
10 - Stanford (10-2) (29.603515625) (6)
11 - Kansas St. (10-1) (26.197021484375) (11)
12 - Nebraska (10-2) (25.626953125) (13)
13 - Oklahoma (9-2) (24.0086669921875) (14)
14 - Oregon St. (8-3) (21.916015625) (12)
15 - Texas (8-3) (21.63623046875) (18)
16 - UCLA (9-3) (21.5703125) (15)
17 - Clemson (10-2) (20.63916015625) (16)
18 - Michigan (8-4) (20.56640625) (20)
19 - San Jose St. (10-2) (19.45703125) (24)
20 - TCU (7-4) (18.9130859375) (NR)
21 - Arizona (7-5) (18.35546875) (19)
22 - Iowa St. (6-6) (18.1318359375) (22)
23 - Baylor (6-5) (17.19091796875) (NR)
24 - West Virginia (6-5) (17.0380859375) (NR)
25 - Vanderbilt (8-4) (16.8095703125) (NR)
dropped out: Rutgers, Washington, Louisiana Tech, Mississippi St.
Nov 18, 2012
college football poll - week 12

OSU leapfrogs Bama and the Gators after the two SEC powerhouses beat up on I-AA teams. The Fightin’ Irish are still dominating at #1. Oregon and Kansas State, while not #1 and #2 here like the BCS, understandably fall a few spots.

1 - Notre Dame (11-0) (45.71875) (1)
2 - Ohio St. (11-0) (35.5703125) (4)
3 - Alabama (10-1) (35.35546875) (2)
4 - Florida (10-1) (34.48046875) (3)
5 - LSU (9-2) (32.2734375) (6)
6 - Stanford (9-2) (30.1966552734375) (10)
7 - Oregon (10-1) (30.0358276367188) (5)
8 - Georgia (10-1) (29.990234375) (8)
9 - Texas A&M (9-2) (28.771484375) (9)
10 - South Carolina (9-2) (27.115234375) (11)
11 - Kansas St. (10-1) (25.8411560058594) (7)
12 - Oregon St. (8-2) (25.4622802734375) (12)
13 - Nebraska (9-2) (24.47314453125) (14)
14 - Oklahoma (8-2) (22.6080780029297) (15)
15 - UCLA (9-2) (22.1201171875) (18)
16 - Clemson (10-1) (22.061767578125) (17)
17 - Mississippi St. (8-3) (22.00732421875) (19)
18 - Texas (8-2) (21.9655151367188) (16)
19 - Arizona (7-4) (21.56787109375) (20)
20 - Michigan (8-3) (20.875732421875) (21)
21 - Rutgers (9-1) (20.3251953125) (23)
22 - Iowa St. (6-5) (18.6497802734375) (NR)
23 - Washington (7-4) (18.362060546875) (25)
24 - San Jose St. (9-2) (17.276123046875) (NR)
25 - Louisiana Tech (9-2) (16.777099609375) (13)
dropped out: Texas Tech, Southern California
Nov 11, 2012
college football poll - week 11

Not much change at the top. ‘Bama’s loss doesn’t even change their position. Florida switches it up with the Buckeyes after the Gators survive Louisiana-Lafayette and Ohio State has a bye.

1 - Notre Dame (10-0) (42.09375) (1)
2 - Alabama (9-1) (34.4453125) (2)
3 - Florida (9-1) (33.7578125) (4)
4 - Ohio St. (10-0) (33.2265625) (3)
5 - Oregon (10-0) (32.671875) (5)
6 - LSU (8-2) (30.609375) (6)
7 - Kansas St. (10-0) (29.734375) (7)
8 - Georgia (9-1) (29.72265625) (8)
9 - Texas A&M (8-2) (28.22265625) (13)
10 - Stanford (8-2) (26.981689453125) (10)
11 - South Carolina (8-2) (26.47265625) (11)
12 - Oregon St. (7-2) (23.903564453125) (12)
13 - Louisiana Tech (9-1) (22.876953125) (14)
14 - Nebraska (8-2) (22.6630859375) (15)
15 - Oklahoma (7-2) (21.328125) (16)
16 - Texas (8-2) (20.0465087890625) (19)
17 - Clemson (9-1) (19.7835693359375) (17)
18 - UCLA (8-2) (19.494140625) (18)
19 - Mississippi St. (7-3) (19.2587890625) (21)
20 - Arizona (6-4) (18.9892578125) (22)
21 - Michigan (7-3) (18.49853515625) (NR)
22 - Texas Tech (7-3) (17.6091918945312) (20)
23 - Rutgers (8-1) (17.2939453125) (25)
24 - Southern California (7-3) (17.10400390625) (NR)
25 - Washington (6-4) (16.60400390625) (24)
dropped out: Iowa St., Louisville
Nov 4, 2012
college football poll - week 10

Notre Dame stays at the top after squeaking by Pitt in triple overtime, and ‘Bama and the Buckeyes swap places after the Tide survive the national title rematch game and the Buckeyes destroy Illinois.

1 - Notre Dame (9-0) (38.2265625) (1)
2 - Alabama (9-0) (35.29296875) (3)
3 - Ohio St. (10-0) (31.9765625) (2)
4 - Florida (8-1) (29.79296875) (6)
5 - Oregon (9-0) (29.6171875) (5)
6 - LSU (7-2) (27.8671875) (4)
7 - Kansas St. (9-0) (27.193359375) (7)
8 - Georgia (8-1) (26.037109375) (9)
9 - Louisville (9-0) (24.2578125) (11)
10 - Stanford (7-2) (23.5181579589844) (8)
11 - South Carolina (7-2) (23.505859375) (12)
12 - Oregon St. (7-1) (23.2134704589844) (10)
13 - Texas A&M (7-2) (20.55615234375) (25)
14 - Louisiana Tech (8-1) (20.39453125) (19)
15 - Nebraska (7-2) (19.6077880859375) (18)
16 - Oklahoma (6-2) (18.943359375) (24)
17 - Clemson (8-1) (17.8901977539062) (17)
18 - UCLA (7-2) (17.535888671875) (NR)
19 - Texas (7-2) (17.2992172241211) (22)
20 - Texas Tech (6-3) (16.9625968933105) (14)
21 - Mississippi St. (7-2) (16.6376953125) (15)
22 - Arizona (5-4) (16.5491943359375) (13)
23 - Iowa St. (5-4) (15.8218688964844) (23)
24 - Washington (5-4) (15.5753784179688) (21)
25 - Rutgers (7-1) (15.0635986328125) (NR)
dropped out: West Virginia, Southern California

No more directed graphs. Imgur’s compressing them to completely illegibility at this point.

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