The PiRate Ship arrived at the port today. Our College PiRate Ratings, The PiRate, Mean, and Bias Ratings to be exact, are ready to go public. As we expected, the top teams in the nation are more experienced as a whole than they were last year, but a large majority of FBS teams are more experienced. In fact, as we hinted earlier this Summer, the total amount of college football experience and average age is at its highest since the late 1940s, when the G.I. Bill allowed former collegians to return from the War and resume their lives where it was before the War.
Because the weakest teams will be better than they have been in normal years, and because our ratings must average 100.0, since 100 is par, that means that the preseason top 10 will have lower then normal power ratings to begin the 2021 season.
As we do every year, we will begin Friday reviewing one conference per day until Monday, February 23. We will start with the weakest conference by average PiRate Ratings, ending with the strongest conference on the 23rd. Here’s the schedule:
Friday, August 13: Conference USA
Saturday, August 14: Mid-American Conference
Sunday, August 15: The FBS Independents
Monday, August 16: Mountain West Conference
Tuesday, August 17: Sun Belt Conference
Wednesday, August 18: American Athletic Conference
Thursday, August 19: Atlantic Coast Conference
Friday, August 20: Big Ten Conference
Saturday, August 21: Pac-12 Conference
Sunday, August 22: Big 12 Conference
Monday, August 23: Southeastern Conference
Later on Monday, August 23, we will post our opening college spreads for Week 0.
The Pi-Rate Ratings 
Do you have estimated wins for UNC_Charlotte and North Texas?They weren’t on the page with their conference team ratings.Thanks.Bill Bartoli
Comment by Bill Bartoli — August 21, 2021 @ 6:20 am
Sorry about that Bill. The format for these predictions was all messed up by Old Dominion not playing last year, so the bottom line on both divisions did not show up. Charlotte’s predicted W-L is 2-6 in CUSA and 3-9 overall. North Texas’s is 1-7 in CUSA and 2-10 overall.
Comment by piratings — August 21, 2021 @ 6:25 am