PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Wednesday’s College Basketball Spreads

Wednesday’s Conference Tournaments
Big South Conference–1st Round
Charlotte, NC
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Radford	North Carolina A&T	1.2
UNC Asheville	Charleston Southern	12.1
High Point	Hampton	6.2
Campbell	Presbyterian	3.4
Northeast Conference–1st Round
Campus Sites
Home	Visitors	Spread
Bryant	Central Connecticut	14.6
Wagner	St. Francis (PA)	13.2
Long Island	Sacred Heart	8.1
Mount St. Mary’s	St. Francis (NY)	6.4
Ohio Valley Conference–1st Round
Evansville, IN
Higher Seed	Lower Seed	Spread
Tennessee St.	SIU-Edwardsville	1.9
Austin Peay	Tennessee Tech	-0.7
Wednesday’s Regular Schedule
Home	Visitors	Spread
St. John’s	Xavier	1.3
Alabama	Texas A&M	9.2
Seton Hall	Georgetown	15.4
Marshall	Western Kentucky	-4.6
Louisiana Tech	Old Dominion	7.9
Charlotte	Middle Tennessee	-2.5
Clemson	Georgia Tech	9.6
Florida St.	Notre Dame	-0.8
Iowa St.	Oklahoma St.	2.8
Rhode Island	Saint Louis	-2.6
La Salle	Saint Joseph’s	-1.0
Massachusetts	Fordham	2.6
George Washington	Duquesne	5.3
Davidson	George Mason	8.3
Indiana	Rutgers	6.3
Southern Miss.	UAB	-19.2
New Orleans	Houston Baptist	10.3
Lamar	UT Rio Grande Valley	-2.4
Creighton	Connecticut	-3.2
Texas A&M-CC	Nicholls St.	-1.0
Mississippi St.	Auburn	-5.0
Arkansas	LSU	2.6
Tulsa	Wichita St.	-3.0
DePaul	Marquette	-2.8
New Mexico St.	Stephen F. Austin	5.9
Wake Forest	North Carolina St.	10.8
Boston College	Miami (Fla.)	-3.7
Maryland	Minnesota	5.9
California Baptist	Chicago St.	14.3
UNLV	Wyoming	0.8

Tuesday’s Conference Tournament Results

Atlantic Sun 1st Round
Central Arkansas	74	Stetson	73
Kennesaw St.	82	Eastern Kentucky	73
Florida Gulf Coast	81	North Alabama	72
Lipscomb	74	North Florida	65
Horizon League 1st Round
Detroit	79	Green Bay	62
Robert Morris	77	Youngstown St.	73
Oakland	69	IUPUI	58
Illinois Chicago	80	Milwaukee	69
Patriot League 1st Round
American	69	Holy Cross	63
Bucknell	82	Lafayette	81

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Cornell	Columbia	15.2
UNC Asheville	Hampton	10.5
Florida	Georgia	15.2
SMU	Houston	-7.4
Rutgers	Ohio St.	-4.1
Seton Hall	Xavier	2.6
Harvard	Yale	-0.1
Boston U	Army	8.2
Holy Cross	Loyola (MD)	-4.9
South Florida	Cincinnati	-8.7
Colgate	Lehigh	14.1
Bucknell	American	3.0
Winthrop	Radford	9.6
Presbyterian	High Point	2.0
North Carolina A&T	Charleston Southern	10.2
Campbell	Gardner-Webb	0.8
NC St.	Wake Forest	-3.9
Miami (Fla.)	Georgia Tech	8.8
Notre Dame	Louisville	7.5
New Hampshire	NJIT	7.3
Stony Brook	UMass Lowell	3.2
Albany	Maine	13.6
Maryland Baltimore Co.	Hartford	6.6
Vermont	Binghamton	16.2
North Florida	Bellarmine	-1.7
Jacksonville	Eastern Kentucky	3.5
Youngstown St.	Oakland	-4.2
Robert Morris	Detroit	-2.9
Massachusetts	George Washington	8.1
George Mason	Richmond	-0.7
Dayton	Duquesne	15.0
Davidson	Saint Joseph’s	11.1
Chattanooga	Western Carolina	17.4
Fairfield	Quinnipiac	6.0
Delaware St.	Maryland-Eastern Shore	-7.4
Stetson	Jacksonville St.	-7.2
Kennesaw St.	Central Arkansas	11.4
Florida Gulf Coast	North Alabama	6.7
Kansas St.	Baylor	-6.9
Memphis	Tulane	9.8
Green Bay	Wright St.	-7.4
Milwaukee	Northern Kentucky	-2.4
Northern Iowa	Southern Illinois	5.8
Illinois St.	Valparaiso	3.3
Drake	Missouri St.	-0.2
Samford	Wofford	-4.5
Mississippi	Alabama	-5.4
Oklahoma	Texas Tech	-3.7
Mississippi St.	Tennessee	-3.6
DePaul	Georgetown	9.4
Florida St.	Pittsburgh	10.7
Bradley	Loyola (Chi.)	-3.5
Nebraska	Minnesota	-2.8
Oregon St.	California	-0.4
San Jose St.	San Diego St.	-15.9

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Virginia	Boston College	7.9
Connecticut	Creighton	10.2
Iowa St.	Kansas	-3.7
Maryland	Michigan St.	-4.2
Tennessee	Texas A&M	11.5
Siena	Canisius	3.3
Duquesne	Richmond	-6.8
St. Bonaventure	Davidson	1.5
Western Michigan	Northern Illinois	0.3
Ohio	Ball St.	12.6
Eastern Michigan	Toledo	-11.6
Central Michigan	Bowling Green	-6.4
Miami (O)	Kent St.	0.8
Mississippi St.	South Carolina	7.7
Northwestern	Rutgers	6.5
Louisville	North Carolina	-3.9
Georgetown	Seton Hall	-8.3
Auburn	Alabama	7.1
Texas Tech	Texas	4.6
St. John’s	Providence	0.8
LSU	Mississippi	15.0
Wichita St.	Tulsa	8.4
Utah St.	Air Force	16.5
Michigan	Nebraska	15.0
Stanford	California	5.6
UC Riverside	UC Davis	7.0
UNLV	Nevada	4.2
San Jose St.	Fresno St.	-12.0

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Army	American	8.9
UNC Asheville	North Carolina A&T	5.6
Radford	Hampton	7.1
Florida	Mississippi St.	4.7
Alabama	LSU	0.7
Rhode Island	La Salle	14.9
Saint Joseph’s	George Washington	10.4
Quinnipiac	Rider	6.2
Loyola (MD)	Boston U	-0.8
Bucknell	Colgate	-11.6
Creighton	St. John’s	4.0
Navy	Lehigh	14.6
Gardner-Webb	USC Upstate	10.9
Charleston Southern	High Point	-7.0
Longwood	Campbell	4.0
Louisville	Boston College	7.4
NC St.	Virginia Tech	-4.1
Georgia Tech	Wake Forest	-3.4
NJIT	Vermont	-12.0
Binghamton	Stony Brook	-1.8
Hartford	New Hampshire	-2.9
UMass Lowell	Maine	13.4
Maryland-Baltimore Co.	Albany	5.5
Valparaiso	Northern Iowa	-4.5
Furman	Western Carolina	15.0
East Tennessee St.	Mercer	4.0
Wofford	The Citadel	12.6
Villanova	Marquette	11.1
Oklahoma St.	TCU	5.7
Southern Illinois	Indiana St.	4.8
Missouri St.	Illinois St.	11.7
Drake	Bradley	5.5
Texas A&M	Kentucky	-8.0
Rutgers	Iowa	-5.3
Auburn	Georgia	23.9
DePaul	Xavier	-5.9
Pittsburgh	Virginia	-3.7
Wyoming	San Jose St.	18.2
Colorado St.	New Mexico	15.8

Coming later today: Our fourth annual Top 20 Coaches Ready For Prime Time. You will see some familiar names, but you are going to see some names you may not know, including one coach from the Division 2 ranks.

PiRate Ratings College Football Final 2021-22 Ratings

Rank	Team	Rating
1	Georgia	138.1
2	Alabama	132.8
3	Ohio St.	129.7
4	Michigan	124.3
5	Utah	121.9
6	Oklahoma St.	121.8
7	Notre Dame	121.6
8	Oklahoma	121.1
9	Clemson	119.3
10	Baylor	118.7
11	Texas A&M	118.6
12	Cincinnati	118.5
13	Iowa St.	118.1
14	Arkansas	117.4
15	Wisconsin	116.5
16	U C L A	115.0
17	Minnesota	113.5
18	Ole Miss	113.5
19	Kentucky	113.2
20	NC State	112.7
21	Penn St.	112.2
22	Purdue	111.7
23	Tennessee	111.6
24	Kansas St.	111.4
25	Auburn	111.2
26	Michigan St.	111.1
27	Pittsburgh	111.1
28	Wake Forest	110.4
29	Texas Tech	110.3
30	Arizona St.	110.3
31	Miami (Fla.)	110.1
32	Louisiana	109.6
33	L S U	109.4
34	Nebraska	109.3
35	Iowa	109.2
36	Houston	108.9
37	Oregon	108.2
38	Texas	107.5
39	Washington St.	107.3
40	Western Kentucky	107.1
41	West Virginia	107.0
42	Maryland	106.9
43	BYU	106.6
44	Oregon St.	106.5
45	Boise St.	106.4
46	Mississippi St.	105.9
47	North Carolina	105.4
48	South Carolina	105.4
49	Florida St.	105.3
50	Louisville	104.9
51	Florida	104.6
52	California	104.6
53	Liberty	104.4
54	Air Force	104.3
55	Georgia St.	104.1
56	Coastal Carolina	104.0
57	Central Michigan	104.0
58	UCF	103.7
59	U S C	103.6
60	Appalachian St.	103.5
61	Virginia	103.4
62	Utah St.	103.3
63	Washington	103.1
64	Fresno St.	103.0
65	T C U	101.8
66	SMU	101.8
67	Illinois	101.6
68	San Diego St.	101.5
69	U A B	101.4
70	Army	101.2
71	Western Michigan	101.2
72	Missouri	100.3
73	East Carolina	100.0
74	Boston College	99.3
75	Miami (Ohio)	99.2
76	Tulsa	98.7
77	Nevada	98.7
78	Colorado	98.6
79	Syracuse	97.9
80	Toledo	96.6
81	Virginia Tech	95.6
82	Tulane	95.2
83	Georgia Tech	95.1
84	U T S A	94.6
85	Memphis	94.6
86	Marshall	94.4
87	Stanford	94.3
88	Wyoming	94.3
89	Indiana	93.3
90	Middle Tennessee	93.0
91	Hawaii	92.9
92	Navy	92.8
93	Rutgers	92.8
94	Northern Illinois	92.4
95	Arizona	92.3
96	Northwestern	91.9
97	South Alabama	89.8
98	North Texas	89.5
99	Colorado St.	88.9
100	San Jose St.	88.6
101	Kent St.	88.5
102	Ball St.	88.4
103	Buffalo	88.3
104	Troy	88.0
105	USF	87.4
106	Georgia Southern	87.0
107	Eastern Michigan	86.3
108	Florida Atlantic	86.3
109	Ohio	86.1
110	Kansas	85.7
111	Old Dominion	85.7
112	U T E P	85.6
113	U N L V	85.2
114	Vanderbilt	84.0
115	UL-Monroe	83.2
116	Texas St.	83.0
117	Arkansas St.	82.8
118	Duke	80.2
119	Rice	80.0
120	Louisiana Tech	79.7
121	New Mexico	78.0
122	Southern Miss.	77.6
123	Bowling Green	77.1
124	Charlotte	77.0
125	Akron	72.5
126	Temple	72.4
127	New Mexico St.	71.8
128	Connecticut	68.6
129	Florida Int’l.	65.9
130	UMass	64.1

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
St. John’s	DePaul	4.3
Michigan St.	Nebraska	16.4
South Florida	Houston	-20.5
Florida	Alabama	0.4
Tennessee	Ole Miss	15.9
East Carolina	Tulane	0.1
Central Florida	Temple	11.4
Louisvile	Pittsburgh	12.6
Dayton	VCU	0.9
Saint Joseph’s	Davidson	-4.5
Richmond	Massachusetts	6.9
Miami (Fla.)	Syracuse	1.2
Villanova	Creighton	10.2
Iowa St.	Texas Tech	-1.4
Notre Dame	North Carolina	-1.9
Bradley	Missouri St.	-3.1
Northwestern	Penn St.	6.3

PiRate Ratings College Football Championship Game Spreads

Team 1	Team 2	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Alabama	Georgia	-1.5	-2.3	-2.1

PiRate Ratings College Football–Selection Sunday

This Week’s College Football Game

December 11		PiRate	Mean	Bias
Army	Navy	11.2	11.4	10.4

Final Bowl Projections

Bowl	Team	Team
Added Bowl Game*	Ball St.	Nevada
Bahamas	Middle Tennessee	Toledo
Cure	SMU	Appalachian St.
Boca	Kent St.	Liberty
New Mexico	UTEP	San Diego St.
Independence	BYU	UTSA
Lending Tree	Central Michigan	Marshall
L. A.	Utah St.	Oregon St.
New Orleans	UAB	Coastal Carolina
Myrtle Beach	Old Dominion	Georgia St.
Famous Idaho Potato	Western Michigan	Boise St.
Frisco	North Texas	Air Force
Armed Forces	Tulsa	Army
Gasparilla	Louisville	Florida
Hawaii	Memphis	Hawaii
Camellia	Northern Illinois	Louisiana
Quick Lane	Eastern Michigan	Wyoming
Military	Virginia	East Carolina
Birmingham	Houston	South Carolina
First Responder	Western Kentucky	Missouri
Liberty	West Virginia	Mississippi St.
Holiday	North Carolina St.	UCLA
Guaranteed Rate	Maryland	Texas Tech
Fenway	Central Florida	Boston College
Pinstripe	Virginia Tech	Penn St.
Cheez-It	Clemson	Iowa St.
Alamo	Oklahoma	Oregon
Duke’s Mayo	Wake Forest	Tennessee
Music City	Purdue	Auburn
Las Vegas	Wisconsin	Washington St.
Tax Slayer Gator	Miami (Fla.)	Arkansas
Tony The Tiger Sun	North Carolina	Arizona St.
Arizona	Miami (O)	Fresno St.
Citrus	Iowa	Kentucky
Outback	Minnesota	Texas A&M
Texas	Kansas St.	LSU
Peach	Pitt/Wake	Notre Dame
Fiesta	Michigan St.	Oklahoma St.
Rose	Ohio St.	Utah
Sugar	Baylor	Ole Miss
Cotton	Michigan	Georgia
Orange	Alabama	Cincinnati
Championship	Alabama	Georgia

• An extra bowl game was added by the NCAA to ensure all 6-win teams could earn bowl invitations. This extra bowl will be played in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and will include two group of 5 teams.
• Teams in bold have officially accepted the bowl bid.

This Week’s PiRate Ratings

Rank	Team	Rating
1	Georgia	133.8
2	Alabama	132.9
3	Ohio St.	130.4
4	Michigan	127.5
5	Notre Dame	121.9
6	Oklahoma St.	121.5
7	Utah	121.2
8	Oklahoma	120.4
9	Iowa St.	120.1
10	Cincinnati	119.6
11	Texas A&M	118.6
12	Clemson	117.2
13	Wisconsin	116.5
14	Ole Miss	116.2
15	Baylor	116.1
16	U C L A	115.0
17	Penn St.	114.8
18	Arkansas	114.7
19	Auburn	114.1
20	Pittsburgh	113.9
21	Kentucky	113.1
22	NC State	112.7
23	Mississippi St.	112.0
24	Tennessee	111.9
25	L S U	111.5
26	Purdue	111.4
27	Minnesota	111.1
28	Arizona St.	110.3
29	Oregon St.	110.3
30	North Carolina	110.2
31	Miami (Fla.)	110.1
32	BYU	109.8
33	Louisiana	109.7
34	Florida	109.6
35	West Virginia	109.4
36	Wake Forest	109.3
37	Kansas St.	109.3
38	Nebraska	109.3
39	Iowa	109.3
40	Appalachian St.	109.2
41	Washington St.	109.2
42	Oregon	109.0
43	Michigan St.	108.2
44	Texas	107.5
45	Boise St.	106.4
46	Houston	106.0
47	Nevada	105.4
48	Louisville	105.3
49	Florida St.	105.3
50	Coastal Carolina	104.7
51	California	104.6
52	Texas Tech	104.2
53	Fresno St.	104.1
54	Air Force	103.9
55	U S C	103.6
56	Virginia	103.4
57	Washington	103.1
58	Virginia Tech	102.6
59	Army	102.5
60	Central Michigan	102.1
61	T C U	101.8
62	SMU	101.8
63	Illinois	101.6
64	Western Kentucky	101.4
65	South Carolina	100.6
66	Missouri	100.3
67	East Carolina	100.0
68	Maryland	99.9
69	Utah St.	99.5
70	Toledo	99.4
71	Boston College	99.3
72	UCF	98.8
73	Tulsa	98.7
74	Georgia St.	98.7
75	Liberty	98.6
76	Colorado	98.6
77	Miami (Ohio)	98.4
78	San Diego St.	98.4
79	U A B	98.2
80	Syracuse	97.9
81	U T S A	97.7
82	Tulane	95.2
83	Georgia Tech	95.1
84	Memphis	94.6
85	Western Michigan	94.5
86	Stanford	94.3
87	Marshall	94.3
88	Rutgers	93.8
89	Ball St.	93.8
90	Indiana	93.3
91	Hawaii	92.9
92	Wyoming	92.4
93	Arizona	92.3
94	Eastern Michigan	92.1
95	Northwestern	91.9
96	Northern Illinois	91.7
97	Navy	91.5
98	Kent St.	90.4
99	North Texas	90.3
100	Middle Tennessee	90.2
101	South Alabama	89.8
102	Colorado St.	88.9
103	San Jose St.	88.6
104	Buffalo	88.3
105	Troy	88.0
106	USF	87.4
107	Georgia Southern	87.0
108	Florida Atlantic	86.3
109	Ohio	86.1
110	Kansas	85.7
111	Old Dominion	85.7
112	U N L V	85.2
113	U T E P	84.5
114	Vanderbilt	84.0
115	UL-Monroe	83.2
116	Texas St.	83.0
117	Arkansas St.	82.8
118	Duke	80.2
119	Rice	80.0
120	Louisiana Tech	79.7
121	New Mexico	78.0
122	Southern Miss.	77.6
123	Bowling Green	77.1
124	Charlotte	77.0
125	Akron	72.5
126	Temple	72.4
127	New Mexico St.	71.8
128	Connecticut	68.6
129	Florida Int’l.	65.9
130	UMass	64.1

PiRate Ratings By Conference

American Athletic Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Cincinnati	119.3	118.9	120.7	119.6
Houston	105.9	105.4	106.6	106.0
SMU	101.7	101.5	102.1	101.8
East Carolina	99.8	99.5	100.8	100.0
UCF	99.0	97.7	99.8	98.8
Tulsa	98.5	98.5	99.1	98.7
Tulane	95.2	94.2	96.1	95.2
Memphis	94.1	94.3	95.3	94.6
Navy	91.3	91.1	92.1	91.5
USF	87.4	86.9	88.0	87.4
Temple	72.3	73.0	71.8	72.4
AAC Averages	96.8	96.5	97.5	96.9
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Clemson	116.7	116.8	118.0	117.2
NC State	112.5	112.3	113.2	112.7
Wake Forest	109.3	109.1	109.6	109.3
Louisville	104.9	105.0	105.9	105.3
Florida St.	104.9	105.2	105.7	105.3
Boston College	99.4	99.2	99.3	99.3
Syracuse	98.0	98.0	97.8	97.9
Coastal Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Pittsburgh	113.4	114.3	114.2	113.9
North Carolina	109.7	109.7	111.1	110.2
Miami (Fla.)	110.4	109.8	110.2	110.1
Virginia	103.3	103.8	103.0	103.4
Virginia Tech	103.0	102.5	102.4	102.6
Georgia Tech	95.1	95.1	95.0	95.1
Duke	80.6	80.7	79.3	80.2
ACC Averages	104.4	104.4	104.6	104.5
Big 12 Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma St.	121.8	121.5	121.3	121.5
Oklahoma	121.2	119.6	120.3	120.4
Iowa St.	120.8	119.4	120.1	120.1
Baylor	116.5	115.9	115.8	116.1
West Virginia	110.7	109.1	108.4	109.4
Kansas St.	110.1	109.3	108.5	109.3
Texas	108.5	106.8	107.2	107.5
Texas Tech	104.5	104.5	103.7	104.2
T C U	102.9	101.4	101.2	101.8
Kansas	87.4	85.7	83.9	85.7
Big 12 Averages	110.4	109.3	109.0	109.6
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio St.	130.0	130.0	131.3	130.4
Michigan	126.6	127.5	128.4	127.5
Penn St.	114.0	114.6	115.8	114.8
Michigan St.	108.0	108.1	108.6	108.2
Maryland	100.6	99.7	99.4	99.9
Rutgers	93.2	94.7	93.5	93.8
Indiana	93.3	93.0	93.4	93.3
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Wisconsin	116.1	115.9	117.3	116.5
Purdue	110.8	110.8	112.6	111.4
Minnesota	110.3	111.0	112.2	111.1
Nebraska	109.0	109.1	109.8	109.3
Iowa	109.1	108.9	109.9	109.3
Illinois	101.1	101.6	102.2	101.6
Northwestern	92.0	92.0	91.8	91.9
Big Ten Averages	108.2	108.4	109.0	108.5
Conference USA
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Western Kentucky	100.3	101.7	102.2	101.4
Marshall	94.0	94.3	94.7	94.3
Middle Tennessee	89.7	90.2	90.7	90.2
Florida Atlantic	86.0	86.7	86.2	86.3
Old Dominion	84.8	85.9	86.3	85.7
Charlotte	76.6	77.2	77.2	77.0
Florida Int’l.	65.9	65.9	65.8	65.9
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
U A B	98.0	98.4	98.3	98.2
U T S A	97.2	98.0	98.0	97.7
North Texas	89.9	90.5	90.6	90.3
U T E P	84.2	85.2	84.0	84.5
Rice	80.1	80.1	79.8	80.0
Louisiana Tech	80.0	80.2	78.8	79.7
Southern Miss.	77.4	78.0	77.4	77.6
CUSA Averages	86.0	86.6	86.4	86.3
FBS Independents
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Notre Dame	121.1	121.9	122.7	121.9
BYU	109.8	109.5	110.0	109.8
Army	102.5	102.5	102.5	102.5
Liberty	98.5	98.6	98.6	98.6
New Mexico St.	72.1	72.7	70.7	71.8
Connecticut	69.0	69.5	67.2	68.6
UMass	65.2	64.6	62.4	64.1
Indep. Averages	91.2	91.3	90.6	91.0
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Miami (Ohio)	99.6	98.3	97.3	98.4
Kent St.	90.4	91.1	89.7	90.4
Buffalo	89.2	88.1	87.5	88.3
Ohio	86.0	86.5	85.9	86.1
Bowling Green	77.6	77.8	75.8	77.1
Akron	73.6	72.6	71.4	72.5
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Central Michigan	102.9	101.8	101.5	102.1
Toledo	99.8	99.4	98.9	99.4
Western Michigan	94.8	94.8	93.7	94.5
Ball St.	94.8	94.2	92.5	93.8
Eastern Michigan	93.4	92.1	90.8	92.1
Northern Illinois	92.5	91.7	90.9	91.7
MAC Averages	91.2	90.7	89.7	90.5
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Boise St.	106.1	106.3	106.7	106.4
Air Force	103.5	103.8	104.5	103.9
Utah St.	99.1	99.9	99.6	99.5
Wyoming	92.0	92.4	92.8	92.4
Colorado St.	89.1	88.9	88.8	88.9
New Mexico	78.5	78.3	77.1	78.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Nevada	105.0	106.0	105.3	105.4
Fresno St.	103.2	104.3	104.9	104.1
San Diego St.	98.6	98.4	98.1	98.4
Hawaii	93.0	92.9	92.8	92.9
San Jose St.	88.9	89.0	87.8	88.6
U N L V	85.3	85.0	85.4	85.2
MWC Averages	95.2	95.4	95.3	95.3
Pac-12 Conference
North Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oregon St.	109.9	110.5	110.6	110.3
Washington St.	108.6	109.6	109.4	109.2
Oregon	108.2	109.1	109.7	109.0
California	103.0	105.6	105.3	104.6
Washington	102.7	103.4	103.1	103.1
Stanford	94.2	94.8	94.0	94.3
South Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Utah	120.9	121.3	121.3	121.2
U C L A	114.5	115.1	115.4	115.0
Arizona St.	109.8	110.5	110.8	110.3
U S C	103.7	103.4	103.6	103.6
Colorado	98.6	98.7	98.4	98.6
Arizona	92.2	92.3	92.3	92.3
Pac-12 Averages	105.5	106.2	106.2	106.0
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia	133.4	133.6	134.4	133.8
Kentucky	112.6	113.6	113.1	113.1
Tennessee	111.8	111.7	112.0	111.9
Florida	109.2	110.1	109.4	109.6
South Carolina	101.1	100.7	100.2	100.6
Missouri	100.4	100.7	99.9	100.3
Vanderbilt	84.1	84.0	83.9	84.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	133.0	132.4	133.3	132.9
Texas A&M	118.4	118.8	118.5	118.6
Ole Miss	116.0	116.1	116.3	116.2
Arkansas	114.7	114.7	114.7	114.7
Auburn	114.3	113.7	114.4	114.1
Mississippi St.	111.8	112.1	112.0	112.0
L S U	111.1	111.8	111.7	111.5
SEC Averages	112.3	112.4	112.4	112.4
Sunbelt Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Appalachian St.	108.9	108.7	110.1	109.2
Coastal Carolina	105.5	103.8	104.6	104.7
Georgia St.	98.8	98.3	98.9	98.7
Troy	88.1	87.9	88.1	88.0
Georgia Southern	86.9	87.1	87.0	87.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Louisiana	110.0	109.2	110.0	109.7
South Alabama	90.1	89.8	89.4	89.8
UL-Monroe	83.5	83.4	82.7	83.2
Texas St.	83.8	82.4	82.8	83.0
Arkansas St.	83.1	83.0	82.3	82.8
Sun Averages	93.9	93.4	93.6	93.6

Conference Ratings

Rank	Conference	Rating
1	Southeastern	112.4
2	Big 12	109.6
3	Big Ten	108.5
4	Pac-12	106.0
5	Atlantic Coast	104.5
6	American Athletic	96.9
7	Mountain West	95.3
8	Sun Belt	93.6
9	Independents	91.0
10	Mid-American	90.5
11	Conference USA	86.3

PiRate Picks–December 3-4, 2021

A November To Remember!

The last three weeks of PiRate Picks have seen an incredible winning streak only seen twice before at this site. In that time, we wagered on 11 different Money Line parlays and single games, all at odds of +150 or more. At 100 imaginary dollars per imaginary wager, we have seen an imaginary return of $2,770.35, for an imaginary profit of $1,670.35. That comes to an imaginary return on investment of 152% !

Last week, we placed a governor on our wagering engine informing you that we had guaranteed ourselves a winning season in imaginary funds, and we had no plans to give the imaginary windfall profits back to the books. We selected two high odds parlays at +201.37 and +150.77. Both of them won for us, although we had to sweat out Alabama’s beating Auburn.

This week being Championship Week, there are few options to choose from with just a tad over a dozen games. We did not have a parlay jump off the sheet. We had to go looking for value and really found very little. If this were for real, we would pocket our profits and withdraw it from the books. But, to not play any parlays would mean you have no reason to read this week’s publication. So, we painstakingly compared odds trying to shop for an extra 5% benefit, and we came up with two parlays that have the odds we want.

If this is your first visit to this site or this weekly feature, here is an important disclaimer: We never play these selections for real. It is strictly an exercise in mathematical fun. We strongly urge you not to play these picks, unless they simply verify the selections you have already considered. We know that about 25-30 of you reading this feature would be considered professional handicappers/players in Nevada and offshore. We don’t worry about your profit/loss from wagering, because that’s your profession and you look at dozens of references. But, if you are reading this and have a legal account with one of the big handicapping corporations, you most likely won’t be able to play these selections at the odds we issue, because we shop around until we find the best odds. In order to replicate our odds, you would have to open accounts with six different books that we have found the best odds this year. Next year, it could be different books entirely.

Here are our two parlays for this week.

December 3-4

Odds:	+185.49
Must Win	Opponent
Kent St.	Northern Illinois
Pittsburgh	Wake Forest
Odds:	+205.60
Must Win	Opponent
Oklahoma St.	Baylor
San Diego St.	Utah St.
Georgia	Alabama

PiRate Ratings College Football–Championship Week

This Week’s PiRate Rating Spreads

Champ 1	Champ 2	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Dec. 3 C-USA Championship Game–7 PM EST on CBSSN
UTSA	Western Kentucky	-1.5	-2.5	-3.5
Dec. 3 Pac-12 Championship Game–8 PM EST on ABC–Las Vegas
Utah	Oregon	8.1	7.3	6.6
Dec. 4 Big 12 Championship Game–12 PM EST on ABC–Arlington, TX
Oklahoma St.	Baylor	8.2	8.6	8.7
Dec. 4 MAC Championship Game–12 PM EST on ESPN–Detroit
Northern Illinois	Kent St.	-3.4	-5.7	-5.0
Dec. 4 Mountain West Championship Game–3 PM EST on FOX
San Diego St.	Utah St.	10.9	9.8	10.3
Dec. 4 Sun Belt Championship Game–3:30 PM EST on ESPN
Louisiana	Appalachian St.	3.4	2.5	1.9
Dec. 4 SEC Championship Game–4 PM EST on CBS–Atlanta
Georgia	Alabama	7.0	8.2	8.3
Dec. 4 AAC Championship Game–4 PM EST on ABC
Cincinnati	Houston	16.4	16.5	17.1
Dec. 4 Big Ten Championship Game–8 PM EST on FOX–Indianapolis
Michigan	Iowa	9.9	11.1	10.6
Dec. 4 ACC Championship Game–8 PM EST on ABC–Charlotte
Pittsburgh	Wake Forest	-1.9	-0.8	-1.8
Regular Season Game
Home	Visitor
California	USC	-0.4	2.8	1.8

This Week’s PiRate Ratings

Rank	Team	Rating
1	Georgia	136.7
2	Ohio St.	130.4
3	Alabama	129.9
4	Michigan	123.6
5	Oklahoma St.	123.0
6	Notre Dame	121.9
7	Oklahoma	120.4
8	Iowa St.	120.1
9	Cincinnati	119.6
10	Utah	118.7
11	Texas A&M	118.6
12	Clemson	117.2
13	Wisconsin	116.5
14	Ole Miss	116.2
15	U C L A	115.0
16	Penn St.	114.8
17	Arkansas	114.7
18	Baylor	114.6
19	Auburn	114.1
20	Iowa	113.2
21	Kentucky	113.1
22	NC State	112.7
23	Wake Forest	112.4
24	Mississippi St.	112.0
25	Tennessee	111.9
26	L S U	111.5
27	Purdue	111.4
28	Oregon	111.4
29	Minnesota	111.1
30	Pittsburgh	110.9
31	Arizona St.	110.3
32	Oregon St.	110.3
33	North Carolina	110.2
34	Miami (Fla.)	110.1
35	BYU	109.8
36	Appalachian St.	109.7
37	Florida	109.6
38	West Virginia	109.4
39	Kansas St.	109.3
40	Nebraska	109.3
41	Louisiana	109.3
42	Washington St.	109.2
43	Michigan St.	108.2
44	Texas	107.5
45	Boise St.	106.4
46	Houston	106.0
47	Nevada	105.4
48	Louisville	105.3
49	Florida St.	105.3
50	U S C	104.9
51	Coastal Carolina	104.7
52	Texas Tech	104.2
53	Fresno St.	104.1
54	Air Force	103.9
55	Virginia	103.4
56	California	103.3
57	San Diego St.	103.1
58	Washington	103.1
59	Virginia Tech	102.6
60	Army	102.5
61	Western Kentucky	102.3
62	Central Michigan	102.1
63	T C U	101.8
64	SMU	101.8
65	Illinois	101.6
66	South Carolina	100.6
67	Missouri	100.3
68	East Carolina	100.0
69	Maryland	99.9
70	Toledo	99.4
71	Boston College	99.3
72	UCF	98.8
73	Tulsa	98.7
74	Georgia St.	98.7
75	Liberty	98.6
76	Colorado	98.6
77	Miami (Ohio)	98.4
78	U A B	98.2
79	Syracuse	97.9
80	U T S A	96.8
81	Tulane	95.2
82	Georgia Tech	95.1
83	Utah St.	94.8
84	Memphis	94.6
85	Western Michigan	94.5
86	Stanford	94.3
87	Marshall	94.3
88	Rutgers	93.8
89	Ball St.	93.8
90	Kent St.	93.4
91	Indiana	93.3
92	Hawaii	92.9
93	Wyoming	92.4
94	Arizona	92.3
95	Eastern Michigan	92.1
96	Northwestern	91.9
97	Navy	91.5
98	North Texas	90.3
99	Middle Tennessee	90.2
100	South Alabama	89.8
101	Colorado St.	88.9
102	Northern Illinois	88.7
103	San Jose St.	88.6
104	Buffalo	88.3
105	Troy	88.0
106	USF	87.4
107	Georgia Southern	87.0
108	Florida Atlantic	86.3
109	Ohio	86.1
110	Kansas	85.7
111	Old Dominion	85.7
112	U N L V	85.2
113	U T E P	84.5
114	Vanderbilt	84.0
115	UL-Monroe	83.2
116	Texas St.	83.0
117	Arkansas St.	82.8
118	Duke	80.2
119	Rice	80.0
120	Louisiana Tech	79.7
121	New Mexico	78.0
122	Southern Miss.	77.6
123	Bowling Green	77.1
124	Charlotte	77.0
125	Akron	72.5
126	Temple	72.4
127	New Mexico St.	71.8
128	Connecticut	68.6
129	Florida Int’l.	65.9
130	UMass	64.1

PiRate Ratings By Conference

American Athletic Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Cincinnati	119.3	118.9	120.7	119.6
Houston	105.9	105.4	106.6	106.0
SMU	101.7	101.5	102.1	101.8
East Carolina	99.8	99.5	100.8	100.0
UCF	99.0	97.7	99.8	98.8
Tulsa	98.5	98.5	99.1	98.7
Tulane	95.2	94.2	96.1	95.2
Memphis	94.1	94.3	95.3	94.6
Navy	91.3	91.1	92.1	91.5
USF	87.4	86.9	88.0	87.4
Temple	72.3	73.0	71.8	72.4
AAC Averages	96.8	96.5	97.5	96.9
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Clemson	116.7	116.8	118.0	117.2
NC State	112.5	112.3	113.2	112.7
Wake Forest	112.3	112.1	112.8	112.4
Louisville	104.9	105.0	105.9	105.3
Florida St.	104.9	105.2	105.7	105.3
Boston College	99.4	99.2	99.3	99.3
Syracuse	98.0	98.0	97.8	97.9
Coastal Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Pittsburgh	110.4	111.3	111.0	110.9
North Carolina	109.7	109.7	111.1	110.2
Miami (Fla.)	110.4	109.8	110.2	110.1
Virginia	103.3	103.8	103.0	103.4
Virginia Tech	103.0	102.5	102.4	102.6
Georgia Tech	95.1	95.1	95.0	95.1
Duke	80.6	80.7	79.3	80.2
ACC Averages	104.4	104.4	104.6	104.5
Big 12 Conference
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma St.	123.2	123.0	122.9	123.0
Oklahoma	121.2	119.6	120.3	120.4
Iowa St.	120.8	119.4	120.1	120.1
Baylor	115.1	114.4	114.2	114.6
West Virginia	110.7	109.1	108.4	109.4
Kansas St.	110.1	109.3	108.5	109.3
Texas	108.5	106.8	107.2	107.5
Texas Tech	104.5	104.5	103.7	104.2
T C U	102.9	101.4	101.2	101.8
Kansas	87.4	85.7	83.9	85.7
Big 12 Averages	110.4	109.3	109.0	109.6
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio St.	130.0	130.0	131.3	130.4
Michigan	122.8	123.7	124.4	123.6
Penn St.	114.0	114.6	115.8	114.8
Michigan St.	108.0	108.1	108.6	108.2
Maryland	100.6	99.7	99.4	99.9
Rutgers	93.2	94.7	93.5	93.8
Indiana	93.3	93.0	93.4	93.3
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Wisconsin	116.1	115.9	117.3	116.5
Iowa	112.9	112.7	113.9	113.2
Purdue	110.8	110.8	112.6	111.4
Minnesota	110.3	111.0	112.2	111.1
Nebraska	109.0	109.1	109.8	109.3
Illinois	101.1	101.6	102.2	101.6
Northwestern	92.0	92.0	91.8	91.9
Big Ten Averages	108.2	108.4	109.0	108.5
Conference USA
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Western Kentucky	101.0	102.6	103.3	102.3
Marshall	94.0	94.3	94.7	94.3
Middle Tennessee	89.7	90.2	90.7	90.2
Florida Atlantic	86.0	86.7	86.2	86.3
Old Dominion	84.8	85.9	86.3	85.7
Charlotte	76.6	77.2	77.2	77.0
Florida Int’l.	65.9	65.9	65.8	65.9
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
U A B	98.0	98.4	98.3	98.2
U T S A	96.5	97.1	96.9	96.8
North Texas	89.9	90.5	90.6	90.3
U T E P	84.2	85.2	84.0	84.5
Rice	80.1	80.1	79.8	80.0
Louisiana Tech	80.0	80.2	78.8	79.7
Southern Miss.	77.4	78.0	77.4	77.6
CUSA Averages	86.0	86.6	86.4	86.3
FBS Independents
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Notre Dame	121.1	121.9	122.7	121.9
BYU	109.8	109.5	110.0	109.8
Army	102.5	102.5	102.5	102.5
Liberty	98.5	98.6	98.6	98.6
New Mexico St.	72.1	72.7	70.7	71.8
Connecticut	69.0	69.5	67.2	68.6
UMass	65.2	64.6	62.4	64.1
Indep. Averages	91.2	91.3	90.6	91.0
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Miami (Ohio)	99.6	98.3	97.3	98.4
Kent St.	93.2	94.2	92.8	93.4
Buffalo	89.2	88.1	87.5	88.3
Ohio	86.0	86.5	85.9	86.1
Bowling Green	77.6	77.8	75.8	77.1
Akron	73.6	72.6	71.4	72.5
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Central Michigan	102.9	101.8	101.5	102.1
Toledo	99.8	99.4	98.9	99.4
Western Michigan	94.8	94.8	93.7	94.5
Ball St.	94.8	94.2	92.5	93.8
Eastern Michigan	93.4	92.1	90.8	92.1
Northern Illinois	89.7	88.6	87.8	88.7
MAC Averages	91.2	90.7	89.7	90.5
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Boise St.	106.1	106.3	106.7	106.4
Air Force	103.5	103.8	104.5	103.9
Utah St.	94.4	95.2	94.7	94.8
Wyoming	92.0	92.4	92.8	92.4
Colorado St.	89.1	88.9	88.8	88.9
New Mexico	78.5	78.3	77.1	78.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Nevada	105.0	106.0	105.3	105.4
Fresno St.	103.2	104.3	104.9	104.1
San Diego St.	103.3	103.1	103.0	103.1
Hawaii	93.0	92.9	92.8	92.9
San Jose St.	88.9	89.0	87.8	88.6
U N L V	85.3	85.0	85.4	85.2
MWC Averages	95.2	95.4	95.3	95.3
Pac-12 Conference
North Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oregon	110.5	111.6	112.2	111.4
Oregon St.	109.9	110.5	110.6	110.3
Washington St.	108.6	109.6	109.4	109.2
California	101.7	104.4	103.9	103.3
Washington	102.7	103.4	103.1	103.1
Stanford	94.2	94.8	94.0	94.3
South Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Utah	118.6	118.8	118.8	118.7
U C L A	114.5	115.1	115.4	115.0
Arizona St.	109.8	110.5	110.8	110.3
U S C	105.0	104.6	105.0	104.9
Colorado	98.6	98.7	98.4	98.6
Arizona	92.2	92.3	92.3	92.3
Pac-12 Averages	105.5	106.2	106.2	106.0
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia	136.2	136.6	137.5	136.7
Kentucky	112.6	113.6	113.1	113.1
Tennessee	111.8	111.7	112.0	111.9
Florida	109.2	110.1	109.4	109.6
South Carolina	101.1	100.7	100.2	100.6
Missouri	100.4	100.7	99.9	100.3
Vanderbilt	84.1	84.0	83.9	84.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	130.2	129.4	130.2	129.9
Texas A&M	118.4	118.8	118.5	118.6
Ole Miss	116.0	116.1	116.3	116.2
Arkansas	114.7	114.7	114.7	114.7
Auburn	114.3	113.7	114.4	114.1
Mississippi St.	111.8	112.1	112.0	112.0
L S U	111.1	111.8	111.7	111.5
SEC Averages	112.3	112.4	112.4	112.4
Sunbelt Conference
East Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Appalachian St.	109.2	109.2	110.6	109.7
Coastal Carolina	105.5	103.8	104.6	104.7
Georgia St.	98.8	98.3	98.9	98.7
Troy	88.1	87.9	88.1	88.0
Georgia Southern	86.9	87.1	87.0	87.0
West Division
Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Louisiana	109.7	108.7	109.5	109.3
South Alabama	90.1	89.8	89.4	89.8
UL-Monroe	83.5	83.4	82.7	83.2
Texas St.	83.8	82.4	82.8	83.0
Arkansas St.	83.1	83.0	82.3	82.8
Sun Averages	93.9	93.4	93.6	93.6

Conference Ratings

Rank	Conference	Rating
1	Southeastern	112.4
2	Big 12	109.6
3	Big Ten	108.5
4	Pac-12	106.0
5	Atlantic Coast	104.5
6	American Athletic	96.9
7	Mountain West	95.3
8	Sun Belt	93.6
9	Independents	91.0
10	Mid-American	90.5
11	Conference USA	86.3

Playoff and Bowl Projections

Note: 83 teams gained bowl eligibility. There are spots for 82 teams. One team will be left out. As of today, we project Wyoming to be that team.

Bowl	Team	Team
Bahamas	Western Kentucky	Central Michigan
Cure	Memphis	Georgia St.
Boca	Liberty	Miami (O)
New Mexico	UTEP	Utah St.
Independence	BYU	UTSA
Lending Tree	Kent St.	Old Dominion
L. A.	Fresno St.	Arizona St.
New Orleans	UAB	Louisiana
Myrtle Beach	SMU	Coastal Carolina
Famous Idaho Potato	Eastern Michigan	Boise St.
Frisco	Nevada	Ball St.
Armed Forces	Army	Marshall
Gasparilla	Virginia	Florida
Hawaii	Houston	San Diego St.
Camellia	Northern Illinois	Appalachian St/
Quick Lane	Toledo	Missouri
Military	Louisville	South Carolina
Birmingham	Central Florida	Auburn
First Responder	Tulsa	North Texas
Liberty	Kansas St.	Mississippi St.
Holiday	Virginia Tech	UCLA
Guaranteed Rate	Maryland	Middle Tennessee
Fenway	East Carolina	Boston College
Pinstripe	North Carolina	Penn St.
Cheez-It	Wake Forest	West Virginia
Alamo	Iowa St.	Oregon St.
Duke’s Mayo	North Carolina St.	Texas A&M
Music City	Purdue	Tennessee
Las Vegas	Wisconsin	Oregon
Tax Slayer Gator	Clemson	Arkansas
Tony The Tiger Sun	Miami (Fla.)	Washington St.
Arizona	Western Michigan	Air Force
Citrus	Michigan St.	Ole Miss
Outback	Minnesota	Kentucky
Texas	Texas Tech	LSU
Peach	Pittsburgh	Ohio St.
Fiesta	Oklahoma	Notre Dame
Rose	Iowa	Utah
Sugar	Alabama	Baylor
Cotton	Michigan	Oklahoma St.
Orange	Georgia	Cincinnati
Championship	Georgia	Michigan