PiRate Picks–September 1-5, 2022

You know what they say about a broken clock being accurate twice a day? The PiRate Ratings happened to hit the right time on our broken clock in week one. We began the season with three totals’ plays in Week 0, and by luck, all three won. So, we start the season 3-0 against the spread, but are our picks a broken clock that happened to get lucky and be broken on the right time, or did we legitimately begin the season on a winning note?

In most years, our picks begin seasons on a somewhat mediocre beginning and then hit a hot spot in October and early November. What are we to make of a 3-0 start, where if we had begun with an imaginary bank account of $1,000 and wagered $100 on each of the three picks, we would have $1,300 in our account today? Maybe, if we were smart enough, we’d cash in our winning 30% profit and go away for the season. Not many people can make a 30% profit on an investment in one year.

Ah, but here’s the rub. In actuality a 30% profit on $0 is still $0. We could lose every pick we make the rest of the season, and we will have the same amount of real money we would have if we won every wager the rest of the year, because out real investment in this is $0. We never wager real money on these picks, and please don’t do so either.

Some of you do wager for real. We hope this site is merely an addendum to your process.

We have chosen three more selections in Week 1 of the College Football Season, and the three selections involve three different types of wagers. We are going with one side, one total, and one Money Line Parlay with a potential payoff of 141.77%.

Selection #1: Florida + 2 1/2 vs. Utah

Utah probably has three key games this year, where if the Utes go 3-0, they might be 13-0 when the College Football Playoff Committee chooses the four big teams. This is one of those three. I’d really like to see this game move to 3 1/2 points, because about 1 of every 11 college football games end with a 3-point spread. However, this one is a game where we believe the wrong team might be favored. Florida was much better than their record last year. The Gators basically mailed it in the second half of the year, and Dan Mullen was shown the door. New coach Billy Napier has restored the faith at the Swamp. While this Gator team has some vulnerable areas, maybe on the offensive side of the ball, the thought here is that the defense will be fired up and play above their heads in Napier’s first game. While the average of the three PiRate Ratings show Utah to be more than a 6-point favorite in this game, the thought here is that the Gators will be a touchdown better than their real worth, and that makes Florida a slight favorite. Getting 2 1/2 points when the underdog looks like a 55% outright winner is enough to work and make this a pick.

Selection #2: Michigan and Colorado St. UNDER 61 1/2

The question here to us is, “Can Michigan score over 50 points in this game?” The reason we ask this is that Colorado State is likely to score 10 points or less trying to break in a new offense with a new coach and without the necessary players to make it work? Michigan figures to win this game by more than 4 touchdowns, more likely 5 touchdowns. A score of 45-10 looks about right here, and that’s 6 1/2 points less than the total for this game.

Selection #3: Money Line Parlay–3 games at +141.77

Pittsburgh over West Virginia

TCU over Colorado

Houston over UTSA

The Backyard Brawl to start the season is an incredible first game rivalry. Pittsburgh lost a lot of talent off last year’s team, but the Panthers had a good bit of depth. Meanwhile, West Virginia is slowly building up their talent level, but the Mountaineers have a long way to go. In fact, this could be the year where the game with Kansas determines which team finishes last in the Big 12. Pittsburgh looks 10-13 points better to start the season.

TCU starts a new era in Fort Worth for the first time since 2000. Sonny Dykes tries to give the Horned Frogs a little more offense and brings more of a passing game, air-raid style. After surprising some people in the 2020 Covid year and guiding the Buffs to four consecutive wins to start his tenure in Boulder, Colorado has since gone 4-10. This game looks like a 10-14 point win for TCU.

Houston figures to contend along with Central Florida as Cincinnati’s top competitors in the American Athletic Conference. While UTSA is a top of the food chain team in CUSA, they are not ready to stake a claim to second best team in the Lonestar State after Texas A&M. Even playing in San Antonio, the Cougars are at least a touchdown better than the Roadrunners.

Season to Date

Beginning Bankroll (not real): $1,000

Imaginary Investment Last Week: $300

Outcome 3-0

Imaginary return $600

New Bank Account: $1,300

Big 12 Preview

This will be the final year that the Big 12 will have 10 teams. Next year, Central Florida, Houston, Cincinnati, and BYU will join the league, and for one to two years, the league will have 14 teams. Texas and Oklahoma are committed for now to remain in the Big 12 through the 2024 season. Things could change, as new league Commissioner Brett Yormark has indicated that he would be fine finding a win-win situation that would allow the Sooners and Longhorns to leave for the SEC before their scheduled July 1, 2025 date.

2022 expects to be an interesting year in the Big 12. Oklahoma welcomes a new head coach in Brent Venables, the former defensive coordinator at Clemson. There was a lot of player movement in Norman when former coach Lincoln Riley bolted for USC, but Venables has a lot of depth and talent remaining. Oklahoma is still the team to beat.

Rival Oklahoma State should see marked improvement on the defensive side, and the Cowboys must be considered the leading contender to earn the second spot in the Big 12 Championship Game.

Baylor, Texas, Iowa State, and Kansas State figure to fight it out in the next tier with TCU just behind. These seven teams should all make bowl games. The bottom three could potentially tie for last at 1-8. Texas Tech has a lot of talent but a lot of holes. West Virginia is at a crossroads. Kansas is still the least talented team in the league, but second year coach Lance Leipold has the Jayhawks trending upward.

Preseason PiRate Ratings

Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma	119.3	118.1	119.7	119.0
Oklahoma St.	118.2	116.3	117.6	117.4
Baylor	114.1	112.8	113.3	113.4
Texas	111.7	110.5	110.0	110.7
Kansas St.	111.1	109.7	109.9	110.2
Iowa St.	108.6	108.5	108.8	108.6
T C U	108.8	107.2	107.2	107.7
Texas Tech	107.0	105.5	107.4	106.6
West Virginia	103.7	103.5	102.4	103.2
Kansas	99.1	96.8	95.7	97.2
Big 12	110.1	108.9	109.2	109.4

Preseason Big 12 Official Media Poll

		Votes
#	Team	1st Place	Overall
1	Baylor	17	365
2	Oklahoma	12	354
3	Oklahoma St.	9	342
4	Texas	2	289
5	Kansas St.	0	261
6	Iowa St.	1	180
7	TCU	0	149
8	West Virginia	0	147
9	Texas Tech	0	119
10	Kansas	0	48

The PiRate Ratings are designed to look at just the next week’s schedule of games and not to use to look forward. Nevertheless, here are the predicted won-loss records for the league.

Predicted Won-Loss Records

Team	Conf.	Overall
Oklahoma	9-0	13-0
Oklahoma St.	8-1	11-2
Baylor	6-3	8-4
Texas	6-3	8-4
TCU	5-4	8-4
Kansas St.	4-5	7-5
Iowa St.	4-5	6-6
Texas Tech	2-7	4-8
West Virginia	1-8	2-10
Kansas	0-9	2-10

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Saturday, February 12, 2022

Home	Visitors	Spread
Auburn	Texas A&M	14.0
Baylor	Texas	6.5
Lehigh	Lafayette	3.7
Georgetown	Creighton	-5.0
Massachusetts	Saint Joseph’s	1.7
Alabama	Arkansas	4.4
Kansas	Oklahoma	10.3
Villanova	Seton Hall	8.3
Boston U	American	12.7
Wagner	Merrimack	15.2
Fairleigh Dickinson	Sacred Heart	-2.5
Central Connecticut	St. Francis (NY)	-0.3
Indiana St.	Illinois St.	1.0
Fairfield	Niagara	2.0
Army	Navy	-5.1
Wisconsin	Rutgers	7.9
Bucknell	Holy Cross	4.0
Morgan St.	North Carolina Central	-1.2
Tulane	Temple	4.3
Montana St.	Northern Arizona	13.9
Long Island	Bryant	-0.8
Gardner-Webb	Charleston Southern	17.5
North Carolina	Florida St.	7.3
Columbia	Yale	-12.8
Pennsylvania	Harvard	2.9
Cornell	Brown	2.3
Binghamton	New Hampshire	0.3
Oklahoma St.	West Virginia	3.1
Coastal Carolina	Georgia Southern	5.6
Dayton	George Washington	15.9
Rhode Island	Davidson	-2.1
Furman	Chattanooga	3.0
Drexel	Northeastern	7.5
Towson	Elon	12.0
Buffalo	Ball St.	11.7
Georgia	South Carolina	-2.7
Rice	North Texas	-5.7
Chicago St.	Sam Houston	-11.7
Wake Forest	Miami	6.8
Pittsburgh	NC St.	-0.4
Cleveland St.	IUPUI	22.0
UL Monroe	Texas St.	-3.6
Louisiana	UT Arlington	4.1
Western Illinois	North Dakota	12.7
Houston	Memphis	10.9
Michigan St.	Indiana	3.7
VMI	The Citadel	8.5
Miami (O)	Bowling Green	1.2
Eastern Michigan	Ohio	-10.2
Kentucky	Florida	12.4
Texas Tech	TCU	10.4
Morehead St.	Murray St.	-5.2
Oregon	California	11.5
Coppin St.	South Carolina St.	6.5
UC San Diego	UC Riverside	-4.2
Alcorn St.	Bethune-Cookman	8.9
Howard	Delaware St.	19.9
UTSA	Western Kentucky	-12.0
Sacramento St.	Southern Utah	-7.5
Northwestern St.	McNeese St.	-0.9
Nicholls	Texas A&M-CC	5.9
Utah Valley	New Mexico St.	-0.4
Seattle	Lamar	17.2
St. Francis (PA)	Mount St. Mary’s	-1.7
USC Upstate	UNC Asheville	-0.1
North Carolina A&T	Longwood	-5.1
Virginia	Georgia Tech	8.6
Princeton	Dartmouth	7.2
Florida Gulf Coast	Stetson	7.9
Iowa St.	Kansas St.	4.2
Appalachian St.	Georgia St.	3.5
Missouri St.	Valparaiso	13.1
George Mason	VCU	-0.1
Denver	South Dakota	-3.5
East Tennessee St.	Samford	5.2
James Madison	William & Mary	12.6
Butler	Marquette	-6.2
SIU Edwardsville	Tennessee Tech	-0.8
Eastern Illinois	UT Martin	-5.7
Texas Southern	Grambling	11.6
Winthrop	Presbyterian	8.2
North Alabama	Bellarmine	-4.1
Northern Illinois	Toledo	-14.2
Boston College	Duke	-14.1
Alabama A&M	Mississippi Valley St.	11.5
Loyola (MD)	Colgate	-6.5
Southeast Missouri St.	Belmont	-13.9
Austin Peay	Tennessee St.	4.3
Idaho	Weber St.	-9.9
Eastern Washington	Idaho St.	12.5
SE Louisiana	Houston Baptist	8.6
New Orleans	Incarnate Word	11.1
UMass Lowell	Maryland Baltimore Co.	2.0
Lipscomb	Eastern Kentucky	-0.9
Jacksonville St.	Central Arkansas	16.0
Troy	Little Rock	12.9
South Dakota St.	Omaha	24.5
Alabama St.	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	9.9
Hampton	Radford	-1.4
Kennesaw St.	North Florida	5.1
Duquesne	Fordham	0.4
Washington	Arizona	-15.7
Michigan	Ohio St.	2.4
Tennessee	Vanderbilt	13.4
East Carolina	SMU	-7.8
Norfolk St.	Maryland-Eastern Shore	11.3
Santa Clara	San Francisco	-0.3
High Point	Campbell	0.4
Virginia Tech	Syracuse	6.0
Jacksonville	Liberty	-4.4
Richmond	La Salle	13.3
Providence	DePaul	7.8
Prairie View A&M	Southern	-3.4
Jackson St.	Florida A&M	4.4
Delaware	Hofstra	0.1
Clemson	Notre Dame	2.5
Albany	Vermont	-10.7
NJIT	Hartford	1.5
Purdue Fort Wayne	Illinois Chicago	4.1
South Alabama	Arkansas St.	5.7
Wofford	Western Carolina	14.0
UNC Wilmington	Charleston	0.8
Marist	Canisius	8.1
Western Michigan	Central Michigan	0.4
Wichita State	South Florida	14.4
Tulsa	Cincinnati	-4.2
Colorado	Utah	4.9
Tarleton	Abilene Christian	0.3
San Diego	Pacific	7.4
Southern Illinois	Evansville	12.4
Bradley	Drake	2.3
Oral Roberts	Kansas City	7.8
St. Thomas	North Dakota St.	-5.5
LSU	Mississippi St.	8.0
San Diego St.	Air Force	18.3
Missouri	Mississippi	-0.5
Minnesota	Penn St.	0.7
Montana	Portland St.	5.7
Dixie St.	Grand Canyon	-10.0
San Jose St.	Wyoming	-13.8
Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s	16.2
USC	UCLA	-2.4
Washington St.	Arizona St.	11.4
Cal St. Bakersfield	Cal St. Northridge	7.3
Cal Poly	UC Santa Barbara	-9.5
California Baptist	UT Rio Grande Valley	6.9
Pepperdine	BYU	-13.7
Portland	Loyola Marymount	0.8
Oregon St.	Stanford	-4.5
Hawaii	Cal St. Fullerton	3.0

Great TV Watching Today–Our Best Bets

Time (EST)	Network	Home	Visitor
12:00 PM	ESPN2	Baylor	Texas
12:00 PM	SECN	Alabama	Arkansas
1:00 PM	CBS	Kansas	Oklahoma
1:00 PM	FOX	Villanova	Seton Hall
2:00 PM	FS1	Wisconsin	Rutgers
2:00 PM	ESPN+	Furman	Chattanooga
3:00 PM	ACCN	Wake Forest	Miami (Fla.)
3:30 PM	ABC	Houston	Memphis
3:30 PM	FOX	Michigan St.	Indiana
4:00 PM	ESPN	Kentucky	Florida
4:00 PM	ESPN+	Texas Tech	TCU
4:00 PM	ESPN+	Morehead St.	Murray St.
4:00 PM	ESPNU	Iowa St.	Kansas St.
6:00 PM	PAC12	Washington	Arizona
6:00 PM	ESPN	Michigan	Ohio St.
8:00 PM	ESPN2	LSU	Mississippi St.
10:00 PM	ESPN2	Gonzaga	Saint Mary’s
10:00 PM	ESPN	USC	UCLA
12:00 AM	ESPN2	Hawaii	Cal St. Fullerton

PiRate Ratings College Basketball–Monday, January 31, 2022

Monday’s PiRate Rating Spreads

Home	Visitors	Spread
Lafayette	Colgate	-9.5
Notre Dame	Duke	-5.6
Western Illinois	UMKC	4.8
Kennesaw St.	Liberty	-4.7
Maine	Hartford	-5.8
Vermont	Albany	15.0
Southern Utah	Northern Arizona	13.4
UNC Wilmington	Drexel	-1.1
Boston University	Holy Cross	16.5
Tennessee Tech	Morehead St.	-4.5
Austin Peay	SIU Edwardsville	3.2
Mercer	Wofford	-5.0
Penn St.	Iowa	-3.8
South Carolina St.	Howard	-7.9
Maryland-Eastern Shore	Morgan St.	0.8
Delaware St.	Coppin St.	-11.1
North Dakota	South Dakota St.	-19.0
Alabama A&M	Bethune-Cookman	2.0
Wyoming	Colorado St.	1.6
Jackson St.	Southern	-1.8
Alcorn St.	Grambling	7.2
Baylor	West Virginia	14.2
Weber St.	Eastern Washington	7.9
North Carolina Central	Norfolk St.	-3.1
Alabama St.	Florida A&M	1.0
Santa Clara	Pacific	14.8
Oklahoma	TCU	5.8
San Diego St.	New Mexico	13.8
Portland St.	Northern Colorado	-1.9

Monday’s PiRate Ratings

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
1	Gonzaga	124.5	West Coast
2	Arizona	121.2	Pac-12
3	Baylor	120.5	Big 12
4	Kentucky	120.2	Southeastern
5	Purdue	119.4	Big Ten
6	Houston	119.4	American Athletic
7	Auburn	119.3	Southeastern
8	UCLA	118.2	Pac-12
9	Villanova	118.2	Big East
10	Kansas	117.9	Big 12
11	Duke	117.2	Atlantic Coast
12	Tennessee	116.7	Southeastern
13	Texas Tech	116.6	Big 12
14	LSU	116.6	Southeastern
15	Illinois	116.0	Big Ten
16	Connecticut	115.5	Big East
17	Alabama	115.2	Southeastern
18	Texas	115.0	Big 12
19	Michigan St.	114.8	Big Ten
20	Iowa	114.3	Big Ten
21	Xavier	114.0	Big East
22	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
24	USC	112.6	Pac-12
25	Michigan	112.5	Big Ten
26	Saint Mary’s	112.5	West Coast
27	Wisconsin	112.2	Big Ten
28	Oklahoma	112.1	Big 12
29	Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
31	Seton Hall	111.9	Big East
32	Florida	111.7	Southeastern
33	Marquette	111.6	Big East
34	Iowa St.	111.2	Big 12
35	Washington St.	111.1	Pac-12
36	BYU	111.1	West Coast
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
38	Loyola Chicago	111.0	Missouri Valley
39	San Francisco	110.8	West Coast
40	Wake Forest	110.7	Atlantic Coast
41	Boise St.	110.7	Mountain West
42	Oregon	110.7	Pac-12
43	San Diego St.	110.6	Mountain West
44	UAB	110.5	Conference USA
45	Mississippi St.	110.5	Southeastern
46	Memphis	110.4	American Athletic
47	Murray St.	110.4	Ohio Valley
48	Oklahoma St.	110.2	Big 12
49	Utah St.	110.1	Mountain West
50	Providence	109.9	Big East
51	Colorado St.	109.6	Mountain West
52	SMU	109.4	American Athletic
53	West Virginia	109.3	Big 12
54	TCU	109.3	Big 12
55	Belmont	109.1	Ohio Valley
56	Saint Louis	109.0	Atlantic 10
57	Clemson	109.0	Atlantic Coast
58	Northwestern	109.0	Big Ten
59	Miami FL	108.7	Atlantic Coast
60	Notre Dame	108.6	Atlantic Coast
61	VCU	108.6	Atlantic 10
62	Missouri St.	108.5	Missouri Valley
63	Davidson	108.5	Atlantic 10
64	Toledo	108.4	Mid-American
65	Florida St.	108.3	Atlantic Coast
66	Texas A&M	108.2	Southeastern
67	Wyoming	108.2	Mountain West
68	Creighton	108.1	Big East
69	Furman	108.1	Southern
70	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
71	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
72	Kansas St.	107.8	Big 12
73	South Dakota St.	107.8	Summit
74	Chattanooga	107.8	Southern
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
77	Syracuse	107.5	Atlantic Coast
78	Penn St.	107.5	Big Ten
79	Dayton	107.4	Atlantic 10
80	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
81	Fresno St.	107.2	Mountain West
82	Vermont	107.2	America East
83	Wichita St.	107.1	American Athletic
84	St. Bonaventure	107.0	Atlantic 10
85	UCF	106.9	American Athletic
86	Santa Clara	106.8	West Coast
87	Virginia	106.6	Atlantic Coast
88	Richmond	106.6	Atlantic 10
89	Colorado	106.5	Pac-12
90	Louisiana Tech	106.4	Conference USA
91	Ohio	106.3	Mid-American
92	Minnesota	106.3	Big Ten
93	Stanford	106.0	Pac-12
94	Vanderbilt	105.9	Southeastern
95	South Carolina	105.8	Southeastern
96	Drake	105.7	Missouri Valley
97	Rutgers	105.5	Big Ten
98	DePaul	105.3	Big East
99	Towson	105.2	Colonial Athletic
100	Louisville	105.1	Atlantic Coast
101	Rhode Island	105.0	Atlantic 10
102	N.C. State	105.0	Atlantic Coast
103	New Mexico St.	105.0	Western Athletic
104	Bradley	104.8	Missouri Valley
105	Northern Iowa	104.6	Missouri Valley
106	Mississippi	104.6	Southeastern
107	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
108	Wagner	104.3	Northeast
109	UNLV	104.3	Mountain West
110	Wofford	104.1	Southern
111	Utah	103.9	Pac-12
112	Oakland	103.9	Horizon
113	Liberty	103.8	Atlantic Sun
114	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
115	Hofstra	103.7	Colonial Athletic
116	Grand Canyon	103.7	Western Athletic
117	Weber St.	103.6	Big Sky
118	Buffalo	103.6	Mid-American
119	Tulane	103.6	American Athletic
120	Utah Valley	103.5	Western Athletic
121	California	103.4	Pac-12
122	Jacksonville St.	103.3	Atlantic Sun
123	Nevada	103.1	Mountain West
124	Monmouth	103.0	Metro Atlantic
125	Colgate	102.9	Patriot League
126	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
127	Oral Roberts	102.8	Summit
128	Butler	102.7	Big East
129	Seattle	102.6	Western Athletic
130	Western Kentucky	102.6	Conference USA
131	Temple	102.5	American Athletic
132	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
133	Southern Illinois	102.4	Missouri Valley
134	Georgia Tech	102.4	Atlantic Coast
135	Middle Tennessee	101.8	Conference USA
136	Tulsa	101.7	American Athletic
137	Washington	101.7	Pac-12
138	Yale	101.7	Ivy League
139	Boston College	101.7	Atlantic Coast
140	UC Santa Barbara	101.7	Big West
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
142	Princeton	101.5	Ivy League
143	Morehead St.	101.5	Ohio Valley
144	Florida Atlantic	101.3	Conference USA
145	Delaware	101.3	Colonial Athletic
146	Missouri	101.2	Southeastern
147	Abilene Christian	101.1	Western Athletic
148	UC Riverside	101.1	Big West
149	Navy	101.0	Patriot League
150	Drexel	100.9	Colonial Athletic
151	Oregon St.	100.7	Pac-12
152	Georgetown	100.6	Big East
153	Montana St.	100.6	Big Sky
154	Stephen F. Austin	100.6	Western Athletic
155	San Diego	100.5	West Coast
156	Southern Utah	100.5	Big Sky
157	Saint Joseph’s	100.5	Atlantic 10
158	Nebraska	100.5	Big Ten
159	Appalachian St.	100.4	Sun Belt
160	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
161	Longwood	100.3	Big South
162	Saint Peter’s	100.3	Metro Atlantic
163	Cal St. Fullerton	100.2	Big West
164	North Dakota St.	100.2	Summit
165	Hawaii	100.2	Big West
166	Montana	100.1	Big Sky
167	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
168	Kent St.	100.0	Mid-American
169	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
170	Bellarmine	99.9	Atlantic Sun
171	Sam Houston St.	99.9	Western Athletic
172	Texas Southern	99.9	Southwestern Athletic
173	Loyola Marymount	99.8	West Coast
174	VMI	99.8	Southern
175	New Mexico	99.8	Mountain West
176	Cleveland St.	99.8	Horizon
177	Massachusetts	99.7	Atlantic 10
178	East Carolina	99.7	American Athletic
179	Boston University	99.7	Patriot League
180	UTEP	99.6	Conference USA
181	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
182	Old Dominion	99.5	Conference USA
183	Rice	99.5	Conference USA
184	Arkansas St.	99.5	Sun Belt
185	Charleston	99.4	Colonial Athletic
186	Indiana St.	99.3	Missouri Valley
187	Georgia St.	99.3	Sun Belt
188	Fairfield	99.2	Metro Atlantic
189	Gardner Webb	99.2	Big South
190	UNC Greensboro	99.1	Southern
191	Louisiana	99.1	Sun Belt
192	Illinois St.	99.1	Missouri Valley
193	East Tennessee St.	98.9	Southern
194	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
195	Georgia	98.8	Southeastern
196	Northern Colorado	98.7	Big Sky
197	Winthrop	98.7	Big South
198	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
199	Troy	98.6	Sun Belt
200	Cornell	98.4	Ivy League
201	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
202	Penn	98.3	Ivy League
203	Western Illinois	98.3	Summit
204	Miami OH	98.3	Mid-American
205	Charlotte	98.3	Conference USA
206	James Madison	98.3	Colonial Athletic
207	Long Beach St.	98.2	Big West
208	Eastern Washington	98.2	Big Sky
209	Detroit Mercy	98.2	Horizon
210	Norfolk St.	98.2	Mideastern Athletic
211	Fordham	98.1	Atlantic 10
212	Valparaiso	98.1	Missouri Valley
213	Niagara	98.1	Metro Atlantic
214	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
215	Marshall	97.9	Conference USA
216	Nicholls St.	97.9	Southland
217	Campbell	97.9	Big South
218	Stony Brook	97.8	America East
219	Bowling Green	97.8	Mid-American
220	Southern	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
221	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
222	Howard	97.6	Mideastern Athletic
223	Harvard	97.5	Ivy League
224	UNC Wilmington	97.3	Colonial Athletic
225	Florida Gulf Coast	97.3	Atlantic Sun
226	Jacksonville	96.9	Atlantic Sun
227	Georgia Southern	96.8	Sun Belt
228	Cal Baptist	96.8	Western Athletic
229	Duquesne	96.8	Atlantic 10
230	Eastern Kentucky	96.7	Atlantic Sun
231	South Dakota	96.6	Summit
232	UC Davis	96.6	Big West
233	Mercer	96.6	Southern
234	Kennesaw St.	96.6	Atlantic Sun
235	Portland	96.6	West Coast
236	UNC Asheville	96.6	Big South
237	Air Force	96.6	Mountain West
238	South Florida	96.5	American Athletic
239	Northern Kentucky	96.4	Horizon
240	Dartmouth	96.3	Ivy League
241	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2	Big West
242	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
243	Ball St.	96.2	Mid-American
244	Youngstown St.	96.1	Horizon
245	New Hampshire	96.1	America East
246	Samford	96.0	Southern
247	UMKC	96.0	Summit
248	UMBC	96.0	America East
249	FIU	96.0	Conference USA
250	LIU	95.8	Northeast
251	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Horizon
252	Mount St. Mary’s	95.7	Northeast
253	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
254	Northeastern	95.6	Colonial Athletic
255	UMass Lowell	95.4	America East
256	Alcorn St.	95.1	Southwestern Athletic
257	Pacific	95.0	West Coast
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
259	Loyola MD	94.7	Patriot League
260	Albany	94.7	America East
261	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6	Southland
262	High Point	94.5	Big South
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
264	Tennessee Tech	94.5	Ohio Valley
265	UC San Diego	94.5	Big West
266	Elon	94.5	Colonial Athletic
267	Eastern Michigan	94.3	Mid-American
268	Portland St.	94.3	Big Sky
269	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
270	North Alabama	94.3	Atlantic Sun
271	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
272	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
273	Louisiana Monroe	93.9	Sun Belt
274	Army	93.9	Patriot League
275	New Orleans	93.9	Southland
276	USC Upstate	93.8	Big South
277	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
278	Canisius	93.5	Metro Atlantic
279	Hartford	93.4	America East
280	Dixie St.	93.4	Western Athletic
281	Jackson St.	93.4	Southwestern Athletic
282	Austin Peay	93.4	Ohio Valley
283	Lipscomb	93.3	Atlantic Sun
284	Presbyterian	93.1	Big South
285	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
286	North Carolina A&T	92.9	Big South
287	SIU Edwardsville	92.7	Ohio Valley
288	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7	Western Athletic
289	St. Thomas	92.7	Summit
290	Binghamton	92.7	America East
291	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
292	North Carolina Central	92.6	Mideastern Athletic
293	Radford	92.6	Big South
294	North Florida	92.5	Atlantic Sun
295	Southeast Missouri St.	92.4	Ohio Valley
296	Southeastern Louisiana	92.4	Southland
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
298	Coppin St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
299	Stetson	92.3	Atlantic Sun
300	San Jose St.	92.2	Mountain West
301	Robert Morris	91.8	Horizon
302	Milwaukee	91.8	Horizon
303	Merrimack	91.8	Northeast
304	St. Francis PA	91.7	Northeast
305	Western Carolina	91.6	Southern
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
307	Tennessee St.	91.5	Ohio Valley
308	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
309	Lehigh	91.2	Patriot League
310	McNeese St.	91.2	Southland
311	Little Rock	91.2	Sun Belt
312	Florida A&M	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
313	Northern Illinois	91.0	Mid-American
314	Lafayette	90.9	Patriot League
315	Sacramento St.	90.8	Big Sky
316	Sacred Heart	90.7	Northeast
317	NJIT	90.6	America East
318	St. Francis NY	90.4	Northeast
319	Grambling St.	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
320	Tennessee Martin	90.3	Ohio Valley
321	Southern Miss	90.3	Conference USA
322	Cal St. Northridge	90.2	Big West
323	Green Bay	90.1	Horizon
324	UTSA	90.1	Conference USA
325	Morgan St.	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
326	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
327	Alabama St.	89.6	Southwestern Athletic
328	Northern Arizona	89.6	Big Sky
329	William & Mary	89.2	Colonial Athletic
330	American	88.9	Patriot League
331	Central Michigan	88.9	Mid-American
332	Western Michigan	88.8	Mid-American
333	Hampton	88.7	Big South
334	Bucknell	88.4	Patriot League
335	Lamar	88.4	Western Athletic
336	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
337	Northwestern St.	87.9	Southland
338	Bethune Cookman	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
339	Central Arkansas	87.5	Atlantic Sun
340	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
341	Alabama A&M	87.3	Southwestern Athletic
342	Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3	Northeast
343	South Carolina St.	87.2	Mideastern Athletic
344	Central Connecticut	86.9	Northeast
345	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
346	Nebraska Omaha	86.3	Summit
347	North Dakota	86.3	Summit
348	Holy Cross	85.7	Patriot League
349	Chicago St.	85.3	Western Athletic
350	Houston Baptist	85.2	Southland
351	Maine	85.1	America East
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
353	Incarnate Word	84.5	Southland
354	Eastern Illinois	83.1	Ohio Valley
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
356	IUPUI	80.2	Horizon
357	Delaware St.	78.7	Mideastern Athletic
358	Mississippi Valley St.	77.9	Southwestern Athletic

Alphabetical

#	Team	PiRate	Conference
147	Abilene Christian	101.1	Western Athletic
237	Air Force	96.6	Mountain West
141	Akron	101.5	Mid-American
17	Alabama	115.2	Southeastern
341	Alabama A&M	87.3	Southwestern Athletic
327	Alabama St.	89.6	Southwestern Athletic
260	Albany	94.7	America East
256	Alcorn St.	95.1	Southwestern Athletic
330	American	88.9	Patriot League
159	Appalachian St.	100.4	Sun Belt
2	Arizona	121.2	Pac-12
126	Arizona St.	102.9	Pac-12
29	Arkansas	112.0	Southeastern
355	Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7	Southwestern Athletic
184	Arkansas St.	99.5	Sun Belt
274	Army	93.9	Patriot League
7	Auburn	119.3	Southeastern
282	Austin Peay	93.4	Ohio Valley
243	Ball St.	96.2	Mid-American
3	Baylor	120.5	Big 12
170	Bellarmine	99.9	Atlantic Sun
55	Belmont	109.1	Ohio Valley
338	Bethune Cookman	87.8	Southwestern Athletic
290	Binghamton	92.7	America East
41	Boise St.	110.7	Mountain West
139	Boston College	101.7	Atlantic Coast
179	Boston University	99.7	Patriot League
219	Bowling Green	97.8	Mid-American
104	Bradley	104.8	Missouri Valley
181	Brown	99.5	Ivy League
201	Bryant	98.4	Northeast
334	Bucknell	88.4	Patriot League
118	Buffalo	103.6	Mid-American
128	Butler	102.7	Big East
36	BYU	111.1	West Coast
228	Cal Baptist	96.8	Western Athletic
308	Cal Poly	91.4	Big West
241	Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2	Big West
163	Cal St. Fullerton	100.2	Big West
322	Cal St. Northridge	90.2	Big West
121	California	103.4	Pac-12
217	Campbell	97.9	Big South
278	Canisius	93.5	Metro Atlantic
339	Central Arkansas	87.5	Atlantic Sun
344	Central Connecticut	86.9	Northeast
331	Central Michigan	88.9	Mid-American
185	Charleston	99.4	Colonial Athletic
352	Charleston Southern	84.7	Big South
205	Charlotte	98.3	Conference USA
74	Chattanooga	107.8	Southern
349	Chicago St.	85.3	Western Athletic
70	Cincinnati	108.0	American Athletic
57	Clemson	109.0	Atlantic Coast
176	Cleveland St.	99.8	Horizon
160	Coastal Carolina	100.4	Sun Belt
125	Colgate	102.9	Patriot League
89	Colorado	106.5	Pac-12
51	Colorado St.	109.6	Mountain West
345	Columbia	86.5	Ivy League
16	Connecticut	115.5	Big East
298	Coppin St.	92.3	Mideastern Athletic
200	Cornell	98.4	Ivy League
68	Creighton	108.1	Big East
240	Dartmouth	96.3	Ivy League
63	Davidson	108.5	Atlantic 10
79	Dayton	107.4	Atlantic 10
145	Delaware	101.3	Colonial Athletic
357	Delaware St.	78.7	Mideastern Athletic
306	Denver	91.5	Summit
98	DePaul	105.3	Big East
209	Detroit Mercy	98.2	Horizon
280	Dixie St.	93.4	Western Athletic
96	Drake	105.7	Missouri Valley
150	Drexel	100.9	Colonial Athletic
11	Duke	117.2	Atlantic Coast
229	Duquesne	96.8	Atlantic 10
178	East Carolina	99.7	American Athletic
193	East Tennessee St.	98.9	Southern
354	Eastern Illinois	83.1	Ohio Valley
230	Eastern Kentucky	96.7	Atlantic Sun
267	Eastern Michigan	94.3	Mid-American
208	Eastern Washington	98.2	Big Sky
266	Elon	94.5	Colonial Athletic
297	Evansville	92.4	Missouri Valley
188	Fairfield	99.2	Metro Atlantic
342	Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3	Northeast
249	FIU	96.0	Conference USA
32	Florida	111.7	Southeastern
312	Florida A&M	91.1	Southwestern Athletic
144	Florida Atlantic	101.3	Conference USA
225	Florida Gulf Coast	97.3	Atlantic Sun
65	Florida St.	108.3	Atlantic Coast
211	Fordham	98.1	Atlantic 10
81	Fresno St.	107.2	Mountain West
69	Furman	108.1	Southern
189	Gardner Webb	99.2	Big South
107	George Mason	104.4	Atlantic 10
258	George Washington	94.8	Atlantic 10
152	Georgetown	100.6	Big East
195	Georgia	98.8	Southeastern
227	Georgia Southern	96.8	Sun Belt
187	Georgia St.	99.3	Sun Belt
134	Georgia Tech	102.4	Atlantic Coast
1	Gonzaga	124.5	West Coast
319	Grambling St.	90.4	Southwestern Athletic
116	Grand Canyon	103.7	Western Athletic
323	Green Bay	90.1	Horizon
333	Hampton	88.7	Big South
279	Hartford	93.4	America East
223	Harvard	97.5	Ivy League
165	Hawaii	100.2	Big West
262	High Point	94.5	Big South
115	Hofstra	103.7	Colonial Athletic
348	Holy Cross	85.7	Patriot League
6	Houston	119.4	American Athletic
350	Houston Baptist	85.2	Southland
222	Howard	97.6	Mideastern Athletic
326	Idaho	89.9	Big Sky
340	Idaho St.	87.4	Big Sky
15	Illinois	116.0	Big Ten
272	Illinois Chicago	94.0	Horizon
192	Illinois St.	99.1	Missouri Valley
353	Incarnate Word	84.5	Southland
23	Indiana	113.2	Big Ten
186	Indiana St.	99.3	Missouri Valley
71	Iona	107.9	Metro Atlantic
20	Iowa	114.3	Big Ten
34	Iowa St.	111.2	Big 12
356	IUPUI	80.2	Horizon
281	Jackson St.	93.4	Southwestern Athletic
226	Jacksonville	96.9	Atlantic Sun
122	Jacksonville St.	103.3	Atlantic Sun
206	James Madison	98.3	Colonial Athletic
10	Kansas	117.9	Big 12
72	Kansas St.	107.8	Big 12
234	Kennesaw St.	96.6	Atlantic Sun
168	Kent St.	100.0	Mid-American
4	Kentucky	120.2	Southeastern
242	La Salle	96.2	Atlantic 10
314	Lafayette	90.9	Patriot League
335	Lamar	88.4	Western Athletic
309	Lehigh	91.2	Patriot League
113	Liberty	103.8	Atlantic Sun
283	Lipscomb	93.3	Atlantic Sun
311	Little Rock	91.2	Sun Belt
250	LIU	95.8	Northeast
207	Long Beach St.	98.2	Big West
161	Longwood	100.3	Big South
191	Louisiana	99.1	Sun Belt
273	Louisiana Monroe	93.9	Sun Belt
90	Louisiana Tech	106.4	Conference USA
100	Louisville	105.1	Atlantic Coast
38	Loyola Chicago	111.0	Missouri Valley
173	Loyola Marymount	99.8	West Coast
259	Loyola MD	94.7	Patriot League
14	LSU	116.6	Southeastern
351	Maine	85.1	America East
271	Manhattan	94.2	Metro Atlantic
198	Marist	98.6	Metro Atlantic
33	Marquette	111.6	Big East
215	Marshall	97.9	Conference USA
76	Maryland	107.6	Big Ten
336	Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3	Mideastern Athletic
177	Massachusetts	99.7	Atlantic 10
310	McNeese St.	91.2	Southland
46	Memphis	110.4	American Athletic
233	Mercer	96.6	Southern
303	Merrimack	91.8	Northeast
59	Miami FL	108.7	Atlantic Coast
204	Miami OH	98.3	Mid-American
25	Michigan	112.5	Big Ten
19	Michigan St.	114.8	Big Ten
135	Middle Tennessee	101.8	Conference USA
302	Milwaukee	91.8	Horizon
92	Minnesota	106.3	Big Ten
106	Mississippi	104.6	Southeastern
45	Mississippi St.	110.5	Southeastern
358	Mississippi Valley St.	77.9	Southwestern Athletic
146	Missouri	101.2	Southeastern
62	Missouri St.	108.5	Missouri Valley
124	Monmouth	103.0	Metro Atlantic
166	Montana	100.1	Big Sky
153	Montana St.	100.6	Big Sky
143	Morehead St.	101.5	Ohio Valley
325	Morgan St.	90.0	Mideastern Athletic
252	Mount St. Mary’s	95.7	Northeast
47	Murray St.	110.4	Ohio Valley
102	N.C. State	105.0	Atlantic Coast
149	Navy	101.0	Patriot League
158	Nebraska	100.5	Big Ten
346	Nebraska Omaha	86.3	Summit
123	Nevada	103.1	Mountain West
245	New Hampshire	96.1	America East
175	New Mexico	99.8	Mountain West
103	New Mexico St.	105.0	Western Athletic
275	New Orleans	93.9	Southland
213	Niagara	98.1	Metro Atlantic
216	Nicholls St.	97.9	Southland
317	NJIT	90.6	America East
210	Norfolk St.	98.2	Mideastern Athletic
270	North Alabama	94.3	Atlantic Sun
30	North Carolina	112.0	Atlantic Coast
286	North Carolina A&T	92.9	Big South
292	North Carolina Central	92.6	Mideastern Athletic
347	North Dakota	86.3	Summit
164	North Dakota St.	100.2	Summit
294	North Florida	92.5	Atlantic Sun
80	North Texas	107.4	Conference USA
254	Northeastern	95.6	Colonial Athletic
328	Northern Arizona	89.6	Big Sky
196	Northern Colorado	98.7	Big Sky
313	Northern Illinois	91.0	Mid-American
105	Northern Iowa	104.6	Missouri Valley
239	Northern Kentucky	96.4	Horizon
58	Northwestern	109.0	Big Ten
337	Northwestern St.	87.9	Southland
60	Notre Dame	108.6	Atlantic Coast
112	Oakland	103.9	Horizon
91	Ohio	106.3	Mid-American
22	Ohio St.	113.9	Big Ten
28	Oklahoma	112.1	Big 12
48	Oklahoma St.	110.2	Big 12
182	Old Dominion	99.5	Conference USA
127	Oral Roberts	102.8	Summit
42	Oregon	110.7	Pac-12
151	Oregon St.	100.7	Pac-12
257	Pacific	95.0	West Coast
202	Penn	98.3	Ivy League
78	Penn St.	107.5	Big Ten
277	Pepperdine	93.6	West Coast
169	Pittsburgh	99.9	Atlantic Coast
235	Portland	96.6	West Coast
268	Portland St.	94.3	Big Sky
285	Prairie View A&M	92.9	Southwestern Athletic
284	Presbyterian	93.1	Big South
142	Princeton	101.5	Ivy League
50	Providence	109.9	Big East
5	Purdue	119.4	Big Ten
251	Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7	Horizon
253	Quinnipiac	95.7	Metro Atlantic
293	Radford	92.6	Big South
101	Rhode Island	105.0	Atlantic 10
183	Rice	99.5	Conference USA
88	Richmond	106.6	Atlantic 10
291	Rider	92.6	Metro Atlantic
301	Robert Morris	91.8	Horizon
97	Rutgers	105.5	Big Ten
315	Sacramento St.	90.8	Big Sky
316	Sacred Heart	90.7	Northeast
157	Saint Joseph’s	100.5	Atlantic 10
56	Saint Louis	109.0	Atlantic 10
26	Saint Mary’s	112.5	West Coast
162	Saint Peter’s	100.3	Metro Atlantic
171	Sam Houston St.	99.9	Western Athletic
246	Samford	96.0	Southern
155	San Diego	100.5	West Coast
43	San Diego St.	110.6	Mountain West
39	San Francisco	110.8	West Coast
300	San Jose St.	92.2	Mountain West
86	Santa Clara	106.8	West Coast
129	Seattle	102.6	Western Athletic
31	Seton Hall	111.9	Big East
269	Siena	94.3	Metro Atlantic
287	SIU Edwardsville	92.7	Ohio Valley
52	SMU	109.4	American Athletic
132	South Alabama	102.4	Sun Belt
95	South Carolina	105.8	Southeastern
343	South Carolina St.	87.2	Mideastern Athletic
231	South Dakota	96.6	Summit
73	South Dakota St.	107.8	Summit
238	South Florida	96.5	American Athletic
295	Southeast Missouri St.	92.4	Ohio Valley
296	Southeastern Louisiana	92.4	Southland
220	Southern	97.7	Southwestern Athletic
133	Southern Illinois	102.4	Missouri Valley
321	Southern Miss	90.3	Conference USA
156	Southern Utah	100.5	Big Sky
84	St. Bonaventure	107.0	Atlantic 10
318	St. Francis NY	90.4	Northeast
304	St. Francis PA	91.7	Northeast
75	St. John’s	107.7	Big East
289	St. Thomas	92.7	Summit
93	Stanford	106.0	Pac-12
154	Stephen F. Austin	100.6	Western Athletic
299	Stetson	92.3	Atlantic Sun
218	Stony Brook	97.8	America East
77	Syracuse	107.5	Atlantic Coast
194	Tarleton St.	98.9	Western Athletic
54	TCU	109.3	Big 12
131	Temple	102.5	American Athletic
12	Tennessee	116.7	Southeastern
320	Tennessee Martin	90.3	Ohio Valley
307	Tennessee St.	91.5	Ohio Valley
264	Tennessee Tech	94.5	Ohio Valley
18	Texas	115.0	Big 12
66	Texas A&M	108.2	Southeastern
261	Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6	Southland
172	Texas Southern	99.9	Southwestern Athletic
167	Texas St.	100.1	Sun Belt
13	Texas Tech	116.6	Big 12
263	The Citadel	94.5	Southern
64	Toledo	108.4	Mid-American
99	Towson	105.2	Colonial Athletic
199	Troy	98.6	Sun Belt
119	Tulane	103.6	American Athletic
136	Tulsa	101.7	American Athletic
44	UAB	110.5	Conference USA
232	UC Davis	96.6	Big West
114	UC Irvine	103.8	Big West
148	UC Riverside	101.1	Big West
265	UC San Diego	94.5	Big West
140	UC Santa Barbara	101.7	Big West
85	UCF	106.9	American Athletic
8	UCLA	118.2	Pac-12
255	UMass Lowell	95.4	America East
248	UMBC	96.0	America East
247	UMKC	96.0	Summit
236	UNC Asheville	96.6	Big South
190	UNC Greensboro	99.1	Southern
224	UNC Wilmington	97.3	Colonial Athletic
109	UNLV	104.3	Mountain West
24	USC	112.6	Pac-12
276	USC Upstate	93.8	Big South
221	UT Arlington	97.7	Sun Belt
288	UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7	Western Athletic
111	Utah	103.9	Pac-12
49	Utah St.	110.1	Mountain West
120	Utah Valley	103.5	Western Athletic
180	UTEP	99.6	Conference USA
324	UTSA	90.1	Conference USA
212	Valparaiso	98.1	Missouri Valley
94	Vanderbilt	105.9	Southeastern
61	VCU	108.6	Atlantic 10
82	Vermont	107.2	America East
9	Villanova	118.2	Big East
87	Virginia	106.6	Atlantic Coast
37	Virginia Tech	111.1	Atlantic Coast
174	VMI	99.8	Southern
108	Wagner	104.3	Northeast
40	Wake Forest	110.7	Atlantic Coast
137	Washington	101.7	Pac-12
35	Washington St.	111.1	Pac-12
117	Weber St.	103.6	Big Sky
53	West Virginia	109.3	Big 12
305	Western Carolina	91.6	Southern
203	Western Illinois	98.3	Summit
130	Western Kentucky	102.6	Conference USA
332	Western Michigan	88.8	Mid-American
83	Wichita St.	107.1	American Athletic
329	William & Mary	89.2	Colonial Athletic
197	Winthrop	98.7	Big South
27	Wisconsin	112.2	Big Ten
110	Wofford	104.1	Southern
214	Wright St.	98.0	Horizon
67	Wyoming	108.2	Mountain West
21	Xavier	114.0	Big East
138	Yale	101.7	Ivy League
244	Youngstown St.	96.1	Horizon

PiRate Ratings By Conference

America East
Team	Rating
Vermont	107.2
Stony Brook	97.8
New Hampshire	96.1
UMBC	96.0
UMass Lowell	95.4
Albany	94.7
Hartford	93.4
Binghamton	92.7
NJIT	90.6
Maine	85.1
American Athletic
Team	Rating
Houston	119.4
Memphis	110.4
SMU	109.4
Cincinnati	108.0
Wichita St.	107.1
UCF	106.9
Tulane	103.6
Temple	102.5
Tulsa	101.7
East Carolina	99.7
South Florida	96.5
Atlantic 10
Team	Rating
Saint Louis	109.0
VCU	108.6
Davidson	108.5
Dayton	107.4
St. Bonaventure	107.0
Richmond	106.6
Rhode Island	105.0
George Mason	104.4
Saint Joseph’s	100.5
Massachusetts	99.7
Fordham	98.1
Duquesne	96.8
La Salle	96.2
George Washington	94.8
Atlantic Coast
Team	Rating
Duke	117.2
North Carolina	112.0
Virginia Tech	111.1
Wake Forest	110.7
Clemson	109.0
Miami FL	108.7
Notre Dame	108.6
Florida St.	108.3
Syracuse	107.5
Virginia	106.6
Louisville	105.1
N.C. State	105.0
Georgia Tech	102.4
Boston College	101.7
Pittsburgh	99.9
Atlantic Sun
Team	Rating
Liberty	103.8
Jacksonville St.	103.3
Bellarmine	99.9
Florida Gulf Coast	97.3
Jacksonville	96.9
Eastern Kentucky	96.7
Kennesaw St.	96.6
North Alabama	94.3
Lipscomb	93.3
North Florida	92.5
Stetson	92.3
Central Arkansas	87.5
Big 12
Team	Rating
Baylor	120.5
Kansas	117.9
Texas Tech	116.6
Texas	115.0
Oklahoma	112.1
Iowa St.	111.2
Oklahoma St.	110.2
West Virginia	109.3
TCU	109.3
Kansas St.	107.8
Big East
Team	Rating
Villanova	118.2
Connecticut	115.5
Xavier	114.0
Seton Hall	111.9
Marquette	111.6
Providence	109.9
Creighton	108.1
St. John’s	107.7
DePaul	105.3
Butler	102.7
Georgetown	100.6
Big Sky
Team	Rating
Weber St.	103.6
Montana St.	100.6
Southern Utah	100.5
Montana	100.1
Northern Colorado	98.7
Eastern Washington	98.2
Portland St.	94.3
Sacramento St.	90.8
Idaho	89.9
Northern Arizona	89.6
Idaho St.	87.4
Big South
Team	Rating
Longwood	100.3
Gardner Webb	99.2
Winthrop	98.7
Campbell	97.9
UNC Asheville	96.6
High Point	94.5
USC Upstate	93.8
Presbyterian	93.1
North Carolina A&T	92.9
Radford	92.6
Hampton	88.7
Charleston Southern	84.7
Big Ten
Team	Rating
Purdue	119.4
Illinois	116.0
Michigan St.	114.8
Iowa	114.3
Ohio St.	113.9
Indiana	113.2
Michigan	112.5
Wisconsin	112.2
Northwestern	109.0
Maryland	107.6
Penn St.	107.5
Minnesota	106.3
Rutgers	105.5
Nebraska	100.5
Big West
Team	Rating
UC Irvine	103.8
UC Santa Barbara	101.7
UC Riverside	101.1
Cal St. Fullerton	100.2
Hawaii	100.2
Long Beach St.	98.2
UC Davis	96.6
Cal St. Bakersfield	96.2
UC San Diego	94.5
Cal Poly	91.4
Cal St. Northridge	90.2
Colonial Athletic
Team	Rating
Towson	105.2
Hofstra	103.7
Delaware	101.3
Drexel	100.9
Charleston	99.4
James Madison	98.3
UNC Wilmington	97.3
Northeastern	95.6
Elon	94.5
William & Mary	89.2
Conference USA
Team	Rating
UAB	110.5
North Texas	107.4
Louisiana Tech	106.4
Western Kentucky	102.6
Middle Tennessee	101.8
Florida Atlantic	101.3
UTEP	99.6
Old Dominion	99.5
Rice	99.5
Charlotte	98.3
Marshall	97.9
FIU	96.0
Southern Miss	90.3
UTSA	90.1
Horizon
Team	Rating
Oakland	103.9
Cleveland St.	99.8
Detroit Mercy	98.2
Wright St.	98.0
Northern Kentucky	96.4
Youngstown St.	96.1
Purdue Fort Wayne	95.7
Illinois Chicago	94.0
Robert Morris	91.8
Milwaukee	91.8
Green Bay	90.1
IUPUI	80.2
Ivy League
Team	Rating
Yale	101.7
Princeton	101.5
Brown	99.5
Cornell	98.4
Penn	98.3
Harvard	97.5
Dartmouth	96.3
Columbia	86.5
Metro Atlantic
Team	Rating
Iona	107.9
Monmouth	103.0
Saint Peter’s	100.3
Fairfield	99.2
Marist	98.6
Niagara	98.1
Quinnipiac	95.7
Siena	94.3
Manhattan	94.2
Canisius	93.5
Rider	92.6
Mid-American
Team	Rating
Toledo	108.4
Ohio	106.3
Buffalo	103.6
Akron	101.5
Kent St.	100.0
Miami OH	98.3
Bowling Green	97.8
Ball St.	96.2
Eastern Michigan	94.3
Northern Illinois	91.0
Central Michigan	88.9
Western Michigan	88.8
Mideastern Athletic
Team	Rating
Norfolk St.	98.2
Howard	97.6
North Carolina Central	92.6
Coppin St.	92.3
Morgan St.	90.0
Maryland Eastern Shore	88.3
South Carolina St.	87.2
Delaware St.	78.7
Missouri Valley
Team	Rating
Loyola Chicago	111.0
Missouri St.	108.5
Drake	105.7
Bradley	104.8
Northern Iowa	104.6
Southern Illinois	102.4
Indiana St.	99.3
Illinois St.	99.1
Valparaiso	98.1
Evansville	92.4
Mountain West
Team	Rating
Boise St.	110.7
San Diego St.	110.6
Utah St.	110.1
Colorado St.	109.6
Wyoming	108.2
Fresno St.	107.2
UNLV	104.3
Nevada	103.1
New Mexico	99.8
Air Force	96.6
San Jose St.	92.2
Northeast
Team	Rating
Wagner	104.3
Bryant	98.4
LIU	95.8
Mount St. Mary’s	95.7
Merrimack	91.8
St. Francis PA	91.7
Sacred Heart	90.7
St. Francis NY	90.4
Fairleigh Dickinson	87.3
Central Connecticut	86.9
Ohio Valley
Team	Rating
Murray St.	110.4
Belmont	109.1
Morehead St.	101.5
Tennessee Tech	94.5
Austin Peay	93.4
SIU Edwardsville	92.7
Southeast Missouri St.	92.4
Tennessee St.	91.5
Tennessee Martin	90.3
Eastern Illinois	83.1
Pac-12
Team	Rating
Arizona	121.2
UCLA	118.2
USC	112.6
Washington St.	111.1
Oregon	110.7
Colorado	106.5
Stanford	106.0
Utah	103.9
California	103.4
Arizona St.	102.9
Washington	101.7
Oregon St.	100.7
Patriot League
Team	Rating
Colgate	102.9
Navy	101.0
Boston University	99.7
Loyola MD	94.7
Army	93.9
Lehigh	91.2
Lafayette	90.9
American	88.9
Bucknell	88.4
Holy Cross	85.7
Southeastern
Team	Rating
Kentucky	120.2
Auburn	119.3
Tennessee	116.7
LSU	116.6
Alabama	115.2
Arkansas	112.0
Florida	111.7
Mississippi St.	110.5
Texas A&M	108.2
Vanderbilt	105.9
South Carolina	105.8
Mississippi	104.6
Missouri	101.2
Georgia	98.8
Southern
Team	Rating
Furman	108.1
Chattanooga	107.8
Wofford	104.1
VMI	99.8
UNC Greensboro	99.1
East Tennessee St.	98.9
Mercer	96.6
Samford	96.0
The Citadel	94.5
Western Carolina	91.6
Southland
Team	Rating
Nicholls St.	97.9
Texas A&M Corpus Chris	94.6
New Orleans	93.9
Southeastern Louisiana	92.4
McNeese St.	91.2
Northwestern St.	87.9
Houston Baptist	85.2
Incarnate Word	84.5
Southwestern Athletic
Team	Rating
Texas Southern	99.9
Southern	97.7
Alcorn St.	95.1
Jackson St.	93.4
Prairie View A&M	92.9
Florida A&M	91.1
Grambling St.	90.4
Alabama St.	89.6
Bethune Cookman	87.8
Alabama A&M	87.3
Arkansas Pine Bluff	82.7
Mississippi Valley St.	77.9
Summit
Team	Rating
South Dakota St.	107.8
Oral Roberts	102.8
North Dakota St.	100.2
Western Illinois	98.3
South Dakota	96.6
UMKC	96.0
St. Thomas	92.7
Denver	91.5
Nebraska Omaha	86.3
North Dakota	86.3
Sun Belt
Team	Rating
South Alabama	102.4
Appalachian St.	100.4
Coastal Carolina	100.4
Texas St.	100.1
Arkansas St.	99.5
Georgia St.	99.3
Louisiana	99.1
Troy	98.6
UT Arlington	97.7
Georgia Southern	96.8
Louisiana Monroe	93.9
Little Rock	91.2
West Coast
Team	Rating
Gonzaga	124.5
Saint Mary’s	112.5
BYU	111.1
San Francisco	110.8
Santa Clara	106.8
San Diego	100.5
Loyola Marymount	99.8
Portland	96.6
Pacific	95.0
Pepperdine	93.6
Western Athletic
Team	Rating
New Mexico St.	105.0
Grand Canyon	103.7
Utah Valley	103.5
Seattle	102.6
Abilene Christian	101.1
Stephen F. Austin	100.6
Sam Houston St.	99.9
Tarleton St.	98.9
Cal Baptist	96.8
Dixie St.	93.4
UT Rio Grande Valley	92.7
Lamar	88.4
Chicago St.	85.3

Coming Later Today: Updated Bracketology

There was quite a bit of movement in the March Madness field this past weekend, and the Bubble has changed quite a bit since Friday.

PiRate Picks–November 11-13, 2021

We almost made it, but a small miss is as good as a long mile. Last week, with a fourth consecutive winning week looking promising, a couple of fourth quarters went against us, and alas we suffered a tiny loss of 0.9%, or less than $5 on $500 invested in imaginary currency.

For the year, our net profit is now 4.88%, so we are still in the black, just barely. This week, we delayed by a day putting this feature online. The reason is that we did not like the overall numbers and wanted the betting public to help us out by moving the money lines just enough for our program to show the parlays to have an edge by finding the best lines. After looking at 11 different books, we still could only find three wagers to play. Four more were monitored closely and might have eventually moved to make them playable, but we like to publish this before Noon on Thursday, and the movements aren’t moving this morning (Thursday at 9:30 AM EST).

These next two weeks historically have seen monumental upsets in college football when teams that appear to be superior to the opponents they are playing have hidden depth issues. It’s not just players that don’t dress out. By this point in the schedule most college teams have 10-20 players that are playing with minor injuries and are not the same as they were four weeks ago. We look for teams that win consistently through the first week in November but tend to lose power ratings while winning, because instead of producing a statistics box that looks like a 20-point win, they produce a statistics box of 15-17 points, and then 10-14 points. We do not update our ratings by final score. We look at the statistics and make a score adjustment based on the domination or lack thereof and then update. A team that wins by 28 points and is out-gained by 50 yards where the opponent lost fumbles in the Red Zone may actually receive credit for a 14-point “effective win.” A team that wins by 11 points but ends the game at the opponent’s five yard line and chooses to take a knee may receive credit for an 18-point effective win.

You will also notice that since early in the season, we have stopped playing NFL parlays in this feature. The variance in the games is making it impossible for our method to isolate on enough games to make a favorable parlay. We think there are two reasons for this. First, even though there are lousy teams like Detroit, there are no dominant teams that can be counted on to win when they are favored by less than a touchdown. Second, now that many millions more people can legally wager, the odds no longer move by large enough amounts to create favorable odds. There are 60+ college games to find favorable numbers, and the public may not find a Mountain West Conference game worth much, while we do. There are 13-16 NFL games per week, and even Detroit, San Francisco, and Miami get heavy action. We’d like to play three underdogs this week, but the numbers are not favorable according to our program.

Here are our three selections for this week. Remember, we never wager real money on these picks. If we don’t, do you think you should?

Odds:	+185
Must Win	Opponent
East Carolina	Memphis
Odds:	+205.47
Must Win	Opponent
Kansas St.	West Virginia
Air Force	Colorado St.
Oklahoma St.	TCU
Odds:	+152.71
Must Win	Opponent
Louisiana	Troy
Oklahoma	Baylor
Oregon	Washington St.

PiRate Picks–October 28-30, 2021

Back To Back Winning Weeks

Usually, the middle of October to the middle of November has been the period where our college football parlay picks have made their move into positive territory, and this year has been another example of that. After going north and south of the break-even line, in the last two weeks, a couple of big wins with fat payouts has taken our imaginary bankroll and turned it from red to black numbers.

We won two of the four parlays, one paying out at +187 and the other at +147.40. That comes to a 33.6% return on investment for the weekend. For the year, $3,500 in imaginary funds have been wagered with the sports books, and $3,704.28 in imaginary funds have been returned for an ROI of 5.84%.

Last week, we did not particularly like the games overall. It was difficult finding suitable parlays with payouts better than +120 that our “system” said had a better chance than the minimum needed to show a profit. The week before, too many games presented themselves as playable, and we had to limit the ones we wanted.

This week, it is somewhere in between. We selected to underdogs to win outright with rather fat payout odds. Our methods say these two games are virtual tossup games, so if we can get better than +120 on these games, we feel compelled to take the ‘dogs.

However, after the two straight up upset selections, we spent an extra hour plus trying to combine games into suitable odds while remaining confident that the teams would win.

So, without further adieu, here are our five selections for this week.

Note: Corrected Parlay after astute football guru Dustdog spotted an error.

Date:	October 28-30
Odds:	+360
Must Win	Opponent
UTEP	Florida Atlantic
Odds:	+170
Must Win	Opponent
Michigan St.	Michigan
Odds:	+225.59
Must Win	Opponent
Illinois	Rutgers
Notre Dame	North Carolina
Odds:	+269.54
Must Win	Opponent
Central Florida	Temple
Kansas St.	TCU
Rice	North Texas
Odds:	+150
Must Win	Opponent
Utah St.	Hawaii
San Jose St.	Wyoming

PiRate Picks–October 21-23, 2021

What a minor difference a week made! After just missing on three big-payout parlays two weeks ago, we played the same strategy last week and made a minor splash thanks to the help of one long shot parlay that won and returned better than 3 to 1 odds. With another win at +187, we made a small profit last week, but large enough to turn our minor net loss for the season into a net gain of 2.3%.

Of course, as we say every week, our financial loss or gain is merely imaginary, as we are playing with imaginary funds that never run out but never accrue. This feature is presented just for fun, and we strongly urge you not to wager real money on what you read here, unless it merely validates your research.

This week presents the fewest number of games that met our criteria this year in any week. We could only go with four parlays of two teams apiece. None are major long shots, but they all top +120, which is the minimum odds we will play. Enjoy!

Date:	October 21-25
Odds:	+187
Must Win	Opponent
Central Florida	Memphis
Notre Dame	USC
Odds:	+147.40
Must Win	Opponent
Eastern Michigan	Bowling Green
Kent St.	Ohio U
Odds:	+138.99
Must Win	Opponent
San Jose St.	UNLV
Ball St.	Miami (O)
Odds:	+131.08
Must Win	Opponent
Minnesota	Maryland
TCU	West Virginia

PiRate Picks For September 9-13, 2021

Last week’s opening picks missed, as Virginia Tech made Sam Howell look like Thurston Howell. Duke then failed to show up against Charlotte, and poof, our two picks were destroyed. Such is life when you wager on parlays that return the odds we look for when we place our imaginary wagers.

We have two more picks returning some fat odds this week, and maybe we’ll get lucky and hit on one. We will also tell you a week 1 tip for the NFL. Although we are here just for Money Line Parlays this year, it doesn’t mean we cannot give out a little interesting information.

Here are our two Money Line Parlays for Week two of the college season. We will eventually pick some NFL games, but Week one is not the time and place for that.

Parlay 1

Odds:	+224
Must Win	Opponent
Virginia	Illinois
Rutgers	Syracuse
Michigan	Washington

Parlay 2

Odds:	+180.56
Must Win	Opponent
Mississippi St.	North Carolina St.
TCU	California

Here’s our tip for Week 1 of the NFL season. Underdogs of 1 to 3 points tend to win outright 50% of the time, but they also lose by less than 3 points another 8-10% of the time. That’s 58-60% success for wagering on 3-point Underdogs.

There are seven games as of this writing with a 3-point spread. The Dogs are:

Houston against Jacksonville

Arizona against Tennessee

Philadelphia against Atlanta

Indianapolis against Seattle

Cincinnati against Minnesota

Miami against New England

N.Y. Giants against Denver

PiRate Ratings College Basketball Spreads For December 30-31, 2017

Saturday’s Games
Home Team	Visitor	Spread
Connecticut	Wichita St.	-10.0
Houston	Temple	8.6
North Carolina	Wake Forest	14.0
Duke	Florida St.	10.6
Virginia	Boston College	16.2
Notre Dame	Georgia Tech	16.5
Pittsburgh	Miami (Fla.)	-11.8
Clemson	N. C. State	8.5
TCU	Oklahoma	1.4
Xavier	DePaul	16.1
Butler	Villanova	-7.9
Marquette	Georgetown	8.3
Nevada	New Mexico	15.7
San Diego St.	Utah St.	10.1
UNLV	Boise St.	4.0
Arizona	Arizona St.	2.5
Stanford	California	7.1
Arkansas	Tennessee	5.2
Florida	Vanderbilt	9.1
Alabama	Texas A&M	-4.1
BYU	Saint Mary’s	0.2
Gonzaga	Santa Clara	25.2

Sunday’s Games
Home Team	Visitor	Spread
Tulane	Tulsa	2.0
Cincinnati	Memphis	20.1
East Carolina	Central Florida	-10.9
SMU	South Florida	22.3
Syracuse	Virginia Tech	0.1
Creighton	Providence	10.2
Seton Hall	St. John’s	8.1
Oregon St.	Utah	-4.0
UCLA	Washington	9.0
USC	Washington St.	14.1
Oregon	Colorado	11.4
Kentucky	Georgia	9.8
Ole Miss	South Carolina	2.0

 

 

PiRate Ratings College Football Forecast for October 26-28, 2017

This Week’s PiRate Ratings Spreads

Home	Visitor	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Ball St.	Toledo	-29.0	-26.8	-29.3
Georgia St.	South Alabama	-0.7	-3.5	-1.1
Northern Illinois	Eastern Michigan	1.1	1.3	1.6
Oregon St.	Stanford	-25.0	-23.9	-25.8
Boston College	Florida St.	-11.7	-10.5	-10.5
Memphis	Tulane	12.3	11.5	11.9
SMU	Tulsa	4.6	4.9	5.2
Purdue	Nebraska	5.4	4.3	7.0
Kentucky	Tennessee	6.4	6.9	7.7
South Carolina	Vanderbilt	8.8	8.6	9.2
Akron	Buffalo	4.2	4.3	2.7
South Florida	Houston	13.5	12.7	14.7
Wake Forest	Louisville	-3.4	-3.8	-3.6
North Carolina	Miami (Fla.)	-19.1	-17.9	-19.6
Michigan	Rutgers	20.0	20.2	19.5
Marshall	Florida Int’l.	13.2	14.2	14.3
Massachusetts	Appalachian St.	-4.6	-3.5	-4.3
Pittsburgh	Virginia	6.2	6.9	5.1
Clemson	Georgia Tech	14.0	13.8	14.7
Connecticut	Missouri	-9.8	-5.3	-8.6
West Virginia	Oklahoma St.	-11.3	-9.7	-12.0
Maryland	Indiana	-0.9	0.4	-1.6
Virginia Tech	Duke	18.5	18.7	20.2
Illinois	Wisconsin	-30.8	-26.5	-30.8
Coastal Carolina	Texas St.	3.9	2.4	6.4
Deleted	Game	0	0	0
Kansas	Kansas St.	-29.6	-26.4	-30.5
Iowa	Minnesota	9.5	8.5	10.0
Wyoming	New Mexico	7.2	6.1	5.5
New Mexico St.	Arkansas St.	-3.1	-6.4	-4.3
BYU	San Jose St.	15.0	14.8	15.1
UTEP	UTSA	-18.4	-17.3	-19.5
Idaho	Louisiana-Monroe	1.8	2.5	3.3
Colorado St.	Air Force	15.8	14.0	15.6
Southern Miss.	UAB	17.4	15.2	15.8
Colorado	California	3.9	4.7	3.2
Arizona St.	USC	-5.0	-5.3	-4.7
Rice	Louisiana Tech	-10.8	-11.4	-11.3
Oregon	Utah	5.3	1.8	3.9
Notre Dame	N. Carolina St.	5.7	4.9	6.3
Washington	UCLA	23.7	21.8	24.7
Troy	Georgia Southern	23.8	22.5	24.0
Northwestern	Michigan St.	10.4	7.1	9.5
Deleted	Game	0	0	0
North Texas	Old Dominion	3.4	2.7	3.9
Baylor	Texas	-12.9	-11.7	-13.7
Iowa St.	TCU	-6.6	-4.1	-6.1
Florida (n)	Georgia	-12.3	-13.6	-13.5
Western Kentucky	Florida Atlantic	0.6	-2.3	0.1
Arizona	Washington St.	-10.0	-8.7	-10.7
Oklahoma	Texas Tech	20.3	19.3	21.5
Ole Miss	Arkansas	6.4	5.5	5.6
Ohio St.	Penn St.	9.0	8.4	7.8
Texas A&M	Mississippi St.	1.4	-1.5	0.5
Utah St.	Boise St.	-6.4	-5.5	-6.4
Fresno St.	UNLV	16.4	12.9	17.4
Hawaii	San Diego St.	-7.1	-6.2	-8.0

This Week’s FBS vs. FCS Games
Home	Visitor	PiRate
Central Florida	Austin Peay	41.0

This Week’s PiRate Ratings

Retrodictive Ratings

Ranks teams based on what they have done this season (like AP and Coaches Polls)

PiRate Retrodictive
#	Team
1	Alabama
2	Penn St.
3	Georgia
4	TCU
5	Notre Dame
6	Clemson
7	Ohio St.
8	Wisconsin
9	Miami (Fla)
10	Central Florida
11	Washington
12	Oklahoma St.
13	Oklahoma
14	Michigan St.
15	Stanford
16	Virginia Tech
17	North Carolina St.
18	Washington St.
19	USC
20	Auburn
21	South Florida
22	Michigan
23	Texas A&M
24	Mississippi St.
25	LSU
26	Iowa St.
27	Memphis
28	Georgia Tech
29	Toledo
30	West Virginia
31	Iowa
32	Boise St.
33	South Carolina
34	Arizona St.
35	Navy
36	Louisville
37	Fresno St.
38	San Diego St.
39	Arizona
40	Florida St.
41	Wake Forest
42	Texas
43	Northwestern
44	UCLA
45	Florida
46	Boston College
47	Texas Tech
48	Marshall
49	Colorado St.
50	Kentucky
51	SMU
52	Syracuse
53	Oregon
54	Northern Illinois
55	Indiana
56	California
57	Utah
58	Purdue
59	Virginia
60	Western Michigan
61	Houston
62	Troy
63	Minnesota
64	Maryland
65	Appalachian St.
66	Kansas St.
67	Army
68	Florida Atlantic
69	Duke
70	Pittsburgh
71	Southern Miss.
72	Nebraska
73	Colorado
74	Tennessee
75	Ohio
76	Ole Miss
77	Arkansas St.
78	Vanderbilt
79	Tulane
80	Akron
81	Arkansas
82	Air Force
83	Rutgers
84	Wyoming
85	North Texas
86	Utah St.
87	UTSA
88	New Mexico
89	Louisiana Tech
90	Florida Int’l.
91	Western Kentucky
92	Missouri
93	Tulsa
94	Eastern Michigan
95	Central Michigan
96	Cincinnati
97	Temple
98	North Carolina
99	Buffalo
100	New Mexico St.
101	Miami (O)
102	Georgia St.
103	Middle Tennessee
104	South Alabama
105	Connecticut
106	Illinois
107	Baylor
108	UL-Monroe
109	UAB
110	East Carolina
111	Nevada
112	UNLV
113	Hawaii
114	Oregon St.
115	BYU
116	UL-Lafayette
117	Old Dominion
118	Kent St.
119	Idaho
120	Bowling Green
121	Massachusetts
122	Kansas
123	Ball St.
124	Coastal Carolina
125	Rice
126	Charlotte
127	San Jose St.
128	UTEP
129	Georgia Southern
130	Texas St.

Predictive Ratings

Rates teams so that you can compare ratings (add home field advantage and subtract visiting team disadvantage) and determine a predicted spread

PiRate Ratings
#	Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
1	Alabama	138.7	134.5	137.5	136.9
2	Ohio St.	135.9	133.3	135.8	135.0
3	Penn St.	129.9	127.9	131.0	129.6
4	Georgia	126.3	126.7	126.7	126.6
5	Washington	127.3	124.6	127.7	126.5
6	Clemson	127.5	124.9	127.0	126.5
7	Auburn	126.1	124.0	126.2	125.4
8	Oklahoma St.	124.3	123.2	125.1	124.2
9	Virginia Tech	122.2	121.6	122.5	122.1
10	Oklahoma	121.6	120.6	122.0	121.4
11	Miami	121.7	119.7	121.0	120.8
12	Notre Dame	121.0	119.5	121.8	120.7
13	Wisconsin	122.0	118.9	120.7	120.6
14	Stanford	121.2	119.8	120.6	120.5
15	T C U	120.9	118.6	121.4	120.3
16	Florida St.	120.7	119.5	119.3	119.9
17	N. Carolina St.	118.3	117.6	118.4	118.1
18	Washington St.	118.1	115.5	117.7	117.1
19	U S C	116.0	115.4	115.7	115.7
20	L S U	115.9	114.0	116.4	115.4
21	Georgia Tech	116.5	114.1	115.3	115.3
22	Texas	114.1	114.5	114.8	114.5
23	Central Florida	113.0	114.4	114.3	113.9
24	Florida	114.0	113.1	113.2	113.4
25	Louisville	113.4	112.4	113.3	113.0
26	Michigan	112.5	112.6	111.5	112.2
27	Kansas St.	112.2	112.2	112.1	112.2
28	South Florida	112.0	110.8	113.1	112.0
29	Iowa State	111.2	111.5	112.3	111.7
30	Mississippi St.	111.4	112.0	111.6	111.7
31	Syracuse	111.8	110.1	111.2	111.0
32	Northwestern	111.2	109.6	111.3	110.7
33	West Virginia	109.9	110.5	110.1	110.2
34	Iowa	110.1	110.2	109.9	110.1
35	Texas A&M	109.8	107.5	109.1	108.8
36	Arizona St.	108.1	107.1	108.0	107.7
37	S. Carolina	108.3	107.3	107.4	107.7
38	Kentucky	107.7	106.5	107.0	107.1
39	Wake Forest	107.6	106.1	107.2	106.9
40	U C L A	106.6	105.8	106.0	106.1
41	Boston College	106.0	106.0	105.9	106.0
42	Duke	106.7	105.9	105.3	106.0
43	Colo. State	105.8	104.6	105.9	105.4
44	Colorado	106.5	105.0	104.2	105.2
45	Oregon	106.2	104.1	104.9	105.1
46	Indiana	104.8	104.9	105.2	105.0
47	Pittsburgh	105.0	105.0	104.5	104.8
48	Michigan St.	103.7	105.5	104.8	104.7
49	Memphis	104.8	104.2	105.0	104.6
50	Utah	103.9	105.3	103.9	104.4
51	Arizona	105.1	103.8	104.0	104.3
52	California	105.6	103.3	103.9	104.3
53	Texas Tech	104.3	104.2	103.5	104.0
54	Minnesota	103.7	104.7	102.9	103.8
55	Ole Miss	104.7	103.2	103.1	103.7
56	Purdue	103.1	103.1	103.6	103.3
57	Boise St.	103.9	102.2	103.7	103.3
58	Tennessee	104.3	102.6	102.3	103.1
59	Toledo	102.2	102.2	103.7	102.7
60	Vanderbilt	102.5	101.7	101.2	101.8
61	Virginia	101.8	101.1	102.3	101.8
62	Navy	101.4	102.1	101.6	101.7
63	Houston	101.5	101.0	101.4	101.3
64	Maryland	100.9	102.3	100.6	101.2
65	Arkansas	101.3	100.7	100.5	100.9
66	Nebraska	100.7	101.8	99.6	100.7
67	Baylor	99.2	100.9	99.2	99.8
68	Western Michigan	99.4	98.2	100.5	99.4
69	N. Carolina	99.6	98.8	98.4	98.9
70	SMU	98.1	98.5	98.4	98.3
71	San Diego St.	97.8	97.9	98.5	98.1
72	Army	97.8	97.9	98.3	98.0
73	Missouri	98.8	96.7	97.8	97.8
74	Fresno St.	97.7	96.3	98.6	97.6
75	Tulsa	96.5	96.6	96.1	96.4
76	Eastern Michigan	95.9	95.5	96.3	95.9
77	Florida Atlantic	94.5	96.9	95.9	95.8
78	Tulane	95.5	95.6	96.1	95.7
79	Troy	95.7	95.8	95.2	95.6
80	Ohio U	94.8	95.9	95.8	95.5
81	Rutgers	95.5	95.4	95.0	95.3
82	Arkansas St.	94.3	95.6	95.8	95.2
83	Marshall	94.0	95.2	95.8	95.0
84	Appalachian St.	95.5	93.9	95.5	95.0
85	Wyoming	95.6	94.3	94.5	94.8
86	Northern Illinois	94.0	93.9	94.9	94.2
87	Utah St.	94.5	93.7	94.3	94.2
88	U T S A	92.4	94.4	93.7	93.5
89	Air Force	92.5	93.1	92.8	92.8
90	W. Kentucky	92.5	92.1	93.5	92.7
91	Temple	92.5	93.0	92.5	92.7
92	Oregon St.	93.2	92.9	91.8	92.6
93	Central Michigan	91.2	92.1	91.6	91.6
94	New Mexico	91.4	91.2	92.0	91.5
95	Miami (O)	88.4	90.5	89.7	89.5
96	Louisiana Tech	88.4	90.1	89.2	89.3
97	BYU	88.9	88.8	88.3	88.6
98	Massachusetts	88.5	87.9	88.6	88.3
99	Cincinnati	87.1	89.1	88.4	88.2
100	Illinois	88.2	89.5	86.9	88.2
101	N. Mexico St.	88.7	86.7	89.0	88.1
102	Southern Miss.	87.4	88.6	87.9	87.9
103	Akron	86.9	89.3	87.4	87.9
104	S. Alabama	86.6	89.0	86.8	87.5
105	Nevada	86.2	88.2	87.7	87.3
106	Connecticut	86.0	88.3	86.2	86.8
107	Buffalo	85.2	87.5	87.2	86.6
108	Hawaii	86.2	87.2	86.0	86.5
109	U N L V	84.3	86.4	84.2	85.0
110	Middle Tennessee	84.3	85.5	84.9	84.9
111	Florida Int’l.	83.7	84.0	84.5	84.1
112	N. Texas	82.9	84.6	83.4	83.6
113	Old Dominion	82.4	85.0	82.5	83.3
114	Georgia St.	83.4	83.0	83.2	83.2
115	East Carolina	82.1	83.7	81.9	82.6
116	UL-Lafayette	80.9	82.3	80.9	81.4
117	Kansas	80.6	83.7	79.6	81.3
118	UL-Monroe	80.9	81.7	80.0	80.9
119	Idaho	79.7	81.2	80.4	80.4
120	Bowling Green	78.7	79.6	79.1	79.1
121	Kent St.	77.0	78.6	77.3	77.6
122	San Jose St.	76.9	77.0	76.2	76.7
123	Rice	75.1	76.2	75.4	75.6
124	Georgia Southern	74.3	75.8	73.7	74.6
125	UAB	72.5	75.8	74.5	74.3
126	U T E P	72.0	75.0	72.2	73.1
127	Charlotte	72.0	74.3	72.3	72.9
128	Coastal Carolina	71.9	73.0	73.3	72.8
129	Ball St.	70.7	72.9	71.9	71.8
130	Texas St.	70.6	73.0	69.4	71.0

PiRate  Ratings by Conference

American Athletic Conference
East Division
Team	AAC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Central Florida	4-0	6-0	113.0	114.4	114.3	113.9
South Florida	4-0	7-0	112.0	110.8	113.1	112.0
Temple	1-3	3-5	92.5	93.0	92.5	92.7
Cincinnati	0-4	2-6	87.1	89.1	88.4	88.2
Connecticut	2-3	3-4	86.0	88.3	86.2	86.8
East Carolina	1-3	2-6	82.1	83.7	81.9	82.6
West Division
Team	AAC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Memphis	3-1	6-1	104.8	104.2	105.0	104.6
Navy	3-2	5-2	101.4	102.1	101.6	101.7
Houston	2-2	4-3	101.5	101.0	101.4	101.3
SMU	2-1	5-2	98.1	98.5	98.4	98.3
Tulsa	1-3	2-6	96.5	96.6	96.1	96.4
Tulane	1-2	3-4	95.5	95.6	96.1	95.7
AAC Averages			97.5	98.1	97.9	97.9
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	ACC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Clemson	4-1	6-1	127.5	124.9	127.0	126.5
Florida St.	2-3	2-4	120.7	119.5	119.3	119.9
N. Carolina St.	4-0	6-1	118.3	117.6	118.4	118.1
Louisville	2-3	5-3	113.4	112.4	113.3	113.0
Syracuse	2-2	4-4	111.8	110.1	111.2	111.0
Wake Forest	1-3	4-3	107.6	106.1	107.2	106.9
Boston College	2-3	4-4	106.0	106.0	105.9	106.0
Coastal Division
Team	ACC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Virginia Tech	2-1	6-1	122.2	121.6	122.5	122.1
Miami	4-0	6-0	121.7	119.7	121.0	120.8
Georgia Tech	3-1	4-2	116.5	114.1	115.3	115.3
Duke	1-4	4-4	106.7	105.9	105.3	106.0
Pittsburgh	1-3	3-5	105.0	105.0	104.5	104.8
Virginia	2-1	5-2	101.8	101.1	102.3	101.8
N. Carolina	0-5	1-7	99.6	98.8	98.4	98.9
ACC Averages			112.8	111.6	112.2	112.2
Big 12 Conference
Team	B12	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma St.	3-1	6-1	124.3	123.2	125.1	124.2
Oklahoma	3-1	6-1	121.6	120.6	122.0	121.4
T C U	4-0	7-0	120.9	118.6	121.4	120.3
Texas	2-2	3-4	114.1	114.5	114.8	114.5
Kansas St.	1-3	3-4	112.2	112.2	112.1	112.2
Iowa State	3-1	5-2	111.2	111.5	112.3	111.7
West Virginia	3-1	5-2	109.9	110.5	110.1	110.2
Texas Tech	1-3	4-3	104.3	104.2	103.5	104.0
Baylor	0-4	0-7	99.2	100.9	99.2	99.8
Kansas	0-4	1-6	80.6	83.7	79.6	81.3
Big 12 Averages			109.8	110.0	110.0	109.9
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	BTen	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio St.	4-0	6-1	135.9	133.3	135.8	135.0
Penn St.	4-0	7-0	129.9	127.9	131.0	129.6
Michigan	2-2	5-2	112.5	112.6	111.5	112.2
Indiana	0-4	3-4	104.8	104.9	105.2	105.0
Michigan St.	4-0	6-1	103.7	105.5	104.8	104.7
Maryland	1-3	3-4	100.9	102.3	100.6	101.2
Rutgers	2-2	3-4	95.5	95.4	95.0	95.3
West Division
Team	BTen	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Wisconsin	4-0	7-0	122.0	118.9	120.7	120.6
Northwestern	2-2	4-3	111.2	109.6	111.3	110.7
Iowa	1-3	4-3	110.1	110.2	109.9	110.1
Minnesota	1-3	4-3	103.7	104.7	102.9	103.8
Purdue	1-3	3-4	103.1	103.1	103.6	103.3
Nebraska	2-2	3-4	100.7	101.8	99.6	100.7
Illinois	0-4	2-5	88.2	89.5	86.9	88.2
Big Ten Averages			108.7	108.5	108.5	108.6
Conference USA
East Division
Team	CUSA	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Florida Atlantic	3-0	4-3	94.5	96.9	95.9	95.8
Marshall	3-0	6-1	94.0	95.2	95.8	95.0
W. Kentucky	3-1	5-2	92.5	92.1	93.5	92.7
Middle Tennessee	1-3	3-5	84.3	85.5	84.9	84.9
Florida Int’l.	2-1	4-2	83.7	84.0	84.5	84.1
Old Dominion	0-3	2-5	82.4	85.0	82.5	83.3
Charlotte	1-3	1-7	72.0	74.3	72.3	72.9
West Division
Team	CUSA	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
U T S A	1-2	4-2	92.4	94.4	93.7	93.5
Louisiana Tech	1-2	3-4	88.4	90.1	89.2	89.3
Southern Miss.	3-1	5-2	87.4	88.6	87.9	87.9
N. Texas	3-1	4-3	82.9	84.6	83.4	83.6
Rice	1-2	1-6	75.1	76.2	75.4	75.6
UAB	2-1	4-2	72.5	75.8	74.5	74.3
U T E P	0-3	0-7	72.0	75.0	72.2	73.1
CUSA Averages			83.9	85.6	84.7	84.7
FBS Independents
Team		Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Notre Dame		6-1	121.0	119.5	121.8	120.7
Army		6-2	97.8	97.9	98.3	98.0
BYU		1-7	88.9	88.8	88.3	88.6
Massachusetts		1-6	88.5	87.9	88.6	88.3
Indep. Averages			99.0	98.5	99.2	98.9
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	MAC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio U	3-1	6-2	94.8	95.9	95.8	95.5
Miami (O)	2-2	3-5	88.4	90.5	89.7	89.5
Akron	3-1	4-4	86.9	89.3	87.4	87.9
Buffalo	1-3	3-5	85.2	87.5	87.2	86.6
Bowling Green	1-3	1-7	78.7	79.6	79.1	79.1
Kent St.	1-3	2-6	77.0	78.6	77.3	77.6
West Division
Team	MAC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Toledo	3-0	6-1	102.2	102.2	103.7	102.7
Western Michigan	3-1	5-3	99.4	98.2	100.5	99.4
Eastern Michigan	0-3	2-5	95.9	95.5	96.3	95.9
Northern Illinois	3-0	5-2	94.0	93.9	94.9	94.2
Central Michigan	2-2	4-4	91.2	92.1	91.6	91.6
Ball St.	0-3	2-5	70.7	72.9	71.9	71.8
MAC Averages			88.7	89.7	89.6	89.3
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	MWC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Colo. State	4-0	6-2	105.8	104.6	105.9	105.4
Boise St.	3-0	5-2	103.9	102.2	103.7	103.3
Wyoming	2-1	4-3	95.6	94.3	94.5	94.8
Utah St.	2-2	4-4	94.5	93.7	94.3	94.2
Air Force	2-2	3-4	92.5	93.1	92.8	92.8
New Mexico	1-3	3-4	91.4	91.2	92.0	91.5
West Division
Team	MWC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
San Diego St.	2-2	6-2	97.8	97.9	98.5	98.1
Fresno St.	4-0	5-2	97.7	96.3	98.6	97.6
Nevada	1-3	1-7	86.2	88.2	87.7	87.3
Hawaii	1-3	3-4	86.2	87.2	86.0	86.5
U N L V	1-3	2-5	84.3	86.4	84.2	85.0
San Jose St.	0-4	1-7	76.9	77.0	76.2	76.7
MWC Averages			92.7	92.7	92.9	92.8
Pac-12 Conference
North Division
Team	P12	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Washington	3-1	6-1	127.3	124.6	127.7	126.5
Stanford	4-1	5-2	121.2	119.8	120.6	120.5
Washington St.	3-1	6-1	118.1	115.5	117.7	117.1
Oregon	1-4	4-4	106.2	104.1	104.9	105.1
California	1-4	4-4	105.6	103.3	103.9	104.3
Oregon St.	0-4	1-6	93.2	92.9	91.8	92.6
South Division
Team	P12	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
U S C	4-1	6-2	116.0	115.4	115.7	115.7
Arizona St.	3-1	4-3	108.1	107.1	108.0	107.7
U C L A	2-2	4-3	106.6	105.8	106.0	106.1
Colorado	1-4	4-4	106.5	105.0	104.2	105.2
Utah	1-3	4-3	103.9	105.3	103.9	104.4
Arizona	3-1	5-2	105.1	103.8	104.0	104.3
Pac-12 Averages			109.8	108.5	109.0	109.1
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	SEC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia	4-0	7-0	126.3	126.7	126.7	126.6
Florida	3-2	3-3	114.0	113.1	113.2	113.4
S. Carolina	3-2	5-2	108.3	107.3	107.4	107.7
Kentucky	2-2	5-2	107.7	106.5	107.0	107.1
Tennessee	0-4	3-4	104.3	102.6	102.3	103.1
Vanderbilt	0-4	3-4	102.5	101.7	101.2	101.8
Missouri	0-4	2-5	98.8	96.7	97.8	97.8
West Division
Team	SEC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	5-0	8-0	138.7	134.5	137.5	136.9
Auburn	4-1	6-2	126.1	124.0	126.2	125.4
L S U	3-1	6-2	115.9	114.0	116.4	115.4
Mississippi St.	2-2	5-2	111.4	112.0	111.6	111.7
Texas A&M	3-1	5-2	109.8	107.5	109.1	108.8
Ole Miss	1-3	3-4	104.7	103.2	103.1	103.7
Arkansas	0-4	2-5	101.3	100.7	100.5	100.9
SEC Averages			112.1	110.7	111.4	111.4
Sunbelt Conference
Team	SBC	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Troy	2-1	5-2	95.7	95.8	95.2	95.6
Arkansas St.	3-0	4-2	94.3	95.6	95.8	95.2
Appalachian St.	4-0	5-2	95.5	93.9	95.5	95.0
N. Mexico St.	1-2	3-4	88.7	86.7	89.0	88.1
S. Alabama	2-1	3-4	86.6	89.0	86.8	87.5
Georgia St.	2-1	3-3	83.4	83.0	83.2	83.2
UL-Lafayette	2-2	3-4	80.9	82.3	80.9	81.4
UL-Monroe	3-2	3-4	80.9	81.7	80.0	80.9
Idaho	1-2	2-5	79.7	81.2	80.4	80.4
Georgia Southern	0-2	0-6	74.3	75.8	73.7	74.6
Coastal Carolina	0-4	1-6	71.9	73.0	73.3	72.8
Texas St.	0-3	1-6	70.6	73.0	69.4	71.0
Sun Belt Averages			83.5	84.3	83.6	83.8

PiRate Ratings By Conference
#	League	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
1	ACC	112.8	111.6	112.2	112.2
2	SEC	112.1	110.7	111.4	111.4
3	BIG 12	109.8	110.0	110.0	109.9
4	PAC-12	109.8	108.5	109.0	109.1
5	BIG TEN	108.7	108.5	108.5	108.6
6	INDEP.	99.0	98.5	99.2	98.9
7	AAC	97.5	98.1	97.9	97.9
8	MWC	92.7	92.7	92.9	92.8
9	MAC	88.7	89.7	89.6	89.3
10	CUSA	83.9	85.6	84.7	84.7
11	Sun Belt	83.5	84.3	83.6	83.8

Playoff & Bowl Projections

Bowl	Conferences		Team 1	Team 2
New Orleans	CUSA	SBC	North Texas	South Alabama
Cure	AAC	SBC	Houston	Appalachian St.
Las Vegas	MWC 1	PAC-12 5	Colorado St.	Arizona
New Mexico	CUSA	MWC	La. Tech	Fresno St.
Camellia	MAC	SBC	N. Illinois	Troy
Boca Raton	AAC	CUSA	South Florida	Marshall
Frisco	AAC	MAC	Memphis	Ohio
Gasparilla	AAC	CUSA	[Colorado]	Fla. Int’l.
Bahamas	CUSA 1	MAC	Fla. Atlantic	Toledo
Idaho Potato	MAC	MWC	Akron	Boise St.
Birmingham	AAC	SEC 8-9	SMU	[UAB]
Armed Forces	Army	BIG TEN 8	Army	[Middle Tenn.]
Dollar General	MAC	SBC	Western Mich.	Arkansas St.
Hawaii	AAC	MWC	Navy	San Diego St.
Heart of Dallas	BIG 12 6	CUSA	Iowa St.	Southern Miss.
Quick Lane	ACC 7-9	BIG TEN 7	[Central Mich.]	Indiana
Cactus	BIG 12 5	PAC-12 6	Kansas St.	Utah
Independence	ACC 7-9	SEC 8-9	Virginia	[UTSA]
Pinstripe	ACC 3-6	BIG TEN 5	Syracuse	Purdue
Foster Farms	BIG TEN 6	PAC-12 8	Iowa	USC
Texas	BIG 12 3	SEC 2-7	Texas	Mississippi St.
Military	AAC 7-9	ACC 7-9	[Western Ky.]	Boston Coll.
Camping World	ACC 2	BIG 12 2	Virginia Tech	West Virginia
Holiday	BIG TEN 3	PAC-12 2	Northwestern	Stanford
Alamo	BIG 12 1	PAC-12 1	Oklahoma	Washington St.
Belk	ACC 3-6	SEC 2-7	Georgia Tech	Florida
Sun	ACC 3-6	Pac-12	Louisville	Oregon
Music City	ACC 3-6/B10 4	SEC 2-7	N. Carolina St.	Auburn
Arizona	MWC	SBC	Wyoming	Georgia St.
Cotton	At-large	At-large	TCU	Arizona St.
Taxslayer	ACC 3-6/B10 4	SEC 2-7	Michigan	South Carolina
Liberty	BIG 12 4	SEC 2-7	Texas Tech	Kentucky
Fiesta	At-large	At-large	Wisconsin	Washington
Orange	ACC 1	SEC 1/B10 1	Miami (Fla.)	Penn St.
Outback	BIG TEN 2	SEC 2-7	Michigan St.	LSU
Peach	At-large	At-large	Oklahoma St.	Central Florida
Citrus	B10 1/ACC 2	SEC 1	Clemson	Texas A&M
Rose	Playoff	Semi-final	Ohio St.	Georgia
Sugar	Playoff	Semi-final	Alabama	Notre Dame
Nat’l Champ.	Semifinal	Winners	Alabama	Ohio St.
Teams in [Brackets] are at-large selections

Stay Home in Front of Multiple TVs

Get your work done in time to be home at Noon Eastern Time this Saturday.  This is the week to move your TVs into the same room, have your laptop ready to stream, and watch yet another game on your phone.  We’ve seen New Year’s Days that don’t feature as many important games.  Let’s take a look at the top games.  Of course, you will also want to watch your favorite team as well, but these are the games of national interest with starting times and TV stations.

NOON EDT

Oklahoma State at West Virginia on ABC

3:30 PM EDT

Penn State at Ohio State on Fox

Georgia vs. Florida (@Jacksonville) on CBS

Michigan State at Northwestern on ESPN

North Carolina State at Notre Dame on NBC

TCU at Iowa State on ESPN2

8:00 PM EDT

Georgia Tech at Clemson on ABC or ESPN2 (depending on your location)

WORLD SERIES Game 4–Los Angeles Dodgers at Houston Astros

9:30 PM EDT

Washington State at Arizona on Pac-12 Network

Note: Alabama is off this week.  The Crimson Tide return to action November 4 with their big game against LSU.  The Tigers are also off this week

The World Series

This World Series may not be the sexy matchup baseball fans clamored for, as a Dodgers-Yankees, Cubs-Yankees, or a Cubs-Indians rematch would have been quite a lot more exciting, but this is a very special World Series for stats-geeks like the PiRates.

Aside from the fact that we have two 100-win teams facing off in the Fall Classic for the first time since 108-54 Baltimore played 102-60 Cincinnati in 1970, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers are the top two analytics teams in baseball.  Houston has the absolute best analytics department in all of professional sports, and Los Angeles is not too far behind.  Both teams have taken starting pitching to the next evolution in the game.  Neither team, outside of their aces, lets their starting pitchers go deep into games.  It would not suprise us to see the starting pitchers go 3 to 5 innings even if they are pitching effectively.  It is a new dawn in pitching.  Teams may soon start to pencil more than one name in their future starting lineup for first and second pitcher scheduled to appear in games.  A pitching rotation one day in the future could feature an 8-man rotation, with two pitchers scheduled to throw 3 to 5 innings per game, pitching on 3-days rest, rarely going past 75 pitches per appearance, and then leaving four relievers to fill in the gaps.  Iron Man Joe McGinnity would not recognize today’s brand of baseball, but then ole Joe only lasted 10 years in the Bigs and was basically washed up after the eighth season.

In our opinion, this has the chance to be the best World Series in many years, and the public should hope it can go seven games with Clayton Kerhsaw and Justin Verlander facing off in the final game.

When the two teams face off in Game 1 Tuesday night, there will be a third 100 in the equation.  The expected temperature in Chavez Ravine for the first pitch could be 100 degrees.  Pitching in heat like this will force both managers to go to their bullpens early and often.  The starting catchers may have a difficult time being ready for Game 2.  Most of all, in heat like this, expect fly balls to travel quite a bit farther than they normally would in the late afternoon at Dodger Stadium.  It may make the game look and feel like it is at Coors Field in Denver.

Pitching matchups for the first two games are:

Game 1–Clayton  Kershaw for LA and Dallas Keuchel for Hou

Game 2–Rich Hill for LA and Justin Verlander for Hou

Yu Darvish is set to pitch Game 3 for LA, but Houston has yet to decide on its starter.

World Series Schedule

All Games on Fox at 8:00 PM EDT (7 PM in Houston, 5 PM in Los Angeles)

Game 1: Tuesday, October 24

Game 2: Wednesday, October 25

Game 3: Friday, October 27

Game 4: Saturday, October 28

Game 5 (if necessary): Sunday, October 29

Game 6 (if necessary): Tuesday, October 31

Game 7 (if necessary): Wednesday, November 1