by Brandon Vogel | Feb 20, 2020 | Football
After today, we've probably had enough about statistical modeling, FPI, SP+, all of that. (If you've already stopped reading, my projection of the interest in this topic was off. So it goes with projections.) But there is one more piece of this that I want to...
by Brandon Vogel | Feb 18, 2020 | Football
Nebraska is in another top 25 for 2020. ESPN released its first Football Power Index rankings for the upcoming season and the Huskers ranked No. 22. No ratings were provided, just the rankings, so there's not a ton more that can be added here. The Huskers jumped...
by Brandon Vogel | Feb 17, 2020 | Football
One of the slick things about a nice set of power ratings is not the ranking itself, but what you can project from them. Namely, any result between two teams in the rankings. Sagarin works like that, FPI works like that and the recently-released SP+ works that way....
by Brandon Vogel | Feb 11, 2020 | Football
When it comes to offense, and the yards and starts on the offensive line returning for 2020, Nebraska is as well off as any team in the country at this point. That usually means good things for a unit in the year ahead. But I wrote all about that––and how...
by Brandon Vogel | Feb 10, 2020 | Football
Let us return to returning production. A couple of weeks ago, in response to a question, I took a very preliminary and very basic look at returning yards, tackles, tackles for loss and passes defended in the Big Ten West. I did my best to account for all of the draft...
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