Last night's results is real evidence that college football's presumed formula for winning, at least in the eyes of many, may have in fact substantially changed in the world of transfers and NIL.
What are those numbers above -- 1, 14, 6, and 26? That is the talent composite for 2023 of the teams that played last night.
Bama is #1 with a 94.49 player average.
Michigan is #15 with a 90.51 player average.
Texas is #6 with a 90.96 player average.
Washington is 26 with an 87.6 player average
Forget the end results for a moment and just stop and ask -- what did your own eyes tell you from those games?
What I saw were two games with teams that looked evenly matched with talent. There did not appear to be a big discrepancy in talent on the field, despite the large disparities in talent composite rankings and scores.
There is an X factor here that we will need to see play out of time. How much has the COVID year, with so many more 5th and 6th year players, skewed results on a temporary basis? I don't know we will have to find out.
But clearly, what we saw last night was a very different story than what we saw last year with a TCU team that did not belong on the same field with Georgia. We saw great match ups even though the talent composite suggested we might something like we saw last year (Georgia was #2 last year and TCU was 32 with a composite player average similar to Washington's this year).
What are those numbers above -- 1, 14, 6, and 26? That is the talent composite for 2023 of the teams that played last night.
Bama is #1 with a 94.49 player average.
Michigan is #15 with a 90.51 player average.
Texas is #6 with a 90.96 player average.
Washington is 26 with an 87.6 player average
Forget the end results for a moment and just stop and ask -- what did your own eyes tell you from those games?
What I saw were two games with teams that looked evenly matched with talent. There did not appear to be a big discrepancy in talent on the field, despite the large disparities in talent composite rankings and scores.
There is an X factor here that we will need to see play out of time. How much has the COVID year, with so many more 5th and 6th year players, skewed results on a temporary basis? I don't know we will have to find out.
But clearly, what we saw last night was a very different story than what we saw last year with a TCU team that did not belong on the same field with Georgia. We saw great match ups even though the talent composite suggested we might something like we saw last year (Georgia was #2 last year and TCU was 32 with a composite player average similar to Washington's this year).
