College Football

Ripple Rankings

Win and it ripples.

Hover a team (tap on a phone) to see everyone they played; teams off screen are pulled in. Win Loss Thicker line = a result that counted more.

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    How it works

    Every result ripples outward. A team earns credit for the teams it beat, and for the teams those teams beat, and so on, so a win keeps gaining value as the beaten team keeps winning. Beating a strong team is worth more, and so is winning by more. Losses ripple the same way in reverse.

    No polls, no preseason expectations, no conference labels: only the results of games played so far. The ranking is rebuilt from scratch every week.

    When two teams are nearly even and played each other, the winner is ranked ahead.