College Football Stratification

© Copyright 2005, Paul Kislanko

The rich continued to get richer in 2005. The non-BCS teams won over BCS-conference teams only 11 times in 104 tries, down from 21 in 2004. Non-division 1 teams were much better against 1AA foes than that, winning 29 of 95 interdivisional contests.

Lower Div Wins Higher Div Wins Pct Winner PS Loser PS Higher PS Lower PS MOV NAIA @ 1AA 2 20 0.091 48.0 9.1     1AA @ NAIA 1 1 0.500 52.0 18.0     all NAIA v 1AA 3 21 0.125     46.7 11.5 35.2 D3 @ 1AA 3 5 0.375 36.4 17.4     1AA @ D3 4 5 0.444 31.3 15.0     all D3 v 1AA 7 10 0.412     29.5 20.3 9.2 D2 1AA 16 30 0.348 41.9 14.2     1AA D2 3 5 0.375 33.1 18.3     all D2 v 1AA 19 35 0.352     34.6 20.8 13.8                   all ¬ D1 v 1AA 29 66 0.305     36.7 18.3 18.4                   1AA @ 1A 2 51 0.038 39.6 14.3 39.5 14.4 25.1                   BCS @ ¬ BCS 4 22 0.154 31.7 15.3     ¬ BCS @ BCS 7 71 0.090 38.8 14.3     all ¬ BCS v BCS 11 93 0.106     36.2 15.4 20.8