ABOUT NAVIGATE’S CFP MODEL

  • Several years ago, we built a College Football Playoff (CFP) prediction model using Elo scores. If Elo sounds familiar, it is most commonly seen in sports via FiveThirtyEight.com.
  • When initially building our model, we used the poll results from the pre-CFP era to give us a more robust sample of how people in and around the sport of college football have ranked teams in the past 25 years.
  • Our model is calibrated to prioritize and weight the factors that appear to influence the committee and deprioritize those that don’t.

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