Biggest home field advantage in CFB (Folsom #3)

[skibum]

Interesting article from ESPN.

Basic methodology: how much are teams expected to win (or lose) by given their respective Football Power Index scores, and how much do they actually win or lose by.

Colorado clocks in with the 3rd best home field advantage in FBS and #2 in the P5.

 

[BerkeleyBuff]

We shouldn't be #3 after the last decade. But Folsom, when the team is good and accounting for the crowd and the altitude, certainly can give one of the better home field advantages in college football.

 

[Shldr2Shldr]

Looking forward to watching Folsom return to national prominence as one of the most intimidating venues in all of college football.

 

[Buffnik]

Interesting article from ESPN.

Basic methodology: how much are teams expected to win (or lose) by given their respective Football Power Index scores, and how much do they actually win or lose by.

Colorado clocks in with the 3rd best home field advantage in FBS and #2 in the P5.

I want to say that during those recent years when CU was horrible at football that the team covered the spread a lot when playing at home.

 

[skibum]

I want to say that during those recent years when CU was horrible at football that the team covered the spread a lot when playing at home.

That gets at an aspect of it, except what I didn't include is that they used the FPI scores from the end of the season to determine how much the team should have won (or lost) by. By the end of the season, we know how good (or bad) a team is, but even given that, CU over performed what they would be expected to do when playing at home.

Now that we're on the upswing, I think teams are going to start really dreading visiting Folsom.

 

[goalline]

If they used the end of the season fpi, then does this really mean that CU is a bad road team?

I think the methodology is flawed because the results will feedback into the conclusion.