Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barrett during teh Buckeyes’ lopsided win over Nebraska. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)Cade Massey, a practice professor at the Wharton School, and Rufus Peabody, a Washington-based sports analyst, developed this ranking system for projecting future performance. Ratings represent a team’s predicted point differential against an average team on a neutral field. Current season statistics are adjusted for home field, opponent and game situation, blended with preseason expectations and weighted by their predictive ability. The chaos we always hope for in college football finally arrived last weekend. To make sense of the wreckage, we step back this week, drawing on the first half of the season to better understand what to expect from the second. Where has the landscape truly shifted and where is it merely on the brink? Here are five insights from crunching the mid-season numbers, one for each conference. Ohio State is the class of the…
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