I had lunch last weekend with the great Jerry Palm. He’s not only a former Big Ten band member, and a state math champion in 1981 as a high schooler in Illinois, but he’s one of the pioneers of an era of analytics, data and formulas in college sports. Palm, 57, now lives in Northwest Indiana and works for CBS Sports where he sifts through numbers and projects NCAA Tournament brackets and College Football Playoff rankings. Before that he pretty much reverse engineered and solved the secretive BCS formula. In his old life, Palm worked as a computer programmer and created College RPI as a hobby that he turned into a full-time sports-world job in 2011. Palm said some interesting things last Saturday between bites of the tenderloin he ordered at an Irish Pub. Among them: “There’s just no way in the world Oregon should be playing Ohio State in…
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