Sagarin Predictor: Week 10
January 26, 2012, 12:56 PM
Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. His ratings have been a regular feature in the USA Today sports section since 1985, have been used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to help determine the participants in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since 1984, and have been a part of the Bowl Championship Series since its inception in 1998.
Listed below are the model's projected margins using pure points (predictor) method for each game on Week 10 NCAA prediction contests. Week 10 contests include games from week of Jan 28-Feb 2.
| Favorite |
|
Underdog |
|
Margin |
| Murray State |
defeats |
SE Missouri State |
by |
20.58 |
| Florida |
defeats |
Mississippi State |
by |
10.84 |
| Georgetown |
defeats |
Connecticut |
by |
7.01 |
| Kansas |
defeats |
Iowa State |
by |
6.96 |
| Michigan State |
defeats |
Illinois |
by |
6.03 |
| Brigham Young |
defeats |
Saint Mary's |
by |
3.18 |
| San Diego State |
defeats |
Colorado State |
by |
2.21 |
| Vanderbilt |
defeats |
Arkansas |
by |
1.44 |
| Missouri |
defeats |
Texas |
by |
0.99 |
| Virginia |
defeats |
North Carolina St. |
by |
0.80 |
Source: USAToday.com