Massey

[Domino1195]

Massey at his best. Predicted OSU to beat MD 37-14. Point spread ended OSU -17. If you took MD you're extremely pissed and feel hard done. If you watch Massey you stayed away from this one.

[Kuiper]

Given the minor pushback Simple Coach is getting for his rankings, I decided to check Massey to see how things are shaking out after the early season results.

It's not all that different from Simple Coach at the top.  A little different order, and a few teams in the top 20 that he omits (e.g., Dickinson and Bowdoin), but it drops St. Olaf to 28 (a 25 point fall), Johns Hopkins to 35 (a 26 point fall), and Occidental to 54 (a 44 point drop).

Lest you think Massey is clearly the better ranking because it is done automatically by a computer algorithm, I was surprised to see that Birmingham Southern is ranked 181 with a 0-0-1 record, which is +12 from the preseason rankings and just ahead of Elizabethtown.  Apparently, there are 233 schools below Birmingham Southern that would do better in the rankings if they simply shut down.  Birmingham Southern's 1-1 tie with Methodist from 9-9 (2023!) is like the everlasting flame keeping the school's men's soccer team alive

[SKUD]

Ken Massey is asleep at the wheel.

He has bad data for the following:

Tufts
Middlebury
Buffalo State

I am sure there are many more but those are the very obvious ones.