This is the official home of the Schmidt Computer Ratings and Rankings.

See the menu to the left or go to NCAA Football or NFL Football for specifics.

For regular commentary and mirrored posting of the ratings, predictions, and projections on this site, see my Computer Ratings blog.  Also, follow @computerratings on Twitter for updates and other tidbits of information.

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These ratings and rankings have been around for 18 years and are a power ratings system based on contestants, location of game, and score.  While the score is used, diminishing returns are applied to not overly reward running up the score, but an effort is made to not penalize teams for not running up the score against weak competition as well.  While the ratings do well in predicting games straight up, they have been tuned to predict games against the spread and do quite well.