Wall Street Journal Released The Top 10 Home Field Advantages In College Football And It’s Complete Garbage
Home field advantage is crucial in college football, more so than it is in any other sport. Having a strong homefield advantage can be the key recipe for an upset, critical win over a rival, or having straight up bragging rights over every other school in the nation. When you think of schools with the best home field advantages in college football, teams like Alabama, LSU, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oregon, Wisconsin, Florida State, and Ohio State all come to mind.
However, The Wall Street Journal wanted to find out who actually reigns supreme when it comes to home games since 2000. So they did a little digging and with the help of a statistical outlet called “Prediction Machine,” they came up with the “true” top ten schools. Here are the results:
Uhhhhh what? Only Wisconsin and Michigan deserve a spot on this list. North Texas has a smooth 39-40 record at home since 2000, and they are ranked number 1? Get the fuck outta here. When a team sees that they have to travel to Denton, TX for a road game, they aren’t shivering in fear like they would be if they were headed to the pits of hell that is Tiger Stadium at night. You know this list is bullshit because Kansas makes the list. How’d that home field advantage work out for them against the powerhouse that is the South Dakota State Jackrabbits?
These math nerds need to get their shit outta my sports (fuck WAR). I’m sure there is some sort of usefulness to coaches on analyzing their game plan. But don’t try and tell me that these are the top home spots in all of college football. Don’t piss on my face and tell me it’s raining, Wall Street Journal..
[via Wall Street Journal]
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No one at KU goes to football games
10 years ago at 9:55 amWall Street Journal. NF.
10 years ago at 4:36 pmYikes. Haven’t commented on this site in a long time but the fact that people call The Journal NF kinda shows where the site as a whole is going…Just wanna say once again that most business students in college will read the Journal, HBR, etc…kind of sad imo to see a site that was once filled with future Investment Banking hopefuls, and now its users calls something like the Wall Street Journal NF. Just my two cents.
10 years ago at 6:00 pmIt’s gone from business majors to high school sophomores, that’s why he doesn’t appreciate WSJ
10 years ago at 10:13 pmThe problem here is that the stats are adjusted for level of competition. Which is some liberal bs.
10 years ago at 9:57 amYou have to adjust for level of competition. When a Dinky School plays a Big School, it’s always at the Big School’s stadium and the Big School always wins by a huge margin. If you don’t adjust for level of competition, it gives an artificial edge to the Big School that plays the most Dinky Schools.
10 years ago at 10:57 amDid this guy just use the word dinky twice in one fucking comment
10 years ago at 11:55 amFootball. TFM
10 years ago at 10:01 amOK boss
10 years ago at 2:06 pmWall Street Journal is worse than The Chive
10 years ago at 10:07 amOnce you get to college, majority of people in the Business School will be reading the Journal…beginner’s error.
10 years ago at 11:45 amI guess your posts reveal who reads the WSJ and who throws it on my doorstep every morning. WSJ is the authority on business and finance, and is the largest newspaper in the US by circulation.
10 years ago at 12:52 pmJust because Arkansas is number 3 on this list doesn’t mean you can start saying stupid shit.
10 years ago at 1:39 pmI don’t know where y’all get your financial news and analysis but I’d be interested to find out.
10 years ago at 1:52 pmI agreed with you at first…but then you sort of dipped down. Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and even the financial section of The Times can go neck and neck with The Journal. That said, I still can’t help but laugh at the guy who made this thread possible by comparing the Journal to the chive. Ah, high schoolers.
10 years ago at 5:54 pmMan, if only we had a part of the website where we could have civilized discussions like these while also discussing new and invented sex positions…if only…
10 years ago at 5:57 pmI agree, I get The Economist and NYT too. Just trying to show these high school frat stars the broad strokes, which is don’t shit on the WSJ. Have an upvote
10 years ago at 6:39 amTexas Tech isn’t exactly who I think of when it comes to home field advantages either
10 years ago at 10:42 amYou’ve obviously never been hit by a flying tortilla.
10 years ago at 12:05 pmI must know, how does one obtain an advantage by using projectile tortillas?
10 years ago at 2:21 pmNorth Texas’ stadium holds a whopping 30,000 people (a max capacity they’ve never reached). I bet all that crowd noise really throws off the opposing players.
10 years ago at 10:46 amMaybe Steve Holt wrote that article, he could’ve moved on and started writing for the Wall Street Journal like all the other liberals
10 years ago at 10:52 amWSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, not exactly known for being left wing. Ever read the reliably anti-tax and anti-regulatory opinion section? I’m guessing not. Not every newspaper is a liberal rag, but I wouldn’t expect you to understand that
10 years ago at 1:49 pmI went to Rice, and I can tell you for a fact that there’s no home field advantage to speak of. When you take a school of less than 4,000 and fill it mostly with people who didn’t choose the school for its sports, it can make for a rather sad student section.
10 years ago at 11:13 amNight game. Morgantown.
10 years ago at 12:11 pmEspecially when we play a good team. The Georgia Southern game was wild but a lot of people were gone by halftime.
10 years ago at 9:59 amI go to North Texas and I can tell you that these stats are bullshit.
10 years ago at 12:22 pmSame here and Apogee Stadium is never filled up.
10 years ago at 1:13 pm