NCAA Division 1 football non-league winning percentages as of 9/25/18

[World]

https://twitter.com/IvyLeague/status/1043870377494163456


"With a 4-0 weekend in non-League play, the Ivy League (9-3, .750) now owns the second-best non-conference winning percentage in NCAA Division I—trailing only the @SEC (https://twitter.com/SEC) (30-5, .857)."

[grizband]

https://twitter.com/IvyLeague/status/1043870377494163456


"With a 4-0 weekend in non-League play, the Ivy League (9-3, .750) now owns the second-best non-conference winning percentage in NCAA Division I—trailing only the @SEC (https://twitter.com/SEC) (30-5, .857)."
Is 4-0 statistically significant for an entire conference?

[Redbird 4th & short]

SOS ?

So only 3 of the 12 were ranked under 200 by Massey, and the Ivy league lost 2 of those 3 .. none of these top 3 currently look like they will make playoffs this year:

# 147 Delaware (2-2) beat Cornel 27 to 10
# 194 Cal Poly (1-3) beat Brown 44 to 15
# 198 San Diego (1-2) lost to Harvard 36 to 14 .. same San Diego that lost to UC Davis by 33

Sure, the remaining 9 games went 8-1 for Ivy, but all were ranked 200 or or worse. To put into FCS perspective San Diego at #198 in overall translates to FCS #62.

Princeton has a couple impressive blowouts, so thinking they would be ranked top 15 for sure.

[World]

SOS ?

So only 3 of the 12 were ranked under 200 by Massey, and the Ivy league lost 2 of those 3 .. none of these top 3 currently look like they will make playoffs this year:

# 147 Delaware (2-2) beat Cornel 27 to 10
# 194 Cal Poly (1-3) beat Brown 44 to 15
# 198 San Diego (1-2) lost to Harvard 36 to 14 .. same San Diego that lost to UC Davis by 33

Sure, the remaining 9 games went 8-1 for Ivy, but all were ranked 200 or or worse. To put into FCS perspective San Diego at #198 in overall translates to FCS #62.

Princeton has a couple impressive blowouts, so thinking they would be ranked top 15 for sure.


Excellent points!

[Mocs123]

The Ivy is an outlier since they don't play "Money Games". Pretty much every other FCS team in the country is guaranteed a loss. The Ivy also doesn't seem to play a very tough OOC, mostly Patriot League teams, and of course don't participate in the playoffs, so it is very hard to gauge just how good an Ivy team is compared to the rest of the FCS. The Mercer vs. Yale matchup this year is interesting though.

[Dukie95]

Rhode Island plays Harvard, which usually tells us nothing, but this year will tell us something.