2020 College Football National Championship Preview

Tomorrow night, it all ends. LSU or Clemson? Burrow or Lawrence? The nation’s #1 Offense or its #1 Defense?

We won’t cover much of those specifics here. Smarter people than me at ESPN & SI can give you better insights on personnel, statistics, & schematic match-ups – all on-field factors that an otherwise-employed casual blogger doesn’t have the bandwidth to touch on.

Instead, we’ll focus on insights from our own proprietary information…data that exists here on Hierank.com, and nowhere else.

This data alone with no other input or human insight picked better than 95.5% of ESPN’s 500,000 fan pool in their Capital One Bowl Mania this year, picking 28 of the first 40 bowls correctly.

Therefore,

Hierank Data + Knowledgeable Fan
=
An Unbeatable Combo

Lastly,

Q)
What is Hierank’s proprietary data?

A)
Hierank spits out a 0-100 Game Power performance rating for every team, each week.
This rating is based on the difficulty of the opponent faced, and the game’s final outcome & ‘closeness’ (in terms of both score spread & ratio).
This week-to-week information on performance for every single team can be broken down countless of useful ways, from looking at averages to trends, to outlying performances, and more.

Schedule Summary

Without further ado, let’s dive into these 5 factors, awarding our choice tomorrow night to whoever wins the majority:

1. Overall Power
2. Trending Power
3. Power vs Common Opponents
4. Power vs Strongest Five Opponents
5. Power vs Last Five Opponents

1. Overall Power

Winner

LSU

2. Trending Power

Winner

LSU

3. Power vs Common Opponents

Shared Opponent(s): Texas A&M
With only one shared opponent (a surprise for a top SEC–ACC matchup), this will be viewed as a nearly-inconsequential factor in our decision.

Winner

LSU

4. Power vs Strongest Five Opponents

Winner

LSU

5. Power vs Last Five Opponents

Winner

LSU

Summary

It looks like it’s pretty clear; but anything can happen. We’ll see tomorrow night!