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Returning Productivity a Flawed Metric for NCAAF

Forecasting college football is an inexact science. But you already knew that. There are of course different means of evaluation and projection including productivity.

Of course you look at the top teams from the final rankings. Returning starters and the coaching staff is also helpful. So is the strength of the incoming recruiting class.

On Friday, Big Ten Network tweeted out an interesting statistical compilation looking at productivity numbers.

I asked @BTNLive its source material for the graphic. They pointed me to an SB Nation article from January which had this breakdown. The article explained the methodology for measuring “production.