Here we go again. It is my annual tradition to perform a detailed mathematical analysis of the coming football season based on the tools and trends that I have assembled over the past 20 years. Back in late July, I explained the methodology in detail and gave a detailed breakdown of the Big Ten and the rest of the Football Bowl Subdivision. But, soon after that work was done, the original schedules were scrapped.
A few days later, the Big Ten put out a revised, 10-game, conference-only schedule. I then proceeded to conduct an analysis of that schedule.