What conference realignment options does machine learning offer Syracuse?

While we’re just over a week from kickoff, there’s still plenty of offseason content out there to mine.

One of those articles came across TNIAAM’s desk on Tuesday, courtesy of r/CFB: Using machine learning to realign college football conferences.

As the author, Max Kaplan, explains, he uses machine learning to determine “geographic rationality” for college football leagues. In this case, K-means clustering groups teams into similarly-sized nearby regions. The groups range from 16 conferences all the way down to four super leagues.

It’s definitely worth checking out the site for all of the breakdowns. But wanted to look at the Syracuse Orange’s conference groupings here — which end up revolving…