The Power Rank predicts the outcome for every SEC game during Championship Weekend
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The Power Rank is back with another round of SEC projections as we have made it to college football’s Championship Weekend.
If you are unfamiliar with the Power Rank, it’s the creation of Stanford Ph.D. graduate and analytics expert Ed Feng. Feng uses his system to predict outcomes in professional and college sports.
The Power Rank does not project games against FCS opponents, yet it accurately predicts winners over 73 percent of the time.
The system went 4-1 predicting SEC games during Week 12, missing only the Florida-LSU game.
Here is how The Power Rank predicts the SEC action to play out during Championship Weekend:
- Missouri will beat Mississippi State by 1.3 points on the road. The Bulldogs have a 46 percent chance of winning this game.
- LSU will beat Ole Miss by 11.4 points at home. The Rebels have a 20 percent chance of winning this game.
- Texas A&M will beat Tennessee by 9.2 points on the road. The Volunteers have a 25 percent of winning this game.
- Alabama will beat Florida by 15.1 points at a neutral site. The Gators have a 14 percent chance of winning this game.
If you missed it, the Vanderbilt at Georgia game was declared a no-contest as Vanderbilt did not have enough players to compete this weekend.
The Power Rank also predicted the following outcomes for Championship Weekend:
- Oklahoma will beat Iowa State by 3.3 points at a neutral site. Iowa State has a 40 percent chance of winning.
- Oregon will beat USC by 1.2 points on the road. USC has a 46 percent chance of winning.
- Clemson will beat Notre Dame by 6.6 points at a neutral site. Notre Dame has a 31 percent chance of winning.
- Ohio State will beat Northwestern by 24.4 points at a neutral site. Northwestern has a five percent chance of winning.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Michael Wayne Bratton oversees the news coverage for Saturday Down South. Michael previously worked for FOX Sports and NFL.com
