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Normally by this time of the year I would have made up predictions for all the college football bowl games. But with the change of formats it’s not the same. The addition of the 12-team playoff has made for a more interesting regular season, along with the expansion of the Big Ten (and other conference shufflings).

But the downside to all that is the diminishing of the importance or relevance or meaning of the non-playoff bowl games. It was bad last year when so many players opted out of bowl games, and some coaches too, such that many of the teams in bowls weren’t the same teams they were during the regular season. So it’s basically pointless to assess matchups anymore, except for the playoff teams where everyone involved is still trying to win their game.

And now the college football bowl post-season is just like any other sport – fill out a playoff bracket. I don’t participate in brackets for other sports, so I don’t anticipate doing this every year. But I haven’t been inspired with any other ideas for the CFP yet so here it is.

First Round
Texas over Clemson
Tennessee over Ohio State
Penn State over SMU
Indiana over Notre Dame (based on common opponent of Purdue)

Quarterfinals
Texas over Arizona State
Oregon over Tennessee (no more Rocky Top)
Boise State over Penn State (Jeanty redemption tour)
Georgia over Indiana

Semifinals
Oregon over Texas
Georgia over Boise State

Finals
Oregon over Georgia

We’ll see how it goes.

In the last week or so, we had the announcement of the 2024 NFL schedule. Now that we know who will play whom and when, we can start predicting wins and losses.

I keep my predictions over at Some Fun Site. View results of previous football seasons.

2023 Summary

Last year, I predicted that

• Los Angeles Chargers = 13-4
• Miami Dolphins = 8-9
• Tennessee Titans= 4-13
• Washington Commanders = 7-10

How they actually did was

• Los Angeles Chargers = 5-12
• Miami Dolphins = 11-6
• Tennessee Titans= 6-11
• Washington Commanders = 4-13

Those predictions were kind of all over the place.

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It is time once again to update Some Blog Site readers on the results of my Some Fun Site project to create a more accurate football prediction method.
The 2023 NFL season is over, and here are the most accurate methods for predicting regular-season game results (wins-losses):

• MPWHFA: 61%
• ITPLS: 60%
• MPWLS: 59%
• MPW: 59%

If you think you have a formula that can predict the winner of an NFL game better than 61% of the time, let me know and I’ll add it to the list.
(For the ideas behind the methods, please visit the Some Fun Site page.)

Okay, okay, it is 2024 at this point, but the results are headlines as 2023 because they match with the 2023 predictions made in 2023 for the 2023 season. Also, the results are not all-haiku, just the predictions were. A more accurate title would be “Results for the All-Haiku Predictions made in 2023”.

Before the bowl games commenced for this past college football season, I made some predictions. Here, for your reading enjoyment, is the tally of those predictions. Note that the results are not in haiku form, in contrast to the predictions.

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In the last week or so, we had the announcement of the 2023 NFL schedule. Now that we know who will play whom and when, we can start predicting wins and losses.

I keep my predictions over at Some Fun Site. View results of previous football seasons.

2022 Summary

Last year, I predicted that

• Arizona Cardinals = 9-8
• Baltimore Ravens = 10-7

How they actually did was

• Arizona Cardinals = 4-13
• Baltimore Ravens = 10-7

Ravens was right on, Arizona was not even close. Record prediction is not very reliable

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It is time once again to update Some Blog Site readers on the results of my Some Fun Site project to create a more accurate football prediction method.
The 2022 NFL season is over, and here are the most accurate methods for predicting regular-season game results (wins-losses):

• MPWHFA: 61%
• MYW: 57%
• MPWLS: 56%
• DPE: 56%

The Home Field Advantage factor finally came back into play this year, after still being an effect from the no-crowd games of the Covid era.

If you think you have a formula that can predict the winner of an NFL game better than 61% of the time, let me know and I’ll add it to the list.
(For the ideas behind the methods, please visit the Some Fun Site page.)

Based on the popularity existence of last year’s article predicting bowl games in haiku form, I present to you this year’s all-haiku bowl game predictions. Still America’s only all-haiku college football bowl game predictions.

These are listed in order of date (earliest first). Some picks are whom I think will win, and some picks are whom I want to win. I’ll leave it to you, the reader, to decide which is which.
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