Deep Dive: National Title Game, Michigan-Washington, January 8, 2024
Deep Dive: Alabama-Michigan Playoff, Rose Bowl, January 1, 2024
Season Comparisons
Yard Per Play
Michigan Offense: 6.1, 43rd
Michigan Defense: 4.3, 4th
Alabama Offense: 6.4, 30th
Alabama Defense: 4.9, 18th
A deep dive, with talent-based power ratings, yard-per-play performance based power ratings, and third party independent database game simulation power ratings, and inidivudal game write-up of each title game. A few sites I utilize often:
https://collegefootballdata.com/teams
https://www.pff.com/greenline/ncaa
https://247sports.com/Season/2023-Football/CollegeTeamTalentComposite/
https://collegefootballnerds.com
News & Notes
· Politics: RFK & Cornel West announce independent bids. Assuming Libertarians and Greens nominate their own, many states will see 4 major third party/independent bids on the ticket. Historically, independent/3rd party polling proves highly variable, with their primary impact on the subject of the popular debate, vote parking by voters unhappy with both major parties and nominees likely to shift to a candidate who can win in close states by election day, and voter participation rates in general. Traditionally, due to the strength and intensity of his voter base, third party success helps Trump more than Biden.
· Economy: Global red flags continue to fly higher, including collateral concerns in the repo market for funding of the EuroDollar system, unaffordable housing markets, yield curve inversion steepening, China internal economic woes, Europe’s continuing recession, rising small business bankruptcies, depressing consumer survey data, poor wage performance for blue-collar workers, strikes at major manufacturers, rising oil prices, credit card defaults spiking, credit access shrinking, student loan payments coming back, inflated prices of core goods, and deflationary credit environment.
· Geopolitics: Ukraine’s offensive fails (as that prediction on their failed breakthrough to the Sea of Azov will soon pay off for those that invested accordingly), war flares back up in Gaza between Hamas and Israel that threatens to extend to the rest of the globe, Argentina experiences its own political revolution as a libertarian populist may win the fall presidential election, the populist AfD breaks through in Germany to the degree the German powers that be contemplate banning it, and global populist rise continues.
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