Bill Connelly is once again doing the Lord’s work, breaking the blanket of boredom laid over the offseason with little CFB nuggets every weekday morning. If you’re obsessive like me, you can look over his entire catalog of work to date here. They’re all interesting, insightful and stat-based. But only one is worthy of a separate write-up, and that’s your Colorado Buffaloes.
Before we dive in, it is important to remember something. The words, the description of the team’s chances? That’s Bill Connelly, explaining his math. The actual prediction part is handled entirely by his S+P formula, which does a lot of things really well, but it has a few known blind spots.