Wednesday, Nov 4, 2015 5:50 pm
Ohio State is the most-likely team to both make the College Football Playoff and win it, according to ESPN’s statistic-driven website, FiveThirtyEight.
The site, which is the brainchild of noted statistician Nate Silver, has developed a methodology to simulate the rest of the college football season. The simulations then give us the most-likely teams to win their conferences, make the playoff and win the national championship.
The results:
Our college football playoff predictions: https://t.co/AkPYrFMghM pic.twitter.com/n4wXcrdcWr
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 4, 2015
Ohio State as the most-likely team to win the national championship isn’t surprising, but it is a little weird that the Buckeyes have better odds to make the playoff than Clemson, which is the most-likely team to win their conference.