Coinciding with the release of the BCS comes this week’s version of the Elite Selection Playoff (ESP). For you first timers an explanation of the ESP can be found here. I’ve also attached the links to the BCS standings and Sagarin Computer Ranking for comparison purposes.

Nota Bene, Sagarin’s strength of schedule calculation is very different from that used by the AV Ranking. Sagarin …

Clashmore Mike would like to welcome Anthony Pilcher to our writing team. He is an Irish enthusiast who specializes in statistical analysis. Additionally, he’s a skilled writer who does a great job recapping games from an X’s and O’s perspective. We invited Anthony to our team partly because he’s a very good writer and partly because we feel sorry for him because he lives in …

Well, we’re back at it with a vengeance for a new year of Notre Dame football. Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be editorializing and stoking the fires of opinion through a number of articles that Jon and I have already queued up.

Enough with the jibber-jabber; I thought I would wrap up this initial post with a “highlights” reel from the 2007 season …