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Topological College Football Rankings

A topological ordering of the top 100 teams using only the win-loss graph—no polls required.

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Background and Description

College football is full of analysts trying to justify ranking one team above another. Using the only objectively fair measure we have—wins and losses—I constructed a topological ordering of the top 100 college football teams with simple graph theory.

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Walk through the graph construction and ordering methodology.

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Explore the scripts used to build and rank the win-loss graph.