It’s just a season in the sun for college football’s brightest teams.Ĭheck out our latest college football predictions. So no, the brightness settings on your preferred device don’t need to be recalibrated. There’s the possibility of a playoff field that’s half-orange. Three of those teams have an orange primary color. Our College Football Playoff forecast model gives 10 teams at least a 1 percent probability of winning the national championship. 7 Purple leads the pack in 2022 8 in terms of average SRS, but it’s also been a dominant run by the orange. The 2021 season was a particular breakthrough campaign for orange-infused programs, with the average “orange team” checking in 3.71 points better than a typical Division I opponent, the second-highest average SRS of any color that season. Half of the 10 winningest college football teams of all time claim a red primary, and of the 153 all-time national champions identified by, nearly half were won by “red teams.” Traditionally, literal bluebloods dominate the hardwood while red-clad teams govern the gridiron. For the sake of this exercise, we categorized team colors into the following categories based on their primary color: black, blue, gold, green, orange, purple, red and silver - as outlined by an index compiled by the University of Wisconsin and, where necessary, by considering each university’s color codes. Technically, the shades of orange involved here are called things like “ Beaver Orange” and “ UTEP Orange.” But put aside any firmly held beliefs on hue, tint and tone for the remainder of this piece. Even Texas’ seeming inability to win one-score games under coach Steve Sarkisian can relish its series-best 49-point victory over archrival Oklahoma. The UTSA Roadrunners have proven last season’s 12-win campaign wasn’t a fluke and currently lead Conference USA standings. Bowling Green State has already matched its season-best win total since 2016. Oregon State is receiving votes and is already bowl-eligible, a feat it’s only reached once since 2014. Oklahoma State recently set a school record with its 13th consecutive home victory and has a 15 percent shot to represent the Big 12 in the playoff according to our model. Syracuse, a team literally nicknamed after the color, had its best start since 1987 before losing a close one on the road at Clemson. Illinois sits atop the Big Ten West standings and is off to its best start since 1953.
3 Tennessee is 7-0 for the first time since Tee Martin led the Vols to the 1998 national championship. Clemson has the second-best odds of any team to reach the playoff, according to our model. Two of the seven players with shorter than +4500 odds to win the Heisman Trophy, according to FanDuel, are also part of the orange renaissance.įurthermore, many of the biggest storylines in the sport seem inextricably linked to the color.
2 Orange represents two of the three highest-scoring offenses in the country and the nation’s stingiest defense. Two teams in the top five of the AP Poll 1 claim orange as a primary color, as do three other programs in the top 25. Two of the five ranked matchups this past weekend pitted an orange university against another orange university. Nine weeks into the 2022 season, it’s shaping up to be a banner season for one of the brightest colors on the visible spectrum: orange. It was perhaps the most indelible image of the season yet - a status that lasted about an hour before it was one-upped by those same fans discarding the stadium goal post in the Tennessee River.īut Knoxville isn’t the only campus experiencing an orange surge. Two weeks ago, an orange crush of more than 100,000 fans converged on Neyland Stadium after the Tennessee Volunteers toppled the Alabama Crimson Tide on a last-second field goal. This college football season has been a little brighter than usual. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY DAN DAO / GETTY IMAGES
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