Unseen Giants: The College Football Powerhouses That Almost Changed History
TRACR (Team Rating Adjusted for Conference and Roster) is a net efficiency metric that measures how good a team is at every play relative to the quality of its opponent. A team with a TRACR of 0.0 is considered an average team in the FBS. So if a team with a 7.5 TRACR faced a team with a minus-3.0 TRACR on a neutral site, the better team would be expected to win by about 10.5 points if both teams ran the same number of plays, according to the model.
Below, we rank the best teams to miss out on the College Football Playoff (since 2014) by their TRACR (in parentheses). One thing to note, we did omit the 2020 season since the majority of teams only played 10 games in that pandemic-shortened campaign.


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