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13 unusual facts about Jeff Sagarin


1959 college football season

As such, Ole Miss was ranked #1 by Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel and Sagarin, although the AP and UPI were the accepted polls at the time.

1959 Ole Miss Rebels football team

The team gave up only 21 points all season, and were crowned national champions by Berryman, Billingsley, Dunkel and Sagarin.

1996 Fiesta Bowl

The 1995 Nebraska squad has been voted as the greatest college football team of all-time in many surveys, including the all-time Sagarin ratings.

2006 BCS computer rankings

Jeff Sagarin is the owner of this computer system published in USA Today.

2007 Washington Huskies football team

The 2007 Huskies' schedule was ranked as the most difficult in college football by Jeff Sagarin.

2012 Syracuse Orange football team

Their 2012 schedule is the 42nd-toughest in the nation, according to rankings compiled by statistician Jeff Sagarin.

Al Groh

During Groh's second year as head coach, Virginia amassed a 9–5 record with a schedule ranked the 11th toughest in the nation by Jeff Sagarin of USA Today, and Groh was voted the ACC Coach of the Year.

Billy Laval

Jeff Sagarin retroactively ranked South Carolina that season's third-best team in the nation.

Computer-aided scouting

The NCAA has adapted a rating system produced by Jeff Sagarin that uses computer-aided scouting to a science to better understand the strength and weaknesses of a team as a rating.

Florida State Seminoles men's basketball

Jeff Sagarin and ESPN listed the program 74th in the college basketball all-time rankings in the 'ESPN College Basketball Encyclopedia'.

Sports betting systems

Front offices have hired noted statistical analysts such as Jeff Sagarin.

Sports rating system

Some older computer systems still in use today include: Jeff Sagarin's systems, the New York Times system, and the Dunkel Index, which dates back to 1929.

Not surprising then is the fact that many of the systems' authors have backgrounds in these areas, such as Jeff Sagarin, who received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from MIT in 1970.