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Welcome Back! These are my final Power Rankings for the 2022 season. Obviously, whoever wins the National Championship Game will finish 1st, and the loser is far enough ahead where they will finish 2nd, regardless of the outcome. As I've stated before, these are far from perfect, but they have gotten better and better each year, and I'm already thinking about how to improve them for next year. The challenge is to keep them simple enough that I can continue to do them by hand, and that they don't take an inordinate amount of time to do. I do use my computer to add up the totals after I input each week's results, and to sort the teams from high to low. One of the oddities about these final rankings is that 2 teams end up directly behind a team they beat. Utah is one spot behind USC despite defeating them, not once, but twice. This is because USC lost their bowl game by 1, and Utah lost by 14. In addition, Iowa is 1 spot behind Kentucky, despite beating them by 21 in their...

Welcome Back! Since starting 10-2, I've since gone 8-5 (a decent-for bowl season- 61.5%) to bring my overall bowl record to 18-7, which is 72%. With 17 games remaining (that includes the NC Game), I only need to win 5 to finish above .500! But I will definitely NOT hatch my chickens before they're counted, to ruin a saying. And so far, I've been able to watch at least a portion of every bowl game played. I think I've even figured out how to watch the one on Barstool Sports! Anyway, here is how the conferences are doing so far. As you can see, no one conference is really dominating, though the ACC and Pac 12 are off to good starts, but remember, the Sun Belt started 3-0 and look how they ended up. And though the SEC and Big 12 are both 1-3, that's also how the AAC and CUSA started. The P5 conferences have the majority of the matchups still to come, as only 3 G5 teams have yet to play. The Big Ten has only played 1 game so far. At the end of bowl season, I will update...