UNT Has Best Home Field Advantage in College Football

Harry · September 8, 2015

Who Has College Football’s Biggest Home-Field Advantage?

When you adjust for expected performance, it’s not Alabama or Oregon—but rather North Texas

The best college football programs typically have the most intimidating home environments. Few teams enjoy the experience of visiting venues such as Alabama’s Bryant-Denny Stadium or Oregon’s Autzen Stadium.

But, according to one study, the biggest home-field advantage in college football belongs to a much less-heralded program: North Texas. Prediction Machine, a statistical outlet that simulates games, studied which teams have the biggest home-field advantage since 2000, comparing home performance relative to road performance, taking into account the level of competition and expectations. North Texas leads FBS with a standardized home-field advantage of 5.9 points.

This doesn’t suggest the Mean Green are necessarily good at winning football games at home—in fact, they’ve gone only 39-40 since 2000—but rather that they’ve been better than expected based on the team’s total performance.

Likewise, teams that are typically seen as having the most feared game-day atmospheres don’t dominate the list. Alabama ranks 61st while Oregon is 69th.

No. 20 Wisconsin, however, probably wishes Saturday’s neutral-site game against No. 3 Alabama were at home: The Badgers have the second-largest advantage at 5.8 points. Similarly Michigan, which slots eighth on the list, might have fared better in their season-opening loss to Utah if it had been at home.

read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/who-has-college-footballs-biggest-home-field-advantage-1441405838

THOR · September 9, 2015

Do I agree with the findings...hell no...but it's good publicity in a place where our school dorsnt normally get...

Harry · September 9, 2015

Do I agree with the findings...hell no...but it's good publicity in a place where our school dorsnt normally get...

That's sort of what I was thinking as well.

mgfan · September 9, 2015

Here we go again. So basically we do better then expected at home and we suck on the road.

Who cares about winning on the road anyway?

James329 · September 9, 2015

Don't read the comments by fellow alums and students unless you feel like getting angry. Ugh.

UNT90 · September 9, 2015

Don't read the comments by fellow alums and students unless you feel like getting angry. Ugh.

I see Rayn Munthe is on there, making friends and influencing people in an oh so positive way...

UNTcrazy727 · September 9, 2015

Yes, the article is stupid and very misleading, but some of the comments on the Facebook page make you realize how far UNT still has to go.

Edited September 9, 2015 by UNTcrazy727

FirefightnRick · September 10, 2015

Don't know who's rear they pulled that claim from? I do know for the 6 seasons between 2005 to 2010 we went 5-28 at home.

Rick

Christopher Walker · September 10, 2015

Stop. Just stop.

Aldo · September 10, 2015

Don't know who's rear they pulled that claim from? I do know for the 6 seasons between 2005 to 2010 we went 5-28 at home.

Rick

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Green Mean · September 10, 2015

This is not positive publicity at all. But I guess any publicity regardless good or bad at least puts NT in people's conscience I guess.

97and03 · September 10, 2015

How many times is someone going to post this?

Cerebus · September 10, 2015

Go on, bitch about scheduling on a forum where literally no one disagrees with you.

May I directed your attention to the monocled gentlemen in the tuxedo, Kram?

Quoner · September 10, 2015

Ah yes, yelling at each other about who's confrontational, angry abrasive style is more effective. If you hold it in for awhile before you exhale, you can get a pretty good buzz going off the +1/-1 vapors alone.