"For the Washington Post, Emily Giambalvo, Kati Perry, and Artur Galocha, ranked college football teams by amount of happiness and misery served to the schools' fans. The rankings span 70 teams and consider more than a dozen metrics, including national championships, playoff appearances, conference titles, winning percentage, wins over ranked opponents and other markers of success. The goal: measure how fans would feel if they abandoned their irrational disposition and focused on how the performance of their team compares to other programs."
"The goal: measure how fans would feel if they abandoned their irrational disposition and focused on how the performance of their team compares to other programs. I'm not a college football fan, but during my first year at Cal, eager to hang out with new friends and strangers, I bought season tickets. Cal lost every game that year, except the very last one against Rutgers. Near maximum college football misery."
Seventy college football programs were ranked by the amount of happiness and misery they deliver to fans. The rankings use more than a dozen metrics such as national championships, playoff appearances, conference titles, winning percentage, and wins over ranked opponents. The aim is to measure how fans would feel if they compared team performance objectively rather than emotionally. Metrics capture both long-term program success and notable achievements to quantify fan satisfaction. One personal example describes a Cal season in which the team lost every game except the final one against Rutgers, producing near-maximum fan misery.
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