One football universe. One fan-intelligence layer. One argument.

• Power Rankings — a single board ranking every team across every level, with a Power side (predictive) and a Resume side (earned).
• Heisman Tracker — a full-board Heisman model, not just a top-three list. Nowcast, Forecast, Win, Finalist, and Ballot probabilities for every real contender.
• Team Pages — one per program, including a deep-treatment design for 158 profiled teams (mood, chronicle, savant, rivalry).
• Player Pages — 17,000+ player profiles with percentile context and signature stories.
• The Wire — transactions and news rolled forward.
• Editions — the weekly editorial issue.

Two models run in parallel. The predictive power model asks how strong a team is at any given moment. The resume model asks what that team has earned so far — who they played, what happened, how the results compare to expectation. Keeping them separate matches one of the most useful distinctions in serious college-football analytics.

On top of the models, a fan-intelligence layer reads Reddit, mainstream coverage, betting markets, and recruiting signal. The result is what each fanbase actually believes, not just what the box score says.

Full methodology at /about-model/ and /methodology/.

Fans who want to argue with more receipts. Analysts who want one place to check both the model and the mood. Anyone who likes their college football served with a perspective.

CFB Zeitgeist is a personal hobby project — one person, public data sources, and a lot of Python. It is not affiliated with the NCAA, any conference, any school, or any media company. It is not professional journalism.

Some text on this site is written by our model, a local language model: chronicle narratives, story headlines and reads, Mailbag answers and saga chapters. Each block it wrote ends with one line that says so: "Written by our model from [what it read]. It can get facts wrong." Language models can state false things with confidence. If something looks wrong, check a real source before you repeat it.

All analysis (rankings, model projections, fan-sentiment reads) is editorial opinion, not professional sports reporting or financial advice. Data sources are listed at /data-sources/.