What does it take to win a national championship in college football? Culture, coaching, health, luck, but most importantly, talent. Height, weight and speed. The bounces of an oblong ball makes football unpredictable in a fun way. And it is needed, because a bigger, stronger, faster player beating on those smaller, slower and weaker than them produces boring predictable results.
But how much talent?
That’s the question I set out to answer more than a decade ago when I created the Blue-Chip Ratio.
Since its inception in 2013, the Blue-Chip Ratio has been referenced by head coaches, cited on every major college football network, and it has even made its way into EA Sports College Football. The calculation is simple, but the implications are significant. It’s one of the best tools we have for identifying which teams have the baseline level of talent required to win it all.
What is the Blue-Chip Ratio?
To win the national championship, college football teams need to sign more four- and five-star recruits than two- and three-star players over the previous four recruiting classes.
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