Numbers never lie, but they do tell a convenient truth.
Yesterday we took one look at the hottest team in college football, and now we've tackled that same question from another angle. We wanted to know college football's five best teams over different timeframes, and then monitor how that changed over time. We started with the last five games, then went back to 10, then 15, all the way back to the last 50 games.
The result? A total of 15 different programs can lay a legitimate claim to be listed among college football's five hottest programs. And they're all right. It all depends on how you slide the scale.
FIVE GAMES
TEN GAMES
FIFTEEN GAMES
TWENTY GAMES
TWENTY-FIVE GAMES
THIRTY GAMES
FORTY GAMES
FIFTY GAMES