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College football’s January metric / 2026–27
Jansanity® · federally registered
Jansanity
ScoreOne number, 0–100, for how January-ready every college football team really is. Rebuilt every Sunday night. Every point has a line item.
Polls tell you who’s popular.
The Score tells you who’s ready.
The Score tells you who’s ready.
Jansanity ScoreWeek 0 · preseason receipt
Teams scored138 of 138 FBS
Board freezesSundays · 10:00pm MT
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This week’s board
Who’s actually
January-ready.
All 138 FBS teams, one Score each. Sixty points for whether you can actually get to January — playoff odds, résumé, trajectory. Forty for the chaos you’d bring if you did. Never stretched so somebody sits at 100 in September.
138
FBS teams scored
Sun
10pm MT freeze
Nov
Public launch
01Ohio State32.9
02Oregon32.3
03Georgia31.7
04Notre Dame30.9
05Texas30.1
06Indiana29.4
07Miami28.5
08Texas A&M28.2
The full board goes
public in November.
It’s already running — 138 teams, every Sunday. Subscribers get each week’s board first, with every receipt.
See it first →The methodology, in plain English
Sixty points of reality.
Forty points of chaos.
Every team’s Score is a receipt, not a vibe. Add up the line items and you get the number — no black box, no committee, no model inventing a stat. The one exception is the forty points that literally measure the chaos, and we show you how we count those too.
Base · can they get to January?0–60
Playoff probability
0–3510,000 simulated seasons of the remaining schedule, same seed every week so the number only moves when football happens.
Résumé
0–15Quality wins (+2 vs. top 25, +1 vs. 26–50), road and neutral wins (+1), and a loss-quality grade that punishes bad losses harder than close ones.
Trajectory
0–10Last three games against what they were expected to do, margin by margin. Getting better counts. Sleepwalking through a soft schedule doesn’t.
Chaos · how much fun would it be?0–40
Volatility
0–10How far this team’s playoff odds swung in the last week. Big move either direction, big number.
Bracket impact
0–10What they do to the field: a bye, a home first-round game, a cold-weather site, a rematch, an unplayed rival waiting.
Star power
0–10Heisman contenders and first-round draft grades on the roster. January is a TV show; casting matters.
Storyline
0–10Published triggers: unbeaten in November, first-ever bid, Group of Five crasher, coaching chaos, QB change, rivalry stakes, unranked in August.
Pretender Risk
−4Turnover margin of +8 or better and winning three-quarters of your one-score games? We’ve seen this movie. Minus four.
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01Every point has a line item.
You can always see why your team moved, down to the tenth.
02No model invents a number.
Helmet Head writes the commentary. The engine writes the math. They never trade jobs.
03Frozen Sunday, 10pm MT.
One board a week, versioned, with a public changelog when the weights change.
In the lab · v1.1Buzz.
The one line item fans can move: how loud the internet is about your team this week, counted — not judged — across X, Reddit and the news.
The Road to Jansanity®
Eight weeks.
One number to watch.
March Madness is three weekends. This is a two-month run from Rivalry Week to the last Saturday in January — and the Score is the scoreboard for all of it.
- Nov 14The Road opensPlayoff picture hardens. The Score starts to mean something.
- Nov 27–28Rivalry WeekSeasons end in one afternoon. Résumés get stamped or shredded.
- Dec 5–6Title games & SelectionConference championships Saturday. Twelve teams named Sunday. The Score keeps its own receipt.
- Dec 18–19Campus first roundFour playoff games in home stadiums. The new tradition.
- Dec 30 · Jan 1QuarterfinalsFiesta, then Cotton, Rose and Peach on New Year’s Day.
- Jan 14–15SemifinalsOrange and Sugar. Peak Jansanity.
- Jan 25 · Las VegasThe NattyAllegiant Stadium. Then one team.
Free · every Sunday night
The Sunday
Receipt.
The week’s Scores, who moved, and the exact line items that moved them — in your inbox before the polls drop Monday.
- 01The playoff picture as the Score sees it — not as the committee sells it.
- 02The Jansanity teams — high-Chaos wild cards nobody’s ranking yet, and the receipt for why they’re real.
- 03Biggest movers, with the actual numbers behind the move.
- 04First look at each week’s board before it goes public.
Pick’em · opens at Selection
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Twelve teams, eleven games, one bracket. Pick against the board and against everyone else on the Road. We ran a $1M bracket in Year 1. Year 2 is bigger.
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8+ wks
The Road to Jansanity runs more than double the length of March Madness.
138
Teams, in markets pro sports don’t reach. Tuscaloosa. Lincoln. Baton Rouge.
Present this season’s
Jansanity Score.
One partner. “The Jansanity Score, presented by you” — on the board every Sunday, on every shared team card, at the top of every Sunday Receipt, in every Helmet Head read, and across the Road from November through the Natty. Category exclusivity available.
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