Power ratings
How strong is every FBS team on a neutral field?
Every angle. Side by side.
All Takes gathers the forecasts, rankings, market expectations, models and published opinions shaping a season—then puts them next to one another without flattening their differences.
Oregon at USC
Pick the winner, both quarterbacks’ passing yards, a Jamari Johnson catch and USC’s longest play. Thirteen calls, 17 points and a season-long record. Picks lock Saturday, September 26 at 4:30 p.m. Pacific.
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Ratings, weekly boards, current picks and deeper football analysis— organized by how you use them.
How strong is every FBS team on a neutral field?
Preview the slate, then return for an honest review.
Dated spread and totals cards, preserved for review.
New ways to understand teams, players and the game itself.
What All Takes is building
Sports coverage produces more information than any one fan can reasonably hold at once.
All Takes organizes that information without pretending every source measures the same thing. Editorial rankings stay distinct from power ratings. Roster talent stays distinct from experience. Market prices stay distinct from predictions. Bull and bear cases remain attached to their original sources.
The project starts with college football, where preseason conviction is abundant and genuine disagreement is especially revealing.
What a Week 1 mismatch tells us
“Wait until they play someone.” Eight seasons of results show why even a blowout against a weak opponent can tell us how good a team really is—when we measure it against expectations.
Read the essayBrian Fremeau’s game splits
A possession-by-possession look at Oregon–Texas Tech shows how the scoreboard can give the wrong unit credit for a result—and how to read the game more clearly.
Read the articleThe All-Takes Power Rating
Rank all 138 FBS teams in neutral-field points, with completed games and new market information updating the team ratings. See each team’s rating and all 71 game predictions.
Open the power ratingsAll-Takes recommendations
Review the projected side, the named-book spread, and the injury or weather question that could change each recommendation.
2025 offensive style lab
Compare how every FBS offense gained yards, created touchdowns and held up against stronger defenses—then explore eight distinct styles.
Open the offensive style labThe first edition
Compare every conference team across model power, projected record, schedule difficulty, roster talent, experience, media consensus and sourced bull-versus-bear cases.
Open the expectations boardThe method
Gather credible rankings, projections, market lines, articles, podcasts and model outputs with their provenance intact.
Do not blend talent, experience, power, price and opinion into one mysterious score. Show what each signal actually says.
Put competing cases next to one another so the assumptions, evidence and eventual winners are easy to see.
This is the opening drive
All Takes will grow from this first college-football edition as new comparisons are ready to earn their place.