Power ratings
How strong is every FBS team on a neutral field?
Every angle. Side by side.
Sports arguments,
in context.
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.
First edition liveCollege football2026 seasonMore sports to follow
Call Your ShotWeek 7 · Fan contest
Oregon vs. Nebraska
Make your Week 7 calls
After a painful loss to UCLA, Oregon gets Nebraska at home. Call passing yards for both Dylan Raiola and Brock Thomas, Jamari Johnson’s receiving yards and Oregon tackles for loss. Thirteen calls, 17 points. Picks lock Saturday, October 17 at 8 p.m. Pacific.
Explore All Takes
Start with what you want to know.
Ratings, weekly boards, current picks and deeper football analysis— organized by how you use them.
All-Takes boards
Preview the slate, then return for an honest review.
Pick recs
Dated spread and totals cards, preserved for review.
Analysis
New ways to understand teams, players and the game itself.
What All Takes is building
One place for the whole argument.
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.
Featured essayCollege football / Team strength
What a Week 1 mismatch tells us
The Myth of “When They Play a Real Team”
“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 essayNew essayCollege football / Game analysis
Brian Fremeau’s game splits
What the final score misses
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 article−18.3Oregon offense
+36.1Oregon defense
+23final margin
Week 8 ratingsCollege football / all FBS
Model power ratings
Where all 138 teams stand entering Week 8.
Rank all 138 FBS teams by the model’s neutral-field team strength. See each team’s rating and all 56 Week 8 game predictions.
Open the power ratings25.7No. 1 LSU
56Week 8 game predictions
138FBS teams rated
Previous week’s picksCollege football / Week 3
All-Takes recommendations
The Week 3 spread card
Review the projected side, the named-book spread, and the injury or weather question that could change each recommendation.
39ATS recommendations
57Week 3 games priced
1condition holds
New data labCollege football / 2025 FBS
2025 offensive style lab
What kind of offense was each team?
Compare how every FBS offense gained yards, created touchdowns and held up against stronger defenses—then explore eight distinct styles.
Open the offensive style lab136FBS teams
5,622offensive touchdowns
8scoring styles
Now liveCollege football / Big Ten
The first edition
2026 Big Ten expectations
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 board18teams compared
90reviewed perspectives
16active debates
The method
Collect. Separate. Compare.
Collect the record
Gather credible rankings, projections, market lines, articles, podcasts and model outputs with their provenance intact.
Keep ideas distinct
Do not blend talent, experience, power, price and opinion into one mysterious score. Show what each signal actually says.
Make the disagreement legible
Put competing cases next to one another so the assumptions, evidence and eventual winners are easy to see.
This is the opening drive
More conferences. More sports. The same standard of evidence.
All Takes will grow from this first college-football edition as new comparisons are ready to earn their place.