Sorensen Rankings of Sports Teams
Since 1993 I have enjoyed developing computer algorithms to rank the performance of sports teams.In particular, I have focused on College Football.
Below are a few essential links related to these rankings.
Sources for college football data
- James Howell's College Football Historical Results.
The main source for historical College Football results used in these rankings for the premier division prior to 2000.
- Peter Wolfe College Football Results for the current season updated weekly.
This is the main source for all results used in these rankings from 2000 to 2024.
- Kenneth Massey's Data. The best place on the Web for data on sports results.
This is the main source for results used in these rankings starting 2025.
It has also been an extremely valuable source since 1997 for information on other computer rankings as well at the various human polls.
- Wikipedia: WikiProject College Football contains a wealth of historical data for college football. I am slowly working on incorporating these data for the years prior to 2000 in the rankings.
- Nearly all NCAA and NAIA colleges now have webpages with historical data for most college sports. I am also working on incorporating these data, together with the data from the WikiProject and Howel, into the rankings.
If you find errors or inaccuracies in the data, please do not hesitate to notify me at sorensen@utk.edu
In August 2022 this website was moved from a server in the Department of Physics at the University of Tennessee to sorensen.info (hosted by Hostgator.com).
Soren Sorensen - Updated Wed Jan 21 00:56:44 2026