Did The Football Team Win Today

Every so often, someone will set up a hypothetical about how a college team would do against a professional team in the same sport. Frequently, this comes up in the U.S. when some college team looks historically good and some professional team looks simultaneously historically bad. For example, a few years ago, when the University of Kentucky had what some experts thought was one of the best college basketball teams of all time and the Philadelphia 76ers were trying to lose as many games as possible, there was speculation about whether or not UK would beat the 76ers. People have also thrown this out for football: could Alabama beat the Browns, or whatever.I usually default to the assumption that any professional team would beat the best college team, especially in a sport like football, since football is probably the sport that requires the most complicated teamwork, the most depth, and is the sport that is least susceptible to a single elite player getting hot and winning the game singlehandedly. Even the worst professional team is 100% composed of professional players, which equates to roughly the top 1% of all college players. Meanwhile, the greatest college football teams might see a dozen players become NFL mainstays.So, based on that, I’d say it’s hard to see an NCAA football team beating a CFL team, since a CFL team is still composed of professional players. You might suppose that CFL teams are inferior in talent to NFL teams, and that’s more or less true. But there are plenty of highly successful Division I-A football players who fail to make it in Canada. For example, 2006 Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith washed out with the Montreal Allouettes after only a handful of games - Smith was a top college player who nevertheless couldn’t make the jump to professional football no matter where it was. There are plenty of others who’ve met the same fate.Regarding which rules were used - using CFL rules would give the CFL team that much more of an advantage. The subtle differences between American and Canadian football would take some time for the NCAA team to adjust to, and they’d be playing on their heels for a while because of it. Playing under NCAA rules would mitigate this a bit, but keep in mind that about 50% of all CFL players are NCAA veterans who are probably still familiar enough with NCAA rules (the other 50% of CFL players would have played college football in Canada).

It’s a team sport, so every member of the team should be involved in the game. That means you should not depend only on one or two players. If you are up against a team not as good as your’s then that one or two good players can do the work. But it does not work against a comparatively stronger team.FOOTBALL IS A SIMPLE GAME BUT PLAYING SIMPLE IS NOT EASYFirst of all if you want to take control of the game then you should control the ball. Don’t let the ball control your team. Keep the possession. More the possession, more you will dominate the game. More you dominate, more will be the chances your team will get to create goal scoring opportunities.It all depends on how your team practice. What are the tactics your team practice.To keep possession the passing, vision and positioning of your players should be good. Your team can achieve that practicing POSSESSION PLAY everyday during practice session. Start it with two or three touch passing and as your team members master that, then move to ONE TOUCH PASSING.There are a lot of other tactics but for now I guess this will help.

Now that’s an interesting question.Usually, people ask “Could Alabama beat the worst team in the NFL,” and the answer is always no.But could today’s Crimson Tide beat Joe Namath’s 1969 Jets? Yes, I think they could. Today’s college stars are bigger and stronger and faster than pro teams of the Sixties and Seventies. Think of the Purple People Eaters, the great defensive line of the Vikings. Alan Page and Jim Marshall would be FAR too small to start for Texas A & M or Ohio State or even some good high schools today! In 1975, rookie Jack Lambert was regarded as the best linebacker in football. Today, if young Jack Lambert tried out for Oklahoma or Clemson, he’d be considered too small and too slow.In the first Super Bowl, Forrest Gregg was a starting offensive lineman for the Packers. He stood 6′4″ and weighed 250 pounds. Today, the Alabama right tackle is 6′7″ and 315 pounds!!!Similarly, people often ask if Serena Williams could beat Federer. The answer is, Hell no! But could she beat the Rod Laver of 1968 or the Arthur Ashe of 1974? I think she might. Seriously, today’s women swimmers are faster than gold medalist Don Schollander was in 1964. So, a modern female champion like Serena is probably as muscular and strong as some male champs of my childhood.

The following statistics from Advanced NFL Stats (specifically the Win Probability Calculator) don't directly answer your question (I don't have access to the raw historical data), but might help in giving you an idea:Baseline: Win Probability for a team that wins the coin toss and chooses to receive and  starts their first drive on their own 20 yd line (common starting place): 0.52Win Probability for a team that immediately found themselves down a field goal  (3 pts) and possessing the ball at their own 20 yard line: 0.40Win Probability for a team that immediately found themselves down a touchdown (7 pts) and possessing the ball at their own 20 yard line: 0.28This gives you a rough estimation that being first to score (with the points coming via a FG) increases your win probability by 0.08 and that scoring first via a TD/XP increases your win probability by 0.20. Of course if the opposing team answers with a similar score of their own on the very next drive (say they run even 5 minutes off the clock), that increase is totally wiped out.

There is no mechanism in college athletics to distribute talent very much.A player is free to sign at any school that wants to take the player as long as the player is academically eligible as long as the school doesn't place more than 25 newcomers on scholarship in a year and doesn't exceed 85 players on scholarship.If the 25 best high school seniors in a year all choose to play for Ohio State and Ohio State has room for them and they are eligible and the Buckeyes want them, they are free to go to Ohio State.Each conference negotiates its own television agreements so a player is more likely to know top teams and want to play for them because they see them on TV more often. Top schools are more likely to play before larger crowds and play schedules against other highly recognized team. If you wanted to play for Florida but Florida didn't offer you a spot but conference mate Georgia did, the chance to play Florida every year makes it easier to choose to play for Georgia than Central Florida.