Updates are grouped by football week, ending Sunday. We explain the meaningful product, data, and model changes without publishing proprietary weights or implementation details.
A clearer national picture and more dependable live data
Replaced the former Rankings & Awards page with one National Picture that connects the Saturday Board power rating, AP Poll, Coaches Poll, CFP rankings, postseason forecast, awards watch, and bowl outlook.
Added quick ranking pills so viewers can switch between editorial cards and complete Saturday Board, CFP, AP, and Coaches tables without scrolling through separate sections.
Made the core National Picture public while reserving the full CFP forecast, awards races, and bowl projections for signed-in accounts.
Added an actual CFP view beside the Saturday Board projection, including an unfinished 12-team bracket that clearly separates published committee standings from model forecasts.
Improved ranking refreshes, team-name matching, poll-source timestamps, cache behavior, and stale-dashboard recovery so newly published information reaches every browser more reliably.
Expanded bowl projections with named games, locations, networks, tie-ins, and projected eligible matchups outside the playoff field.
Added owner-only roster intelligence for transfer-portal movement, high-school recruiting, team needs, visits, decisions, and source-review workflows.
Completed the Week 9 challenger audit and preserved Week 10 as the next clean evaluation window.
Published November 8 · The weekly release includes National Picture, ranking refresh, access, and roster-intelligence work completed during Week 10.
Deeper team intelligence and cleaner model foundations
Redesigned team pages around plain-language model outlooks, nationally ranked strengths, faster loading, and a more visual football-field depth chart.
Expanded player cards with position-specific season production, clearer evidence labels, injury status, and automatic next-player-up handling.
Connected free secondary depth information across all 138 FBS programs while preserving official school charts as the highest-priority source.
Added weekly depth-chart retention so the last verified lineup remains available until a school publishes a change.
Expanded the injury and availability pipeline across the FBS, including official conference reporting, chronological safeguards, and visible source confidence.
Corrected matchup intelligence so opponent mentions cannot attach another team's injury report or unrelated coverage to a game.
Unified the public Top 25 around the production power rating, tightened current-season stat coverage, and froze the Week 9 starting snapshot.
Installed the replay-tested advanced metrics in the silent challenger while keeping only the current production forecast visible to viewers.
Restored owner paper-bet controls, refreshed postseason projections, and polished desktop navigation and public board presentation.
Published October 28 · Additional changes through Sunday will remain grouped in this weekly release.
Projection and operations expansion
Added early-season ranking calibration safeguards so one hot start cannot create an outsized model jump.
Added a standalone 12-team CFP bracket forecast blending AP, Coaches, and Saturday Board rankings.
Separated the CFP field, major national awards watch, and bowl outlook into distinct views.
Expanded awards tracking across the Heisman, Maxwell, Walter Camp, position awards, and major defensive and specialist awards.
Moved the changelog to weekly Sunday cutoffs so improvements are easier to follow.
Accounts and a more personal board
Added secure email-based accounts with private sessions and owner-only tools.
Added personal display names, favorite teams, uploaded avatars, password management, and viewer preview.
Opened core rankings and predictions publicly while reserving personal watchlists and the complete Live experience for accounts.
Added owner account review with immediate viewer disable and session revocation.
Added an owner Social Studio with branded graphics, smart hashtags, and manual X posting.
Connected rankings to AP News and the USA Today Coaches Poll, including movement and concise just-outside lists.
Separated current polls, poll comparison, weekly history, and postseason views.
Clarified Live views and added a focused public preview of the most relevant games.
More realistic, accountable forecasts
Promoted conservative venue and matchup calibration across every team.
Added current-season power-rating movement and model-versus-market conflict flags.
Added Coaches Poll coverage and linked ranked teams to full team pages.
Made team pages faster through indexed schedules and published caches.
Made forecasts venue-aware, added national stat ranks, live penalties, and kickoff-time sorting.
Performance and market research
Turned the performance log into a filterable card explorer.
Locked recorded research selections to prevent accidental duplicates.
Added sportsbook-line research, weekly completed-game filters, and AP Poll movement.
Moved primary live scoring to ESPN while protecting CFBD usage.
The foundation
Launched The Saturday Board identity and approved scoreboard logo.
Added resilient live-score refreshes, watchdog retention, bounded backups, and deployment health checks.
Aligned the football week to roll forward on Monday after any Monday game is final.
