Colorado vs. Stanford picks, predictions, Week 7 college football pick 'em

Expert predictions for Colorado vs. Stanford by the college football analytic model that picks game winners

Author:
James Parks
Publish date:
Oct 9, 2023 1:34 PM EDT

This weekend brings us a Pac-12 conference tilt that should give Deion Sanders a chance to get back on track again as Colorado returns home against Stanford.

Prime's team improved to 4-2 overall and 1-2 in Pac-12 play after getting past Arizona State last weekend, while Stanford fell to 1-4 and 0-3 in conference games after a 36-point loss to Oregon two Saturdays ago.

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What do the experts think of the matchup? Let's see how the College Football Power Index computer prediction model projects the game.

Colorado vs. Stanford picks, predictions

The simulations are strongly siding with Colorado, which has the 80.1 percent chance to defeat Stanford outright, coming out ahead in 16,020 of the 20,000 projections the index uses to pick game winners.

That leaves Stanford as the projected winner in 19.9 percent of the simulations, or 3,980 of the remaining predictions.

Colorado is an 11.5 point favorite against Stanford, according to the lines at SI Sportsbook, which set the total at 59.5 points for the game.

The Buffaloes rank No. 64 nationally on the index's 133 team rankings as the models project them to be 0.1 points worse than an average opponent, and estimated to win 6.2 games this season.

Stanford sits at the bottom of the Pac-12 on the FPI rankings, estimated to be 10.1 points worse than an average opponent, and projected to win 1.8 games this season.

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College Football Power Index

Football Power Index (FPI) college football rankings and computer prediction model are a measure of team strength that predicts a team’s future performance.

Rankings and scores predictions are based on 20,000 simulations of a team’s season and games, using a combination of key analytics, including scores to date, quality of opponents, team talent, recruiting, and a team’s schedule.

Teams are ranked not in order of talent like in other rankings, but by a projected point margin per game against an average team on a neutral field.

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