Rutgers Links: Preview, The Podcast, FFFF Offense (chart), FFFF Defense (chart). Something's been missing from Michigan gamedays since the free programs ceased being economically viable: scientific gameday predictions that are not at all preordained by the strictures of a column in which one writer takes a positive tack and the other a negative one… something like Punt-Counterpunt. PUNT By Bryan MacKenzie@Bry_Mac One of the things that makes college football great is that it cannot, from a fandom standpoint, be “solved.” There are too many variables and not enough equations. The NFL has 32 teams and 17 regular season games among teams who perform generally the same from week to week and from one year to the next. College football has 133 teams and 12 regular season games, and the week-to-week and year-to-year performances vary WILDLY. Oh, you beat the #17 team in the country last week? HAHA, you just lost to a MAC team playing a converted safety at quarterback and a converted quarterback at safety. Oh, you won 11 games last year? Okay yeah but you lost one key player so now you’re going to miss a bowl game and get fired from your $9.5 Million-per-year job. There’s just too much data to be able to consume it all, and a lot of the data we DO consume is fundamentally inconsistent with the earlier data. Our brains try desperately to organize everything, but eventually they just slap a label on it and move on. It’s like packing your belongings when moving between houses, but when you get to the destination you realize you have a dozen boxes just labeled “stuff.” So at the end, every fan will have very different feelings about almost every team in college football.