The WSJ Sports Grid of Shame is back after a one-year pandemic hiatus to help solve an always complex equation: How good your team is on the field versus how badly it behaves off it.
The horizontal axis shows how good each Power Five team should be on game days in 2021, calculated from a composite of objective rankings and subjective opinions of college football insiders. The further to the right a team appears, the more games it is expected to win.
The vertical axis is the “shame meter.” It’s a spicy indicator of how closely your team follows the rules, how athletes are doing in the classroom, how much the university subsidizes athletics at the expense of the general student body and whether students are excited enough to attend games.
The horizontal axis shows how good each Power Five team should be on game days in 2021, calculated from a composite of objective rankings and subjective opinions of college football insiders. The further to the right a team appears, the more games it is expected to win.
The vertical axis is the “shame meter.” It’s a spicy indicator of how closely your team follows the rules, how athletes are doing in the classroom, how much the university subsidizes athletics at the expense of the general student body and whether students are excited enough to attend games.
