Analyzing programs' overall point differentials from the prior season is one way I've been sizing up Notre Dame's opponents heading into the 2026-27 college football season. The opponents ended up being bucketed into three groups:
Positive Differential: Those programs who had a positive overall differential at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
Negative Differential (Moderate): Those programs who had a moderately negative overall differential, ranging between -63 and -124, at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
Negative Differential (Significant): Those programs who have a significantly negative overall differential, ranging between -157 and -180, at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
The Hurricanes finished the 2025-26 season with a +258 overall differential. They put up 459 points, compared with 237 points by opponents. Their largest statistical win was a +42 rout of fellow Florida institution, Bethune-Cookman, and their most significant losses were two -6 differential games dropped to the ACC's SMU and the eventual national champion, Indiana.
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Positive Differential: Those programs who had a positive overall differential at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
Negative Differential (Moderate): Those programs who had a moderately negative overall differential, ranging between -63 and -124, at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
Negative Differential (Significant): Those programs who have a significantly negative overall differential, ranging between -157 and -180, at the end of the 2025-26 CFB season.
The Hurricanes finished the 2025-26 season with a +258 overall differential. They put up 459 points, compared with 237 points by opponents. Their largest statistical win was a +42 rout of fellow Florida institution, Bethune-Cookman, and their most significant losses were two -6 differential games dropped to the ACC's SMU and the eventual national champion, Indiana.
#programs #positive #ranging
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