Oklahoma, 32–0: back-to-back national champions
Back-to-back
national champions
This is two seasons of our dynasty, told with every player in the sport. Each dot is one of them, all 11,058. Where a chart shows players, tap a dot to see who he is.
1,846–634
Start with the scoreboard: 32 games, 32 wins, average final 58–20. Gold tower is us, the stub is them. Tap one to open the game.
Five were one-score games. Three of those five were Ben.
8–0
Now take away everyone except the four of us. Eight meetings in two seasons: both Big Ten title games, a Rose Bowl and a national championship. Gold tower is us, blue is them. Tap one to break it open.
Ben is the only one who has made it a game. Aidan got the last shot, in the title game, and lost by 40.
We throw. They run.
Every team in the sport by how it moved the ball: right is rushing yards a game, up is passing.
Not the same
Here is why. One column per team with every player on it, best at the top. The big dots are the best 22 and the number above is their average overall.
#2 roster. 6–6
Talent is only part of it. Every team is placed by roster (right is better) and by how much it won (up is more).
First in five
Go position by position. Every player in the country, split by position and spread by overall. Gold is ours, blue is theirs. The table is each team's national rank at that position, starters only.
Who pays
It isn't for lack of trying. One sliver per team, tallest is the biggest spender, sorted left to right. Each sliver is built from that team's own players. The four of us ran the four biggest payrolls in the sport.
A third on the line
Same kind of money, different bets. Each bar is what one of us paid one position group.
13 of 26
The voters noticed. Half of every national award handed out this year went to Norman. Notre Dame won two. Ohio State and Washington won none. All-Americans: us 12, John 4, Ben 2, Aidan 0.
Rosters don't hold still
None of that is permanent. These are the 4,442 players we could follow from the end of 2028 to the end of 2029, stacked by overall. Keep scrolling. The page holds still and the players move.
One year. +5.1
Nobody added, nobody removed. Young players jump and old ones crawl, so the youngest roster gains the most. Speed is close to fixed.
+1.6 over the curve
Left to right is where a player started, height is how much he gained in a year.
Then there's the portal
First, the map. Every player in the sport: the best in the bright middle, the worst out at the rim. Each wedge is a team and each color is a conference. The gold streak is us.
218 about to leave
The lit dots are the players we can prove transferred, sitting where they were before they left. Keep scrolling and watch them go.
6 in. 0 out.
They cross the map and take the color of the league they joined.
1,119 primed to leave
These are the players the game itself flags as high risk to transfer after this season, read off every team's roster screen in November.
What a star is worth
The other way a roster changes is signing day. Each column is a star rating; height is the player's overall after one season. Recruiting classes decide who's good in two years, not next fall.
Two leave
Which brings us to next year. Ben is walking away from Notre Dame and Aidan from Washington. Those rosters, and the top-seven recruiting classes they just signed, stay behind with the computer.
#2 for #19
Left is the roster Ben built at Notre Dame. Right is the one waiting for him at Indiana. Same scale, every player on each.
#4 for #42
Left is the Washington team that just played us for the title. Right is South Carolina, 4–8 in the SEC.
The new four
The league as it lines up for 2030. Ben moves into our conference with a roster we beat 70–14 this year. Aidan is out of the Big Ten entirely.
Next year
Take each roster, drop the seniors, add one normal offseason of growth. This is the best 22 each team already has in the building.
Where they're thin
The same projection, position by position. Seniors are gone and everyone else has grown a year.
Next: three
John signed the #1 class. Ben inherits Indiana's #21. Aidan inherits one outside the top 30. The portal opens next.
Every number on this page was read off the game's own screens: 138 rosters, 11,058 players, 32 games.