College Football Conference Realignment — Exploratory Data Analysis in Python

Giovanni Malloy
Towards Data Science
8 min readAug 5, 2023

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It’s my favorite time of year: fall which means it’s time for college football. I have always loved college sports. Growing up, I lived in a Big Ten/SEC household and a Big East (now ACC) town which meant a deluge of college sports filled the television screen from the first kick-off in August to the last buzzer beater in April. Recently, analytics has come to dominate both sports, but since it is football season let’s start there.

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Data and decision scientist passionate about policy, music, sports, health, and entertainment