College Football Conference Realignment — node2vec

Giovanni Malloy
Towards Data Science
16 min readAug 8, 2023

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You have made it to the final part of this 4-part blog. In part 3 of this blog, we tried to explore a world of conferences based on clustering where similar teams can share conferences. In this blog, we will perform analysis from the perspective of television and media networks. We are going to focus on creating a blockbuster lineup of made-for-television matchups: think Camping World Kickoff Game every week. In other words, what would the college football landscape look like if ESPN or FOX could tailor conferences to their liking (and that of their shareholders). In…

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