What our model saw that the scoreboard and the polls didn't. Archived per-game and week-by-week model history — the kind of receipts no other site keeps.
The model grades the performance, not the final score. These are the 2026 games where the two disagreed most.
Defeats the model refused to punish — close fights with strong teams that still raised the resume.
Victories the model saw through — wins that quietly cost a team resume value.
Week-by-week, the Heisman model leaves a paper trail. Here's when it knew — and who it warmed to fastest.
The week each contender first cracked the model's top five — its earliest reads on the race.
Who the model warmed to most across the season — largest climb in Heisman rank.