Everyone seems to have computer formula these days. But some systems engineer professors at Georgia Tech claim their system “consistently predicts NCAA basketball rankings more accurately than . . . even the tournament seeds themselves.”
The LRMC methord says it was right 55-65 percent of the time in games where picked different winners than other computer formulas. LRMC says it correctly identified an underseeded potential Final Four team in five of the last seven seasons by ranking them in the LRMC Top 10.
Here’s the link, with USC currently ranked 20th.
http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jsokol/lrmc/lrmc.sort0.html