How An Iowa State Alum And Actuary Helps Decipher College Football Conference Scenarios

Josh Prins, an Iowa State alum and health care actuary, runs a popular website that helps college football fans and analysts navigate conference championship scenarios. The site, bball.notnothing.net, allows users to simulate outcomes of remaining games in the 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and calculate potential standings. It also includes tiebreaker procedures for each league.

Prins' website gained significant traction, recording over 190,000 page views on a single day last year. The site offers unique tools not available on major sports websites and is particularly useful for understanding who might play in conference title games, which influence College Football Playoff seeding.

Originally started in 2003 to predict Big 12 women's basketball tournament seeds, the website has expanded to cover both men's and women's basketball across all Division 1 conferences, as well as football. Despite its growing popularity, Prins manages the site as a side project without advertisements, funded by small donations from appreciative users.