TNG Best Games of 2022
Our model picked the highest rated, most pivotal games of the upcoming season
With our model set, we are able to filter the schedule to find the games featuring the teams with the highest combined Elo ratings and the tightest predicted spreads to give us an early preview of the most pivotal games of the 2022 season. This is also a preview of what you can expect of us in the Fall when we show you our weekly game-by-game picks. For this feature, we chose to filter the schedule to show us the games between teams with combined preseason ratings above 4000 and with initial projected spreads less than two touchdowns. These are games that could easily go either way.
As noted in our TNG Ratings Origin and Methodology, the ratings listed below (as well as all of the initial ratings listed in our preseason content) will change each week according to the performance of each team, so the projected spreads you see below will change as games are played and teams prove themselves, thus also changing the Expected Win %. Without further adieu, let’s take a look at the Best Games of 2022…