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Home and Away: Last 10 Years.

Last week, I posted the historical home and road record winning streaks, as well as the longest current streaks.  At the moment, Alabama and Baylor lead the way with a 16 game current home win streak, while Boise State and Florida State are both close behind at 14 straight.  Similarly, Ohio State holds the nation’s longest road winning streak at 14 and Florida State is second at 12.  Despite being on both lists, the Seminoles lost their most recent game at a neutral site (to Oregon in the Rose Bowl), so they are not on a current win streak overall.

By winning percentage at home, here are the Top 15 teams of the past decade:

A few thoughts on this list:

• As expected, Boise State tops the list with its recent dominance on the “Smurf Turf.”  In fact, as noted in recent blog on winning streaks, the Broncos have two of the Top 10 all-time home winning streaks at 35 and 31, the latter of which took place during the past 10 years.
• A pair of Big Ten teams well regarded for their home field advantage are on the list in Ohio State, with its 100,000+ seat stadium, and Wisconsin’s Camp Randall, which shakes to the core during the “Jump Around” song between the 3rd and 4th quarter.
• Due to capacity, Oregon cannot pack as many fans into Autzen Stadium as some of the other large schools on this list, but there is no doubt that its fans have helped make life miserable for opposing teams. 

Moving to the road warriors, here is the list of the best pure road performances over the past 10 years:

Ohio State, which currently leads the NCAA with a 12 game road winning streak, leads the way here with a remarkable 82.2% winning percentage.  In addition, Boise State, at 79.3%, has proven that they can win on green grass or artificial turf as well as their blue surface at Albertsons Stadium.

You will notice that there is some disparity in the number of road games that these teams have played.  In the major conferences, there has been a trend for many teams to play a schedule that is heavily loaded with home and neutral site games, so Power 5 teams tend to play fewer home games.  Obviously, the biggest programs with the largest stadiums can play one-off matchups with smaller schools that need the payout to fund their program, as opposed to playing a home and home series.  As a result, a team like Boise State has played far more road contests than, say, Ohio State, which can afford to build its non-conference schedule purely with home games (though the Buckeyes travel to Virginia Tech this year). 

On the other end of the spectrum, here are the teams that have fared the worst at home over the last 10 years:

• Not many surprises here, except perhaps Syracuse, which has been inept at the Carrier Dome, which was once a very difficult place to play despite being one of the smaller stadiums in the Power 5 conferences.

Finally, here are the teams that have fared the worst on the road:

• At 13.2%, Colorado has been the worst Power 5 conference team ahead of former Big 12 conference-mate Kansas.  This illustrates how far the Buffaloes have fallen from the 1990s, when they were perennial national championship contenders.  Given this recent track record of futility, it is clear that Mike MacIntyre signed up for a monumental rebuilding job in Boulder.
• Speaking of Kansas, David Beaty also faces a major rebuilding task.  The Big 12 plays a true round robin schedule, so there will be years that the Jayhawks will play 5 conference away games, although not in 2015.

 

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