Install
Opta Analyst is the home of data-driven storytelling. The best stats and predictions for football, NFL and NBA covered.
- 102articles · 30d
- 12+ hour agolatest article
- Aug 18, 2026earliest in window
- 89%with images
- 342avg words
- football 85
- sports 72
- premier league 69
- soccer 66
- sport 65
- manchester city 38
- arsenal 35
- manchester united 28
- liverpool 26
- aston villa 24
- chelsea 24
- tottenham hotspur 18
- college football 14
- football news 14
- newcastle united 14
- champions league 13
- arsenal fc 11
- chelsea fc 9
- match previews 9
- real madrid 8
- SPF 102
- sport 102
- SP 101
- NW 1
Please confirm you are human
This browser or connection looks automated. Press and continuously hold the control for 3 seconds to enable Google-hosted web results and, when separately allowed, AI-assisted answers.
A successful check enables 100 search requests. Interactive access does not authorize scraping, systematic collection, or reuse of search output.
News
FBS Conference Predictions: Opta Analyst Expert and Supercomputer Go Head-to-Head
3+ week, 3+ day ago (627+ words) There’s no need to wait months to see who will be FBS conference champions. The predictions are right here, with our fearless forecaster matched against the TRACR prediction model. Man versus machine is always fun. TRACR (Team Ranking Adjusted for…...
FCS Football Top 25 Scoreboard (Week 1)
1+ week, 20+ hour ago (615+ words) During the 2026 FCS season, the Stats Perform Top 25 media poll is released on Mondays following...next poll. The Week 1 schedule for teams in the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll and those receiving votes toward...
The Right Way to Get It Started: Five Big Story Lines in FCS Week 0
2+ week, 1+ hour ago (175+ words) In truth, the number of terrific story lines in Week 0 are endless. But we’re focusing on perhaps the five biggest to open the new FCS football season. If you had been looking forward to one of those wild and wacky…...
Pioneer Football League Predictions: Asking Who's Best Draws a Lot of Raised Hands
3+ week, 3+ day ago (581+ words) With the 2026 FCS football season fast approaching, we’re making predictions for the Pioneer Football League. Drake has plenty of company as it seeks a fourth straight championship. Leave it to the two non-scholarship leagues out of 13 overall conferences in FCS…...
Josh Davison
17+ hour, 42+ min ago (159+ words) Shrewsbury Town's Josh Davison has taken part in every one of their six League Two matches in 2026/2027, having been selected in the starting XI in all six. Davison last made an appearance in a league game on September 12, playing 88 minutes…...
Ivy League Football Predictions: This Time, Harvard, Yale Want the Title Outright
3+ week, 2+ day ago (567+ words) shouldn’t come easy this season, but Yale (No. 18 in the Stats Perform FCS Preseason Top 25 Poll) and Harvard stand above...
The Citadel, Hines, Bursey, Lindberg, Watson Earn FCS National Awards (Week 1)
6+ day, 4+ hour ago (434+ words) team honors during the regular season, leading into Stats Perform’s season-ending awards, now in their 40th year....State’s Cross Watson were selected on Monday as the Stats Perform FCS National Players of the Week for Week 1 college...In addition, The…...
2026 Week 1 NFL Predictions
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (1805+ words) With the help of the Opta supercomputer, we’re revealing the predictions for the Week 1 games of the 2026 NFL season. If the NFL season can’t get here soon enough for you, the league is listening. The kickoff to Week 1 is on…...
FCS Football Week 0 Preview & Predictions: The Season is Coming Right at You
2+ week, 4+ day ago (854+ words) We’re previewing key games and storylines each week during the 2026 college football season. Our FCS coverage is the home of the Top 25 media poll, FCS National Awards and much more. It took all of one game last season – the first…...
Patriot League Places Trio in FCS Top 25 Poll; Montana State Remains Unanimous No. 1
1+ week, 6+ day ago (846+ words) fans, media and the teams themselves look to the Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll to see who is rising and moving...football. The bolstered PL has three teams in the new Stats Perform FCS Top 25 Poll – Lehigh at No. 10, William…...