Credits

We would like to take this opportunity to personally acknowledge and thank some individuals and organizations who have helped our rating system become a reality:

• David Wilson for adding our rating to his American College Football Rankings website.
• Soren Sorensen for being great source of historical game data.
• Peter Wolfe for being a fantastic source of game schedules and scores.
• Ken Massey for including our rating in his College Football Ranking Comparison.
• Ralph Wallace at College Sporting News and the folks at I-AA.org for making our football rating part of every Gridiron Power Index since 2003.
  
• Todd Beck for including our predictions in his football prediction site, The Prediction Tracker and for his kind remarks for our predictions for the 2007 season.

Special Thanks

• Charles Aery for his football helmet collection from The Helmet Project.
  
  
  
• Tim Munn for his kind article (PDF) at the Cleveland News Leader.
  
  
  
• John Pruett for his kind articles (PDF, PDF) at the Huntsville Times.
  
  
  
• Josh Harris at Sports Radio 730 WUMP for having us on his show, the Huntsville Sports Report.
  
  
  
• Tony Glover for designing and creating the look and feel of our original website.
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• Walter Smith for his friendship and encouragement to pursue our dreams. (Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin. Zechariah 4:10)

Feedback

• "Thanks for Atomic Ratings and website. I am a die hard UCA Bears fan (and also Mizzou Tigers and Ok State Cowboys). I follow your site each week during season. Keep up the good work." -- September 2012
• "The Atomic projections are about the best I could find anywhere and the best I could find for the whole season that gets updated every week." -- November 2011
• "Thank you for all your hard work. I would never watch a game without first reading your weekly reports." -- Email received September 2011
• "It's pretty cool... They have their own mathematical model that they use to predict teams' seasons. As the season progresses the win chance percentages also change with each new game based on how the teams have done. It's the only one I have found for DII and they have a very good reputation and are very accurate. From what I have seen, they are almost never more than 1 or 2 games off of predicting a team's final record. Enjoy." -- Posted to d2messageboard.com, August 2011.
• "It's a great site. I've been following it for three years. It's uncanny how well their predictions turn out." --Posted to d2messageboard.com, August 2011.
• "Pretty awesome webpage!" -- Posted to a Fan Forum, October 2010
• "I think you have the best score-based power ratings publicly available." -- Email Received September 2010
• "I reference your website religiously and cite your predictions every week on our website... Your work is highly appreciated." -- September 2010
• "I love your website. Enjoy the predictions." -- September 2009
• "I have followed your site for a while and think it is a great ranking system." -- October 2008, president of a Semi-Pro Football Team
• "I have visited your site frequently during football season over the last couple of years and find it refreshing to get the computer's perspective. I find your computer's opinions to be a refreshing change from the sometimes ridiculous claims made by passionate but overly-biased fans." -- November 2007
• "Looking forward to another season watching your ratings. Appreciate your fanaticism with football and statistcs... Keep up the great work." -- August 2007
• "Nice ranking system and website!" -- January 2007
• "I have greatly enjoyed following the BCS-compliant ratings this fall on atomicfootball.com. Thanks for your efforts. Keep up the good work." -- November 2006
• "These guys are GOOD!!" -- November 2006, posted to d2football.com