Football Fanatics Share Future Predictions at Centergy One Coffee Talk
The morning of the first Monday night professional football game for the 2021 season seemed like the perfect time to gear up and head over to Centergy One to ask our community members the hard-hitting questions centered around the popular sport.
Backed by 50 doughnut holes and 96 ounces of pure caffeine, our Tech Square ATL (TSQATL) Social Club team captains took to the gridiron (the lobby) to host a Coffee Talk asking people’s predictions about who would win the ultimate title in both collegiate and professional football.
As the data above reflects, there was an overwhelming response that the University of Georgia Bulldogs would take home the big trophy, which is not really a surprise, given the proximity. Speaking of proximity, there were some hopeful Georgia Tech fans that believed their team would reign supreme. On the professional side of things, Tampa Bay was the clear favorite, with Atlanta’s very own Falcons only being the third most popular choice. One outlier did express Atlanta United, since the famous soccer team “is the original football.”
Predictions of any kind are never easy, which is why some individuals wanted to trying out machine learning (ML) algorithms for football (soccer) predictions. According to the article, the objective was to “create a supervised machine learning algorithm that predicts the football matches results based on the statistics of the matches. Thus, it will be possible to evaluate the difficulty level of prediction.”
Despite who everyone is rooting for this year, the overall excitement for sports resuming to in-person events was palpable. And speaking of, don’t forget to cheer on your local Yellow Jackets by tailgating in the Centergy Parking Deck on Saturday, September 24.
What are your predictions for collegiate and professional football this season? Let us know in the comments below.