HOUSTON - Like most HBCU football fans, I’ve always wondered what it would be like to have a predictive analytics tool built ...

Avani Lakkireddy is a sophomore using data analytics to find patterns and model behavior in college and professional sports in her column “The Data Made Me Do It,” which runs every other Friday.

Every year, ESPN uses its Football Power Index to predict every single game on the college football calendar. The FPI "is a measure of team strength that is meant to be the best predictor of a team's ...