Back in August, Adam Rank and I decided to fight back against the algorithms attempting to upend football predictions as we know it. We bravely picked all 272 games of the 2025 NFL season, with the goal of proving once and for all that human analysis and gut instinct still have a place in our cold, data-driven world.

So far, it's not going great.

Two of us set out on this dubious mission, and only one of us remains in the battle midway through the season. (Don't worry, Rank is fine; he's just too busy for silly exercises like this.) And I've had my fair share of whiffs through 10 weeks.

Then again, I dare you to show me a model that projected Indianapolis would sit atop the AFC midway through November while Baltimore and Kansas City lingered on the playoff bubble (don't actually show

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