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Yeah, I think it's trying to hard in this regard. It's got a nice clean look, but the font can be a little more traditional, and the dark background with glowing buttons makes it look more like a toy than something used for serious analysis.

It seems geared to comparing conferences and not arbitrary matchups. I was expecting to be able to compare any 2 teams. I'm sure you're working on it.

Good job presenting the data though.

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Of course you can compare any two teams - click on the logo and select the team(s) you want.

I can only select one at a time. And it's not obvious that the NCAA logo is a button.

How can I see a Matchup between Cal and Stanford, like you have for Miami and Florida St.?

http://statmilk.com/NCAAF/MatchUp/107/674/

Ah, how silly of me. You told me to just click on the logos and I was just clicking on them on the wrong tab. However, you really need to put more time into the design of that feature, and that select "button". I know you have a splash screen explaining "select a team", but there's no affordances for the user who overlooks that instruction and is looking to achieve the same thing I was. A simple mouse over effect would help big time.

BTW, on the "Matchups" page, I was expecting to see more than one. You might want a featured list somewhere on that page to make it easier to load this week's big games.

Addressing both issues this week - thanks for the feedback.

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