Week 7: Mumme Pollin’ & Rankings

Back this week with the updated rankings. I’ve fallen incredibly behind with the other rankings I wanted to crank out, so these will have to do for at least one more week. A brief overview of the ranking formula:

1. I picked the simplest scale I could think of: 1-9
2. Teams are given a point value for every game on their schedule thus far. The point system looks like this:
   

   Opp Team & Result	Win Pts	Loss Pts
   BCS – Road	9	-1
   BCS – Neutral	8	-2
   BCS – Home	7	-3
   Non-BCS – Road	6	-4
   Non-BCS – Neutral	5	-5
   Non-BCS – Home	4	-6
   1-AA – Road	3	-7
   1-AA – Neutral	2	-8
   1-AA – Home	1	-9

   So beating a BCS team on the road is worth 9 points, but losing to a 1-AA team at home docks you 9 points.

3. To get a teams culmative score, you assign the correct value for the game and sum up all of the resulting values. So, for example, beating a BCS team on the road, but losing to a Non-BCS team at home would give you a total of 3 points.
4. These are non-weighted scores, which is where the ‘Blind’ part comes in. This means the actual opponent doesn’t matter. So beating Duke on the road is the same as beating Florida on the road.

Teams

Tidbits

1. The Big East and ACC are not nearly as laughably as people thought at the start of the year. The Big 12 is way worse than people think.
2. A total of SEVEN non-BCS teams are in the top 20. A staggering amount

Conferences

Tidbits:

1. The SEC is still king, but the Big 10 is coming up fast..
2. The WAC has made a huge jump, due in large part to Idahos success

Wrapping up

My Mumme Poll ballot is the same as the top 12 teams listed above, in that order.