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Week 8: Pollin’

by Griffin

Back this week with the updated rankings. 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. Alabama and Iowa keep the top slot with narrow victories this weekend.
  2. The top 7 teams are from each of the six BCS conferences plus Florida from the SEC.
  3. With conference schedules in full swing, the non-BCS teams are quickly falling out of the top slots. This mirrors the human polls. Any non-BCS team not in the polls by about weeks 4-5 will likely not reach the polls for the rest of the season.
  4. The Big 12 North is brutally mediocre.
Rank Conference Team Score
1 SEC Alabama 55
2 Big 10 Iowa 55
3 ACC Georgia Tech 48
4 SEC Florida 46
5 Big East Cincinnati 45
6 Big 12 Texas 45
7 Pac-10 USC 44
8 SEC LSU 42
9 Big East Pittsburgh 42
10 MWC TCU 39
11 Big 10 Penn State 38
12 Pac-10 Oregon 37
13 WAC Boise State 36
14 Big 10 Ohio State 36
15 MAC Central Michigan 35
16 SEC South Carolina 33
17 MWC Utah 32
18 CUSA Houston 32
19 Pac-10 Stanford 31
20 Big East WVU 31
21 Big 12 Oklahoma State 31
22 ACC Virgina Tech 31
23 Ind Notre Dame 30
24 Pac-10 Cal 29
25 SEC Georgia 27
26 SEC Auburn 26
27 Pac-10 Arizona 26
28 ACC Miami 26
29 WAC Idaho 25
30 MWC BYU 25
31 SEC Mississippi 23
32 Pac-10 Oregon St 23
33 ACC Boston College 23
34 Big East South Florida 22
35 Big 12 Kansas 21
36 Big 12 Kansas State 21
37 Big 10 Minnesota 21
38 Big 10 Wisconsin 21
39 Big 12 Iowa State 20
40 Big 10 Northwestern 20
41 Sun Belt Troy 19
42 Ind Navy 19
43 ACC Clemson 19
44 Big 10 Michigan 18
45 SEC Kentucky 17
46 Big 12 Texas Tech 17
47 Pac-10 Arizona St 16
48 Big East Uconn 16
49 Sun Belt Middle Tennessee 15
50 Big East Rutgers 15
51 Big 12 Texas A&M 15
52 Big 10 MSU 15
53 ACC Wake 15
54 MAC Temple 14
55 CUSA Southern Miss 14
56 Big 12 Nebraska 14
57 CUSA Marshall 13
58 Big 12 Oklahoma 13
59 Pac-10 UCLA 12
60 Big 12 Missouri 12
61 Big 10 Indiana 12
62 MAC Ohio 11
63 WAC Nevada 10
64 Sun Belt La-Lafayette 10
65 SEC Arkansas 10
66 ACC Duke 10
67 WAC Fresno State 9
68 Sun Belt La-Monroe 9
69 Pac-10 Washington 9
70 MAC Northern ILL 9
71 CUSA East Carolina 9
72 CUSA Tulsa 8
73 ACC UNC 8
74 SEC Tennessee 7
75 MWC Wyoming 7
76 MAC Toledo 7
77 MAC Kent St 6
78 Big 12 Baylor 6
79 ACC FSU 6
80 Big 10 Purdue 4
81 MAC W. Michigan 3
82 ACC Virgina 3
83 CUSA UTEP 2
84 Big East Syracuse 2
85 ACC NC State 1
86 SEC Miss St 0
87 MWC Air Force 0
88 CUSA SMU -1
89 Sun Belt FAU -2
90 MWC San Diego St. -2
91 CUSA UCF -2
92 Big 12 Colorado -2
93 Ind Army -3
94 WAC La Tech -4
95 Big East Louisville -5
96 Sun Belt Arkansas St -7
97 MAC Bowling Green -7
98 ACC Maryland -7
99 SEC Vandy -8
100 CUSA UAB -8
101 MWC Colorado St -10
102 MAC Buffalo -10
103 Big 10 Illinois -10
104 MWC UNLV -12
105 WAC Hawaii -14
106 WAC Utah St. -14
107 WAC New Mexico St. -15
108 Sun Belt FIU -16
109 CUSA Memphis -16
110 WAC San Jose St -17
111 Pac-10 Wash St -17
112 Sun Belt North Texas -21
113 MAC Akron -21
114 CUSA Tulane -21
115 CUSA Rice -27
116 MAC Miami (OH) -29
117 MAC Eastern Michigan -30
118 MAC Ball State -30
119 Sun Belt W. Kentucky -33
120 MWC New Mexico -34

Conferences

Tidbits:

  1. Same order as last week. The Big 10 is ever so close to overtaking the SEC.
  2. The Big East and Pac-10 are now tied for 3rd. Frankly, I would put those conferences at the top of the heap right now.
  3. With Miami and UNC choking away home games, the ACC is even more of a mess.
  4. The MAC is just awful this year.
Rank Conference Score
1 SEC 23.17
2 Big 10 23
3 Pac-10 21
4 Big East 21
5 Big 12 17.75
6 ACC 15.25
7 MWC 5
8 WAC 1.78
9 CUSA 0.25
10 Sun Belt –2.89
11 MAC –3.23

Wrapping up

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

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