IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 11

The rules of the Marble Game:
- Each power-5 team started the season with 200 marbles, each non-power-5 started with 100.
- For each home win you take 20% of your opponents marbles. For each road win you take 25%.
- Neutral site games are treated like home games (worth 20%) for each team
- Notre Dame and BYU were given the privilege of starting with 200 marbles
- Fractional marbles get rounded to whole marbles at the time when they are moved from one team to the other.

Again the remaining 4 undefeateds all stayed that way. As predicted in last week's post, Alabama has now moved in to first place.  The weakness of ND's late-season schedule is finally catching up to them, while the strength of the conference schedules of power-5 schools is helping out teams like Alabama, Clemson, Michigan, & Washington State.  UCF, as always, is in a weird spot. They beat Navy for only 5 marbles and thus stayed in 17th. They are likely only going to get ~72 more marbles if they win out and will be lucky to break into the top 10 (not counting conference championships yet).

The biggest games coming up in week 12 are: Syracuse vs ND at a neutral site (121 vs 56 marble gain potential), Duke at Clemson (146 vs 45 marbles), Arizona at Washington St (111 vs 37 marbles), W. Virginia at Oklahoma St (34 vs 83 marbles), and Iowa State at Texas (68 vs 88 marbles).

Alabama and Georgia both have easy games. Alabama is playing an FCS opponent (who I don't think has any marbles, but I'll check) while UGA plays UMass at home (9 marble take).  So if ND and Clemson win their games, they will both move above Alabama into the 1st and 2nd spots with Bama falling to 3rd.  Ohio St, Michigan, and Oklahoma all have games they should win against mediocre conference opponents.

As always, if you find any mistakes or have any comments please let me or the Commish know on Twitter (@NateEMiller and @IowaHawkBlog).
If anyone is interested in checking out the ranking system I've been running for about 8 years as well, I'd love to discuss it with you also. You can find the latest numbers here.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles
1	Alabama	10	0	SEC	606
2	Notre Dame	10	0	IND	604
3	Clemson	10	0	ACC	585
4	Georgia	9	1	SEC	515
5	Ohio State	9	1	B10	489
6	Michigan	9	1	B10	474
7	Wash. St.	9	1	PAC	445
8	Oklahoma	9	1	B12	425
9	W. Virginia	8	1	B12	415
10	Iowa State	6	3	B12	353
11	LSU	8	2	SEC	316
12	Utah	7	3	PAC	299
13	Wash.	7	3	PAC	283
14	Pittsburgh	6	4	ACC	278
15	Syracuse	8	2	ACC	278
16	Texas	7	3	B12	273
17	UCF	9	0	AAC	270
18	Penn State	7	3	B10	268
19	Florida	7	3	SEC	263
20	Virginia	7	3	ACC	253
21	Arizona St.	6	4	PAC	250
22	Purdue	5	5	B10	235
23	Northwestern	6	4	B10	232
24	BC	7	3	ACC	227
25	Duke	7	3	ACC	224
26	Mich. St.	6	4	B10	222
27	Boise State	8	2	MWC	220
28	California	6	4	PAC	220
29	Cincinnati	9	1	AAC	217
30	UAB	9	1	USA	216
31	Utah State	9	1	MWC	210
32	Army	8	2	IND	209
33	Kentucky	7	3	SEC	206
34	Georgia Tech	6	4	ACC	202
35	Miss. St.	6	4	SEC	202
36	Texas A&M	6	4	SEC	202
37	Troy	8	2	SUN	202
38	Buffalo	9	1	MID	200
39	N. Illinois	7	3	MID	195
40	Temple	6	4	AAC	191
41	Missouri	6	4	SEC	189
42	Arizona	5	5	PAC	183
43	NC State	6	3	ACC	182
44	Auburn	6	4	SEC	178
45	Oregon	6	4	PAC	177
46	S. Carolina	5	4	SEC	169
47	Fresno St.	8	2	MWC	166
48	Iowa	6	4	B10	160
49	App. St.	7	2	SUN	158
50	Stanford	6	4	PAC	154
51	Tennessee	5	5	SEC	153
52	Wisconsin	6	4	B10	152
53	Minnesota	5	5	B10	151
54	USC	5	5	PAC	149
55	Nevada	6	4	MWC	140
56	Oklahoma St.	5	5	B12	136
57	Wake Forest	5	5	ACC	134
58	San Diego St.	7	3	MWC	131
59	Baylor	5	5	B12	128
60	Houston	7	3	AAC	128
61	BYU	5	5	IND	121
62	LA Tech	7	3	USA	121
63	Mid. Tenn.	7	3	USA	121
64	UL Monroe	6	4	SUN	120
65	Indiana	5	5	B10	113
66	S. Florida	7	3	AAC	113
67	Texas Tech	5	5	B12	113
68	Virginia Tech	4	5	ACC	111
69	Maryland	5	5	B10	110
70	Georgia So.	7	3	SUN	109
71	Tulane	5	5	AAC	106
72	Miami (FL)	5	5	ACC	105
73	North Texas	7	3	USA	104
74	Marshall	6	3	USA	102
75	SMU	5	5	AAC	99
76	Florida Int.	7	3	USA	98
77	Colorado	5	5	PAC	92
78	Arkansas St.	6	4	SUN	88
79	Kansas St.	4	6	B12	86
80	Ohio	6	4	MID	83
81	Ole Miss	5	5	SEC	82
82	Florida Atl.	5	5	USA	81
83	E. Mich.	6	5	MID	77
84	Illinois	4	6	B10	77
85	TCU	4	6	B12	76
86	Florida St.	4	6	ACC	75
87	Memphis	6	4	AAC	74
88	Miami (OH)	4	6	MID	74
89	Nebraska	3	7	B10	73
90	Liberty	4	5	IND	71
91	Toledo	5	5	MID	70
92	Old Dominion	3	7	USA	68
93	W. Michigan	6	4	MID	66
94	Vanderbilt	4	6	SEC	65
95	UL Lafayette	5	5	SUN	64
96	UNLV	3	7	MWC	64
97	S. Miss.	4	5	USA	62
98	UCLA	2	8	PAC	60
99	Kansas	3	7	B12	58
100	Oregon St.	2	8	PAC	57
101	Hawaii	6	5	MWC	55
102	Coastal Caro.	5	5	SUN	52
103	Wyoming	4	6	MWC	50
104	Akron	4	5	MID	47
105	Air Force	4	6	MWC	44
106	Charlotte	4	6	USA	43
107	UMASS	4	7	MID	43
108	Colorado St.	3	7	MWC	42
109	N. Carolina	1	8	ACC	37
110	NM St.	3	7	IND	32
111	Louisville	2	8	ACC	30
112	E. Carolina	2	7	AAC	29
113	Arkansas	2	8	SEC	28
114	UTSA	3	7	USA	28
115	Texas State	3	7	SUN	28
116	New Mexico	3	7	MWC	25
117	Ball State	3	7	MID	24
118	Rutgers	1	9	B10	21
119	Kent State	2	8	MID	19
120	Georgia St.	2	8	SUN	18
121	Navy	2	8	AAC	18
122	S. Alabama	2	8	SUN	17
123	Bowling Grn	2	8	MID	16
124	Tulsa	2	8	AAC	15
125	San Jose St.	1	9	MWC	14
126	W. Kentucky	1	9	USA	14
127	UTEP	1	9	USA	13
128	Connecticut	1	9	AAC	10
129	C. Mich.	1	10	MID	8
130	Rice	1	10	USA	8