IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 4

Hello everyone, welcome to the Week 4 results of IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game.  There were quite a few interesting games this week that had some big impacts near the top, with Georgia, Cal, and Wisconsin being perhaps the biggest.  My Utes lost a nail-biter at USC unfortunately, once again demonstrating the nearly flat distribution of quality among PAC-12 teams.

Anyway, SMU has jumped up to being the best non-P5 school with 219 marbles in 28th place after their road win at TCU.  UCLA saved themselves by somehow beating Washington State (see my previous statement about the PAC-12), therefore leaving the honor of being the worst P5 school to a tie between two SEC teams: Vandy and Tennesee.  The SEC has arguably the widest distribution of quality of any conference in college football.  Both of those teams have 90 marbles and are tied at 92nd.

Some big games in the coming week include: Miss. St. at Auburn (81 vs 43 marble-gain potential), Ohio St at Nebraska (60 vs 63 potential), Virginia at ND (54 vs 75), and Arizona St at Cal (79 vs 42).

And finally, as always, if you see any errors or want to discuss or give feedback, please let the Commish or me know on Twitter (@IowaHawkBlog and @NateEMiller).

For those that don't recall or are new here, the rules of the Marble Game are:
- 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.

Also I added the final column last week (on suggestion from @ChrisPaulRoney) which now shows the change in Rank and the change in Marbles since the previous week. 

RankTeamWLConfMarblesChange
1Clemson 4 0 ACC 347 0, +18
2Auburn 4 0 SEC 324 +7, +44
3Georgia 4 0 SEC 324 +10, +54
4Florida 4 0 SEC 323 0, +22
5Alabama 4 0 SEC 317 0, +21
6Ohio State 4 0 B10 317 -3, +13
7California 4 0 PAC 316 +9, +50
8Iowa 3 0 B10 314 -6, 0
9LSU 4 0 SEC 305 +3, +30
10Virginia 4 0 ACC 300 -3, +16
11Wake Forest 4 0 ACC 294 -5, 0
12Wisconsin 3 0 B10 294 +8, +49
13Kansas St. 3 0 B12 280 -3, 0
14Colorado 3 1 PAC 268 +19, +70
15USC 3 1 PAC 268 +12, +54
16W. Virginia 3 1 B12 257 +14, +53
17Penn State 3 0 B10 254 0, 0
18Oklahoma 3 0 B12 250 0, 0
19Wash. 3 1 PAC 245 +20, +61
20Nebraska 3 1 B10 238 +15, +46
21Minnesota 3 0 B10 236 +2, 0
22Baylor 3 0 B12 232 +3, +12
23Texas 3 1 B12 232 +22, +55
24Oregon 3 1 PAC 227 +12, +39
25BC 3 1 ACC 224 +15, +44
26Mich. St. 3 1 B10 224 +16, +44
27Missouri 3 1 SEC 224 +4, +24
28Oklahoma St. 3 1 B12 221 -17, -55
29SMU 4 0 AAC 219 +31, +62
30Miss. St. 3 1 SEC 217 +13, +37
31Notre Dame 2 1 IND 216 -17, -54
32Utah 3 1 PAC 216 -17, -54
33Arizona St. 3 1 PAC 210 -25, -70
34Arizona 2 1 PAC 204 -5, 0
35Boise State 4 0 MWC 203 +17, +33
36Maryland 2 1 B10 196 -2, 0
37Michigan 2 1 B10 195 -16, -49
38NC State 3 1 ACC 187 +9, +11
39TCU 2 1 B12 186 -20, -62
40Indiana 3 1 B10 184 +13, +15
41BYU 2 2 IND 181 -19, -61
42Duke 2 1 ACC 180 -1, 0
43Virginia Tech 2 1 ACC 180 +1, 0
44Wash. St. 3 1 PAC 177 -20, -59
45Texas Tech 2 1 B12 176 +5, 0
46App. St. 3 0 SUN 175 +28, +55
47Florida St. 2 2 ACC 170 +19, +34
48Pittsburgh 2 2 ACC 168 +20, +32
49Iowa State 2 1 B12 166 +14, +16
50N. Carolina 2 2 ACC 163 -24, -55
51E. Mich. 3 1 MID 161 +5, 0
52Memphis 3 0 AAC 160 +5, 0
53Kansas 2 2 B12 157 -25, -53
54Syracuse 2 2 ACC 157 +15, +22
55Ole Miss 2 2 SEC 150 -23, -50
56UCLA 1 3 PAC 149 +36, +59
57Kentucky 2 2 SEC 147 -19, -37
58Miami (FL) 2 2 ACC 146 +14, +18
59Purdue 1 2 B10 142 +6, 0
60Hawaii 3 1 MWC 141 +7, +5
61Illinois 2 2 B10 138 -24, -46
62Coastal Caro. 3 1 SUN 137 +11, +12
63Louisville 2 2 ACC 135 -9, -34
64Air Force 2 1 MWC 133 -9, -33
65Arkansas 2 2 SEC 132 -19, -44
66Nevada 3 1 MWC 132 +16, +20
67Rutgers 1 2 B10 132 -19, -44
68Texas A&M 2 2 SEC 132 -19, -44
69UAB 3 0 USA 132 +9, +12
70Georgia Tech 1 2 ACC 131 0, 0
71Northwestern 1 2 B10 131 -20, -44
72Cincinnati 2 1 AAC 128 -1, 0
73Wyoming 3 1 MWC 128 -15, -32
74UCF 3 1 AAC 126 -15, -32
75Oregon St. 1 2 PAC 120 +1, 0
76San Jose St. 2 1 MWC 119 +29, +44
77Temple 2 1 AAC 119 -13, -30
78Utah State 2 1 MWC 119 +21, +39
79San Diego St. 3 1 MWC 117 -18, -39
80Army 3 1 IND 116 0, 0
81Navy 2 0 AAC 116 0, 0
82Stanford 1 3 PAC 115 -20, -39
83LA Tech 3 1 USA 112 +3, +12
84UL Lafayette 3 1 SUN 111 +5, +16
85Tulsa 2 2 AAC 111 +16, +32
86Tulane 3 1 AAC 109 +2, +13
87Georgia St. 2 2 SUN 96 -12, -24
88Marshall 2 1 USA 96 -1, 0
89S. Carolina 1 3 SEC 96 -12, -24
90Toledo 2 1 MID 96 +8, +16
91Buffalo 2 2 MID 94 +16, +30
92New Mexico 2 1 MWC 90 +3, +10
93Tennessee 1 3 SEC 90 -10, -22
94Vanderbilt 0 3 SEC 90 -15, -30
95W. Michigan 2 2 MID 88 -11, -22
96Troy 2 1 SUN 87 +10, +12
97Arkansas St. 2 2 SUN 84 -4, +4
98S. Miss. 2 2 USA 84 -13, -21
99Florida Atl. 2 2 USA 79 +1, 0
100Kent State 2 2 MID 76 +12, +12
101Liberty 2 2 IND 76 +1, 0
102North Texas 2 2 USA 76 +13, +12
103W. Kentucky 1 2 USA 76 0, 0
104C. Mich. 2 2 MID 74 -14, -18
105Charlotte 2 2 USA 74 -14, -18
106Texas State 1 3 SUN 72 +24, +24
107E. Carolina 2 2 AAC 64 +2, 0
108Georgia So. 1 2 SUN 64 +2, 0
109UL Monroe 1 2 SUN 64 -15, -16
110N. Illinois 1 2 MID 64 +4, 0
111Old Dominion 1 2 USA 64 -15, -16
112Connecticut 1 2 AAC 60 -8, -15
113Fresno St. 1 2 MWC 60 +6, 0
114Mid. Tenn. 1 2 USA 60 +6, 0
115S. Florida 1 2 AAC 60 +7, 0
116UTEP 1 2 USA 60 -19, -20
117UNLV 1 2 MWC 60 +7, 0
118Houston 1 3 AAC 51 -7, -13
119Miami (OH) 1 3 MID 51 -6, -13
120Bowling Grn 1 3 MID 48 -3, -12
121Colorado St. 1 3 MWC 48 -13, -16
122Florida Int. 1 3 USA 48 -4, -12
123Ohio 1 3 MID 48 -7, -16
124S. Alabama 1 3 SUN 48 -3, -12
125UTSA 1 3 USA 48 -2, -12
126Ball State 1 3 MID 45 -1, -11
127NM St. 0 4 IND 38 +1, -10
128Akron 0 4 MID 36 -2, -12
129UMASS 0 4 MID 36 -2, -12
130Rice 0 4 USA 36 -1, -12

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