IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 11

Unsurprisingly, LSU jumped two spots to #1 with their win over Alabama.  Penn State's loss to Minnesota also opened the door for Oregon to climb into a playoff position.  Minnesota may have finally started to demonstrate how good they actually are.  They've been a bit of a sleeper all season but now leapfrogged Utah, who were on a bye, and have a bit more legitimacy in 6th place.  In a game that I'm sure will interest The Commissioner, they play at IOWA next week.

This week I have also run the numbers for David Burge's newly proposed ranking system that he describes as being based on the "Degrees of Kevin Bacon" theory in Hollywood.  I'm including that ranking list and a full explanation of how it works in a separate post here.  It has some interesting behavior on who gets ranked where, but actually results in the same top 4 teams, though not in the same order.

So many big games this week: Minnesota at IOWA (47 vs 95 marble gain potential), Wake Forest at Clemson (139 vs 52), Oklahoma at Baylor (119 vs 73), Georgia at Auburn (67 vs 79), and Indiana at Penn St (99 vs 49).

We still seem to be getting new followers of the Marble Game every week, so as a refresher, here are the rules for how this works:
- Each P5 team started the season with 200 marbles, each G5 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.

If you have any feedback or questions or see any issues feel free to reach out to the commissioner, David Burge (@IowaHawkBlog) or myself (@NateEMiller) on Twitter.

RankTeamWLConfMarblesChange
1LSU 9 0 SEC 613 +2, +105
2Clemson 10 0 ACC 556 -1, +29
3Ohio State 9 0 B10 522 -1, +12
4Oregon 8 1 PAC 484 +1, 0
5Baylor 9 0 B12 477 +1, +38
6Minnesota 9 0 B10 476 +3, +99
7Utah 8 1 PAC 431 0, 0
8Georgia 8 1 SEC 396 +2, +34
9Penn State 8 1 B10 395 -5, -99
10Oklahoma 8 1 B12 363 +2, +39
11Michigan 7 2 B10 338 0, 0
12Notre Dame 7 2 IND 333 +3, +30
13Alabama 8 1 SEC 315 -5, -105
14Florida 8 2 SEC 314 +2, +18
15Wisconsin 7 2 B10 289 +7, +47
16Oklahoma St. 6 3 B12 270 +1, 0
17Auburn 7 2 SEC 269 +1, 0
18Miami (FL) 6 4 ACC 268 +9, +48
19Memphis 8 1 AAC 267 0, 0
20Texas 6 3 B12 267 +12, +62
21Wake Forest 7 2 ACC 259 -8, -65
22SMU 9 1 AAC 255 -2, +5
23Boise State 8 1 MWC 248 +2, +28
24Indiana 7 2 B10 247 -3, 0
25Kansas St. 6 3 B12 247 -11, -62
26USC 6 4 PAC 237 +15, +51
27Virginia 7 3 ACC 235 +1, +15
28App. St. 8 1 SUN 229 +10, +38
29Virginia Tech 6 3 ACC 227 +19, +65
30Illinois 6 4 B10 225 +5, +31
31Cincinnati 8 1 AAC 224 -5, +4
32Wash. 6 4 PAC 220 +11, +44
33Pittsburgh 6 3 ACC 218 -4, 0
34UCLA 4 5 PAC 210 -4, 0
35BYU 5 4 IND 209 +2, +17
36Air Force 7 2 MWC 208 -5, 0
37Navy 7 1 AAC 193 -1, 0
38Louisville 5 4 ACC 191 -15, -48
39Iowa 6 3 B10 189 -15, -47
40Tennessee 5 5 SEC 178 +15, +38
41Texas A&M 6 3 SEC 177 +1, 0
42LA Tech 8 1 USA 166 +7, +10
43Iowa State 5 4 B12 158 -9, -39
44Florida St. 5 5 ACC 153 +23, +39
45Arizona St. 5 4 PAC 152 -12, -51
46Stanford 4 5 PAC 152 -7, -38
47UL Lafayette 7 2 SUN 144 +10, +19
48Temple 6 3 AAC 143 +12, +20
49San Diego St. 7 2 MWC 142 -9, -47
50UCF 7 3 AAC 138 -5, -34
51California 5 4 PAC 137 +15, +23
52Georgia St. 6 3 SUN 137 -6, -34
53Missouri 5 4 SEC 136 -6, -34
54Nevada 6 4 MWC 130 +34, +47
55Oregon St. 4 5 PAC 130 -11, -44
56Florida Atl. 7 3 USA 129 +8, +13
57Toledo 6 3 MID 129 +4, +8
58Marshall 6 3 USA 124 +1, 0
59Texas Tech 4 5 B12 117 +18, +23
60BC 5 5 ACC 116 -10, -39
61Colorado 4 6 PAC 116 +30, +38
62Kentucky 4 5 SEC 115 -11, -38
63TCU 4 5 B12 114 -11, -38
64Georgia So. 5 4 SUN 113 -10, -28
65S. Carolina 4 6 SEC 112 -12, -38
66S. Miss. 6 3 USA 112 +14, +21
67Wyoming 6 3 MWC 112 -11, -28
68N. Carolina 4 5 ACC 111 0, 0
69Arizona 4 5 PAC 109 0, 0
70Buffalo 5 4 MID 107 0, 0
71Purdue 4 6 B10 106 +4, +10
72Miami (OH) 5 4 MID 104 +17, +23
73W. Michigan 6 4 MID 104 +10, +17
74Tulane 6 3 AAC 101 -2, 0
75C. Mich. 6 4 MID 99 -2, 0
76Hawaii 6 4 MWC 97 +10, +12
77Miss. St. 4 5 SEC 96 -3, 0
78Utah State 5 4 MWC 96 +16, +20
79Nebraska 4 5 B10 95 -3, 0
80Mich. St. 4 5 B10 94 -22, -31
81Wash. St. 4 5 PAC 94 -18, -23
82W. Kentucky 6 4 USA 94 +5, +10
83Arkansas St. 5 4 SUN 90 -1, 0
84Duke 4 5 ACC 88 -22, -30
85NC State 4 5 ACC 87 -20, -29
86UAB 6 3 USA 85 -15, -21
87UL Monroe 4 5 SUN 77 +22, +34
88Kansas 3 6 B12 74 +8, 0
89Vanderbilt 2 7 SEC 73 -8, -18
90Ole Miss 4 6 SEC 71 +8, +3
91E. Mich. 4 5 MID 70 +6, 0
92Ohio 4 5 MID 70 -14, -23
93W. Virginia 3 6 B12 70 -14, -23
94Liberty 6 4 IND 69 -10, -17
95Ball State 4 5 MID 68 -10, -17
96Colorado St. 4 5 MWC 67 +3, 0
97Tulsa 3 7 AAC 66 +22, +34
98Troy 4 5 SUN 65 +17, +28
99Charlotte 5 5 USA 62 +4, +5
100Georgia Tech 2 7 ACC 61 -7, -15
101S. Florida 4 5 AAC 61 -11, -20
102Fresno St. 4 5 MWC 58 -10, -20
103Coastal Caro. 4 5 SUN 56 -8, -19
104Syracuse 3 6 ACC 56 0, 0
105Rutgers 2 7 B10 54 0, 0
106Florida Int. 5 5 USA 50 -6, -13
107Maryland 3 7 B10 50 -6, -12
108San Jose St. 4 6 MWC 47 -6, -12
109Bowling Grn 3 6 MID 45 -2, 0
110Mid. Tenn. 3 6 USA 44 -2, 0
111UTSA 4 5 USA 43 0, +4
112North Texas 4 6 USA 39 -6, -10
113N. Illinois 3 6 MID 38 0, 0
114Army 4 6 IND 37 +3, +3
115Texas State 3 6 SUN 37 +3, +3
116Houston 3 6 AAC 35 0, 0
117Kent State 3 6 MID 32 -7, -8
118Arkansas 2 8 SEC 28 -6, -10
119Northwestern 1 8 B10 28 -5, -10
120UNLV 2 7 MWC 27 +1, 0
121E. Carolina 3 7 AAC 22 -1, -5
122New Mexico 2 7 MWC 20 +1, 0
123Connecticut 2 8 AAC 18 -1, -4
124S. Alabama 1 8 SUN 13 +1, -3
125UTEP 1 8 USA 13 -1, -5
126UMASS 1 9 MID 12 0, -3
127NM St. 0 9 IND 11 0, -3
128Akron 0 9 MID 10 +1, 0
129Old Dominion 1 9 USA 10 -1, -4
130Rice 0 9 USA 10 0, 0


Average rank of all opponents played per team:
USC 41.3
N. Carolina 41.6
Louisville 44.1
Mich. St. 46.1
Miss. St. 46.3
Florida St. 46.5
TCU 46.8
UCLA 49.7
Stanford 50.0
Wash. 50.0
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Colorado St. 93.1
W. Kentucky 93.5
Indiana 93.6
Georgia St. 93.8
UTSA 97.0
Florida Int. 97.4
Liberty 99.8
LA Tech 102.8
UMASS 104.5
UAB 104.6


Average rank of all teams per conference:
B12 42.2
PAC 42.6
SEC 49.1
B10 49.9
ACC 50.9
AAC 69.9
IND 76.4
MWC 77.6
SUN 80.1
MID 93.7
USA 93.7


Average rank of all opponents played per conference:
PAC 55.1
B12 59.2
SEC 61.6
ACC 62.1
B10 62.8
IND 72.8
AAC 76.1
MWC 80.7
SUN 81.0
MID 83.7
USA 88.4

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