2017 - Week 8

Rankings through week 8.

I honestly don't believe that UCF is the best team in the nation, but the math still supports it.  I keep thinking there must be errors in the code or something but go back and handcheck over and over and it's all correct.  The truth is that UCF has done better in their signature games than have Penn St or Alabama.  

I honestly doubt it will continue.  I think as soon as UCF loses 1 game they will plummet.  But to this point, they haven't been exposed as lacking so here they sit.

Biggest mover on the week was BC (+30) with their upset of Virginia (who fell 19 places).  

I'm quite disappointed in my Utes.  My projections put the matchup really close, but I feel like we never should have lost to the 3-3 Sun Devils.  We dropped 17 places as a result; down to a pitiful 67th.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	RTPS	Change
1	UCF	6	0	AAC	1.000	+3
2	Penn St.	7	0	B10	0.981	-1
3	Alabama	8	0	SEC	0.958	-1
4	Georgia	7	0	SEC	0.951	+2
5	Miami (Fla.)	6	0	ACC	0.922	-2
6	Clemson	6	1	ACC	0.917	+1
7	Notre Dame	6	1	IND	0.916	+2
8	TCU	7	0	B12	0.862	-3
9	Ohio St.	6	1	B10	0.842	-1
10	Wisconsin	7	0	B10	0.837	+1
11	NC State	6	1	ACC	0.816	+1
12	Michigan St.	6	1	B10	0.810	-2
13	Wash.	6	1	PAC	0.789	+1
14	Memphis	6	1	AAC	0.765	+5
15	Miss St.	5	2	SEC	0.742	+20
16	Stanford	5	2	PAC	0.733	+2
17	Oklahoma	6	1	B12	0.730	-2
18	S. Florida	7	0	AAC	0.722	+6
19	Auburn	6	2	SEC	0.715	+11
20	Boise St.	5	2	MWC	0.711	+1
21	Oklahoma St.	6	1	B12	0.709	+5
22	Virg. Tech	6	1	ACC	0.705	+5
23	Wash. St.	7	1	PAC	0.700	0
24	USC	6	2	PAC	0.698	-11
25	Toledo	6	1	MID	0.697	+11
26	Michigan	5	2	B10	0.695	-9
27	Texas A&M	5	2	SEC	0.694	+1
28	Fresno St.	5	2	MWC	0.692	+17
29	Iowa State	5	2	B12	0.690	+4
30	S. Carolina	5	2	SEC	0.671	+1
31	LSU	6	2	SEC	0.666	+10
32	San Diego St.	6	2	MWC	0.664	-12
33	Marshall	6	1	USA	0.658	+6
34	SMU	5	2	AAC	0.644	-2
35	Georgia Tech	4	2	ACC	0.640	+22
36	Navy	5	2	AAC	0.638	-7
37	BC	4	4	ACC	0.636	+30
38	Troy	5	2	SUN	0.630	+17
39	Kentucky	5	2	SEC	0.629	-14
40	Iowa	4	3	B10	0.626	-24
41	Virginia	5	2	ACC	0.619	-19
42	Arizona St.	4	3	PAC	0.618	+14
43	Arizona	5	2	PAC	0.616	+6
44	Colorado St.	6	2	MWC	0.611	+4
45	Florida	3	3	SEC	0.596	+2
46	W. Virginia	5	2	B12	0.594	-2
47	S. Miss.	5	2	USA	0.584	+4
48	UCLA	4	3	PAC	0.583	+20
49	N. Illinois	5	2	MID	0.582	+3
50	Wake Forest	4	3	ACC	0.575	-13
51	Florida Atl.	4	3	USA	0.574	+25
52	NW	4	3	B10	0.562	+14
53	Louisville	5	3	ACC	0.562	+20
54	Texas Tech	4	3	B12	0.557	-11
55	App. St.	5	2	SUN	0.557	+3
56	Syracuse	4	4	ACC	0.556	+3
57	Cal	4	4	PAC	0.554	-17
58	Army	6	2	IND	0.553	+3
59	North Texas	4	3	USA	0.552	-21
60	Florida St.	2	4	ACC	0.544	-26
61	Indiana	3	4	B10	0.536	-15
62	Oregon	4	4	PAC	0.531	-20
63	Arkansas St.	4	2	SUN	0.530	+19
64	W. Michigan	5	3	MID	0.528	0
65	Ohio	6	2	MID	0.525	+14
66	Purdue	3	4	B10	0.521	-13
67	Utah	4	3	PAC	0.518	-17
68	Texas	3	4	B12	0.515	-8
69	Akron	4	4	MID	0.514	-7
70	Florida Int.	4	2	USA	0.510	+2
71	Houston	4	3	AAC	0.510	-17
72	Maryland	3	4	B10	0.509	-1
73	UTSA	4	2	USA	0.502	+8
74	Tulane	3	4	AAC	0.493	-4
75	Nebraska	3	4	B10	0.486	+5
76	Colorado	4	4	PAC	0.486	+1
77	Ole Miss	3	4	SEC	0.483	-3
78	W. Kentucky	5	2	USA	0.478	+9
79	LA Tech	3	4	USA	0.477	-1
80	Tenn.	3	4	SEC	0.477	+3
81	Wyoming	4	3	MWC	0.472	-12
82	Minnesota	4	3	B10	0.471	+2
83	Georgia St.	3	3	SUN	0.467	-18
84	Pittsburgh	3	5	ACC	0.451	+16
85	Utah State	4	4	MWC	0.445	+10
86	Vanderbilt	3	4	SEC	0.443	+2
87	Duke	4	4	ACC	0.436	-24
88	New Mexico	3	4	MWC	0.431	+1
89	Arkansas	2	5	SEC	0.430	-3
90	Kansas St.	3	4	B12	0.427	0
91	S. Alabama	3	4	SUN	0.424	+11
92	Cent. Mich.	4	4	MID	0.421	+15
93	Rutgers	3	4	B10	0.420	+12
94	Middle Tenn.	3	5	USA	0.409	-2
95	UCONN	3	4	AAC	0.408	+9
96	UAB	4	3	USA	0.405	-21
97	Cincinnati	2	6	AAC	0.403	-4
98	Temple	3	5	AAC	0.401	-1
99	Air Force	3	4	MWC	0.399	0
100	E. Michigan	2	5	MID	0.388	-4
101	Buffalo	3	5	MID	0.385	-10
102	UL Monroe	3	4	SUN	0.382	-17
103	NM St.	3	4	SUN	0.373	-2
104	Missouri	2	5	SEC	0.367	+5
105	E. Carolina	2	6	AAC	0.356	+7
106	UL Lafayette	3	4	SUN	0.343	-8
107	Tulsa	2	6	AAC	0.340	-13
108	Miami (Ohio)	3	5	MID	0.335	+10
109	Hawaii	3	4	MWC	0.316	+1
110	UNLV	2	5	MWC	0.311	-7
111	Kent St.	2	6	MID	0.303	0
112	Illinois	2	5	B10	0.298	-4
113	N. Carolina	1	7	ACC	0.281	+1
114	Oregon St.	1	6	PAC	0.281	+1
115	Nevada	1	7	MWC	0.277	+1
116	Kansas	1	6	B12	0.267	+6
117	Old Dominion	2	5	USA	0.262	+4
118	Ball State	2	5	MID	0.261	-12
119	Bowling Grn	1	7	MID	0.243	+1
120	Charlotte	1	7	USA	0.235	+6
121	BYU	1	7	IND	0.228	-4
122	Rice	1	6	USA	0.210	+1
123	Idaho	2	5	SUN	0.209	-10
124	Coastal Caro.	1	6	SUN	0.189	-5
125	Baylor	0	7	B12	0.188	-1
126	UMASS	1	6	MID	0.160	+4
127	Texas St.	1	6	SUN	0.142	-2
128	San Jose St.	1	7	MWC	0.121	-1
129	UTEP	0	7	USA	0.114	0
130	GA Southern	0	6	SUN	0.003	-2

Hardest Schedule Played per Team:

Florida State	34.8
Boston College	40.0
Arkansas	45.9
Florida	48.2
Cincinnati	48.4
Arizona State	49.6
Iowa	49.6
UCLA	49.6
Clemson	49.7
Indiana	50.1
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:	:
Appalachian State	94.6
Army West Point	95.5
Hawaii	96.1
UL Lafayette	97.1
Arkansas State	100.0
Texas-San Antonio	101.8
Massachusetts	103.3
UAB	103.6
South Florida	106.4
Ohio	107.6

Average Rank per Conference:

SEC	46.4
ACC	47.1
PAC	48.8
BIG10	50.9
BIG12	57.4
IND	62.0
AAC	62.5
MWC	78.3
USA	83.4
MID	88.2
SUN	95.4

Hardest Cumulative Schedules Played per Conference:

SEC	60.6
ACC	61.2
BIG10	62.4
PAC	63.2
IND	70.0
AAC	70.1
BIG12	70.4
MWC	77.4
MID	83.5
USA	84.6
SUN	88.5

EDITED 10/25/17: Recognized a small error with Coastal Carolina where it's most recent losses were not being included correctly.  The correction did change a few results, but by incredibly small amounts, most of which are concentrated to the ranks around 125th.