IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 6

We lost three undefeated teams this week. LSU fell at Florida, OU lost to Texas in the Red River Showdown, and UK was finally exposed by A&M.  As a result, Florida and Texas both leaped their respective opponents into the top 10, and though UK fell and A&M rose, UK is still higher at 12th and A&M's previous loss keeps them down at 23rd.

As explained last week and on Twitter (@NateEMiller), ND had the biggest potential for gains this week while Alabama, Georgia, and Clemson could really only hold steady. That's basically what happened as we see.

USF won again and has now broken into the top 25. They, along with Cincy and UCF, remain undefeated. Those teams' schedules make it rather difficult to get marbles, so wait for one of them to take from the other two and perhaps make a run higher into the rankings. (I think UCF may be the best among the 3. They've played an easier schedule than USF but have won by bigger margins so who knows? See some data on that elsewhere on my blog here.) UCLA and Nebraska continue their race to the bottom and are now tied for 111th with 54 marbles.

The matchups that have the potential for the biggest impacts near the top this coming week have to be UGA at LSU (73 vs 78 marble potential respectively), UW at Oregon (63 vs 65 marbles), and Wisconsin at Michigan (73 vs 52 marbles). Most of the rest of the top teams have relatively straightforward games at home (ND, Ohio St, Bama, Texas).

As always, please feel free to message me on Twitter. I'm certain the inventor and commissioner of the Marble Game also enjoys hearing from you (@IowaHawkBlog). Let me know if you find any mistakes.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles
1	Notre Dame	6	0	IND	486
2	Ohio State	6	0	B10	473
3	Clemson	6	0	ACC	392
4	Georgia	6	0	SEC	388
5	Alabama	6	0	SEC	386
6	Texas	5	1	B12	373
7	W. Virginia	5	0	B12	360
8	NC State	5	0	ACC	344
9	Florida	5	1	SEC	340
10	Washington	5	1	PAC	324
11	Colorado	5	0	PAC	321
12	Kentucky	5	1	SEC	294
13	Michigan	5	1	B10	293
14	LSU	5	1	SEC	291
15	Miami (FL)	5	1	ACC	274
16	Oklahoma	5	1	B12	268
17	Wisconsin	4	1	B10	258
18	Duke	4	1	ACC	253
19	Oregon	4	1	PAC	250
20	Wash. St.	5	1	PAC	249
21	Penn State	4	1	B10	247
22	Iowa	4	1	B10	245
23	Texas A&M	4	2	SEC	232
24	USC	3	2	PAC	228
25	S. Florida	5	0	AAC	219
26	Virginia Tech	3	2	ACC	214
27	Cincinnati	6	0	AAC	208
28	S. Carolina	3	2	SEC	207
29	Miss. St.	4	2	SEC	206
30	BC	4	2	ACC	198
31	Utah	3	2	PAC	198
32	Stanford	4	2	PAC	196
33	Maryland	3	2	B10	195
34	Mich. St.	3	2	B10	192
35	Indiana	4	2	B10	190
36	Texas Tech	3	2	B12	189
37	San Diego St.	4	1	MWC	188
38	UCF	5	0	AAC	188
39	Baylor	4	2	B12	184
40	California	3	2	PAC	182
41	Auburn	4	2	SEC	177
42	Iowa State	2	3	B12	175
43	Troy	5	1	SUN	175
44	Syracuse	4	2	ACC	171
45	TCU	3	2	B12	171
46	Virginia	3	2	ACC	171
47	Northwestern	2	3	B10	169
48	Oklahoma St.	4	2	B12	167
49	Ole Miss	4	2	SEC	166
50	Purdue	2	3	B10	162
51	Pittsburgh	3	3	ACC	160
52	Arizona	3	3	PAC	159
53	Utah State	4	1	MWC	158
54	Fresno St.	4	1	MWC	156
55	Army	3	2	IND	155
56	Illinois	3	2	B10	152
57	Hawaii	6	1	MWC	151
58	Arizona St.	3	3	PAC	150
59	BYU	3	3	IND	148
60	Minnesota	3	2	B10	148
61	Missouri	3	2	SEC	148
62	UAB	4	1	USA	148
63	Buffalo	5	1	MID	147
64	North Texas	5	1	USA	145
65	Florida St.	3	3	ACC	135
66	Houston	4	1	AAC	134
67	Georgia Tech	3	3	ACC	131
68	N. Carolina	1	3	ACC	131
69	Georgia So.	4	1	SUN	127
70	Temple	3	3	AAC	127
71	App. St.	3	1	SUN	117
72	Vanderbilt	3	3	SEC	115
73	LA Tech	3	2	USA	109
74	Mid. Tenn.	3	2	USA	108
75	W. Michigan	4	2	MID	105
76	Tennessee	2	3	SEC	103
77	Wake Forest	3	3	ACC	103
78	Boise State	3	2	MWC	98
79	Kansas	2	4	B12	98
80	Coastal Caro.	3	2	SUN	96
81	Memphis	4	2	AAC	96
82	Arkansas St.	3	2	SUN	95
83	N. Illinois	3	3	MID	95
84	Akron	2	2	MID	88
85	New Mexico	3	2	MWC	88
86	Ohio	3	2	MID	88
87	Florida Int.	3	2	USA	86
88	E. Carolina	2	3	AAC	85
89	Toledo	3	2	MID	85
90	Marshall	3	2	USA	82
91	Florida Atl.	3	3	USA	80
92	Nevada	3	3	MWC	79
93	Kansas St.	2	4	B12	78
94	UTSA	3	3	USA	78
95	Louisville	2	4	ACC	77
96	Miami (OH)	2	4	MID	77
97	Liberty	2	3	IND	76
98	S. Miss.	2	2	USA	70
99	Colorado St.	2	4	MWC	69
100	NM St.	2	4	IND	67
101	Air Force	2	3	MWC	64
102	Navy	2	3	AAC	64
103	Old Dominion	1	5	USA	62
104	UL Lafayette	2	3	SUN	61
105	Tulane	2	4	AAC	61
106	Rutgers	1	5	B10	59
107	Arkansas	1	5	SEC	58
108	Oregon St.	1	5	PAC	58
109	UNLV	2	3	MWC	57
110	Charlotte	2	3	USA	56
111	Nebraska	0	5	B10	54
112	SMU	2	4	AAC	54
113	UCLA	0	5	PAC	54
114	E. Mich.	2	4	MID	53
115	Georgia St.	2	4	SUN	50
116	UL Monroe	2	4	SUN	48
117	W. Kentucky	1	4	USA	48
118	Wyoming	2	4	MWC	45
119	Ball State	2	4	MID	43
120	UMASS	2	5	MID	40
121	S. Alabama	1	5	SUN	39
122	Texas State	1	4	SUN	38
123	Tulsa	1	4	AAC	38
124	C. Mich.	1	5	MID	31
125	Kent State	1	5	MID	31
126	Bowling Grn	1	5	MID	29
127	Connecticut	1	5	AAC	29
128	Rice	1	5	USA	28
129	San Jose St.	0	5	MWC	27
130	UTEP	0	6	USA	22