IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 7

Notre Dame continues to hold that top spot, and 4 of the top 5 teams stay the same as last week.  Georgia falls to 11th thanks to their upset loss at LSU, who climb to 7th, and Texas slides into 5th place.  Thanks to their respective upsets, W. Virginia, Wisconsin, Washington, and Miami also all dropped considerably.

With the losses by UGA, Colorado, and W. Virginia, we are now down to 8 undefeated teams, with 3 of them coming from the AAC.  USF, UCF, and Cincy are all 6-0 and grouped together in the marble count.  One will eventually distill out.  Last year I was really pulling for UCF.  I'm a little less inclined this year based partially on where the AAC schedules have come out.  USF, UCF, and Cincy have played 3 of the 5 EASIEST schedules in all of FBS so far this season by my calculation.  See the list here.

UCLA finally won a game, so they are no longer neck-and-neck with the Cornhuskers for worst P5 school.  In fact, Arkansas, with their home loss to Ole Miss and who are yet to win against an FBS opponent, has now dropped into a tie for that auspicious title.  Both teams have 43 marbles and are sitting at 116th.

The biggest matchups I see coming in this next week are: NC State at Clemson (98 vs 69 marble potential respectively), Miss State at LSU (92 vs 41 marbles), Mich at Mich State (64 vs 69 marbles), Oregon at Wash State (62 vs 63 marbles), Maryland at Iowa (73 vs 41 marbles), and USC at Utah (58 vs 58 marbles).  Notre Dame is on a bye, so Ohio State will likely jump to first with a win at Purdue (40 marble take).  Alabama has another easy-ish game and can only take 37 marbles from Tennessee.

As always, thanks for following along, and if you have any feedback or corrections or comments please let me or the commish know on Twitter at @NateEMiller and @IowaHawkBlog.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles
1	Notre Dame	7	0	IND	518
2	Ohio State	7	0	B10	503
3	Alabama	7	0	SEC	416
4	Clemson	6	0	ACC	392
5	Texas	6	1	B12	392
6	Florida	6	1	SEC	369
7	LSU	6	1	SEC	369
8	Michigan	6	1	B10	345
9	NC State	5	0	ACC	344
10	Oregon	5	1	PAC	315
11	Georgia	6	1	SEC	310
12	Kentucky	5	1	SEC	294
13	Iowa	5	1	B10	293
14	USC	4	2	PAC	292
15	W. Virginia	5	1	B12	288
16	Duke	5	1	ACC	286
17	Oklahoma	5	1	B12	286
18	Texas A&M	5	2	SEC	284
19	Washington	5	2	PAC	259
20	Colorado	5	1	PAC	257
21	Mich. St.	4	2	B10	254
22	Wash. St.	5	1	PAC	249
23	Iowa State	3	3	B12	247
24	Virginia Tech	4	2	ACC	247
25	Texas Tech	4	2	B12	232
26	Utah	4	2	PAC	230
27	S. Florida	6	0	AAC	229
28	Virginia	4	2	ACC	226
29	Miami (FL)	5	2	ACC	219
30	BC	5	2	ACC	213
31	UCF	6	0	AAC	212
32	Cincinnati	6	0	AAC	208
33	Maryland	4	2	B10	207
34	Miss. St.	4	2	SEC	206
35	Wisconsin	4	2	B10	206
36	San Diego St.	5	1	MWC	201
37	Purdue	3	3	B10	200
38	Stanford	4	2	PAC	196
39	Penn State	4	2	B10	185
40	Ole Miss	5	2	SEC	181
41	Northwestern	3	3	B10	180
42	BYU	4	3	IND	178
43	Syracuse	4	2	ACC	171
44	Utah State	5	1	MWC	169
45	Buffalo	6	1	MID	165
46	Fresno St.	5	1	MWC	165
47	Army	4	2	IND	162
48	North Texas	6	1	USA	159
49	Houston	5	1	AAC	155
50	S. Carolina	3	3	SEC	155
51	UAB	5	1	USA	155
52	Arizona St.	3	3	PAC	150
53	Baylor	4	3	B12	147
54	Tennessee	3	3	SEC	147
55	Temple	4	3	AAC	143
56	Indiana	4	3	B10	142
57	App. St.	4	1	SUN	141
58	Troy	5	2	SUN	140
59	Georgia So.	5	1	SUN	137
60	California	3	3	PAC	136
61	Florida St.	3	3	ACC	135
62	Oklahoma St.	4	3	B12	134
63	Auburn	4	3	SEC	133
64	LA Tech	4	2	USA	129
65	Pittsburgh	3	4	ACC	128
66	TCU	3	3	B12	128
67	Arizona	3	4	PAC	127
68	Hawaii	6	2	MWC	121
69	Boise State	4	2	MWC	118
70	Minnesota	3	3	B10	118
71	Missouri	3	3	SEC	118
72	Illinois	3	3	B10	114
73	N. Illinois	4	3	MID	113
74	W. Michigan	5	2	MID	112
75	Kansas St.	3	4	B12	111
76	Liberty	3	3	IND	111
77	Florida Int.	4	2	USA	108
78	Wake Forest	3	3	ACC	103
79	UCLA	1	5	PAC	100
80	Georgia Tech	3	4	ACC	98
81	Kansas	2	4	B12	98
82	Marshall	4	2	USA	98
83	N. Carolina	1	4	ACC	98
84	Colorado St.	3	4	MWC	87
85	Mid. Tenn.	3	3	USA	86
86	Vanderbilt	3	4	SEC	86
87	Miami (OH)	3	4	MID	83
88	Florida Atl.	3	3	USA	80
89	UL Lafayette	3	3	SUN	74
90	Coastal Caro.	3	3	SUN	72
91	UL Monroe	3	4	SUN	72
92	Memphis	4	3	AAC	72
93	Arkansas St.	3	3	SUN	71
94	Akron	2	3	MID	70
95	E. Mich.	3	4	MID	70
96	New Mexico	3	3	MWC	70
97	Ohio	3	3	MID	70
98	Toledo	3	3	MID	68
99	Charlotte	3	3	USA	66
100	E. Carolina	2	4	AAC	64
101	Louisville	2	5	ACC	62
102	Tulane	2	4	AAC	61
103	Nevada	3	4	MWC	59
104	Oregon St.	1	5	PAC	58
105	UTSA	3	4	USA	58
106	S. Miss.	2	3	USA	56
107	NM St.	2	5	IND	54
108	SMU	2	4	AAC	54
109	Air Force	2	4	MWC	51
110	Ball State	3	4	MID	51
111	Georgia St.	2	4	SUN	50
112	Navy	2	4	AAC	48
113	Rutgers	1	6	B10	47
114	Old Dominion	1	6	USA	46
115	UNLV	2	4	MWC	46
116	Arkansas	1	6	SEC	43
117	Nebraska	0	6	B10	43
118	UMASS	2	5	MID	40
119	S. Alabama	2	5	SUN	39
120	W. Kentucky	1	5	USA	38
121	Wyoming	2	5	MWC	36
122	Connecticut	1	5	AAC	29
123	Texas State	1	5	SUN	28
124	Tulsa	1	5	AAC	28
125	Kent State	1	6	MID	25
126	C. Mich.	1	6	MID	23
127	Bowling Grn	1	6	MID	22
128	UTEP	0	6	USA	22
129	Rice	1	6	USA	21
130	San Jose St.	0	6	MWC	20