IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 10

I was asked by multiple people to add in something on each post to remind people of the rules of the Marble Game, so here goes:
- 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.

Alabama handled their first big test just as most of us probably figured they would. LSU has not scored at home against Alabama in over 120 minutes of game time, dating back to 2014.  But the Bama win, as I explained last week, was not enough to take over first place... yet.  ND won on the road and still holds the lead. ND just had a better early season schedule and is still riding their early command of 1st place. Alabama definitely has the higher potential to capture a lot more marbles down the stretch.

The four undefeateds stayed undefeated with UCF climbing another 8 spots to 17th. Their final few games won't be enough for them to climb very far though. Based on current marble counts they can only capture ~78 more in the regular season.

Big games coming up next week: Miss St at Alabama (potential to take 139 vs 50 marbles), Ohio St at Mich St (74 vs 83 marbles), Florida St at ND (146 vs 19 marbles), Clemson at BC (76 vs 102 marbles), Auburn at UGA (118 vs 45 marbles), and WSU at Colorado (31 vs 83 marbles).  Michigan has an easy game against Rutgers (the worst power-5 team at 116th) and would get jumped by Ohio St if Ohio St wins.

So assuming ND, Bama, and Clemson win, it will be Bama 606, ND 604, Clemson 585.

Oh, and UTEP finally won one so Rice falls to last (they're last in my other system too).

As always, if you find any mistakes or have any comments please let me or the Commish know on Twitter (@NateEMiller and @IowaHawkBlog).
If anyone is interested in checking out the ranking system I've been running for about 8 years as well, I'd love to discuss it with you also. You can find the latest numbers here.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles
1	Notre Dame	9	0	IND	585
2	Alabama	9	0	SEC	556
3	Clemson	9	0	ACC	509
4	Georgia	8	1	SEC	470
5	Michigan	8	1	B10	467
6	Ohio State	8	1	B10	415
7	Wash. St.	8	1	PAC	414
8	W. Virginia	7	1	B12	396
9	Oklahoma	8	1	B12	391
10	Iowa State	5	3	B12	321
11	LSU	7	2	SEC	307
12	BC	7	2	ACC	303
13	Mich. St.	6	3	B10	296
14	Purdue	5	4	B10	294
15	Wash.	7	3	PAC	283
16	Syracuse	7	2	ACC	271
17	UCF	8	0	AAC	265
18	Kentucky	7	2	SEC	258
19	Utah	6	3	PAC	255
20	Miss. St.	6	3	SEC	252
21	Pittsburgh	5	4	ACC	250
22	NC State	6	2	ACC	243
23	Arizona St.	5	4	PAC	235
24	Texas	6	3	B12	235
25	Virginia	6	3	ACC	235
26	Penn State	6	3	B10	230
27	Auburn	6	3	SEC	223
28	Florida	6	3	SEC	221
29	Oregon	6	3	PAC	221
30	Duke	6	3	ACC	215
31	Iowa	6	3	B10	214
32	S. Carolina	5	3	SEC	211
33	Army	7	2	IND	209
34	Fresno St.	8	1	MWC	208
35	Utah State	8	1	MWC	206
36	UAB	8	1	USA	201
37	USC	5	4	PAC	199
38	Buffalo	8	1	MID	195
39	Wisconsin	6	3	B10	190
40	Cincinnati	8	1	AAC	189
41	Arizona	5	5	PAC	183
42	Texas A&M	5	4	SEC	182
43	Boise State	7	2	MWC	178
44	N. Illinois	6	3	MID	178
45	Northwestern	5	4	B10	178
46	Georgia Tech	5	4	ACC	176
47	San Diego St.	7	2	MWC	175
48	Missouri	5	4	SEC	173
49	Houston	7	2	AAC	171
50	California	5	4	PAC	170
51	Oklahoma St.	5	4	B12	170
52	Troy	7	2	SUN	165
53	Baylor	5	4	B12	160
54	Texas Tech	5	4	B12	151
55	App. St.	6	2	SUN	148
56	Temple	5	4	AAC	148
57	Georgia So.	7	2	SUN	146
58	S. Florida	7	2	AAC	141
59	Stanford	5	4	PAC	140
60	Virginia Tech	4	4	ACC	139
61	Maryland	5	4	B10	138
62	Miami (FL)	5	4	ACC	131
63	Nevada	5	4	MWC	130
64	North Texas	7	2	USA	130
65	Colorado	5	4	PAC	123
66	LA Tech	6	3	USA	119
67	Mid. Tenn.	6	3	USA	117
68	UL Monroe	5	4	SUN	114
69	BYU	4	5	IND	106
70	Ohio	6	3	MID	104
71	Ole Miss	5	4	SEC	102
72	Tennessee	4	5	SEC	101
73	Tulane	4	5	AAC	99
74	Illinois	4	5	B10	96
75	SMU	4	5	AAC	95
76	TCU	4	5	B12	95
77	Florida St.	4	5	ACC	94
78	Minnesota	4	5	B10	92
79	Marshall	5	3	USA	91
80	Florida Int.	6	3	USA	89
81	Liberty	4	4	IND	89
82	Toledo	5	4	MID	87
83	Indiana	4	5	B10	85
84	Vanderbilt	4	5	SEC	81
85	Florida Atl.	4	5	USA	78
86	S. Miss.	4	4	USA	77
87	UCLA	2	7	PAC	75
88	Kansas	3	6	B12	73
89	Wake Forest	4	5	ACC	73
90	Arkansas St.	5	4	SUN	71
91	Kansas St.	3	6	B12	71
92	Oregon St.	2	7	PAC	71
93	Memphis	5	4	AAC	70
94	Coastal Caro.	5	4	SUN	69
95	W. Michigan	6	4	MID	66
96	E. Mich.	5	5	MID	65
97	UL Lafayette	4	5	SUN	60
98	Akron	4	4	MID	59
99	UMASS	4	6	MID	58
100	Hawaii	6	5	MWC	55
101	Charlotte	4	5	USA	54
102	Nebraska	2	7	B10	54
103	Miami (OH)	3	6	MID	53
104	Colorado St.	3	6	MWC	52
105	Wyoming	4	6	MWC	50
106	N. Carolina	1	7	ACC	46
107	Old Dominion	2	7	USA	42
108	Air Force	3	6	MWC	38
109	Texas State	3	6	SUN	38
110	Arkansas	2	7	SEC	37
111	Louisville	2	7	ACC	37
112	UTSA	3	6	USA	37
113	E. Carolina	2	6	AAC	36
114	NM St.	3	7	IND	32
115	New Mexico	3	6	MWC	31
116	Rutgers	1	8	B10	28
117	Ball State	3	7	MID	24
118	Kent State	2	7	MID	24
119	Navy	2	7	AAC	23
120	S. Alabama	2	7	SUN	23
121	Georgia St.	2	7	SUN	22
122	UNLV	2	7	MWC	20
123	Tulsa	2	7	AAC	19
124	San Jose St.	1	8	MWC	18
125	UTEP	1	8	USA	17
126	W. Kentucky	1	8	USA	17
127	Connecticut	1	8	AAC	14
128	Bowling Grn	1	8	MID	13
129	C. Mich.	1	9	MID	11
130	Rice	1	9	USA	10