IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game through Week 3

Good morning football fans, here are the Marble Game results through week 3. I realized I'd missed a couple neutral-site games from earlier weeks so those have been fixed. Things are really beginning to take shape now, with the undefeated teams distilling out in a pretty logical manner. Moving into conference play in the next couple weeks will start to break up the undefeateds pretty quickly.

Boise State is still the best non-P5 school with 170 marbles in 52nd place. UCLA has the honor of being the worst P5 school, with their third loss putting them to 90 marbles (92nd place), which is only 6 marbles off from the worst performance even possible in this system.

A few of the big games coming up this week include: Arizona St vs Colorado (potential to gain 40 and 70 marbles, respectively), Auburn at Texas A&M (44 and 56 marble gain potential), Oklahoma St at Texas (44 and 56 marble gain potential), Georgia vs ND (54 and 68 marble gain potential), Utah at USC (potential to take 54 each), and Michigan at Wisconsin (61 and 49 marble gain potential, respectively).

For those that don't recall or are new here, the rules of the Marble Game are:
- 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.

And finally, as always, if you see any errors or want to discuss or give feedback, please let the Commish or me know on Twitter (@IowaHawkBlog and @NateEMiller).

EDIT: I just added the final column which now shows the change in Rank and the change in Marbles since the previous week.

EDIT: Something was going wrong with Oregon's win over Montana. I still haven't tracked down what caused it in my previous list, but have updated things here. 

RankTeamWLConfMarblesChange
1Clemson 3 0 ACC 329 0, +45
2Iowa 3 0 B10 314 +6, +50
3Ohio State 3 0 B10 304 +12, +56
4Florida 3 0 SEC 301 +18, +61
5Alabama 3 0 SEC 296 +4, +40
6Wake Forest 3 0 ACC 294 +19, +54
7Virginia 3 0 ACC 284 +7, +34
8Arizona St. 3 0 PAC 280 +19, +60
9Auburn 3 0 SEC 280 -3, +16
10Kansas St. 3 0 B12 280 +19, +60
11Oklahoma St. 3 0 B12 276 +2, +26
12LSU 3 0 SEC 275 -10, 0
13Georgia 3 0 SEC 270 -2, +20
14Notre Dame 2 0 IND 270 -2, +20
15Utah 3 0 PAC 270 -11, 0
16California 3 0 PAC 266 -6, +16
17Penn State 3 0 B10 254 +16, +34
18Oklahoma 3 0 B12 250 +14, +30
19TCU 2 0 B12 248 +20, +48
20Wisconsin 2 0 B10 245 -1, 0
21Michigan 2 0 B10 244 -1, 0
22BYU 2 1 IND 242 +20, +54
23Minnesota 3 0 B10 236 +7, +16
24Wash. St. 3 0 PAC 236 +11, +16
25Baylor 2 0 B12 220 +3, 0
26N. Carolina 2 1 ACC 218 -23, -54
27USC 2 1 PAC 214 -22, -54
28Kansas 2 1 B12 210 +35, +60
29Arizona 2 1 PAC 204 +26, +44
30W. Virginia 2 1 B12 204 +30, +44
31Missouri 2 1 SEC 200 +6, 0
32Ole Miss 2 1 SEC 200 +6, 0
33Colorado 2 1 PAC 198 -26, -66
34Maryland 2 1 B10 196 -16, -49
35Nebraska 2 1 B10 192 +11, +16
36Oregon 2 1 PAC 188 +7, 0
37Illinois 2 1 B10 184 -21, -61
38Kentucky 2 1 SEC 184 -21, -61
39Wash. 2 1 PAC 184 +26, +34
40BC 2 1 ACC 180 -19, -60
41Duke 2 1 ACC 180 +16, +20
42Mich. St. 2 1 B10 180 -19, -60
43Miss. St. 2 1 SEC 180 -19, -60
44Virginia Tech 2 1 ACC 180 +1, 0
45Texas 2 1 B12 177 +9, +12
46Arkansas 2 1 SEC 176 +10, +16
47NC State 2 1 ACC 176 -16, -44
48Rutgers 1 1 B10 176 -1, 0
49Texas A&M 2 1 SEC 176 -1, 0
50Texas Tech 2 1 B12 176 -16, -44
51Northwestern 1 1 B10 175 +7, +15
52Boise State 3 0 MWC 170 -2, 0
53Indiana 2 1 B10 169 -27, -56
54Louisville 2 1 ACC 169 +10, +19
55Air Force 2 0 MWC 166 +26, +66
56E. Mich. 2 1 MID 161 +27, +61
57Memphis 3 0 AAC 160 +10, +20
58Wyoming 3 0 MWC 160 +3, 0
59UCF 3 0 AAC 158 +15, +38
60SMU 3 0 AAC 157 +6, +12
61San Diego St. 3 0 MWC 156 +7, +16
62Stanford 1 2 PAC 154 -22, -38
63Iowa State 1 1 B12 150 -27, -50
64Temple 2 0 AAC 149 +22, +49
65Purdue 1 2 B10 142 -24, -48
66Florida St. 1 2 ACC 136 -15, -34
67Hawaii 2 1 MWC 136 -15, -34
68Pittsburgh 1 2 ACC 136 -15, -34
69Syracuse 1 2 ACC 135 -25, -45
70Georgia Tech 1 2 ACC 131 -21, -44
71Cincinnati 2 1 AAC 128 +6, +16
72Miami (FL) 1 2 ACC 128 -3, 0
73Coastal Caro. 2 1 SUN 125 -3, 0
74App. St. 2 0 SUN 120 -3, 0
75Georgia St. 2 1 SUN 120 -13, -30
76Oregon St. 1 2 PAC 120 -4, 0
77S. Carolina 1 2 SEC 120 -18, -40
78UAB 2 0 USA 120 -5, 0
79Vanderbilt 0 2 SEC 120 -3, 0
80Army 2 1 IND 116 +8, +20
81Navy 2 0 AAC 116 +3, +16
82Nevada 2 1 MWC 112 -4, 0
83Tennessee 1 2 SEC 112 -4, 0
84W. Michigan 2 1 MID 110 +32, +30
85S. Miss. 2 1 USA 105 +26, +25
86LA Tech 2 1 USA 100 +15, +20
87Marshall 2 1 USA 96 +16, +16
88Tulane 2 1 AAC 96 +1, 0
89UL Lafayette 2 1 SUN 95 +1, 0
90C. Mich. 2 1 MID 92 +4, +12
91Charlotte 2 1 USA 92 +4, +12
92UCLA 0 3 PAC 90 -17, -30
93Arkansas St. 1 2 SUN 80 -11, -20
94UL Monroe 1 1 SUN 80 +8, 0
95New Mexico 1 1 MWC 80 -10, -20
96Old Dominion 1 1 USA 80 +13, 0
97UTEP 1 1 USA 80 +15, 0
98Toledo 1 1 MID 80 +16, 0
99Utah State 1 1 MWC 80 +16, 0
100Florida Atl. 1 2 USA 79 +23, +19
101Tulsa 1 2 AAC 79 -21, -26
102Liberty 1 2 IND 76 +24, +16
103W. Kentucky 1 2 USA 76 -12, -19
104Connecticut 1 1 AAC 75 +14, 0
105San Jose St. 1 1 MWC 75 +14, 0
106Troy 1 1 SUN 75 -19, -25
107Buffalo 1 2 MID 64 -14, -16
108Colorado St. 1 2 MWC 64 -12, -16
109E. Carolina 1 2 AAC 64 -12, -16
110Georgia So. 1 2 SUN 64 -12, -16
111Houston 1 2 AAC 64 -12, -16
112Kent State 1 2 MID 64 -12, -16
113Miami (OH) 1 2 MID 64 -9, -16
114N. Illinois 1 2 MID 64 -8, -16
115North Texas 1 2 USA 64 -8, -16
116Ohio 1 2 MID 64 -8, -16
117Bowling Grn 1 2 MID 60 -25, -20
118Florida Int. 1 2 USA 60 +6, 0
119Fresno St. 0 2 MWC 60 +6, 0
120Mid. Tenn. 1 2 USA 60 -15, -20
121S. Alabama 1 2 SUN 60 -11, -20
122S. Florida 1 2 AAC 60 +7, 0
123UTSA 1 2 USA 60 -10, -20
124UNLV 1 2 MWC 60 -4, -15
125Ball State 1 2 MID 56 -8, -19
126Akron 0 3 MID 48 -4, -12
127UMASS 0 3 MID 48 0, -12
128NM St. 0 3 IND 48 -7, -16
129Rice 0 3 USA 48 -1, -12
130Texas State 0 3 SUN 48 0, -12

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