2019 - NEMindex rankings through Week 6

My top 2 stayed the same but there was some decent shuffling elsewhere in the top 25.  Boise State won but still dropped 11 spots. They were obviously over-ranked before and the weaknesses of their G5 schedule may be catching up.  Florida, Oregon, and Baylor all climbed a decent amount with their wins. This put Oregon into the best position among the PAC-12 at 10th.  

The biggest movers on the week were both from Michigan.  By beating Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan climbed 25 spots and pulled their Eastern neighbors down 31 spots bringing them into a virtual tie.

One other interesting thing I notice is that the Big-12 has the highest average rank, without a single team in the top 10, but has collectively played the easiest schedule among the P5 conferences.  I'm not sure what that means necessarily but perhaps that they are somewhat like the PAC-12 in that they have a flatter distribution of team qualities, and that their weaker schedules keep any individual team from proving themselves as top 10 quality.  Similarly, the PAC-12 has played the hardest cumulative schedule so far, and given how they just exchange wins around in circles, none of them have broken out into supremacy and it's resulted in a lowering of the cumulative conference rank.

Utah's bye week wasn't bad for them at least, given that they climbed 3 spots, thanks to results elsewhere in the conference.

If you have any comments or feedback or see mistakes of any sort please let me know (@NateEMiller). #GoUtes.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Index	Change
1	Ohio State	6	0	B10	1.000	0
2	Auburn	5	1	SEC	0.841	0
3	Wisconsin	5	0	B10	0.834	+3
4	Alabama	5	0	SEC	0.800	-1
5	Clemson	5	0	ACC	0.784	+5
6	LSU	5	0	SEC	0.781	+5
7	Penn State	5	0	B10	0.761	+2
8	SMU	6	0	AAC	0.732	0
9	Notre Dame	4	1	IND	0.720	-4
10	Oregon	4	1	PAC	0.716	+11
11	App. St.	4	0	SUN	0.709	+7
12	Texas	4	1	B12	0.704	+3
13	Memphis	5	0	AAC	0.699	+7
14	Georgia	5	0	SEC	0.697	-7
15	Boise State	5	0	MWC	0.695	-11
16	Florida	6	0	SEC	0.694	+14
17	Cincinnati	4	1	AAC	0.692	0
18	Oklahoma	5	0	B12	0.690	+1
19	Baylor	5	0	B12	0.681	+17
20	Iowa	4	1	B10	0.677	-8
21	Arizona St.	4	1	PAC	0.675	-8
22	Michigan	4	1	B10	0.671	+12
23	Hawaii	4	1	MWC	0.659	+4
24	Miss. St.	3	2	SEC	0.645	+2
25	Wake Forest	5	0	ACC	0.642	-1
26	Minnesota	5	0	B10	0.636	+6
27	Missouri	4	1	SEC	0.635	+1
28	Virginia	4	1	ACC	0.633	+3
29	Wash.	4	2	PAC	0.628	-15
30	Navy	3	1	AAC	0.624	+16
31	UL Lafayette	4	1	SUN	0.623	+8
32	Tulane	4	1	AAC	0.622	+13
33	Arizona	4	1	PAC	0.621	+14
34	Mich. St.	4	2	B10	0.621	-18
35	Utah	4	1	PAC	0.597	+3
36	UCF	4	2	AAC	0.585	-3
37	Florida St.	3	2	ACC	0.584	+7
38	Wyoming	4	1	MWC	0.575	+4
39	California	4	2	PAC	0.574	-10
40	Pittsburgh	4	2	ACC	0.574	+15
41	Iowa State	3	2	B12	0.567	+17
42	Oklahoma St.	4	2	B12	0.566	-20
43	Duke	3	2	ACC	0.563	-6
44	Colorado	3	2	PAC	0.556	-21
45	Maryland	3	2	B10	0.554	+8
46	USC	3	2	PAC	0.553	+3
47	Syracuse	3	2	ACC	0.552	+5
48	Air Force	3	2	MWC	0.551	-23
49	Texas A&M	3	2	SEC	0.536	+5
50	Utah State	3	2	MWC	0.533	-9
51	LA Tech	4	1	USA	0.529	+5
52	Toledo	4	1	MID	0.526	+19
53	Kansas St.	3	2	B12	0.523	-18
54	W. Virginia	3	2	B12	0.523	-11
55	Temple	4	1	AAC	0.521	+13
56	Texas Tech	3	2	B12	0.521	+22
57	Nebraska	4	2	B10	0.520	-7
58	Louisville	3	2	ACC	0.520	+11
59	Florida Atl.	3	2	USA	0.517	0
60	Indiana	3	2	B10	0.505	+1
61	San Diego St.	4	1	MWC	0.495	+2
62	Tulsa	2	3	AAC	0.491	-14
63	N. Carolina	3	3	ACC	0.488	+10
64	TCU	3	2	B12	0.487	-24
65	W. Kentucky	3	2	USA	0.484	+21
66	UAB	4	1	USA	0.483	+10
67	Army	3	2	IND	0.482	-7
68	Liberty	4	2	IND	0.481	-2
69	S. Miss.	3	2	USA	0.480	-5
70	Kentucky	2	3	SEC	0.479	-5
71	W. Michigan	3	3	MID	0.478	-9
72	NC State	3	2	ACC	0.472	-5
73	Stanford	3	3	PAC	0.472	+23
74	Miami (OH)	2	3	MID	0.464	-2
75	Nevada	3	2	MWC	0.460	+2
76	Ole Miss	3	3	SEC	0.456	+3
77	Coastal Caro.	3	2	SUN	0.448	-3
78	Arkansas St.	3	3	SUN	0.446	-21
79	Kent State	2	3	MID	0.443	-9
80	Virginia Tech	3	2	ACC	0.434	+11
81	C. Mich.	3	3	MID	0.433	+25
82	E. Mich.	3	2	MID	0.429	-31
83	San Jose St.	3	2	MWC	0.429	+5
84	Wash. St.	3	2	PAC	0.426	-2
85	Fresno St.	2	2	MWC	0.422	-1
86	Georgia St.	3	2	SUN	0.422	+17
87	BYU	2	3	IND	0.419	-4
88	Georgia So.	2	3	SUN	0.417	+10
89	S. Carolina	2	3	SEC	0.416	+3
90	Houston	2	3	AAC	0.415	-1
91	Texas State	2	3	SUN	0.404	+4
92	Mid. Tenn.	2	3	USA	0.403	+12
93	Miami (FL)	2	3	ACC	0.401	-12
94	Charlotte	2	3	USA	0.397	+3
95	S. Florida	2	3	AAC	0.394	+12
96	E. Carolina	3	3	AAC	0.390	-9
97	BC	3	3	ACC	0.389	-17
98	Marshall	2	3	USA	0.384	-23
99	UL Monroe	2	3	SUN	0.374	+3
100	Oregon St.	2	3	PAC	0.374	+10
101	Illinois	2	3	B10	0.370	-11
102	North Texas	2	3	USA	0.370	+3
103	Florida Int.	2	3	USA	0.369	+11
104	Ohio	2	3	MID	0.368	+11
105	Kansas	2	4	B12	0.362	-20
106	Buffalo	2	4	MID	0.360	-13
107	New Mexico	2	3	MWC	0.349	-13
108	Ball State	2	3	MID	0.343	+10
109	Purdue	1	4	B10	0.333	-8
110	Troy	2	3	SUN	0.333	-10
111	Arkansas	2	3	SEC	0.331	0
112	Northwestern	1	4	B10	0.329	-4
113	UCLA	1	5	PAC	0.317	-14
114	UTSA	2	3	USA	0.312	+9
115	Tennessee	1	4	SEC	0.310	+6
116	Rice	0	6	USA	0.285	-3
117	Georgia Tech	1	4	ACC	0.269	-1
118	Rutgers	1	4	B10	0.265	-9
119	S. Alabama	1	5	SUN	0.256	-2
120	Old Dominion	1	4	USA	0.247	+2
121	Vanderbilt	1	4	SEC	0.247	-9
122	Colorado St.	1	5	MWC	0.234	+3
123	Bowling Grn	1	4	MID	0.232	-4
124	N. Illinois	1	4	MID	0.214	-4
125	UNLV	1	4	MWC	0.213	+2
126	UTEP	1	4	USA	0.198	0
127	NM St.	0	6	IND	0.178	+1
128	Connecticut	1	4	AAC	0.172	-4
129	UMASS	1	5	MID	0.025	0
130	Akron	0	5	MID	0.003	0

Hardest Schedule Played per Team:

Auburn	35.0
Rice	40.0
Tulsa	41.0
Miss. St.	45.0
Ohio State	50.2
UCLA	52.2
Kentucky	52.6
Texas	53.8
Florida St.	54.4
Mich. St.	54.5
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LA Tech	97.0
Georgia St.	97.2
Akron	97.4
Oklahoma	99.0
Temple	99.0
Wash. St.	99.2
Minnesota	102.8
San Diego St.	108.6
UMASS	108.8
UAB	112.2

Average Rank per Conference:

B12	46.4
B10	51.1
SEC	51.7
PAC	52.3
AAC	55.2
ACC	57.5
MWC	69.3
IND	71.6
SUN	79.0
USA	91.1
MID	97.2

Hardest Cumulative Schedules Played per Conference:

PAC	68.9
SEC	70.1
B10	71.5
ACC	72.5
IND	72.8
B12	73.9
AAC	77.3
USA	79.7
SUN	79.8
MWC	81.2
MID	81.6