IowaHawkBlogs Marble Game through Conference Championships

The top 4 stays the same and has the totals we predicted last week.  Utah's loss to Oregon shuffled those two, and created a pretty big gap from OU at 4th to Oregon at 5th.

We'll see what the CFP committee does and how the bowl draft comes down, but if they follow this, Ohio St will play OU in Atlanta while LSU will play Clemson in Glendale.  A few of the other likely matchups will be Oregon playing Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl, Georgia playing Baylor in the Sugar Bowl, and Virginia playing someone (Penn St? Florida?) in the Cotton Bowl.

Also, here is a link to the most recent Degrees of Separation rankings for this week.  With two of the three weighting vectors used there, the 4th place spot goes to Georgia instead of Oklahoma.

And as always, if you have any feedback or questions or see any issues feel free to reach out to the commissioner, David Burge (@IowaHawkBlog) or myself (@NateEMiller) on Twitter.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles	Change
1	Ohio State	13	0	B10	813	0, +86
2	LSU	13	0	SEC	773	0, +104
3	Clemson	13	0	ACC	692	0, +61
4	Oklahoma	12	1	B12	674	0, +83
5	Oregon	11	2	PAC	536	+2, +105
6	Utah	11	2	PAC	422	-1, -105
7	Notre Dame	10	2	IND	418	+2, 0
8	Georgia	11	2	SEC	414	-2, -104
9	Memphis	12	1	AAC	386	+5, +44
10	Florida	10	2	SEC	379	+1, 0
11	Penn State	10	2	B10	361	+1, 0
12	Iowa	9	3	B10	350	+1, 0
13	Wisconsin	10	3	B10	345	-5, -86
14	Baylor	11	2	B12	330	-4, -83
15	Boise State	12	1	MWC	320	+3, +28
16	App. St.	12	1	SUN	319	+4, +35
17	Michigan	9	3	B10	305	-1, 0
18	USC	8	4	PAC	305	-1, 0
19	Minnesota	10	2	B10	292	0, 0
20	Alabama	10	2	SEC	271	+1, 0
21	Auburn	9	3	SEC	270	+1, 0
22	Kansas St.	8	4	B12	252	+1, 0
23	Air Force	10	2	MWC	249	+1, 0
24	Virginia	9	4	ACC	246	-9, -61
25	Oklahoma St.	8	4	B12	238	0, 0
26	Arizona St.	7	5	PAC	236	0, 0
27	Virginia Tech	8	4	ACC	232	0, 0
28	Navy	9	2	AAC	216	+1, 0
29	SMU	10	2	AAC	216	+1, 0
30	Tennessee	7	5	SEC	215	+1, 0
31	Wash.	7	5	PAC	207	+1, 0
32	Texas	7	5	B12	184	+1, 0
33	Louisville	7	5	ACC	183	+1, 0
34	Florida Atl.	10	3	USA	180	+11, +25
35	Kentucky	7	5	SEC	179	0, 0
36	Iowa State	7	5	B12	178	0, 0
37	Wake Forest	8	4	ACC	176	+1, 0
38	Cincinnati	10	3	AAC	174	-10, -44
39	Miami (FL)	6	6	ACC	171	0, 0
40	BYU	7	5	IND	170	0, 0
41	Indiana	8	4	B10	169	0, 0
42	California	7	5	PAC	168	0, 0
43	San Diego St.	9	3	MWC	165	0, 0
44	UCF	9	3	AAC	165	0, 0
45	Marshall	8	4	USA	147	+1, 0
46	Pittsburgh	7	5	ACC	144	+1, 0
47	BC	6	6	ACC	141	+2, 0
48	UL Lafayette	10	3	SUN	141	-11, -35
49	Illinois	6	6	B10	135	+1, 0
50	Temple	8	4	AAC	133	+1, 0
51	W. Kentucky	8	4	USA	132	+2, 0
52	Colorado	5	7	PAC	128	+2, 0
53	W. Virginia	5	7	B12	128	+2, 0
54	Texas A&M	7	5	SEC	127	+2, 0
55	Wash. St.	6	6	PAC	125	+2, 0
56	Georgia So.	7	5	SUN	123	+2, 0
57	Florida St.	6	6	ACC	122	+3, 0
58	Miami (OH)	8	5	MID	117	+15, +26
59	Hawaii	9	5	MWC	114	-11, -28
60	LA Tech	9	3	USA	111	+1, 0
61	Buffalo	7	5	MID	110	+1, 0
62	C. Mich.	8	5	MID	106	-10, -26
63	Nevada	7	5	MWC	106	0, 0
64	Syracuse	5	7	ACC	106	0, 0
65	Arkansas St.	7	5	SUN	102	0, 0
66	N. Carolina	6	6	ACC	102	0, 0
67	Oregon St.	5	7	PAC	102	0, 0
68	UCLA	4	8	PAC	100	0, 0
69	UAB	9	4	USA	98	-10, -25
70	W. Michigan	7	5	MID	98	-1, 0
71	Duke	5	7	ACC	96	-1, 0
72	Charlotte	7	5	USA	95	-1, 0
73	Mich. St.	6	6	B10	92	-1, 0
74	Utah State	7	5	MWC	91	0, 0
75	Kent State	6	6	MID	86	0, 0
76	TCU	5	7	B12	85	0, 0
77	Georgia St.	7	5	SUN	84	0, 0
78	Florida Int.	6	6	USA	83	0, 0
79	Miss. St.	6	6	SEC	83	0, 0
80	Missouri	6	6	SEC	82	0, 0
81	Wyoming	7	5	MWC	80	0, 0
82	N. Illinois	5	7	MID	76	0, 0
83	S. Miss.	7	5	USA	74	0, 0
84	E. Mich.	6	6	MID	68	0, 0
85	Stanford	4	8	PAC	68	0, 0
86	Northwestern	3	9	B10	67	0, 0
87	S. Carolina	4	8	SEC	67	0, 0
88	UNLV	4	8	MWC	65	0, 0
89	Ball State	5	7	MID	64	0, 0
90	Purdue	4	8	B10	64	0, 0
91	Nebraska	5	7	B10	63	0, 0
92	Ohio	6	6	MID	63	0, 0
93	Toledo	6	6	MID	62	0, 0
94	Liberty	7	5	IND	58	0, 0
95	UL Monroe	5	7	SUN	57	0, 0
96	Tulsa	4	8	AAC	56	0, 0
97	Texas Tech	4	8	B12	53	0, 0
98	Arizona	4	8	PAC	52	0, 0
99	Tulane	6	6	AAC	49	0, 0
100	San Jose St.	5	7	MWC	45	0, 0
101	Georgia Tech	3	9	ACC	44	0, 0
102	Troy	5	7	SUN	44	0, 0
103	Vanderbilt	3	9	SEC	44	0, 0
104	Ole Miss	4	8	SEC	42	0, 0
105	Coastal Caro.	5	7	SUN	40	0, 0
106	NC State	4	8	ACC	39	0, 0
107	Kansas	3	9	B12	35	0, 0
108	S. Alabama	2	10	SUN	33	0, 0
109	Houston	4	8	AAC	32	0, 0
110	Rice	3	9	USA	31	0, 0
111	Army	5	7	IND	30	0, 0
112	Colorado St.	4	8	MWC	30	0, 0
113	Maryland	3	9	B10	30	0, 0
114	Mid. Tenn.	4	8	USA	28	0, 0
115	Fresno St.	4	8	MWC	27	0, 0
116	S. Florida	4	8	AAC	27	0, 0
117	Rutgers	2	10	B10	24	0, 0
118	North Texas	4	8	USA	23	0, 0
119	Bowling Grn	3	9	MID	22	0, 0
120	E. Carolina	4	8	AAC	20	0, 0
121	UTSA	4	8	USA	19	0, 0
122	Texas State	3	9	SUN	18	0, 0
123	Arkansas	2	10	SEC	16	0, 0
124	Connecticut	2	10	AAC	10	0, 0
125	NM St.	2	10	IND	10	0, 0
126	New Mexico	2	10	MWC	9	0, 0
127	UMASS	1	11	MID	7	0, 0
128	Old Dominion	1	11	USA	6	0, 0
129	UTEP	1	11	USA	6	0, 0
130	Akron	0	12	MID	4	0, 0

Average rank of all opponents played per team:

UCLA	44.5
S. Carolina	46.3
Stanford	47.8
USC	47.9
Louisville	50.1
Notre Dame	50.3
Florida St.	50.3
Rutgers	50.3
Texas	50.5
Colorado	51.5
:	:
:	:
UTSA	86.8
Army	87.2
UCF	87.3
San Diego St.	88.0
North Texas	89.1
Liberty	93.3
UTEP	93.9
UAB	94.8
UMASS	95.7
LA Tech	96.8

Average rank of all teams per conference:

PAC	46.1
B12	46.6
ACC	51.5
B10	52.4
SEC	54.0
AAC	71.8
MWC	74.9
IND	75.4
SUN	79.4
USA	86.6
MID	87.8

Average rank of all opponents played per conference:

PAC	53.4
B12	58.3
B10	59.7
ACC	60.7
SEC	63.1
AAC	74.9
IND	76.3
MWC	78.7
SUN	79.8
MID	81.2
USA	84.2