NEMindex through Week 5

Welcome to the first posting of the #NEMIndex in nearly 2 years!

For those that are new here, I would send you HERE for a bit of context on this ranking system I've been working on for ~10 years.  Basically I am running a massive recursion algorithm that ranks all of the teams against all of the other teams based primarily on who each has beaten and lost to and how well they performed in each game.  So as new data gets added each week the rankings should become more and more "correct."  What you'll be seeing here isn't my idea of who is best, but is simply a ranking of who has "performed best" to this point in the season.  Inevitably this means the system is a bit noisy and perhaps unintuitive early in the season, but it will sort itself out to a final answer which is essentially inarguably correct..... sure.

This should be thought of as sort of the initial condition for the system for this season going forward.  Things are going to change a lot in the next few weeks I suspect, but here's to another great season of college football!

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

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	RTPS	Change
1	Georgia	5	0	SEC	1.000	+3
2	Michigan	5	0	B10	0.917	-1
3	Texas	4	1	B12	0.838	+9
4	Iowa	5	0	B10	0.823	+14
5	Cincinnati	4	0	AAC	0.807	+15
6	Arkansas	4	1	SEC	0.774	-1
7	BYU	5	0	IND	0.751	+10
8	Alabama	5	0	SEC	0.750	-6
9	Penn State	5	0	B10	0.745	-6
10	Kentucky	5	0	SEC	0.732	-3
11	Oklahoma St.	5	0	B12	0.714	+2
12	W. Michigan	4	1	MID	0.693	-2
13	Wyoming	4	0	MWC	0.684	+12
14	Wake Forest	5	0	ACC	0.656	+16
15	Oklahoma	5	0	B12	0.648	+6
16	SMU	5	0	AAC	0.647	-1
17	Notre Dame	4	1	IND	0.643	-9
18	Mich. St.	5	0	B10	0.636	-2
19	Ohio State	4	1	B10	0.635	+21
20	UTSA	5	0	USA	0.631	-1
21	Coastal Caro.	5	0	SUN	0.630	+7
22	Texas Tech	4	1	B12	0.624	+14
23	Oregon	4	1	PAC	0.608	-17
24	Kansas St.	3	2	B12	0.595	+3
25	UL Lafayette	4	1	SUN	0.591	+39
26	Pittsburgh	4	1	ACC	0.587	-12
27	Liberty	4	1	IND	0.577	+16
28	Florida	3	2	SEC	0.574	+4
29	Rutgers	3	2	B10	0.570	-18
30	Oregon St.	4	1	PAC	0.569	+12
31	Ole Miss	3	1	SEC	0.568	-22
32	San Diego St.	4	0	MWC	0.564	+5
33	Maryland	4	1	B10	0.559	-2
34	Auburn	4	1	SEC	0.556	+14
35	Arizona St.	4	1	PAC	0.556	+23
36	Air Force	4	1	MWC	0.546	+18
37	BC	4	1	ACC	0.545	-13
38	UCLA	3	2	PAC	0.544	-16
39	Miss. St.	3	2	SEC	0.538	+13
40	Clemson	3	2	ACC	0.536	+31
41	Houston	4	1	AAC	0.536	+21
42	NC State	4	1	ACC	0.532	-13
43	S. Carolina	3	2	SEC	0.525	+24
44	Baylor	4	1	B12	0.523	-11
45	App. St.	4	1	SUN	0.520	+5
46	Stanford	3	2	PAC	0.518	+24
47	N. Illinois	3	2	MID	0.499	+10
48	Virginia Tech	3	1	ACC	0.498	+13
49	S. Alabama	3	1	SUN	0.498	-23
50	Boise State	2	3	MWC	0.488	-27
51	Nevada	3	1	MWC	0.484	+18
52	Purdue	3	2	B10	0.482	-17
53	Texas A&M	3	2	SEC	0.477	-12
54	USC	3	2	PAC	0.469	+28
55	N. Carolina	3	2	ACC	0.464	+28
56	Army	4	1	IND	0.460	-22
57	LSU	3	2	SEC	0.460	-19
58	Virginia	3	2	ACC	0.457	+30
59	Tennessee	3	2	SEC	0.455	+15
60	UAB	3	2	USA	0.452	-15
61	Utah State	3	2	MWC	0.452	-15
62	Fresno St.	4	2	MWC	0.446	-23
63	Memphis	3	2	AAC	0.444	-14
64	Louisville	3	2	ACC	0.438	-17
65	TCU	2	2	B12	0.436	-2
66	Iowa State	3	2	B12	0.436	+10
67	UL Monroe	2	2	SUN	0.434	-11
68	Utah	2	2	PAC	0.430	+7
69	Minnesota	3	2	B10	0.430	+24
70	Wisconsin	1	3	B10	0.425	-17
71	UTEP	4	1	USA	0.423	-11
72	Ball State	2	3	MID	0.421	+38
73	Nebraska	3	3	B10	0.421	+14
74	Florida Atl.	3	2	USA	0.418	+10
75	Indiana	2	3	B10	0.414	-2
76	San Jose St.	3	2	MWC	0.409	+14
77	E. Carolina	3	2	AAC	0.407	+12
78	W. Virginia	2	3	B12	0.402	-19
79	Temple	3	2	AAC	0.393	-2
80	Miami (FL)	2	3	ACC	0.390	-15
81	Georgia Tech	2	3	ACC	0.390	+5
82	Syracuse	3	2	ACC	0.388	-38
83	Duke	3	2	ACC	0.374	-32
84	Toledo	3	2	MID	0.364	+21
85	LA Tech	2	3	USA	0.361	-5
86	Colorado St.	1	3	MWC	0.359	+13
87	Vanderbilt	2	3	SEC	0.358	+19
88	Hawaii	3	3	MWC	0.355	+15
89	Rice	2	3	USA	0.351	+18
90	Kent State	2	3	MID	0.343	+4
91	Mid. Tenn.	2	3	USA	0.341	+10
92	Miami (OH)	2	3	MID	0.336	+10
93	Wash.	2	3	PAC	0.335	-27
94	Missouri	2	3	SEC	0.333	-26
95	Illinois	2	4	B10	0.327	+16
96	E. Mich.	3	2	MID	0.324	-18
97	Troy	2	3	SUN	0.322	-16
98	Bowling Grn	2	3	MID	0.318	-13
99	UCF	2	2	AAC	0.318	-44
100	Buffalo	2	3	MID	0.316	-5
101	Georgia So.	2	3	SUN	0.306	+15
102	Charlotte	3	2	USA	0.298	-30
103	Marshall	2	3	USA	0.288	-11
104	Tulsa	1	4	AAC	0.286	-7
105	New Mexico	2	3	MWC	0.285	-14
106	Northwestern	2	3	B10	0.284	-27
107	S. Florida	1	4	AAC	0.271	-3
108	W. Kentucky	1	3	USA	0.255	+1
109	Wash. St.	2	3	PAC	0.250	+15
110	Georgia St.	1	4	SUN	0.240	-2
111	Old Dominion	1	4	USA	0.213	+4
112	Florida St.	1	4	ACC	0.208	+8
113	C. Mich.	2	3	MID	0.203	-17
114	Tulane	1	4	AAC	0.202	-14
115	North Texas	1	3	USA	0.202	-2
116	Kansas	1	4	B12	0.191	-18
117	Texas State	1	3	SUN	0.180	0
118	Navy	1	3	AAC	0.177	+11
119	Colorado	1	4	PAC	0.176	0
120	S. Miss.	1	4	USA	0.156	-8
121	UNLV	0	5	MWC	0.156	+7
122	Arizona	0	4	PAC	0.152	+1
123	California	1	4	PAC	0.144	-9
124	NM St.	1	5	IND	0.137	+3
125	UMASS	0	5	MID	0.113	-7
126	Ohio	1	4	MID	0.111	+4
127	Florida Int.	1	4	USA	0.111	-5
128	Akron	1	4	MID	0.076	-7
129	Connecticut	0	6	AAC	0.059	-3
130	Arkansas St.	1	4	SUN	0.000	-5

Hardest Schedule Played per Team:

Wisconsin	31.0
Texas	41.4
S. Florida	44.8
Stanford	45.2
Georgia	47.2
Arizona	48.3
Arkansas	49.4
W. Virginia	49.8
Michigan	50.2
Kansas St.	50.8
:	:
:	:
App. St.	100.2
C. Mich.	100.2
UTSA	100.2
SMU	100.6
Charlotte	102.0
Duke	102.0
Army	102.2
UTEP	104.2
Coastal Caro.	107.8
San Diego St.	111.3

Average Rank per Conference:

SEC	39.3
B12	44.4
IND	46.2
B10	46.7
ACC	58.7
MWC	65.1
PAC	71.7
SUN	76.2
AAC	79.3
MID	91.0
USA	91.1

Hardest Cumulative Schedules Played per Conference:

B12	66.7
SEC	68.2
B10	68.2
PAC	72.4
MID	76.0
AAC	76.5
ACC	77.6
MWC	81.7
USA	82.0
IND	85.1
SUN	85.5