NEMindex through Week 9

Utes win, and now they control their own destiny for the PAC South. We hold tie-breakers with USC, UCLA, and AZ St.  We could actually drop one more game and still win the South. Hopefully we win out on our final four and end 9-3 (8-1).

Georgia obviously maintained the #1 spot, but interestingly, Michigan also held the #2 spot even with the loss to Michigan St.  Michigan St climbed four spots to 6th.  I went through a bunch of the math and essentially it comes down to the fact that Michigan has played a much harder schedule than Michigan St, and Michigan St's win by 4 at home is essentially the same as a draw.  Mathematically, home-field advantage is worth about 3.5 points.  So, given what's essentially a draw between them, and Michigan having beaten 7 teams that are collectively better than the 7 that State has beaten, Michigan is still the "better" team.  Each of them still have to play Ohio St, so the results of those may end up being the deciding factor in which one is actually better.

Comparing a few other things to the AP and to the #MarbleGame, these rankings suggest that Oklahoma and Baylor aren't as good as others think and Wisconsin is better,

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

	Team	W	L	Conf	RTPS	Change
1	Georgia	8	0	SEC	1.000	0
2	Michigan	7	1	B10	0.834	0
3	Alabama	7	1	SEC	0.826	+3
4	Cincinnati	8	0	AAC	0.823	-1
5	Ohio State	7	1	B10	0.796	+4
6	Mich. St.	8	0	B10	0.795	+4
7	Notre Dame	7	1	IND	0.791	+1
8	Wake Forest	8	0	ACC	0.772	-3
9	Oklahoma	9	0	B12	0.732	+2
10	Oklahoma St.	7	1	B12	0.728	-3
11	Wisconsin	5	3	B10	0.726	+8
12	Baylor	7	1	B12	0.719	+1
13	Auburn	6	2	SEC	0.710	+7
14	UTSA	8	0	USA	0.698	+2
15	BYU	7	2	IND	0.690	+9
16	Iowa	6	2	B10	0.670	-12
17	Oregon	7	1	PAC	0.664	+1
18	Texas A&M	6	2	SEC	0.664	+9
19	UL Lafayette	7	1	SUN	0.650	+4
20	App. St.	6	2	SUN	0.649	+15
21	SDSU	7	1	MWC	0.647	-6
22	Ole Miss	6	2	SEC	0.646	-8
23	Houston	7	1	AAC	0.639	+11
24	Air Force	6	2	MWC	0.639	+4
25	Kentucky	6	2	SEC	0.636	-13
26	Fresno St.	7	2	MWC	0.635	+12
27	Minnesota	6	2	B10	0.631	+9
28	Miss. St.	5	3	SEC	0.624	+21
29	Boise State	4	4	MWC	0.616	+1
30	Coast. Caro.	7	1	SUN	0.602	+2
31	Pittsburgh	6	2	ACC	0.602	-14
32	Arkansas	5	3	SEC	0.597	+1
33	Purdue	5	3	B10	0.593	-2
34	NC State	6	2	ACC	0.592	+7
35	Utah	5	3	PAC	0.590	+7
36	Liberty	7	2	IND	0.585	+3
37	SMU	7	1	AAC	0.585	-15
38	N. Illinois	6	2	MID	0.579	-1
39	Penn State	5	3	B10	0.575	-14
40	Utah State	6	2	MWC	0.565	+12
41	Kansas St.	5	3	B12	0.557	-1
42	Virginia	6	3	ACC	0.556	-13
43	Nevada	6	2	MWC	0.555	+4
44	Texas	4	4	B12	0.554	-23
45	Clemson	5	3	ACC	0.549	+3
46	Iowa State	5	3	B12	0.546	-20
47	Miami (FL)	4	4	ACC	0.532	+14
48	W. Michigan	5	3	MID	0.522	+2
49	Maryland	5	3	B10	0.513	+5
50	Florida	4	4	SEC	0.513	-4
51	Army	4	3	IND	0.494	+6
52	UCF	5	3	AAC	0.492	+14
53	UTEP	6	2	USA	0.492	-2
54	Wash. St.	5	4	PAC	0.489	+26
55	LSU	4	4	SEC	0.489	0
56	Oregon St.	5	3	PAC	0.479	-13
57	W. Virginia	4	4	B12	0.474	+19
58	Arizona St.	5	3	PAC	0.474	-13
59	Louisville	4	4	ACC	0.473	-15
60	Tennessee	4	4	SEC	0.473	-1
61	FAU	5	3	USA	0.469	+10
62	UAB	5	3	USA	0.466	-2
63	UCLA	5	4	PAC	0.463	-10
64	Syracuse	5	4	ACC	0.460	+18
65	E. Mich.	5	3	MID	0.458	+3
66	Rutgers	4	4	B10	0.449	+6
67	Ball State	4	4	MID	0.442	-3
68	UL Monroe	4	4	SUN	0.441	-10
69	Miami (OH)	4	4	MID	0.440	+1
70	Toledo	4	4	MID	0.437	-3
71	Texas Tech	5	4	B12	0.430	-9
72	Marshall	5	3	USA	0.429	+24
73	Georgia St.	4	4	SUN	0.425	+8
74	VT	4	4	ACC	0.424	+19
75	S. Caro.	4	4	SEC	0.423	-2
76	W. Kentucky	4	4	USA	0.418	+21
77	N. Caro.	4	4	ACC	0.417	-21
78	E. Caro.	4	4	AAC	0.417	+14
79	USC	4	4	PAC	0.413	+8
80	S. Alabama	5	3	SUN	0.401	+10
81	Wyoming	4	4	MWC	0.398	-16
82	Mid. Tenn.	4	4	USA	0.393	+17
83	Wash.	4	4	PAC	0.390	+12
84	Kent State	4	4	MID	0.385	+4
85	Nebraska	3	6	B10	0.381	-16
86	Missouri	4	4	SEC	0.377	+15
87	Col. St.	3	5	MWC	0.377	-10
88	Memphis	4	4	AAC	0.371	+6
89	San Jose St.	5	4	MWC	0.369	+15
90	Troy	4	4	SUN	0.369	-1
91	California	3	5	PAC	0.362	+18
92	Illinois	3	6	B10	0.361	-17
93	GT	3	5	ACC	0.358	-30
94	Florida St.	3	5	ACC	0.357	-16
95	BC	4	4	ACC	0.356	-16
96	Hawaii	4	5	MWC	0.356	-5
97	Tulsa	3	5	AAC	0.353	-23
98	TCU	3	5	B12	0.352	-15
99	Indiana	2	6	B10	0.349	-13
100	C. Mich.	4	4	MID	0.342	+3
101	Stanford	3	5	PAC	0.329	-16
102	Rice	3	5	USA	0.321	-18
103	Northwestern	3	5	B10	0.319	-5
104	New Mexico	3	5	MWC	0.308	-4
105	Navy	2	6	AAC	0.305	+6
106	Charlotte	4	4	USA	0.285	0
107	LA Tech	2	6	USA	0.279	-5
108	Duke	3	5	ACC	0.267	-1
109	Buffalo	4	5	MID	0.261	-4
110	S. Florida	2	6	AAC	0.243	-2
111	Old Dominion	2	6	USA	0.238	+8
112	Bowling Grn	3	6	MID	0.237	+5
113	Texas State	2	6	SUN	0.234	+2
114	Tulane	1	7	AAC	0.232	-1
115	Georgia So.	2	6	SUN	0.216	-3
116	Temple	3	5	AAC	0.213	-6
117	Colorado	2	6	PAC	0.205	+1
118	North Texas	2	6	USA	0.195	+5
119	Vanderbilt	2	7	SEC	0.187	-5
120	Kansas	1	7	B12	0.178	-4
121	UNLV	0	8	MWC	0.156	-1
122	S. Miss.	1	7	USA	0.124	-1
123	NM St.	1	7	IND	0.103	-1
124	Ark. St.	1	7	SUN	0.087	+3
125	UMASS	1	7	IND	0.085	-1
126	Ohio	1	7	MID	0.076	-1
127	Akron	2	6	MID	0.069	-1
128	Florida Int.	1	7	USA	0.062	0
129	Arizona	0	8	PAC	0.020	0
130	UCONN	1	8	AAC	0.000	0

Hardest Schedule Played per Team:

Wisconsin	38.1
Boise State	40.5
Indiana	40.8
Miami (FL)	43.0
Texas	44.1
Tulane	45.8
Illinois	49.4
Navy	49.6
Kansas	52.1
Georgia	52.6
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:	:
Charlotte	93.9
UL Lafayette	94.1
Liberty	94.6
Buffalo	94.9
Marshall	96.6
Coastal Caro.	98.4
UTEP	98.5
UTSA	99.9
S. Alabama	100.5
SMU	100.8

Average Rank per Conference:

SEC	41.9
B10	45.2
B12	50.8
IND	59.5
ACC	62.2
MWC	63.4
SUN	73.2
PAC	73.6
AAC	79.5
MID	84.6
USA	86.7

Hardest Cumulative Schedules Played per Conference:

B10	58.1
SEC	62.0
B12	63.4
IND	69.4
ACC	70.6
MWC	71.9
PAC	72.1
AAC	77.0
SUN	80.6
MID	80.9
USA	84.2