NEMindex Through Week 11

The top six stayed exactly the same, though Georgia did extend it's relative lead while the gap between TCU and Tennessee closed to nearly nothing.

Utah beat Stanford, which wasn't a surprise obviously, but it was enough to move them up three spots to 11th. With Oregon's loss to Washington and USC's relatively inconsequential win over Colorado, that makes Utah the highest ranked PAC-12 team.  The conference is again successfully cannibalizing itself out of CFP prospects.  There may well end up being a five-way tie of teams with two conference losses. Perhaps more likely is two teams ending with only one conference loss, those two playing for the championship, and the winner going to the Rose Bowl. #GoUtes

Let me know on Twitter if you have questions or comments.  I am starting to post projections each week now, usually on about Tuesday.  I got some pretty big games right on last week, but overall wasn't that great.

Rank	Team	W	L	Conf	RTPS	Delta
1	Georgia	10	0	SEC	1.000	0
2	Ohio State	10	0	B10	0.900	0
3	Tennessee	9	1	SEC	0.863	0
4	TCU	10	0	B12	0.856	0
5	Michigan	10	0	B10	0.819	0
6	LSU	8	2	SEC	0.790	0
7	Alabama	8	2	SEC	0.788	+3
8	Clemson	9	1	ACC	0.749	+1
9	Penn State	8	2	B10	0.729	+7
10	N. Carolina	9	1	ACC	0.715	+5
11	Utah	8	2	PAC	0.714	+3
12	Notre Dame	7	3	IND	0.711	-4
13	USC	9	1	PAC	0.706	0
14	UCF	8	2	AAC	0.679	+10
15	Oregon	8	2	PAC	0.675	-8
16	Kansas St.	7	3	B12	0.671	+6
17	Ole Miss	8	2	SEC	0.664	-5
18	Troy	8	2	SUN	0.659	0
19	Wash.	8	2	PAC	0.650	+16
20	Florida St.	7	3	ACC	0.643	+10
21	Texas	6	4	B12	0.628	-2
22	UCLA	8	2	PAC	0.625	-11
23	Tulane	8	2	AAC	0.610	-6
24	Louisville	6	4	ACC	0.599	-1
25	Coastal Caro.	9	1	SUN	0.596	+2
26	Oregon St.	7	3	PAC	0.593	+8
27	S. Alabama	8	2	SUN	0.589	+4
28	UTSA	8	2	USA	0.584	+4
29	Cincinnati	8	2	AAC	0.583	+7
30	Liberty	8	2	IND	0.580	-10
31	Oklahoma St.	7	3	B12	0.566	+6
32	Miss. St.	6	4	SEC	0.561	-6
33	Florida	6	4	SEC	0.557	+11
34	Illinois	7	3	B10	0.547	-9
35	NC State	7	3	ACC	0.536	-14
36	Syracuse	6	4	ACC	0.530	-8
37	E. Carolina	6	4	AAC	0.526	+2
38	Toledo	7	3	MID	0.521	+16
39	Wake Forest	6	4	ACC	0.519	-1
40	Baylor	6	4	B12	0.513	0
41	Iowa	6	4	B10	0.509	+14
42	Kentucky	6	4	SEC	0.509	-13
43	Boise State	7	3	MWC	0.507	+6
44	Kansas	6	4	B12	0.507	-11
45	Minnesota	7	3	B10	0.505	+3
46	SMU	6	4	AAC	0.504	+1
47	Duke	7	3	ACC	0.501	+3
48	Purdue	6	4	B10	0.500	+15
49	Marshall	6	4	SUN	0.497	+10
50	Ohio	7	3	MID	0.488	+7
51	Wash. St.	6	4	PAC	0.487	+2
52	Arkansas	5	5	SEC	0.485	-9
53	Pittsburgh	6	4	ACC	0.476	+5
54	Wyoming	7	3	MWC	0.473	+7
55	Air Force	7	3	MWC	0.472	+7
56	Fresno St.	6	4	MWC	0.472	+10
57	Maryland	6	4	B10	0.470	-12
58	San Jose St.	6	3	MWC	0.467	-17
59	Texas Tech	5	5	B12	0.463	+15
60	Mich. St.	5	5	B10	0.462	0
61	Houston	6	4	AAC	0.460	+3
62	James Madison	6	3	SUN	0.458	+5
63	W. Kentucky	7	4	USA	0.455	+7
64	San Diego St.	6	4	MWC	0.451	+17
65	BYU	5	5	IND	0.449	-9
66	S. Carolina	6	4	SEC	0.442	-24
67	Wisconsin	5	5	B10	0.436	-15
68	Oklahoma	5	5	B12	0.434	-22
69	Connecticut	6	5	IND	0.418	+10
70	UL Lafayette	5	5	SUN	0.417	+15
71	Buffalo	5	5	MID	0.414	-20
72	UAB	5	5	USA	0.412	+12
73	Memphis	5	5	AAC	0.403	+4
74	Missouri	4	6	SEC	0.402	-3
75	North Texas	6	5	USA	0.399	-10
76	Arizona	4	6	PAC	0.397	+18
77	Iowa State	4	6	B12	0.389	-4
78	App. St.	5	5	SUN	0.389	-10
79	S. Miss.	5	5	SUN	0.384	-7
80	Auburn	4	6	SEC	0.381	0
81	Florida Atl.	5	5	USA	0.380	+7
82	Utah State	5	5	MWC	0.372	+5
83	Georgia So.	5	5	SUN	0.366	-14
84	Ball State	5	5	MID	0.362	-6
85	Miami (FL)	5	5	ACC	0.360	+10
86	Vanderbilt	4	6	SEC	0.359	+5
87	Stanford	3	7	PAC	0.338	-4
88	E. Mich.	6	4	MID	0.333	+10
89	Kent State	4	6	MID	0.320	+16
90	Bowling Grn	5	5	MID	0.312	-15
91	W. Virginia	4	6	B12	0.312	+12
92	C. Mich.	4	6	MID	0.308	+14
93	UNLV	4	6	MWC	0.303	-7
94	Mid. Tenn.	5	5	USA	0.301	+14
95	Georgia St.	4	6	SUN	0.300	-19
96	Georgia Tech	4	6	ACC	0.299	-14
97	Rutgers	4	6	B10	0.291	-4
98	Arizona St.	3	7	PAC	0.290	-9
99	Indiana	3	7	B10	0.273	+1
100	Army	3	6	IND	0.272	+1
101	Texas A&M	3	7	SEC	0.270	-11
102	UL Monroe	4	6	SUN	0.269	+11
103	California	3	7	PAC	0.268	-4
104	Rice	5	5	USA	0.265	-7
105	Navy	3	7	AAC	0.260	-1
106	Virginia	3	7	ACC	0.258	-10
107	Old Dominion	3	7	SUN	0.248	-15
108	BC	3	7	ACC	0.242	+9
109	Miami (OH)	4	6	MID	0.233	-7
110	Arkansas St.	3	7	SUN	0.226	+8
111	LA Tech	3	7	USA	0.223	-4
112	Nebraska	3	7	B10	0.219	-2
113	N. Illinois	3	7	MID	0.218	+7
114	Tulsa	3	7	AAC	0.210	-5
115	UTEP	4	6	USA	0.207	-1
116	NM St.	4	5	IND	0.191	+5
117	Texas State	3	7	SUN	0.187	-2
118	W. Michigan	3	7	MID	0.183	-7
119	Florida Int.	4	6	USA	0.180	-7
120	Colorado St.	2	8	MWC	0.176	-4
121	Temple	3	7	AAC	0.142	-2
122	Virginia Tech	2	8	ACC	0.132	0
123	Colorado	1	9	PAC	0.123	+1
124	New Mexico	2	8	MWC	0.118	+2
125	Northwestern	1	9	B10	0.104	-2
126	Hawaii	2	9	MWC	0.079	+3
127	Nevada	2	8	MWC	0.079	+1
128	Charlotte	2	9	USA	0.069	-3
129	S. Florida	1	9	AAC	0.060	-2
130	Akron	1	9	MID	0.038	0
131	UMASS	1	9	IND	0.000	0

Hardest Schedule Played per Team:

Stanford	39.9
Colorado	45.7
Texas Tech	47.5
Auburn	48.2
Texas	48.3
BYU	49.4
LSU	50.0
Alabama	50.2
Syracuse	50.7
Miss. St.	52.8
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Wyoming	91.0
Mid. Tenn.	91.6
Florida Int.	92.0
Ohio	92.9
San Jose St.	93.8
UTEP	94.4
Duke	94.9
Air Force	98.3
E. Mich.	98.5
NM St.	109.6

Average Rank per Conference:

SEC	42.9
B12	45.1
PAC	53.7
ACC	56.4
B10	57.2
AAC	68.4
SUN	73.0
IND	74.7
MWC	83.5
MID	89.3
USA	90.0

Hardest Cumulative Schedules Played per Conference:

B12	57.7
SEC	58.3
PAC	60.3
ACC	66.4
B10	68.0
AAC	72.8
IND	75.2
SUN	77.8
MID	83.4
MWC	83.7
USA	87.1