IowaHawkBlog's Marble Game Through Conference Championships

Well that weekend sure complicated things! Utah beat USC, so they'll make the Rose Bowl now, but no PAC-12 team will make the Playoff.  Then Kansas St beat TCU for the BIG12 championship.  The marble prize for that game was so big that Kansas St jumped into the top four along with TCU.

Thus the marble game suggests that the playoff should be: Michigan vs Kansas St. and Georgia vs TCU.  

I have a feeling that the committee won't agree.

Thanks for following along everyone.  I may well do a final ranking after the bowl games are done. As always feel free to interact with David and I on twitter if you have comments or questions or concerns.  

The NEMindex rankings, post conference championships, can be found here.

	Team	W	L	Conf	Marbles	Change
1	Michigan	13	0	B10	770	+1,+56
2	Georgia	13	0	SEC	728	+1,+73
3	TCU	12	1	B12	602	-2,-151
4	Kansas St.	10	3	B12	529	+6,+151
5	Wash.	10	2	PAC	463	0,0
6	Clemson	11	2	ACC	424	+3,+44
7	USC	11	2	PAC	418	-3,-104
8	Alabama	10	2	SEC	412	-2,0
9	Ohio State	11	1	B10	409	-2,0
10	Tennessee	10	2	SEC	396	-2,0
11	Utah	10	3	PAC	389	+8,+104
12	S. Carolina	8	4	SEC	369	-1,0
13	Penn State	10	2	B10	348	0,0
14	Notre Dame	8	4	IND	334	0,0
15	Oregon	9	3	PAC	320	0,0
16	Tulane	11	2	AAC	295	+5,+39
17	LSU	9	4	SEC	292	-5,-73
18	Oregon St.	9	3	PAC	290	-2,0
19	Troy	11	2	SUN	290	+3,+36
20	Texas	8	4	B12	287	-3,0
21	Florida St.	9	3	ACC	285	-3,0
22	UTSA	11	2	USA	259	+3,+21
23	Pittsburgh	8	4	ACC	245	0,0
24	NC State	8	4	ACC	239	0,0
25	Purdue	8	5	B10	224	-5,-56
26	UCLA	9	3	PAC	218	+1,0
27	Miss. St.	8	4	SEC	212	+1,0
28	Iowa	7	5	B10	208	+1,0
29	Louisville	7	5	ACC	208	+1,0
30	Texas Tech	7	5	B12	205	+1,0
31	S. Alabama	10	2	SUN	202	+2,0
32	Duke	8	4	ACC	200	+2,0
33	Fresno St.	9	4	MWC	200	+14,+48
34	Minnesota	8	4	B10	195	+2,0
35	Kentucky	7	5	SEC	179	+4,0
36	J. Madison	8	3	SUN	177	+4,0
37	N. Carolina	9	4	ACC	175	-11,-44
38	Cincinnati	9	3	AAC	172	+3,0
39	Illinois	8	4	B10	169	+3,0
40	Air Force	9	3	MWC	162	+3,0
41	Ohio	9	4	MID	162	-9,-40
42	UCF	9	4	AAC	158	-7,-39
43	Marshall	8	4	SUN	157	+1,0
44	Georgia Tech	5	7	ACC	155	+1,0
45	Ole Miss	8	4	SEC	154	+1,0
46	Wash. St.	7	5	PAC	149	+2,0
47	Texas A&M	5	7	SEC	147	+2,0
48	Boise State	9	4	MWC	143	-11,-48
49	Coast. Caro.	9	3	SUN	143	-11,-36
50	Wake Forest	7	5	ACC	142	0,0
51	Oklahoma St.	7	5	B12	141	0,0
52	Oklahoma	6	6	B12	138	0,0
53	Missouri	6	6	SEC	137	0,0
54	BYU	7	5	IND	132	0,0
55	W. Virginia	5	7	B12	132	0,0
56	Syracuse	7	5	ACC	131	0,0
57	Wisconsin	6	6	B10	131	0,0
58	Baylor	6	6	B12	128	0,0
59	Toledo	8	5	MID	126	+24,+40
60	Arkansas	6	6	SEC	122	-1,0
61	E. Mich.	8	4	MID	122	-1,0
62	Liberty	8	4	IND	121	-1,0
63	W. Kentucky	8	5	USA	120	-1,0
64	Arizona	5	7	PAC	119	-1,0
65	Mich. St.	5	7	B10	118	-1,0
66	Maryland	7	5	B10	116	-1,0
67	Nebraska	4	8	B10	116	-1,0
68	Houston	7	5	AAC	115	-1,0
69	Connecticut	6	6	IND	114	-1,0
70	Kansas	6	6	B12	111	-1,0
71	Mid. Tenn.	7	5	USA	109	-1,0
72	Vanderbilt	5	7	SEC	108	-1,0
73	Florida	6	6	SEC	107	-1,0
74	SMU	7	5	AAC	107	0,0
75	E. Carolina	7	5	AAC	103	0,0
76	Navy	4	7	AAC	102	0,0
77	San Jose St.	7	4	MWC	99	0,0
78	Bowling Grn	6	6	MID	98	0,0
79	San Diego St.	7	5	MWC	93	0,0
80	NM St.	6	6	IND	90	0,0
81	Georgia So.	6	6	SUN	89	0,0
82	Utah State	6	6	MWC	89	0,0
83	North Texas	7	6	USA	86	-10,-21
84	Virginia Tech	3	8	ACC	84	0,0
85	Buffalo	6	6	MID	83	+2,+4
86	Kent State	5	7	MID	81	-1,0
87	Wyoming	7	5	MWC	81	-1,0
88	S. Miss.	6	6	SUN	79	0,0
89	UAB	6	6	USA	77	0,0
90	Auburn	5	7	SEC	75	0,0
91	UL Lafayette	6	6	SUN	75	0,0
92	Miami (OH)	6	6	MID	75	0,0
93	W. Michigan	5	7	MID	75	0,0
94	Miami (FL)	5	7	ACC	73	0,0
95	Tulsa	5	7	AAC	71	0,0
96	Indiana	4	8	B10	70	0,0
97	BC	3	9	ACC	67	0,0
98	App. St.	6	6	SUN	63	0,0
99	Army	5	6	IND	62	0,0
100	Georgia St.	4	8	SUN	56	0,0
101	Virginia	3	7	ACC	56	0,0
102	Florida Atl.	5	7	USA	55	0,0
103	UTEP	5	7	USA	52	0,0
104	Memphis	6	6	AAC	51	0,0
105	California	4	8	PAC	46	0,0
106	UL Monroe	4	8	SUN	46	0,0
107	Rice	5	7	USA	46	0,0
108	Iowa State	4	8	B12	45	0,0
109	Stanford	3	9	PAC	44	0,0
110	Arizona St.	3	9	PAC	42	0,0
111	Ball State	5	7	MID	42	0,0
112	C. Mich.	4	8	MID	42	0,0
113	Rutgers	4	8	B10	41	0,0
114	Charlotte	3	9	USA	40	0,0
115	UNLV	5	7	MWC	36	0,0
116	Texas State	4	8	SUN	31	0,0
117	Old Dom.	3	9	SUN	30	0,0
118	LA Tech	3	9	USA	28	0,0
119	N. Illinois	3	9	MID	28	0,0
120	Colorado St.	3	9	MWC	25	0,0
121	Florida Int.	4	8	USA	22	+1,0
122	Colorado	1	11	PAC	20	+1,0
123	Arkansas St.	3	9	SUN	19	+1,0
124	Hawaii	3	10	MWC	19	+1,0
125	Akron	2	10	MID	18	-4,-4
126	Temple	3	9	AAC	16	0,0
127	Nevada	2	10	MWC	13	0,0
128	NW	1	11	B10	13	0,0
129	New Mexico	2	10	MWC	10	0,0
130	UMASS	1	11	IND	7	0,0
131	S. Florida	1	11	AAC	7	0,0

Average rank of all opponents played per team:

Colorado	36.5
Florida	45.3
Stanford	45.3
Auburn	45.3
Iowa State	45.3
Texas	47.3
Arkansas	48.8
Syracuse	49.3
Northwestern	49.5
Kansas St.	50.1
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W. Kentucky	90.0
North Texas	90.2
Charlotte	90.3
Ohio	92.5
Mid. Tenn.	92.8
S. Alabama	94.1
San Jose St.	98.4
NM St.	100.3
Air Force	101.3
E. Mich.	104.4

Average rank of all teams per conference:

SEC	39.4
B12	45.1
ACC	49.9
B10	52.9
PAC	53.2
IND	72.6
AAC	76.8
SUN	78.4
MWC	88.4
MID	88.5
USA	90.3

Average rank of all opponents played per conference:

B12	53.6
SEC	54.6
PAC	57.8
ACC	58.8
B10	62.5
AAC	77.6
IND	79.8
SUN	80.4
MID	84.3
MWC	84.5
USA	86.6