Tuesday, October 21, 2014

NCAAF 2014: SBPI [SportsBoss Power Index] through Week EIGHT



Here are the Top 25 rankings through action on Saturday October 18th – we will also include the AP Poll, USA Today Poll, ESPN’s FPI & Sagarin’s rankings which can all be used as a solid comparison tool:


UNIT RANKS RAW
RANKS
SOS ADJ #'s
Team
OFF
DEF
TOTAL
AP
USAT
FPI
SAG
RATING
RANK
Alabama
2
4
2
4
4
2
2
315.1
1
Auburn
4
10
4
5
6
1
3
313.0
2
Michigan State
1
2
1
8
5
16
11
281.3
3
Mississippi
29
2
6
3
3
3
1
279.3
4
Baylor
5
6
3
12
13
10
8
274.0
5
Georgia
11
21
9
9
9
4
5
264.8
6
TCU
11
21
9
10
10
12
7
255.3
7
Nebraska
14
10
7
16
16
24
18
251.4
8
Mississippi State
9
42
11
1
1
5
4
250.9
9
Ohio State
2
24
5
13
12
5
13
250.6
10
Clemson
45
10
14
21
20
17
17
249.7
11
USC
8
47
12
20
21
13
19
249.7
12
LSU
38
21
17
24
23
11
12
239.9
13
Notre Dame
27
26
12
7
8
15
15
239.0
14
West Virginia
31
44
22
22
25

24
239.0
15
Oklahoma
35
49
29
17
18
9
6
230.3
16
Pittsburgh
58
6
16



52
223.6
17
Louisville
73
1
14



29
223.6
18
Stanford
83
6
25


19
21
220.6
19
Miami (Florida)
56
30
29



37
218.7
20
Kansas State
16
59
23
11
11
25
14
217.9
21
Arkansas
21
80
46


20
32
217.4
22
Iowa
58
13
18



41
216.9
23
Memphis
53
30
25



48
216.6
24
Virginia
71
15
28



53
216.4
25

Breakdown of Top 25 by conference:

AAC
1

ACC
5

B10
4

B12
5

CUSA
0

IND
1
ND
MAC
0

MWC
0

P12
2

SEC
7

SUN
0


Strength of each conference taking average ranking of ALL TEAMS:

SEC
29.07
P12
43.75
B12
45.10
ACC
46.64
B10
53.29
IND
67.25
MWC
76.08
CUSA
84.77
AAC
85.36
MAC
93.69
SUN
93.91

Biggest MOVERS in overall ranking since last week (minimum 15 spot change in ranking):

Team
Week 8
Week 9
Change
Arizona State
61
36
25
Oklahoma State
54
77
(23)
Houston
78
57
21
Western Michigan
71
50
21
Rutgers
50
70
(20)
Indiana
74
93
(19)
Northwestern
56
73
(17)
San Diego State
76
61
15
Syracuse
87
72
15

Next up let’s look at the Top 10 non-Power 5 conference teams:


UNIT RANKS RAW
RANKS
SOS ADJ #'s
Team
OFF
DEF
TOTAL
AP
USAT
FPI
SAG
RATING
RANK
Memphis
53
30
25



48
216.6
24
Boise State
39
36
21



42
209.0
28
East Carolina
20
46
18
18
17

38
204.4
31
Marshall
5
26
8
23
22
21
31
201.8
32
Utah State
87
14
35



59
196.5
35
BYU
61
55
47



43
186.0
44
Arkansas State
62
41
37



56
182.8
49
Western Michigan
21
65
33



87
181.4
50
Colorado State
32
73
47



55
176.0
51
Air Force
27
56
27



94
174.6
53

*CORRECTION: last week East Carolina was #31 not the #11 that was shown here; in other words their ranking this week is the same as last week.

Lastly here are the Bottom 10 teams according to College Football SBPI:


UNIT RANKINGS RAW
RANKS
SOS ADJ #'s
Team
OFF
DEF
TOTAL
AP
USAT
FPI
SAG
RATING
RANK
South Florida
123
88
121



97
87.5
119
Wyoming
113
113
123



100
84.0
120
Georgia State
87
127
120



126
83.1
121
Troy
103
121
119



125
82.6
122
Southern Mississippi
109
121
122



105
82.4
123
Vanderbilt
125
104
126



99
72.1
124
UNLV
120
118
124



119
69.5
125
Kent State
121
118
125



122
64.0
126
Eastern Michigan
124
123
127



128
55.1
127
SMU
126
128
128



124
38.9
128

For this week I have adjusted “SAG” ranks to just show FBS/1A teams – that gives a better feel for where he ranks the FCS teams compared to the College Football SBPI.

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