Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Week 9: Top 25 -- TFG

Another week, another mix-up at the top outside of the Tempo-Free Gridiron, and some more shuffling within our rankings.

Rank +/- Team WinPct SoS Off Pts Def Pts Pace
001-- TCU 0.9564 0.4462 27.9 7.5 80.5
002-- Boise St. 0.9278 0.3847 29.9 10.1 81.9
003-- Alabama 0.9187 0.6072 27.7 9.9 78.1
004+1 Ohio St. 0.9128 0.4732 25.9 9.6 80.8
005+1 Florida 0.8663 0.6454 26.9 12.3 78.7
006+2 Virginia Tech 0.8660 0.5415 28.1 12.7 79.3
007+4 Oregon 0.8605 0.5304 25.8 12.0 91.5
008-1 Iowa 0.8605 0.5752 22.8 10.5 81.9
009-5 Oklahoma 0.8558 0.6259 22.5 10.6 91.5
010+3 Utah 0.8481 0.3211 26.8 13.1 82.1
011-1 Nebraska 0.8333 0.5114 24.6 12.5 80.4
012-3 LSU 0.8281 0.6420 23.0 11.8 79.3
013+2 Arizona 0.7916 0.5784 20.4 11.6 82.9
014+7 Miami-FL 0.7905 0.6564 21.8 12.4 85.2
015+1 Auburn 0.7859 0.6057 25.7 14.9 84.5
016+4 Missouri 0.7750 0.5314 22.0 13.0 86.1
017-- USC 0.7737 0.5471 23.1 13.8 83.3
018-6 Texas 0.7682 0.5441 22.6 13.8 83.6
019-1 South Carolina 0.7665 0.6565 21.6 13.1 80.7
020NA Clemson 0.7406 0.5886 19.9 12.6 82.8
021-7 Stanford 0.7354 0.5797 27.4 17.8 81.7
022-- Georgia 0.7329 0.5669 26.2 17.1 76.0
023NA Arkansas 0.7296 0.6523 25.2 16.5 83.1
024-1 Florida St. 0.7282 0.5938 24.2 16.1 81.7
025NA Wisconsin 0.7156 0.5705 25.3 17.1 80.1

New entries: Clemson, Arkansas, Wisconsin.

Dropped out: North Carolina, Cincinnati, West Virginia.

A very clear separation has formed between the top four teams and the rest of the pack. TCU, Boise State, Alabama, and Ohio State are a good 450 points (0.0450) ahead of the rest of the field. Florida, Virginia Tech, Oregon, and Iowa have all settled into effectively a tie for fifth place as potential undefeateds Oklahoma, LSU, and Oklahoma State all lost.

With Alabama's loss and Auburn yet to impress TFG, the SEC is a bit adrift at the top while absolutely packing it in in the middle. Florida's dropping off on both sides of the ball, LSU has an anemic offense, and Auburn is undefeated but still hasn't convinced TFG of its defensive prowess. South Carolina is in neutral after defeating Alabama, Georgia has posted an APB for its defense (and game pace), and Arkansas never really recovered after losing to Alabama.

In other news, Wisconsin is finally getting some love from TFG after defeating Ohio State in Madison and Iowa on the road. Assuming Michigan State loses to Iowa this weekend, we could see a lot of quick research on how the Big 10 handles tiebreakers.