Against Ranked Teams - Week 12

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This year I will be again charting how teams have done “against ranked teams”, which is something that always comes up at the end of the year when the arguments over who should be in the 4 team national championship playoff takes place. As usual, this is not meant to end those arguments, just to give those making them something to look at in forming their opinions.

I’m going to do it using the procedure I started last year. The original procedure was that I would first grant teams playing ranked teams a certain number of points based on who they are playing. If you played the #1 team, (I use the AP- writer’s poll for continuity), you get 25 points. If you are playing the #2 team, you get 24 points, etc. down to getting 1 point for playing the #25 team. I call these “schedule points”. Here’s a chart to make it simple:
1-25, 2-24, 3-23, 4-22, 5-21, 6-20, 7-19, 8-18, 9-17, 10-16, 11-15, 12-14, 13-13, 14-12, 15-11, 16-10, 17-9, 18-8, 19-7, 20-6, 21-5, 22-4, 23-3, 24-2, 25-1.
(Of course you can always just subtract the ranking from 26. That will work every time.)

Then I look at the point differential in the actual game. If you defeated the ranked team, you add the number of points you won by to the schedule points. If you lost to that team, you subtract the margin you lost by from the schedule points. (I call these ‘game’ points.) The difference between this procedure and the original one if that I didn’t count any deficit: if you got to zero, you got zero. This year I’m going to try to record negative points, too, so a team can get full ‘credit’ for a really bad performance.

WEEK TWELVE

Notre Dame beat #12 Syracuse 36-3 = +47 points
Central Florida beat #24 Cincinnati 38-13 = +27 points
Texas beat #16 Iowa State 24-10 = +24 points
Oklahoma State beat #9 West Virginia 45-41 = +21 points
Maryland lost to #10 Ohio State 51-52 = +15 points
Florida State beat #20 Boston College 22-21 = +7 points
Kansas lost to #5 Oklahoma 40-55 = +6 points
Rutgers lost to #14 Penn State 7-20 = -1 point
Colorado State lost to #23 Utah State 24-29 = -2 points
Middle Tennessee State lost to #17 Kentucky -2 points
Iowa State lost to #15 Texas 10-24 = -3 points
Duke lost to #2 Clemson 6-35 = -5 points
Minnesota lost to #22 Northwestern 14-24 = -6 points
The Citadel lost to #1 Alabama 17-50 = -8 points
Cincinnati lost to #11 Central Florida 13-38 = -10 points
Syracuse lost to #3 Notre Dame 3-36 = -10 points
Oregon State lost to #18 Washington 23-42 = -11 points
Rice lost to #7 Louisiana State 10-42 = -13 points
Colorado lost to #19 Utah 7-30 = -16 points
Massachusetts lost to #5 Georgia 27-66 = -18 points
Arizona lost to #8 Washington State 28-69 = -23 points
New Mexico lost to #25 Boise State 14-45 = -30 points
Idaho lost to #13 Florida 10-63 = -40 points
Arkansas lost to #21 Mississippi State 6-52 = -41 points

Comments: We had a bad game against a ranked team but others had worse. And we vaulted Notre Dame into the #1 spot. You’re welcome.



TOP 25 against ranked teams after week #1

Notre Dame +130 points
Alabama +112 points
Louisiana State +110 points
Texas +109 points
Georgia +108 points

Michigan +106 points
Oklahoma State +95 points
Purdue +85 points
Clemson +73 points
Ohio State +69 points

Northwestern +66 points
Mississippi State +63 points
Missouri +55 points
Texas Tech +55 points
Washington +52 points

Auburn +51 points
Iowa State +51 points
Arizona State +50 points
Kentucky +48 points
Texas A&M +44 points

Stanford +42 points
Oregon +41 points
Virginia Tech +41 points
Florida +39 points
Utah +33 points
Washington State +33 points

Syracuse has +23 points.

Connecticut’s -86 points is the worst