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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4371796, member: 289"] I’ve decided to simplify this. The last couple of years I kept track of how teams playing ranked teams did and how ranked teams did against unranked teams. The latter was too heavily influenced by schools that set up their non-conference schedules with uncompetitive opponents. It also took too much of my time. I’ll stick to keeping track of how teams did against ranked teams. The formula is to give teams points based on the ranking of the team they paid: 25 points for playing a #1 ranked team, 24 for #2, 23 for #3, down to 1 point for playing #25. (A shortcut: subtract the number of the ranking from 26). Then you add in the net point differential of the game. Examples: Central Michigan lost to #12 Oklahoma State 44-58. The Chips get 14 points for playing the #12 team but lose 14 for losing to that team 44-58. Net points: Zero. I’ll still list them because they’ve played a ranked team but their point total is zero. West Virginia lost to #17 Pittsburgh 31-38. They get 9 points for playing the #17 team but lost 7 points for the game result for a net of 2 points. Let’s see who had the best result each week and who accumulates the most points over the season. WEEK 4 Kansas State beat #6 Oklahoma 41-34 = +27 points Texas A&M beat #10 Arkansas 23-21 = +18 points Oregon State lost to #7 Southern California 14-17 = +16 points Middle Tennessee St. beat #25 U of Miami 45-31 = +15 points Maryland lost to #4 Michigan 27-34 = +15 points Wake Forest lost to #5 Clemson 45-51 = +15 points Clemson beat #21 Wake Forest 51-45 = +11 points Tennessee beat #20 Florida 38-33 = +11 points Florida lost to #11 Tennessee 33-38 = +10 points Northern Illinois lost to #8 Kentucky 23-31 = +10 points Kent State lost to #1 Georgia 22-39 = +8 points Washington State lost to #15 Oregon 41-44 = +8 points Texas Tech beat #22 Texas 37-34 = +7 points Iowa State lost to #17 Baylor 24-31 = +2 points Tulsa lost to #16 Mississippi 27-35 = +2 points Arkansas lost to Texas A&M 21-23 = +1 points Central Michigan lost to #14 Penn State 14-33 = -7 points Wyoming lost to #19 Brigham Young 24-38 = -7 points Arizona State lost to #13 Utah 13-34 = -8 points Wisconsin lost to #3 Ohio State 21-52 = -8 points Stanford lost to #18 Washington 22-40 = -10 points Connecticut lost to #12 North Carolina State 10-41 = -17 points Rhode Island lost to #24 Pittsburgh 24-45 = -18 points Vanderbilt lost to #2 Alabama 3-55 = -28 points Comments: Now we are getting into the meaty part of the schedule. 13 of the 21 games featured a ranked team against a power conference opponent and, in three cases both opponents were ranked. Four ranked teams were upset and nine others won by single scores. 17 of 24 opponents of ranked teams gained points under this system, compared to 6 of 23 the week before. And Vanderbilt’s ‘worst’ performance was 18 points better than the worst performances of the first three weeks. Top 25 through WEEK 2 Georgia +61 points Texas A&M +39 points Ohio State +32 points Florida +28 points Kansas State +27 points Tennessee +27 points Washington +26 points Kentucky +24 points Texas +24 points Appalachian State +23 points Marshall +23 points Washington State +18 points Oregon State +16 points Maryland +15 points Middle Tennessee St. +15 points Wake Forest +15 points Oregon +12 points Clemson +11 points Arkansas +11 points Northern Illinois +10 points Texas Tech +8 points Liberty +6 points Missouri State +5 points Brigham Young +3 points Stanford +3 points Syracuse has yet to play a ranked team. The worst performance against ranked teams so far is that of Akron, (-86). The weekly best performances: WEEK 1 Georgia beat #11 Oregon 49-3 = +61 points WEEK 2 Kentucky beat #12 Florida 26-16 = +24 points And Texas lost to #1 Alabama 19-20 = +24 points WEEK 3 Oregon beat #12 Brigham Young 41-20 = +35 points WEEK 4 Kansas State beat #6 Oklahoma 41-34 = +27 points (Oregon was the victim of the west Week 1 performance and gave the best week 3 performance.) The top ten single game performances: WEEK 1 Georgia beat #11 Oregon 49-3 = +61 points WEEK 3 Oregon beat #12 Brigham Young 41-20 = +35 points WEEK 1 Ohio State beat #5 Notre Dame 21-10 = +32 points WEEK 4 Kansas State beat #6 Oklahoma 41-34 = +27 points WEEK 3 Washington beat #11 Michigan State 39-28 = +26 points WEEK 2 Kentucky beat #12 Florida 26-16 = +24 points WEEK 2 Texas lost to #1 Alabama 19-20 = +24 points WEEK 2 Appalachian State beat #6 Texas A&M 17-14 = +23 points WEEK 2 Brigham Young beat #9 Baylor 26-20 = +23 points WEEK 2 Marshall beat Notre Dame 26-21 = +23 points (Georgia lost 15 guys to the NFL but they look as good as they did last year.) [/QUOTE]

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