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Against Ranked Teams (Football) Week 11

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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 a couple years ago. 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 11
(I’m using the ranking ESPN gives the teams in their Top 25 Scoreboard and they have now switched from the AP Poll to the committee’s ranking.)

Louisiana State beat #3 Alabama 46-41 = +28 points
Minnesota beat #4 Penn State 31-26 = +27 points
Virginia Tech beat #19 Wake Forest 36-17 = +26 points
Alabama lost to #2 Louisiana State 41-46 = +19 points
Iowa State lost to #9 Oklahoma = +16 points
Texas beat #16 Kansas State 27-24 = +13 points
Iowa lost to #13 Wisconsin 22-24 = +11 points
Wisconsin beat #18 Iowa 24-22 = +10 points
Texas Christian lost to #12 Baylor 23-29 = +8 points
Penn State lost to #17 Minnesota 26-31 = +4 points
Wyoming lost to #22 Boise State 17-20 = +1 point
East Carolina lost to #25 So Methodist 51-59 = -7 points
Missouri lost to #6 Georgia 0-27 = -7 points
Duke lost to #15 Notre Dame 7-38 = -20 points
North Carolina State lost to #5 Clemson 10-55 = -24 points
Maryland lost to #1 Ohio State 14-73 = -34 points
Connecticut lost to #20 Cincinnati 3-48 = -39 points
Vanderbilt lost to #10 Florida 0-56 = -40 points

Comments: Louisana State has become the first team to break the 100 point barrier, putting them well ahead of anybody else.

TOP 25

Louisiana State +105 points
Michigan +72 points
Ohio State +69 points
Auburn +64 points
Southern California +52 points

Georgia +50 points
Florida +48 points
Washington +41 points
Alabama +40 points
Texas +39 points

Wisconsin +38 points
Virginia Tech +35 points
South Carolina +32 points
Texas Christian +29 points
Clemson +28 points

Kansas State +28 points
U of Miami +28 points
Minnesota +27 points
Utah +27 points
Arizona State +24 points

North Carolina +24 points
Oklahoma State +23 points
Iowa State +22 points
Oklahoma +22 points
Penn State +21 points
Texas A&M +21 points

Syracuse has -10 points

SUI opponents: Liberty -20, Maryland has -83, Clemson +28, Western Michigan -27, Holy Cross 0, North Carolina State -55 points, Pittsburgh +18, Florida State -13, Boston College -30, Duke -35, Louisville -3, Wake Forest 0

The worst team so far is Rutgers with -99 points.
 

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