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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2298073, member: 289"]
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 a bit differently this year. The old 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.
([I]Of course you can always just subtract the ranking from 26. That will work every time[/I].)

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 year and last year 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 2

Oklahoma beat #2 Ohio State 31-16 =                                                     +39 points
Southern California beat #14 Stanford 42-24 =                                    +30 points
Clemson beat #13 Auburn 14-6 =                                                              +21 points
Notre Dame lost to #15 Georgia 19-20 =                                                +10 points
Auburn lost to #3 Clemson 6-14 =                                                             +8 points
Ohio State lost to #5 Oklahoma 16-31 =                                                  +6 points
Boise State lost to #20 Washington State 44-47                                  +3 points
Georgia beat #24 Notre Dame 20-19 =                                                    +3 points
Pittsburgh lost to #4 Penn State 14-33 =                                                +2 points
Stanford lost to #6 Southern California 24-42 =                                   +2 points
Florida Atlantic lost to #9 Wisconsin 14-31 =                                         0 points
North Carolina lost to #17 Louisville 35-47 =                                          -3 points
Cincinnati lost to #8 Michigan 14-36 =                                                      - 4 points
Fresno State lost to #1 Alabama 10-41 =                                                - 6 points
Arkansas lost to #23 Texas Christian 7-28 =                                           -18 points
Delaware lost to Virginia Tech 0-27 =                                                       -19 points
Chattanooga lost to #12 Louisiana State 10-45 =                                                 -21 points
South Alabama lost to #11 Oklahoma State 7-44 =                             -22 points
Indiana State lost to #25 Tennessee 7-42 =                                           -34 points
Montana lost to #7 Washington 7-63 =                                                   -37 points
Charlotte lost to #19 Kansas State 7-55 =                                               -41 points

TOP 25

Alabama                                              +40 points
Oklahoma                                           +39 points
Southern California                         +30 points
Michigan                                              +25 points
Clemson                                              +21 points

Maryland                                             +13 points
Virginia Tech                                      +11 points
Notre Dame                                       +10 points
Auburn                                                                 +8 points
Florida State                                       +8 points

Ohio State                                           +6 points
Boise State                                         +3 points
Georgia                                                +3 points
Purdue                                                 +3 points
Pittsburgh                                           +2 points

Rutgers                                                +2 points
Stanford                                              +2 points
Western Michigan                           +4 points
Florida Atlantic                                  0 points
Georgia Tech                                     0 points

Florida                                                                  -1 point               
West Virginia                                     -2 points
North Carolina                                   -3 points
Cincinnati                                            -4 points
Indiana                                                                 -4 points
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