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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 837221, member: 289"] At the end of the bowl season I’ll update this list again. I’ll also redo it, using only the final AP rankings, just to see how much difference it makes to use only those teams who were still in the rankings at the end of the season. Obviously these will be more “proven” teams than teams that were in the rankings and fell out. We’ve had two great examples of teams whose ranking proved deceptive in the last two seasons: Southern California and Northwestern. But then, it could be argued that those teams were as good as their ranking when we played them or at least closer to it than where they wound up. And the final rankings would involve both fewer teams and fewer games than the way I’ve done it. I decided to take a sneak peak using the as yet not updated AP rankings. I’ll just look at the records of ranked teams vs. their fellow ranked teams. I’m also going to use negative points: if you lost to the #1 team by 30 points, that would be -5 five points. Let’s see what that would look like: FLORIDA STATE beat #13 Clemson by 37 and #20 Duke by 38. That would give them 13 + 37 + 6 + 38 = 94 points. OHIO STATE lost to #10 Michigan State by 10 = 6 points AUBURN lost to #14 LSU by 14, beat #22 Texas A&M by 4, beat #25 Georgia by 5, beat #4 Alabama by 6 and beat #5 Missouri by 17 = 78 points ALABAMA beat #22 Texas A&M by 4, beat #14 LSU by 21 and lost to #23 Auburn by 6 = 58 points MISSOURI beat #25 Georgia by 15, lost to #8 South Carolina by 3, beat #22 Texas A&M by 7, lost to #3 AUBURN by 17 = 48 points OKLAHOMA STATE beat #23 Texas by 25, beat #9 Baylor by 32, lost to #18 Oklahoma by 9 = 66 points STANFORD beat #11 Arizona State by 14, beat #9 UCLA by 16, beat #14 Oregon by 6 and beat #11 Arizona State again by 24 this time = 111 points SOUTH CAROLINA lost to #25 Georgia by 11, beat #15 Central Florida by 3, beat #5 Missouri by 3, and beat #13 Clemson by 14 = 55 points BAYLOR beat #18 Oklahoma by 29, lost to #6 Oklahoma State by 32 and beat #23 Texas by 20 = 48 points MICHIGAN STATE beat #2 Ohio State by 10 = 34 points ARIZONA STATE beat #21 Wisconsin by 2, lost to #7 Stanford by 15, beat #17 UCLA by 5 and again lost to #7 Stanford by 24 = 21 points OREGON beat #17 UCLA by 28, lost to #7 Stanford by 6 = 50 points CLEMSON beat #25 Georgia by 3, lost to #1 Florida State by 37 and lost to #8 South Carolina by 14 = -4 points LOUISIANA STATE beat #3 Auburn by 14, lost to #25 Georgia by 3, lost to #4 Alabama by 21, beat #22 Texas A&M by 24 = 64 points CENTRAL FLORIDA lost to #8 South Carolina by 3, beat #19 Louisville by 3 = 25 points NORTHERN ILLINOIS didn’t play any ranked teams = 0 points UCLA lost to #7 Stanford by 14, lost to #12 Oregon by 28, lost to #11 Arizona State by 5 = 1 point OKLAHOMA lost to #23 Texas by 16, lost to #9 Baylor by 29 and beat #20 Oklahoma State by 9 = 11 points LOUISVILLE lost to #15 Central Florida by 3 = 8 points DUKE lost to #1 Florida State by 38 points = -13 points WISCONSIN lost to #11 Arizona State by 2, lost to #2 Ohio State by 7 = 30 points TEXAS A&M lost to #4 Alabama by 7, lost to #3 Auburn by 5, lost to #12 LSU by 24 and lost to #5 Missouri by 7 = 35 points TEXAS beat #18 Oklahoma by 16, lost to #6 Oklahoma State by 25, lost to #9 Baylor by 20 = 16 points FRESNO STATE didn’t play any ranked teams = 0 points GEORGIA lost to #13 Clemson by 3, beat #18 South Carolina by 11, beat #14 LSU by 3, lost to #5 Missouri by 15, lost to #3 Auburn by 3 = 78 points. The Top Ten, (actually 11) by this method: Stanford 111 points Florida State 94 points Auburn and Georgia 78 points Oklahoma State 66 points Louisiana State 64 points Alabama 58 points South Carolina 55 points Oregon 50 points Baylor and Missouri 48 points That’s an interesting list but I don’t know that it’s a better one than the one above. [/QUOTE]

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