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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4819387, member: 289"]
Or the possible impossible.

I usually do this at the end of seasons but one comparison I like to make is something I call "point differential rankings". If you beat a team that lost only that game, tie a team that won all their other games, beat a team by more points than anyone else did or lose to a team that won all their games by the smallest margin, you get a '1' for that performance. If one team did better, you get a '2'. If two teams did better, you get a '3', etc. Then you add up the rankings and divide by the number of games to see your average rank against the opponents you played.

We were #1 vs. Colgate (we were their only FBS opponent
We were #1 vs. Western Michigan (Iowa beat them 41-10 and Mississippi State 41-28)
We were #5 vs. Purdue (Hey! they beat Virginia Tech and Illinois. Nobody else)
We were #3 vs. Army (They lost 0-62 to LSU, 16-29 to us)
We were #6 vs. Clemson (Charleston Southern and Florida Atlantic did worse)
We were #8 vs. North Carolina (Campbell did worse)
We were #8 vs. Florida State (Campbell did worse)
We were #9 vs. Virginia Tech (every one else they have played has done better)
We were #7 vs. Boston College (equal to Connecticut and, strangely, better than Georgia Tech)

That's 48 'ranking points' over 9 games = 5.33. We have bene between the 5th and 6th best team our opponents have played, on average. Vs. power conference opponents, it's 43 points in 6 games - 7.17. we've been between the 7th and 8th best opponents they've played.
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