RTT final BlogPoll ballot: week five

by Joel Hollingsworth on Oct 1, 2008 6:36 AM EDT in College Football

Tweaked from the computer numbers and the initial draft based on substantial feedback this week. Thanks! Keep it coming, please. Next week, we'll deal with the wonky SOS numbers.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Oklahoma	5
2	Alabama	5
3	Texas	5
4	LSU	1
5	Missouri	--
6	Utah	5
7	South Florida	7
8	Boise State	11
9	Brigham Young	1
10	Georgia	6
11	Southern Cal	10
12	Penn State	6
13	Vanderbilt	7
14	Kansas	3
15	Wisconsin	6
16	Texas Tech	10
17	Florida	15
18	Ohio State	2
19	Northwestern	7
20	TCU	7
21	Virginia Tech	5
22	Oregon	4
23	Florida State	3
24	Wake Forest	9
25	Nebraska	13

Dropped Out: Ball State (#21), Clemson (#22), Illinois (#23), Colorado (#24), Fresno State (#25).

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It’s amazing how well the MWC is doing. There is a good shot that either BYU or Utah will end undefeated, which will obviously land them a BCS berth. But depending on how the BCS conferences play out, they would have an outside shot at the MNC. (After all, both of them already have better non-con resumes than Hawaii last year.)

Also, I’ve been thinking of the W/L issue that bit USC this week. Instead of using a “place-in-line” numerical ranking for W/L values, is there a way to use the winning percentage? (Actually, losing percentage if you want lower to be better.) All undefeated teams would have 0, but not all 1-loss teams would be equal. A 3-1 team would have a losing percentage of 25, while a 2-1 team would have a losing percentage of 33%. That’s more in line than what happened with USC, where the 3-1 teams were given a score of 20 and the 2-1 teams were given a score of 48 (or thereabouts) and the 2-2 teams had a score of 50.

That might help reward teams who have gone deeper into their schedule without necessarily killing those teams who have had bye weeks, but have been generally impressive otherwise.

by David Hooper on Oct 1, 2008 3:15 PM EDT reply actions