NCAA Football Power Rankings, Final

There were only 2 games that took place between these rankings and week 19; North Dakota State won the I-AA Championship, and of course, Ohio State beat Oregon to win the inaugural College Football Playoff. The strength of schedule boost kept the top 4 teams in the top 4 despite 3 additional losses. In fact, the only FBS teams that moved around this week were #40-#43, with #40 and #41 swapping, as well as #42 and #43.

As I mentioned before, the College Football Playoff almost seemed designed to game my rankings. My strength of schedule component shoots sky high in a playoff, virtually guaranteeing the team that wins the final game will be my #1.

My expanded rankings of 720 teams - which I don't publish, but I do take a look at from time to time - finally look almost right. My expanded rankings top 4 are as follows:

#1 Ohio State - FBS Champion
#2 North Dakota State - FCS Champion
#3 UW-Whitewater - Division III Champion
#4 Colorado State-Pueblo - Division II Champion

If #3 and #4 were swapped it'd look just perfect, with champs ranked from the top division to the bottom, but Colorado State-Pueblo went 14-1 while UW-Whitewater was 15-0, helping them just barely edge their way into the #3 slot.

I've now completed my 4th year of rankings teams on my blog. In 2011-12, I had LSU at the top and Alabama at #3, even though the BCS title game was Alabama over LSU. LSU beat Alabama earlier in the year, and my rankings don't really care when a game was played, so those sort of canceled out. After that, my #1 team agreed with the championship game each year, with Alabama in 2012-13, Florida State in 2013-14, and now Ohio State in 2014-15.

That'll do it for this year. It was a fun college football season, with Missouri hanging onto SEC title hopes, and possibly playoff hopes, until the very end. Alabama's disappointing playoff exit will probably cost the SEC it's unofficial automatic berth next year, though, so every team is going to have to really prove they belong in the playoff.

The 2015 kickoff is less than 8 months away.

1	Ohio State	14-1
2	Florida State	13-1
3	Oregon	13-2
4	Alabama	12-2
5	Boise State	12-2
6	Marshall	13-1
7	TCU	12-1
8	Missouri	11-3
9	Georgia Tech	11-3
10	Wisconsin	11-3
11	Michigan State	11-2
12	UCLA	10-3
13	Baylor	11-2
14	Georgia	10-3
15	Mississippi State	10-3
16	Clemson	10-3
17	Arizona	10-4
18	Ole Miss	9-4
19	Northern Illinois	11-3
20	Arizona State	10-3
21	Utah	9-4
22	Utah State	10-4
23	USC	9-4
24	Colorado State	10-3
25	Kansas State	9-4
26	Air Force	10-3
27	Nebraska	9-4
28	Auburn	8-5
29	Memphis	10-3
30	Louisville	9-4
31	Louisiana Tech	9-5
32	LSU	8-5
33	Texas A&M	8-5
34	Toledo	9-4
35	Notre Dame	8-5
36	Louisiana-Lafayette	9-4
37	Cincinnati	9-4
38	UCF	9-4
39	North Carolina State	8-5
40	Minnesota	8-5
41	Stanford	8-5
42	Rutgers	8-5
43	Duke	9-4
44	Oklahoma	8-5
45	Navy	8-5
46	Tennessee	7-6
47	Western Kentucky	8-5
48	Georgia Southern	9-3
49	Washington	8-6
50	Florida	7-5
51	Arkansas	7-6
52	BYU	8-5
53	Rice	8-5
54	Virginia Tech	7-6
55	Maryland	7-6
56	South Carolina	7-6
57	East Carolina	8-5
58	Boston College	7-6
59	West Virginia	7-6
60	Houston	8-5
61	Western Michigan	8-5
62	Iowa	7-6
63	Oklahoma State	7-6
64	Bowling Green	8-6
65	Penn State	7-6
66	North Carolina	6-7
67	Nevada	7-6
68	Illinois	6-7
69	Miami (FL)	6-7
70	UTEP	7-6
71	Arkansas State	7-6
72	Central Michigan	7-6
73	Texas	6-7
74	Appalachian State	7-5
75	Pittsburgh	6-7
76	Texas State	7-5
77	Middle Tennessee	6-6
78	Virginia	5-7
79	Old Dominion	6-6
80	UAB	6-6
81	Kentucky	5-7
82	San Diego State	6-6
83	Fresno State	6-8
84	Northwestern	5-7
85	Michigan	5-7
86	Temple	6-6
87	California	5-7
88	South Alabama	6-7
89	Ohio	6-6
90	Oregon State	5-7
91	Ball State	5-7
92	Indiana	4-8
93	Texas Tech	4-8
94	Wyoming	4-8
95	Buffalo	5-6
96	South Florida	4-8
97	Akron	5-7
98	New Mexico	4-8
99	Florida International	4-8
100	Syracuse	3-9
101	Army	4-8
102	UTSA	4-8
103	Washington State	3-9
104	Purdue	3-9
105	Vanderbilt	3-9
106	Hawaii	4-9
107	Southern Miss	3-9
108	Louisiana-Monroe	4-8
109	Tulane	3-9
110	Kansas	3-9
111	Wake Forest	3-9
112	San Jose State	3-7
113	North Texas	4-8
114	Florida Atlantic	3-9
115	Iowa State	2-10
116	Colorado	2-10
117	Troy	3-9
118	Eastern Michigan	2-10
119	Massachusetts	3-9
120	UNLV	2-11
121	Connecticut	2-10
122	Kent State	2-9
123	Tulsa	2-10
124	Miami (OH)	2-10
125	New Mexico State	2-10
126	SMU	1-11
127	Georgia State	1-11
128	Idaho	1-10

2014 History and #1s

Week 1 Everybody who was 1-0
Week 2 LSU
Week 3 Oklahoma
Week 4 North Carolina State
Week 5 Nebraska
Week 6 Auburn
Week 7 Mississippi State
Week 8 Florida State
Week 9 Mississippi State
Week 10 Mississippi State
Week 11 Mississippi State
Week 12 Florida State
Week 13 Florida State
Week 14 Florida State
Week 15 Florida State
Week 16 Florida State
Week 17 Florida State
Week 18 Florida State
Week 19 Ohio State