NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 5

The easiest part of this used to be copying and pasting the game results into the text file that my ruby scripts and C++ program would then format and churn through, but not this week. ESPN renamed a ton of teams this week., especially in Division II and III, some of whom they also previously renamed this year. It's something small like changing "UNC Pembroke" to "North Carolina Pembroke", but my software has no idea those are the same team. Every now and then I'll catch one of those in a given week and just adjust all the previous weeks to the new name, but this time there were just too many. I just recopied all 4 weeks and reprocessed the whole thing. That's not so bad during week 5, but will get more cumbersome each week if it happens again.

Enough ranting, let's look at the new top of the rankings. Notre Dame is #1, after beating my previous #1, Stanford. That gives them a huge boost in strength of schedule. 7 of the 21 undefeated teams lost, bringing us to just 14. We're starting to see a little bit of separation and sorting not just on record, with 4-1 Stanford and 4-0 NC State ranked above 5-0 Cincinnati.

All 4 winless teams lost again, and UTEP remains #129. It's a little weird to see traditional powerhouses like UCLA and Nebraska down there, being propped up just a little by their stronger conference schedules.

1	Notre Dame	5-0
2	LSU	5-0
3	Clemson	5-0
4	Alabama	5-0
5	Georgia	5-0
6	Ohio State	5-0
7	Kentucky	5-0
8	Oklahoma	5-0
9	Stanford	4-1
10	NC State	4-0
11	Cincinnati	5-0
12	Hawai'i	5-1
13	Washington	4-1
14	South Florida	4-0
15	Texas	4-1
16	West Virginia	4-0
17	Oklahoma State	4-1
18	Syracuse	4-1
19	Washington State	4-1
20	Penn State	4-1
21	Indiana	4-1
22	Florida	4-1
23	Auburn	4-1
24	Duke	4-1
25	Troy	4-1
26	Michigan	4-1
27	North Texas	4-1
28	Miami	4-1
29	UCF	4-0
30	Boston College	4-1
31	Oregon	4-1
32	Buffalo	4-1
33	Army	3-2
34	BYU	3-2
35	Boise State	3-1
36	USC	3-2
37	San Diego State	3-1
38	California	3-1
39	Louisiana Tech	3-1
40	Colorado	4-0
41	Michigan State	3-1
42	Wake Forest	3-2
43	Coastal Carolina	3-2
44	Maryland	3-1
45	Texas Tech	3-2
46	Virginia	3-2
47	Vanderbilt	3-2
48	TCU	3-2
49	Georgia Southern	3-1
50	Wisconsin	3-1
51	Ole Miss	3-2
52	Virginia Tech	3-1
53	Missouri	3-1
54	Texas A&M	3-2
55	Arizona State	3-2
56	Baylor	3-2
57	Iowa	3-1
58	Mississippi State	3-2
59	Arkansas State	3-2
60	Minnesota	3-1
61	Florida State	3-2
62	Marshall	3-1
63	Fresno State	3-1
64	UAB	3-1
65	Appalachian State	3-1
66	Western Michigan	3-2
67	Florida Intl	3-2
68	Houston	3-1
69	Memphis	3-2
70	South Carolina	2-2
71	Utah State	3-1
72	Nevada	3-2
73	Utah	2-2
74	Tulane	2-3
75	Tennessee	2-3
76	Illinois	2-2
77	Georgia State	2-3
78	Temple	2-3
79	Georgia Tech	2-3
80	Middle Tennessee	2-2
81	Ohio	2-2
82	Navy	2-2
83	Kansas State	2-3
84	SMU	2-3
85	East Carolina	2-2
86	Wyoming	2-3
87	Toledo	2-2
88	Eastern Michigan	2-3
89	Pittsburgh	2-3
90	UL Monroe	2-3
91	Florida Atlantic	2-3
92	Louisville	2-3
93	Southern Mississippi	2-2
94	UNLV	2-2
95	Akron	2-1
96	New Mexico	2-2
97	UMass	2-4
98	Kansas	2-3
99	Northern Illinois	2-3
100	Purdue	2-3
101	Ball State	2-3
102	Arizona	2-3
103	UConn	1-4
104	UTSA	2-3
105	Charlotte	2-3
106	Iowa State	1-3
107	North Carolina	1-3
108	Northwestern	1-3
109	Louisiana	1-3
110	Tulsa	1-3
111	Air Force	1-3
112	Colorado State	1-4
113	Rice	1-4
114	Rutgers	1-4
115	Miami (OH)	1-4
116	South Alabama	1-4
117	Central Michigan	1-4
T-118	Arkansas	1-4
T-118	Kent State	1-4
120	Bowling Green	1-4
121	Old Dominion	1-4
122	Oregon State	1-4
123	Western Kentucky	1-4
124	San Jose State	0-4
125	UCLA	0-4
126	New Mexico State	1-4
127	Texas State	1-3
128	Nebraska	0-4
129	UTEP	0-5

2018 History and #1s
Week 1 Hawai'i
Week 2 Hawai'i
Week 3 Alabama
Week 4 Stanford