NCAA Football Power Rankings, Week 9

This week was Alabama's turn to suffer from their bye week, as Clemson and Notre Dame both passed them up, dropping Alabama to #3. The internal scores are reasonably close though, and can be increasingly influenced each week by the performance of all the teams' previous opponents. We're down to 4 undefeated teams with South Florida's loss to Houston, my top 3 all at 8-0, and 7-0 #12 UCF.

Missouri fans were pretty high on their chances against Kentucky, but didn't really look at how this year's team is doing. The real polls had them at #12 last week, and I had them at #15. Now they've somehow jumped all the way up to #7. So much for Kentucky being a basketball school.

Now that we've covered the top, let's look at the bottom. San Jose State won a game to move to 1-7, but UTEP maintained their perfect record of futility and fell to 0-8. UTEP isn't even losing to good teams. Just for a slight hint of how bad they are, without diving into the details of my system, the scores (which determine the rank) of the bottom 5 teams are -1800, -1900, -2700, -3100, and -5600 for UTEP. That's a huge dropoff, that probably wouldn't even be made up with a single win.

1	Clemson	8-0
2	Notre Dame	8-0
3	Alabama	8-0
4	LSU	7-1
5	Georgia	7-1
6	Michigan	7-1
7	Kentucky	7-1
8	Washington State	7-1
9	Oklahoma	7-1
10	Fresno State	7-1
11	Ohio State	7-1
12	UCF	7-0
13	UAB	7-1
14	South Florida	7-1
15	Utah	6-2
16	Cincinnati	7-1
17	Georgia Southern	7-1
18	Florida	6-2
19	Buffalo	7-1
20	Iowa	6-2
21	Houston	7-1
22	Army	6-2
23	North Texas	7-2
24	Utah State	7-1
25	Penn State	6-2
26	Washington	6-3
27	West Virginia	6-1
28	Texas	6-2
29	Boise State	6-2
30	Stanford	5-3
31	Syracuse	6-2
32	Louisiana Tech	6-2
33	Virginia	6-2
33	Boston College	6-2
35	San Diego State	6-2
36	Troy	6-2
37	NC State	5-2
38	Mississippi State	5-3
39	Texas A&M	5-3
40	Michigan State	5-3
41	Texas Tech	5-3
42	Duke	5-3
43	Hawai'i	6-4
44	Western Michigan	6-3
45	Miami	5-3
46	Coastal Carolina	5-3
47	Appalachian State	5-2
48	Florida Intl	6-2
49	Auburn	5-3
50	Oklahoma State	5-3
51	Northwestern	5-3
52	Northern Illinois	5-3
53	Nevada	5-4
54	Oregon	5-3
54	Maryland	5-3
56	Ole Miss	5-3
57	Temple	5-3
58	Wisconsin	5-3
59	California	5-3
60	Iowa State	4-3
61	South Carolina	4-3
62	Middle Tennessee	5-3
63	Marshall	5-2
64	BYU	4-4
65	Ohio	5-3
66	Colorado	5-3
67	Vanderbilt	4-5
68	USC	4-4
69	Pittsburgh	4-4
70	Eastern Michigan	4-5
71	Missouri	4-4
72	Florida State	4-4
73	Purdue	4-4
74	Arizona State	4-4
75	Georgia Tech	4-4
76	Baylor	4-4
77	Wake Forest	4-4
78	Indiana	4-5
79	Minnesota	4-4
80	Toledo	4-4
81	Virginia Tech	4-3
82	Arkansas State	4-4
83	Louisiana	4-4
84	UL Monroe	4-4
85	Arizona	4-5
86	Akron	4-3
87	Tennessee	3-5
88	TCU	3-5
89	Memphis	4-4
90	Charlotte	4-4
91	Kansas State	3-5
92	Wyoming	3-6
93	Tulane	3-5
94	UMass	3-6
95	Florida Atlantic	3-5
96	SMU	3-5
97	Air Force	3-5
98	Illinois	3-5
99	Miami (OH)	3-5
100	UCLA	2-6
101	Southern Mississippi	3-4
102	Kansas	3-5
103	New Mexico	3-5
104	Colorado State	3-6
105	East Carolina	2-5
106	Georgia State	2-6
107	Nebraska	2-6
108	Ball State	3-6
109	UTSA	3-5
110	Oregon State	2-6
111	South Alabama	2-6
112	Louisville	2-6
113	Navy	2-6
114	Arkansas	2-7
115	UConn	1-7
116	North Carolina	1-6
117	San Jose State	1-7
118	Old Dominion	2-7
119	New Mexico State	2-7
120	UNLV	2-6
121	Tulsa	1-7
122	Texas State	2-6
123	Central Michigan	1-8
124	Bowling Green	1-7
125	Rutgers	1-7
126	Rice	1-8
127	Kent State	1-7
128	Western Kentucky	1-7
129	UTEP	0-8

2018 History and #1s
Week 1 Hawai'i
Week 2 Hawai'i
Week 3 Alabama
Week 4 Stanford
Week 5 Notre Dame
Week 6 Notre Dame
Week 7 Notre Dame
Week 8 Alabama