2018-10-28

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.

1Clemson8-0
2Notre Dame8-0
3Alabama8-0
4LSU7-1
5Georgia7-1
6Michigan7-1
7Kentucky7-1
8Washington State7-1
9Oklahoma7-1
10Fresno State7-1
11Ohio State7-1
12UCF7-0
13UAB7-1
14South Florida7-1
15Utah6-2
16Cincinnati7-1
17Georgia Southern7-1
18Florida6-2
19Buffalo7-1
20Iowa6-2
21Houston7-1
22Army6-2
23North Texas7-2
24Utah State7-1
25Penn State6-2
26Washington6-3
27West Virginia6-1
28Texas6-2
29Boise State6-2
30Stanford5-3
31Syracuse6-2
32Louisiana Tech6-2
33Virginia6-2
33Boston College6-2
35San Diego State6-2
36Troy6-2
37NC State5-2
38Mississippi State5-3
39Texas A&M5-3
40Michigan State5-3
41Texas Tech5-3
42Duke5-3
43Hawai'i6-4
44Western Michigan6-3
45Miami5-3
46Coastal Carolina5-3
47Appalachian State5-2
48Florida Intl6-2
49Auburn5-3
50Oklahoma State5-3
51Northwestern5-3
52Northern Illinois5-3
53Nevada5-4
54Oregon5-3
54Maryland5-3
56Ole Miss5-3
57Temple5-3
58Wisconsin5-3
59California5-3
60Iowa State4-3
61South Carolina4-3
62Middle Tennessee5-3
63Marshall5-2
64BYU4-4
65Ohio5-3
66Colorado5-3
67Vanderbilt4-5
68USC4-4
69Pittsburgh4-4
70Eastern Michigan4-5
71Missouri4-4
72Florida State4-4
73Purdue4-4
74Arizona State4-4
75Georgia Tech4-4
76Baylor4-4
77Wake Forest4-4
78Indiana4-5
79Minnesota4-4
80Toledo4-4
81Virginia Tech4-3
82Arkansas State4-4
83Louisiana4-4
84UL Monroe4-4
85Arizona4-5
86Akron4-3
87Tennessee3-5
88TCU3-5
89Memphis4-4
90Charlotte4-4
91Kansas State3-5
92Wyoming3-6
93Tulane3-5
94UMass3-6
95Florida Atlantic3-5
96SMU3-5
97Air Force3-5
98Illinois3-5
99Miami (OH)3-5
100UCLA2-6
101Southern Mississippi3-4
102Kansas3-5
103New Mexico3-5
104Colorado State3-6
105East Carolina2-5
106Georgia State2-6
107Nebraska2-6
108Ball State3-6
109UTSA3-5
110Oregon State2-6
111South Alabama2-6
112Louisville2-6
113Navy2-6
114Arkansas2-7
115UConn1-7
116North Carolina1-6
117San Jose State1-7
118Old Dominion2-7
119New Mexico State2-7
120UNLV2-6
121Tulsa1-7
122Texas State2-6
123Central Michigan1-8
124Bowling Green1-7
125Rutgers1-7
126Rice1-8
127Kent State1-7
128Western Kentucky1-7
129UTEP0-8

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

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