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Sep 13, 2020
college football poll - week 2

Army takes the #1 spot, by virtue of being the only team in college football with two wins at this point.

Tulane and Memphis are tied for #2, as each has “half” of a win (Tulane beat South Alabama, who beat Southern Miss last week, and Memphis beat Arkansas State last week, and the Red Wolves went on to beat Kansas State this week…)

What a weird season!

1 - Army (2-0) (2)
2 - Tulane (1-0) (1.5)
   - Memphis (1-0) (1.5)
4 - Coastal Carolina (1-0) (1)
   - Louisville (1-0) (1)
   - Texas (1-0) (1)
   - Clemson (1-0) (1)
   - Georgia Tech (1-0) (1)
   - UT San Antonio (1-0) (1)
   - Notre Dame (1-0) (1)
   - North Carolina (1-0) (1)
   - Appalachian State (1-0) (1)
   - Louisiana (1-0) (1)
   - Miami (1-0) (1)
   - BYU (1-0) (1)
   - SMU (1-0) (1)
17 - Arkansas State (1-1) (0)
   - South Alabama (1-1) (0)
19 - Kansas (0-1) (-1)
   - Western Kentucky (0-1) (-1)
   - UTEP (1-1) (-1)
   - Wake Forest (0-1) (-1)
   - Florida State (0-1) (-1)
   - Duke (0-1) (-1)
   - Louisiana Monroe (0-1) (-1)
   - Syracuse (0-1) (-1)
   - Charlotte (0-1) (-1)
   - Iowa State (0-1) (-1)
   - UAB (1-1) (-1)
   - Navy (0-1) (-1)
   - Middle Tennessee (0-1) (-1)
Sep 9, 2020
college football poll - week 1

Well, we’re one week into the strangest college football season of our collective lifetimes..

1 - BYU (1-0) (1)
   - Memphis (1-0) (1)
   - SMU (1-0) (1)
   - Army (1-0) (1)
   - South Alabama (1-0) (1)
6 - Navy (0-1) (-1)
   - Arkansas State (0-1) (-1)
   - Texas State (0-1) (-1)
   - Middle Tennessee (0-1) (-1)
   - Southern Mississippi (0-1) (-1)
Jan 14, 2020
final college football poll - 2019 season

Now that the dust has settled after all the bowl games and the NCG, here are the final results for this season.

1 - LSU (15-0) (55.25)
2 - Clemson (14-1) (48.1875)
3 - Ohio State (13-1) (45.375)
4 - Penn State (11-2) (37.82421875)
5 - Notre Dame (11-2) (33.53125)
6 - Florida (11-2) (32.578125)
7 - Georgia (12-2) (32.5)
8 - Alabama (11-2) (32.265625)
9 - Cincinnati (11-3) (31.09765625)
10 - Iowa (10-3) (30.9921875)
11 - Minnesota (11-2) (30.7734375)
12 - Auburn (9-4) (29.21875)
13 - Michigan (9-4) (27.28125)
14 - Navy (11-2) (26.90625)
15 - Wisconsin (10-4) (23.984375)
16 - Oregon (12-2) (23.2578125)
17 - Memphis (12-2) (23.2265625)
18 - Appalachian State (13-1) (22.828125)
19 - Oklahoma (12-2) (22.4609375)
20 - SMU (10-3) (21.8359375)
21 - Baylor (11-3) (21.0234375)
22 - Texas (8-5) (20.15625)
23 - Texas A&M (8-5) (19.859375)
24 - Air Force (11-2) (19.25)
25 - Utah (11-3) (18.734375)
Dec 14, 2019
college football poll - week 16 (army-navy game edition)

With only one game this week, obviously not much has changed. The Midshipmen move up a couple spots to #19 after winning the annual rivalry game between the service academies.

1 - LSU (13-0) (45.796875)
2 - Ohio State (13-0) (44.28125)
3 - Clemson (13-0) (38.875)
4 - Penn State (10-2) (32.57421875)
5 - Michigan (9-3) (30.3203125)
6 - Cincinnati (10-3) (30.03125)
7 - Notre Dame (10-2) (29.140625)
8 - Auburn (9-3) (29.0859375)
9 - Florida (10-2) (28.0390625)
10 - SMU (10-2) (27.59375)
11 - Georgia (11-2) (27.453125)
12 - Iowa (9-3) (26.3515625)
13 - Baylor (11-2) (26.32275390625)
14 - Minnesota (10-2) (25.6015625)
15 - Alabama (10-2) (24.89453125)
16 - Wisconsin (10-3) (24.5625)
17 - Memphis (12-1) (24.4765625)
18 - Oklahoma (12-1) (23.9658203125)
19 - Navy (10-2) (22.4296875)
20 - Utah (11-2) (21.5234375)
21 - Appalachian State (12-1) (21.515625)
22 - Boise State (12-1) (19.78125)
23 - Air Force (10-2) (17.65625)
24 - Oregon (11-2) (16.42578125)
25 - Oklahoma State (8-4) (16.30078125)
Dec 8, 2019
college football poll - week 15 (conference championship edition)

The Bayou Bengals leapfrog the Buckeyes to regain the #1 spot. The way the formula works, beating Georgia for the SEC crown helped LSU since they didn’t have a direct win over them yet, but a comeback win against Wisconsin in Indy did absolutely nothing for OSU since they’d already beaten the Badgers earlier in the season.

1 - LSU (13-0) (45.796875)
2 - Ohio State (13-0) (44.28125)
3 - Clemson (13-0) (38.875)
4 - Penn State (10-2) (32.57421875)
5 - Michigan (9-3) (30.3203125)
6 - Cincinnati (10-3) (30.03125)
7 - Auburn (9-3) (29.0859375)
8 - Notre Dame (10-2) (28.765625)
9 - Florida (10-2) (28.0390625)
10 - SMU (10-2) (27.59375)
11 - Georgia (11-2) (27.453125)
12 - Iowa (9-3) (26.3515625)
13 - Baylor (11-2) (26.32275390625)
14 - Minnesota (10-2) (25.6015625)
15 - Alabama (10-2) (24.89453125)
16 - Wisconsin (10-3) (24.5625)
17 - Memphis (12-1) (24.4765625)
18 - Oklahoma (12-1) (23.9658203125)
19 - Utah (11-2) (21.5234375)
20 - Appalachian State (12-1) (21.515625)
21 - Navy (9-2) (21.4296875)
22 - Boise State (12-1) (19.78125)
23 - Air Force (10-2) (17.65625)
24 - Oregon (11-2) (16.42578125)
25 - Oklahoma State (8-4) (16.30078125)
Dec 2, 2019
college football poll - week 14

As I guessed might be the case last week, the Buckeyes’ drubbing of the Wolverines is sufficient to vault them past LSU for the #1 spot. Meanwhile, Cincinnati’s loss to to Memphis drops them down to #6, paving the way for Clemson in #3.

1 - Ohio State (12-0) (44.03125)
2 - LSU (12-0) (43.578125)
3 - Clemson (12-0) (38.375)
4 - Penn State (10-2) (32.51171875)
5 - Michigan (9-3) (30.3203125)
6 - Cincinnati (10-2) (29.78125)
7 - Notre Dame (10-2) (29.140625)
8 - Auburn (9-3) (28.8359375)
9 - Georgia (11-1) (28.203125)
10 - Florida (10-2) (27.9140625)
11 - SMU (10-2) (27.6875)
12 - Baylor (11-1) (26.29150390625)
13 - Iowa (9-3) (26.1015625)
14 - Minnesota (10-2) (25.6015625)
15 - Alabama (10-2) (24.89453125)
16 - Wisconsin (10-2) (24.5625)
17 - Memphis (11-1) (24.3515625)
18 - Oklahoma (11-1) (23.9033203125)
19 - Utah (11-1) (23.296875)
20 - Navy (9-2) (21.6171875)
21 - Appalachian State (11-1) (21.515625)
22 - Boise State (11-1) (19.78125)
23 - Air Force (10-2) (17.71875)
24 - Oklahoma State (8-4) (16.23828125)
25 - Texas (7-5) (15.10546875)
Nov 24, 2019
college football poll - week 13

The Bearcats jump 2 places to move into the #3 spot, as Clemson had a bye and Penn State lost to the #2 Buckeyes. No change in the top 2, but OSU is closing in on LSU, with only a quarter of a virtual win separating them. Could a win over #6 Michigan next weekend move them into #1?

1 - LSU (11-0) (40.8671875)
2 - Ohio State (11-0) (40.609375)
3 - Cincinnati (10-1) (35.6953125)
4 - Clemson (11-0) (34.9609375)
5 - Penn State (9-2) (32.87744140625)
6 - Michigan (9-2) (30.884765625)
7 - Alabama (10-1) (29.0546875)
8 - Minnesota (10-1) (28.5830078125)
9 - Notre Dame (9-2) (27.9453125)
10 - SMU (9-2) (26.2109375)
11 - Georgia (10-1) (25.890625)
12 - Iowa (8-3) (25.697265625)
13 - Florida (9-2) (25.15625)
14 - Auburn (8-3) (24.8984375)
15 - Baylor (10-1) (24.48095703125)
16 - Wisconsin (9-2) (23.39453125)
17 - Oklahoma (10-1) (22.9072265625)
18 - Utah (10-1) (21.58984375)
19 - Navy (8-2) (20.98828125)
20 - Memphis (10-1) (20.77734375)
21 - Appalachian State (10-1) (20.640625)
22 - Boise State (10-1) (20.390625)
23 - Oklahoma State (8-3) (16.08203125)
24 - Air Force (8-2) (15.37890625)
25 - Texas (6-5) (15.30078125)
Nov 17, 2019
college football poll - week 12

No change in the top 3 from last week, but Minnesota drops down to #9 after losing to the Hawkeyes. Interestingly, Auburn is still above Georgia at #12 and #13, respectively, even after the Tigers were handed their third loss of the season by the Dawgs. That loss to South Carolina is really keeping Georgia down – I count three teams ahead of them in the poll that they’ve beaten!

Notice that the virtual win totals are down from last week. For example, LSU dropped from nearly 53 to barely more than 40. This is due to the lack of FCS teams in the rankings now, mentioned in the last post.

1 - LSU (10-0) (40.2421875)
2 - Ohio State (10-0) (36.65625)
3 - Clemson (11-0) (34.2265625)
4 - Penn State (9-1) (32.52490234375)
5 - Cincinnati (9-1) (32.0078125)
6 - Michigan (8-2) (28.505859375)
7 - SMU (9-1) (28.0390625)
8 - Alabama (9-1) (27.8671875)
9 - Minnesota (9-1) (27.6904296875)
10 - Florida (9-2) (24.9892578125)
11 - Notre Dame (8-2) (24.119140625)
12 - Auburn (7-3) (24.0751953125)
13 - Georgia (9-1) (23.775390625)
14 - Oregon (9-1) (23.17431640625)
15 - Baylor (9-1) (22.929931640625)
16 - Iowa (7-3) (22.443359375)
17 - Wisconsin (8-2) (22.26171875)
18 - Oklahoma (9-1) (20.80517578125)
19 - Appalachian State (9-1) (20.0234375)
20 - Boise State (9-1) (19.9296875)
21 - Utah (9-1) (19.87109375)
22 - Memphis (9-1) (19.26171875)
23 - Texas A&M (7-3) (15.96337890625)
24 - Texas (6-4) (15.689453125)
25 - Oklahoma State (7-3) (15.197265625)
Nov 12, 2019
college football poll - bottom 25

I made a couple updates to the poll code. I was curious who the bottom 25 teams would be, and in particular how far my Northwestern Wildcats had fallen after winning the Big Ten West last year. So I added an option to reverse the ranking.

To facilitate this, I removed FCS teams from the equation, which is how it originally was back in the Perl days. Otherwise, an FCS team which lost to a bad FBS team might appear in this ranking, even though only one of its games was taken into consideration.

So here it is, the worst 25 FBS teams. The ‘Cats come in at #17. Potential good news for them – the play the #3 Massachusetts Minutemen on Saturday!

1 - Akron (0-9) (-40.9375)
2 - New Mexico State (0-9) (-37.90625)
3 - UMass (1-9) (-35.296875)
4 - UTEP (1-8) (-33.203125)
5 - Old Dominion (1-9) (-32.625)
6 - South Alabama (1-8) (-32.609375)
7 - Rice (0-9) (-31.3515625)
8 - New Mexico (2-7) (-29.453125)
9 - Connecticut (2-8) (-25.33203125)
10 - UNLV (2-7) (-24.421875)
11 - Arkansas (2-8) (-23.6953125)
12 - UT San Antonio (4-5) (-23.2265625)
13 - East Carolina (3-7) (-22.9921875)
14 - Army (4-6) (-22.83984375)
15 - Northern Illinois (3-6) (-22.76171875)
16 - Kent State (3-6) (-20.123046875)
17 - Northwestern (1-8) (-19.3671875)
18 - Vanderbilt (2-7) (-18.390625)
19 - Colorado State (4-5) (-18.015625)
20 - North Texas (4-6) (-16.8193359375)
21 - Rutgers (2-7) (-16.37890625)
22 - Middle Tennessee (3-6) (-14.599609375)
23 - UAB (6-3) (-14.55859375)
24 - San José State (4-6) (-14.375)
25 - Florida International (5-5) (-14.11669921875)
Nov 10, 2019
college football poll - week 11

We had two big showdowns of unbeatens yesterday. No surprise that LSU maintains its top spot after thwarting the Crimson Tide’s comeback attempt. In the Big Ten, the Golden Gophers handed the Nittany Lions their first loss, dropping Penn State from #2 to #5 and taking the #4 spot themselves. Meanwhile, Ohio State slips into #2 ahead of Clemson.

1 - LSU (9-0) (52.984375)
2 - Ohio State (9-0) (44.46484375)
3 - Clemson (10-0) (44.423828125)
4 - Minnesota (9-0) (42.265625)
5 - Penn State (8-1) (42.1015625)
6 - SMU (9-1) (40.111328125)
7 - Cincinnati (8-1) (38.5625)
8 - Baylor (9-0) (37.16015625)
9 - Auburn (7-2) (36.1552734375)
10 - Alabama (8-1) (35.7265625)
11 - Florida (8-2) (35.029296875)
12 - Michigan (7-2) (33.33203125)
13 - Oregon (8-1) (32.60498046875)
14 - Georgia (8-1) (32.49609375)
15 - Oklahoma (8-1) (32.0712890625)
16 - Boise State (8-1) (31.0546875)
17 - Memphis (8-1) (31.02734375)
18 - Appalachian State (8-1) (30.546875)
19 - Notre Dame (7-2) (30.46875)
20 - Utah (8-1) (29.927734375)
21 - Navy (7-1) (29.462890625)
22 - Wisconsin (7-2) (28.359375)
23 - Texas (6-3) (26.779296875)
24 - Kansas State (6-3) (26.369140625)
25 - Iowa (6-3) (24.79296875)

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