From: acdendy@lims02.lerc.nasa.gov (ROGER DENDY)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.college
Subject: Roger's Top 25--9 Nov
Date: 10 Nov 92 23:54:00 GMT
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The *Dendy System took a beating this last week.  Not only was I last among 
computer systems in the CFPOOL, I was only one place out of dead last over 
all.  Add to that the embarrassing position I now find myself in, of having 
two teams with 1 loss each ranked above FOUR undefeated teams.

This is almost severe enough to require modifications to the rules.  Well, 
maybe next year.

Team			Weight
----			------
1 Washington (8-1)	2.6
2 Florida St (8-1)	2.3
3 Miami Fl (8-0)	2.2
4 Nebraska (7-1)	2.2
5 Alabama (9-0)		2.1	Game of the Week:	5 Alabama
6 Michigan (8-0-1)	2.0				  vs
7 Notre Dame (7-1-1)	2.0				16 Miss. St.
8 Texas A&M (9-0)	1.9
9 Syracuse (8-1)	1.9	Alternate GotW:		10 Arizona
10 Arizona (6-2-1)	1.8				   vs
11 Ohio St (7-2)	1.8				14 USC
12 Georgia (7-2)	1.8
13 Stanford (7-3)	1.7	Ugly Game otW:		3 Miami Fl
14 USC (5-2-1)		1.7				  vs
15 Florida (6-2)	1.7				100 Temple
16 Miss St (7-2)	1.7
17 Colorado (7-1-1)	1.7
18 N C State (7-2-1)	1.6	Media Bias Winner otW:	28 Penn St (again)
19 Kansas (7-2)		1.6				   (AP 22)
20 Hawaii (7-1)		1.6
21 Bost Coll (7-1-1)	1.5	Media Bias Loser otW:	11 Ohio St
22 Wash St (7-2)	1.5				   (AP 19)
23 Tennessee (5-3)	1.5
24 Oregon (5-4)		1.5
25 Bowling Green (8-2)	1.5

Washington had built up such a large lead over Florida St and Miami, one 
loss wasn't enough to cause them to drop.  Unless Washington loses again, 
maybe more than once, they will finish still ranked first.

At the other end, Pacific climbed out of the bottom ten by achieving its 
3rd win, even though it was against Cal St Fullerton.  Fullerton, meanwhile
, fell as far as they could without surpassing hapless Ohio U, who lost to 
I-AA Youngstown St.  Navy managed the upset over Tulane, leaving no teams 
in Div I-A winless.

98 Missouri (1-8)	0.2
99 UTEP (1-8)		0.2
100 Temple (1-8)	0.2
101 Navy (1-7)		0.2
102 SW Louisiana (2-8)	0.1
103 Ark St (1-7)	0.0
104 Kent (2-8)		0.0
105 E Michigan (1-9)	-0.0
106 Cal St Fultn (2-7)	-0.0
107 Ohio (1-9)		-0.2

Out of curiosity, I tried sorting the teams in order of schedule strength.  
To reiterate the assumptions that go into this program (flame retardant, I 
hope): the initial rankings are based on the concensus top 25 and Don 
Heinrich's TQ's for the rest, and weighted such that the median team in Div 
I-A is equal to 1.0.  The schedule strength is computed based on these 
weights, and is updated weekly.

When I arranged them by schedule strength, I was surprised by what I found. 
 So I decided to share:

Team			Sked Strength
----			-------------
1 Southern Cal		1.5
2 Oregon St		1.5
3 Stanford 		1.5
4 California		1.4
5 Arizona St		1.4
6 Oregon		1.4
7 Northwestern		1.4
8 Arizona		1.4
9 Washington		1.3
10 Maryland		1.3
11 South Carolina	1.3
12 Washington St	1.3
13 Florida		1.3
14 Georgia Tech		1.3
15 Louisiana St		1.2
16 Duke			1.2
17 UCLA			1.2
18 Florida St		1.2
19 Vanderbilt		1.2
20 Iowa			1.2
21 Michigan St		1.2
22 Minnesota		1.2
23 Louisville		1.2
24 Kentucky		1.2
25 Notre Dame		1.2

A Pac-10 schedule apparently does a lot toward making a claim to tough 
opponents.  Miami, by the way, came in at 34.

R Dendy
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