Below is the top 25 now that week 11 has played out.
Please note that “Improve+” is NOT the difference between last weeks numerical ranking and this week’s. “Last Wk” is meant to show you where each team was ranked last week. “Improve+” (and the offensive and defensive variants of it), on the other hand, measures the average week to week improvement demonstrated by each team. An example: Oregon’s “Improve+” is 2, which means, after nine weeks, they are averaging 2% of improvement in their “Total+” rating from week-to-week. Obviously, numbers will get smaller as the weeks go on. My basic aim is to see which teams get stronger as the year goes on and which teams fall off a cliff.
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Rank | Team | Offense+ | Defense+ | Total+ | Schedule | Win% | Last Wk | Off+ Improve | Def+ Improve | Improve+ |
1 | Oregon | 156 | 133 | 145 | 105 | 167 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
2 | Florida State | 145 | 141 | 143 | 100 | 188 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
3 | Stanford | 139 | 146 | 142 | 119 | 167 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
4 | Arizona State | 147 | 132 | 139 | 117 | 146 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
5 | Baylor | 151 | 126 | 139 | 94 | 188 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
6 | Alabama | 140 | 135 | 137 | 104 | 188 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
7 | Missouri | 137 | 131 | 134 | 106 | 169 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
8 | Ohio State | 141 | 121 | 131 | 97 | 188 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
9 | Wisconsin | 133 | 127 | 130 | 104 | 146 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
10 | LSU | 140 | 115 | 127 | 110 | 132 | 9 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
11 | USC | 118 | 134 | 126 | 110 | 132 | 15 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
12 | Georgia | 138 | 114 | 126 | 116 | 125 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
13 | Virginia Tech | 101 | 149 | 125 | 111 | 132 | 30 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
14 | UCLA | 128 | 121 | 125 | 109 | 146 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
15 | Oklahoma State | 120 | 129 | 124 | 101 | 167 | 10 | -2 | 0 | -1 |
16 | Washington | 131 | 118 | 124 | 109 | 125 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
17 | Auburn | 131 | 117 | 124 | 104 | 169 | 19 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
18 | Utah | 116 | 132 | 124 | 120 | 84 | 24 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
19 | South Carolina | 124 | 122 | 123 | 111 | 146 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
20 | Mississippi | 128 | 117 | 122 | 115 | 125 | 12 | -1 | 0 | 0 |
21 | Louisville | 112 | 130 | 121 | 88 | 167 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
22 | BYU | 112 | 129 | 121 | 113 | 125 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
23 | Clemson | 116 | 124 | 120 | 102 | 167 | 18 | -1 | 3 | 1 |
24 | Vanderbilt | 123 | 116 | 119 | 111 | 104 | 40 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
25 | UCF | 116 | 121 | 119 | 99 | 164 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 2 |