Week 3

A new week, and another change to the formula. I realized that I was going about margin of victory (MOV) all wrong by just adding everything up, which was unfair to teams who had played less games. So it's now an average instead of an aggregate. 

And now, the rankings:

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

So, yeah, the top 7 teams are Big 12 teams. This seems like a good time to reiterate that strength of schedule (SOS) is currently calculated for the whole schedule, and not the schedule the teams have played so far (the Big 12 as a conference has a total of two losses, giving all the teams great SOS). This is a problem, I know. It will be remedied eventually. When I have time. Which might not be until the summer (thank you, engineering major). But until I manage to fix that in a way about which I am happy, things like this will continue to happen. I am still hoping that, towards the end of the season, this system will make sense even without that change.

Anyway, on to the conference rankings:

1		Big 12
2		SEC
3		Big Ten
4		Big East
5		ACC
6		Pac-12
7		MWC
8		Independents
9		MAC
10		C-USA
11		WAC
12		Sun Belt

The MAC takes a tumble after going 3-10 last week, while the Big 12 and the SEC switch spots due to a solid showing (apart from Kansas) from the Big 12, a 7-5 week from the SEC, and the formula change I mentioned above.