Week 3, 2012

Oklahoma State, Clemson, Oregon, Georgia, and USC enter the rankings after being unranked last week, and the Big 12 continues its dominance with eight undefeated teams and a high strength of schedule. This large gap will likely be narrowed in the coming weeks as conference play picks up more.

 

1	Oklahoma
2	Texas
3	Baylor
4	West Virginia
5	TCU
6	Texas Tech
7	Kansas State
8	Iowa State
9	Stanford
10	Oklahoma State
11	Florida
12	Arizona
13	Notre Dame
14	LSU
15	South Carolina
16	Alabama
17	Florida State
18	Oregon State
19	Clemson
20	Ohio State
21	UCLA
22	Oregon
23	Georgia
24	Mississippi State
25	USC

Week 2, 2012

2 weeks are finished, and the newest rankings are out! Oklahoma State, North Carolina, Miami (FL), Missouri, Utah, Kansas, and South Florida all tumble out of the rankings, while TCU jumps up to take the #1 spot after not playing last week. Texas, West Virginia, Baylor, and Texas Tech round out the Top 5 as the Big 12 continues to have a huge strength of schedule, even with the conference's first two losses coming this weekend (Oklahoma State and Kansas).

 

1	TCU
2	Texas
3	West Virginia
4	Baylor
5	Texas Tech
6	Oklahoma
7	Kansas State
8	Iowa State
9	Arizona State
10	USC
11	Stanford
12	Florida State
13	Notre Dame
14	Florida
15	Maryland
16	Arizona
17	Mississippi State
18	Michigan State
19	UCLA
20	Oregon State
21	South Carolina
22	LSU
23	Ohio State
24	Alabama
25	Virginia Tech

Week 1, 2012

Week 1 is in the books, and my first rankings are out! The Big 12 went undefeated this weekend, so their rankings are all very high due to the inflated strength of schedule that comes with that (for more explanation on this, check out #4 here. In fact, if you haven't read that introduction yet, please go read it now). Always remember, these are just for fun and will end up looking much less crazy as the season progresses.

 

1	Oklahoma State
2	Texas Tech
3	Texas
4	Kansas State
5	Oklahoma
6	West Virginia
7	Baylor
8	Iowa State
9	Arizona State
10	USC
11	Kansas
12	Missouri
13	Alabama
14	Arizona
15	North Carolina
16	Utah
17	South Florida
18	UCLA
19	Miami (FL)
20	Notre Dame
21	Ohio State
22	Florida State
23	Maryland
24	Michigan State
25	Florida

2012 College Football Season!!

I'm back and ready to continue with my not-too-scientific, always interesting college football rankings! A quick note for those of you who didn't check these out last year, or maybe you just forgot:

1. These rankings are completely for fun, nothing else.
2. These rankings are my attempt at computer rankings. They do not reflect my opinion on who is the best or worst in college football, they only reflect my completely made-up algorithm.
3. Since these are computer rankings, they will look weird and/or terrible early in the season. This makes sense. There's a reason the BCS rankings don't come out until later in the season--they have computer rankings in them, and those are always a bit off early in the season. 
• Seriously, check out my rankings from last year. Rutgers, Kansas, and Iowa State were in the Top 5 after the first week. I promise, they get better as the season goes on.
4. These do not take into account any preseason bias. They do take into account win percentage, margin of victory, and strength of schedule.
• The strength of schedule portion takes into account the entire schedule, even early in the season. I'll admit, I'm way too lazy to make this work better than that. Unless I can come up with an easy way to do it, it's staying that way.
5. I reserve the right to tweak and/or completely change the algorithm without warning during the season. You can't complain. If you do complain, well, that's just silly. Why complain over some meaningless, just-for-fun computer rankings?

I really enjoyed seeing how these rankings came out every week, and hopefully some of you do, too! I'll see you all after Monday's Georgia Tech - Virginia Tech game is over with the first rankings of 2012!