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Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
I am super hype to deploy The Son Of The Mukai Moon Poll (as seen here!). It is going to be The Hindenberg Mark II, but I am excited to be in the center of the firestorm even so.

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Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
I would make a poll-like substance if I could get the stats, the NCAA appears to be being slow about uploading them to http://web1.ncaa.org/mfb/download.jsp?year=2013&div=IA :(

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

Tad SG posted:

It looks like they moved the stats to a new site this year, and it is much less convenient to use:

http://stats.ncaa.org/rankings/change_sport_year_div



Jesus christ, that's USELESS. Looks like this moon poll might be dead in the water.

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

Captain von Trapp posted:

For those whose polls only need team names, scores, dates, and home/away, they're available in CSV here:
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Stats/Football/schedules.html

I found that, actually, but I can't see that they've updated it with the week 1 scores anywhere.

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

Captain von Trapp posted:

For those whose polls only need team names, scores, dates, and home/away, they're available in CSV here:
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/public/NCAA/Resources/Stats/Football/schedules.html

Update: They removed the part where they claim results will be in that csv file too. So it's official. Unless something changes in the next few weeks, no moon poll from me this year, I really don't want to figure out another parsing method for another data tool after the assache getting this one down was. :(

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Okay! After much heartache and screaming at scripts that should have been a lot simpler than they were to make, I am back online! First I will repost the explanation of the maths that I posted last year when I came up with it, and then the first results!

Mukai's ELO-Modified Moon Poll

Overview: This moon poll is an attempt to use the Elo method of team ranking, popularized by chess, and apply it to college football while also including margin of victory. No stats other than scores, date, and location are used.

Every team starts with 1 (one) point as their ranking. Yes, Akron and Alabama start in the same place, because I wanted to remove subjectivity as much as I could. For each match, the "expected win"% is calculated with a formula that takes into account both rankings. It'll spit out 50% if both teams are equally rated. The expected win percentage for Team A playing Team B:

1/(1+10^( (rating_team_B - rating_team_a)/0.4 ) )

If both are equal, it's always 50%. If team A is 0.2 points better than team B, they'll have if you do the math a 76% of beating them; 0.4 points better, 91%, and so on. Given that, as a special case, non-Division 1A teams are set at an effective rating of 0.6 points no matter who they are; this means that in week 1, I expect 91% of teams to beat their 1-AA opponents. Note that this is symmetric- if team A has a 76% chance of beating team B, team B has a 24% chance of beating team A, just like you'd expect.

So! I have how much I expect teams to win. The games are played, and sometimes I'm kinda right! But I have to for every match update the stats based on who won what. Using the data presented at http://football.stassen.com/pointspread/ I have a correlation between how often a team favored by X points by Vegas wins. I make the leap that A, Vegas is usually if not the smartest than very near the smartest picker in aggregate, and thus get things about right; I also make the slightly bigger leap that a team that actually wins by X points would win Y% of the time, if teams favored by X points historically win Y% of the time. If you don't trust that leap, you can probably just ignore this moon poll, but it actually works decently well. I take the actual point spread (and correct it for location, using what seems to be a standard 4 point advantage for home teams; I'm equivalently putting everything on a 'neutral field' in hindsight) and determine "actual win%" for the game. Edge case; any margin over 30 points is set to 99%, because I don't believe in no-win scenarios.

That's a bit wordy, so I'll go through the math with an example from last season.

Coming into Week 3's home game against Arkansas, Alabama's rating is 1.171; they've won both games commandingly. Arkansas's rating, right off the home loss to Louisiana-Monroe, is 1.003; the loss almost canceled their handy win over a 1-AA team. The difference between the two teams' ratings is 0.168; Alabama then, by the formula, is expected to win 72.4% of the time, which correlates to a point margin of just a shade under 9 points on a neutral field. Since Alabama's at home, they're "expected" to beat Arkansas by just under two touchdowns. Playing the game, Alabama actually wins by 52, which is a horrifying number. That's greater than 30, so I declare that Alabama would have won 99% of the time that game was replayed. So, I have an expected win% of 72.4% and an actual win% of 99%...

Okay. Once we have that, the next step is to update ratings. It's pretty easy; after a whole lot of trials, I settled on
New Rating = Old Rating + 0.2 * (Actual Win% - Expected Win%) for both teams, with the caveat that "you can never lose points by winning or gain points by losing".

So, in our example above, for Alabama
New Rating = 1.171 + 0.2 * (0.99-0.724) = 1.224 (gain of 0.053 points)

and for Arkansas,
New Rating = 1.003 + 0.2 * (0.724-0.99) = 0.950 (loss of 0.053 points)



And now without further ado:

Mukai Moon Poll Week 3: "No, Seriously, UCF" Edition

Well, this is awkward. My first new moon poll, and I have:
-UCF #6
-Georgia Tech #8
-Alabama #10 (to be fair, there's a bias towards teams that have played more)

Well, we'll go with it, it'll sort itself out soon enough. Until then, moon polls will enjoy their traditional bouts of utter madness. At least a sane team's at the top and at the bottom, right?

pre:
Rank	Team		Rating
1	'Oregon'	1.308
2	'Louisville'	1.239
3	'LSU'		1.227
4	'Oklahoma St.'	1.214
5	'Oklahoma'	1.213
6	'UCF'		1.209
7	'Arizona'	1.198
8	'Georgia Tech'	1.197
9	'Florida St.'	1.187
10	'Alabama'	1.182
11	'Auburn'	1.177
12	'Michigan'	1.171
13	'UCLA'		1.170
14	'Indiana'	1.160
15	'Northwestern'	1.160
16	'Ohio St.'	1.154
17	'Washington'	1.152
18	'Southern Cal'	1.134
19	'Maryland'	1.130
20	'Navy'		1.130
21	'Minnesota'	1.125
22	'Stanford'	1.125
23	'Texas Tech'	1.122
24	'Ole Miss'	1.122
25	'Penn St.'	1.117

26	'Utah St.'	1.117
27	'Washington St'	1.111
28	'Wisconsin'	1.100
29	'Baylor'	1.093
30	'Wyoming'	1.086
31	'Marshall'	1.085
32	'North Texas'	1.078
33	'Michigan St.'	1.072
34	'Texas A&M'	1.065
35	'BYU'		1.063
36	'Missouri'	1.062
37	'Arizona St.'	1.055
38	'Houston'	1.055
39	'Rutgers'	1.052
40	'Ball St.'	1.052
41	'Tennessee'	1.051
42	'Texas St.'	1.050
43	'Notre Dame'	1.049
44	'Arkansas'	1.046
45	'Miami (FL)'	1.043
46	'South Caro'	1.042
47	'Illinois'	1.041
48	'Ohio'		1.038
49	'Virginia Tech'	1.009
50	'Georgia'	1.008
51	'Northern Ill.'	1.008
52	'Pittsburgh'	1.004
53	'Oregon St.'	1.003
54	'Boise St.'	0.999
55	'Kansas St.'	0.984
56	'North Caro.'	0.981
57	'Nebraska'	0.981
58	'Kentucky'	0.979
59	'Utah'		0.976
60	'Bowling Green'	0.973
61	'Duke'		0.973
62	'Arkansas St.'	0.969
63	'Clemson'	0.968
64	'Mississipi St'	0.964
65	'Colorado'	0.957
66	'Tulane'	0.955
67	'Cincinnati'	0.954
68	'Florida'	0.951
69	'Vanderbilt'	0.951
70	'Troy'		0.950
71	'UTEP'		0.948
72	'Rice'		0.947
73	'TCU'		0.941
74	'La.-Monroe'	0.941
75	'South Ala.'	0.940
76	'Syracuse'	0.937
77	'East Carolina'	0.936
78	'Fresno St.'	0.934
79	'West Virginia'	0.933
80	'North Car St.'	0.931
81	'Iowa'		0.925
82	'Virginia'	0.913
83	'UTSA'		0.901
84	'Boston College	0.894
85	'Kansas'	0.889
86	'UAB'		0.885
87	'Western Ky.'	0.879
88	'Texas'		0.876
89	'Memphis'	0.871
90	'UTSA'		0.869
91	'San Jose St.'	0.864
92	'Wake Forest'	0.855
93	'New Mexico'	0.855
94	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.851
95	'Middle Tenn.'	0.849
96	'Colorado St.'	0.849
97	'Nevada'	0.844
98	'La.-Lafayette'	0.837
99	'Toledo'	0.826
100	'UNLV'		0.825
101	'Army'		0.820
102	'Tulsa'		0.807
103	'California'	0.794
104	'Eastern Mich.'	0.788
105	'Louisiana Tech	0.776
106	'Air Force'	0.775
107	'Kent St.'	0.774
108	'Hawaii'	0.774
109	'Southern Miss.	0.766
110	'Purdue'	0.755
111	'Akron'		0.747
112	'Idaho'		0.747
113	'SMU'		0.746
114	'Western Mich.'	0.735
115	'Miami (OH)'	0.729
116	'Iowa St.'	0.729
117	'Buffalo'	0.718
118	'Central Mich.'	0.716
119	'Temple'	0.712
120	'Connecticut'	0.705
121	'New Mexico St'	0.676
122	'San Diego St.'	0.641
123	'Massachusetts'	0.598
124	'South Fla.'	0.579
125	'FIU'		0.565
126	'Georgia State'	0.475

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 4: #GoACC Edition

What more can I say? FSU, Maryland, (Louisville) and GT all in the top 10. This is madness, also known as an early season objective poll that doesn't use an initial seed of the prior year's results. Other hallucinatory quirks: Wyoming is in the top 25, and this is real. Missouri is higher ranked than Alabama, Minnesota is a top 25 team, Texas State is ahead of Texas, Memphis is higher rated than Boise State, and Clemson is inexplicably below Florida, Rutgers, Virginia Tech, and Ball State. The author has no defense for these, but expects that at the end of the season he will dredge this set of mysteries out and point to one with a cackling, gibbering laugh as the madness overtakes us all.


pre:
Rank	Team		Rating
1	'LSU'		1.275
2	'Louisville'	1.250
3	'Missouri'	1.223
4	'Oregon'	1.222
5	'Alabama'	1.219
6	'Florida St.'	1.219
7	'Texas Tech'	1.219
8	'Maryland'	1.212
9	'Georgia Tech'	1.201
10	'UCLA'		1.201
11	'Oklahoma St.'	1.188
12	'Michigan'	1.168
13	'Ohio St.'	1.165
14	'Baylor'	1.164
15	'Washington'	1.163
16	'Stanford'	1.155
17	'Penn St.'	1.153
18	'Oklahoma'	1.150
19	'Wisconsin'	1.146
20	'Georgia'	1.146
21	'Minnesota'	1.146
22	'Southern Cal'	1.136
23	'UCF'		1.135
24	'Washington St.	1.135
25	'Wyoming'	1.128
26	'Utah St.'	1.126
27	'Auburn'	1.123
28	'Northwestern'	1.120
29	'Texas A&M'	1.107
30	'Ole Miss'	1.105
31	'Navy'		1.105
32	'Arizona'	1.104
33	'Mississippi St	1.085
34	'Ball St.'	1.084
35	'Houston'	1.077
36	'Miami (FL)'	1.065
37	'South Carolina	1.065
38	'Virginia Tech'	1.065
39	'Syracuse'	1.064
40	'Utah'		1.063
41	'Notre Dame'	1.061
42	'Florida'	1.057
43	'Rutgers'	1.056
44	'Clemson'	1.055
45	'Michigan St.'	1.054
46	'Illinois'	1.045
47	'Pittsburgh'	1.044
48	'Indiana'	1.043
49	'Arkansas'	1.042
50	'Ohio'		1.033
51	'Marshall'	1.020
52	'Arizona St.'	1.019
53	'Nebraska'	1.016
54	'UTSA'		1.013
55	'Oregon St.'	1.004
56	'Memphis'	1.004
57	'Boise St.'	0.993
58	'Vanderbilt'	0.983
59	'Kentucky'	0.979
60	'Bowling Green'	0.979
61	'Iowa'		0.979
62	'BYU'		0.975
63	'North Carolina	0.975
64	'Cincinnati'	0.974
65	'North Texas'	0.965
66	'Duke'		0.964
67	'Tennessee'	0.960
68	'Fresno St.'	0.952
69	'Texas St.'	0.951
70	'Texas'		0.947
71	'Rice'		0.939
72	'East Carolina'	0.939
73	'Virginia'	0.934
74	'Colorado'	0.932
75	'TCU'		0.930
76	'Nevada'	0.926
77	'Middle Tenn.'	0.923
78	'South Ala.'	0.921
79	'Wake Forest'	0.921
80	'Toledo'	0.921
81	'Kansas St.'	0.910
82	'Northern Ill.'	0.910
83	'Boston College	0.905
84	'Western Ky.'	0.903
85	'UAB'		0.901
86	'Kansas'	0.888
87	'La.-Monroe'	0.872
88	'UTSA'		0.867
89	'UNLV'		0.867
90	'West Virginia'	0.852
91	'North Car. St.	0.852
92	'San Jose St.'	0.848
93	'La.-Lafayette'	0.844
94	'Colorado St.'	0.828
95	'Tulane'	0.827
96	'Massachusetts'	0.824
97	'Arkansas St.'	0.824
98	'Troy'		0.821
99	'UTEP'		0.820
100	'New Mexico'	0.819
101	'Tulsa'		0.799
102	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.797
103	'California'	0.791
104	'Southern Miss.	0.764
105	'Louisiana Tech	0.747
106	'Army'		0.740
107	'Air Force'	0.737
108	'Eastern Mich.'	0.737
109	'Kent St.'	0.736
110	'Buffalo'	0.725
111	'Purdue'	0.722
112	'Iowa St.'	0.715
113	'Akron'		0.714
114	'Temple'	0.714
115	'SMU'		0.710
116	'Connecticut'	0.705
117	'Miami (OH)'	0.694
118	'Hawaii'	0.693
119	'Idaho'		0.692
120	'New Mexico St.	0.652
121	'Western Mich.'	0.652
122	'Central Mich.'	0.643
123	'San Diego St.'	0.641
Notional 1-AA Team: 	0.600
124	'South Fla.'	0.573
125	'FIU'		0.557
126	'Georgia State'	0.440

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 5: Starting To Look Sane Edition

Given that my method is also almost only looking at margin of victory- just with home/away included- it shouldn't be a surprise that mine and Von Trapp's have a lot in common; I would GUESS that maybe accounting for location would bring us even closer into agreement and if I corrected for numbers of games played (e.g. the difference between Trapp having UCLA high and me having it at 18 is probably that htey played 3 games instead of 4) but aside from that it's likely just minute differences in algorithm!


pre:
Rank	Team		Rating
1	'Alabama'	1.308
2	'Stanford'	1.279
3	'Oregon'	1.250
4	'Washington'	1.229
5	'Florida St.'	1.228
6	'LSU'		1.222
7	'Missouri'	1.207
8	'Oklahoma'	1.204
9	'Ohio St.'	1.200
10	'Maryland'	1.196
11	'Texas Tech'	1.185
12	'Georgia'	1.183
13	'Houston'	1.180
14	'Texas A&M'	1.175
15	'Virginia Tech'	1.174
16	'Arizona St.'	1.165
17	'Utah St.'	1.150
18	'UCLA'		1.146
19	'Wisconsin'	1.145
20	'Clemson'	1.141
21	'Iowa'		1.140
22	'Florida'	1.134
23	'South Carolina	1.124
24	'Louisville'	1.117
25	'Michigan'	1.112
26	'Texas St.'	1.109
27	'Georgia Tech'	1.099
28	'Oregon St.'	1.095
29	'Ball St.'	1.085
30	'Miami (FL)'	1.085
31	'Illinois'	1.079
32	'Baylor'	1.078
33	'East Carolina'	1.078
34	'Penn St.'	1.075
35	'UCF'		1.066
36	'Vanderbilt'	1.059
37	'Mississippi St	1.056
38	'Syracuse'	1.055
39	'Ole Miss'	1.052
40	'Pittsburgh'	1.049
41	'BYU'		1.048
42	'Oklahoma St.'	1.048
43	'Boise St.'	1.047
44	'Michigan St.'	1.037
45	'Arizona'	1.034
46	'Marshall'	1.031
47	'Ohio'		1.013
48	'Southern Cal'	1.011
49	'Washington St'	1.010
50	'Auburn'	1.002
51	'Western Ky.'	1.001
52	'Minnesota'	1.001
53	'Utah'		1.000
54	'West Virginia'	0.998
55	'Northwestern'	0.996
56	'Tennessee'	0.995
57	'Notre Dame'	0.994
58	'TCU'		0.994
59	'Northern Ill.'	0.987
60	'Memphis'	0.984
61	'Wyoming'	0.977
62	'Arkansas'	0.975
63	'Rutgers'	0.968
64	'Bowling Green'	0.967
65	'Nebraska'	0.965
66	'Navy'		0.963
67	'Fresno St.'	0.955
68	'Rice'		0.950
69	'Duke'		0.950
70	'Texas'		0.940
71	'Indiana'	0.935
72	'Virginia'	0.931
73	'Cincinnati'	0.930
74	'South Ala.'	0.928
75	'Nevada'	0.925
76	'Toledo'	0.924
77	'UNLV'		0.922
78	'Tulane'	0.917
79	'Kentucky'	0.905
80	'UTSA'		0.897
81	'NC State'	0.895
82	'North Texas'	0.879
83	'Colorado St.'	0.875
84	'Kansas St.'	0.862
85	'Boston College	0.860
86	'Colorado'	0.855
87	'Wake Forest'	0.854
88	'Kansas'	0.848
89	'Army'		0.845
90	'Iowa St.'	0.841
91	'North Caro'	0.840
92	'Buffalo'	0.834
93	'La.-Lafayette'	0.831
94	'Middle Tenn.'	0.827
95	'Massachusetts'	0.823
96	'Kent St.'	0.811
97	'UAB'		0.805
98	'Arkansas St.'	0.803
99	'Troy'		0.801
100	'San Jose St.'	0.799
101	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.796
102	'California'	0.759
103	'La.-Monroe'	0.747
104	'Air Force'	0.738
105	'New Mexico'	0.736
106	'Eastern Mich.'	0.731
107	'San Diego St.'	0.721
108	'UTEP'		0.714
109	'Akron'		0.701
110	'Temple'	0.699
111	'Hawaii'	0.696
112	'Southern Miss'	0.692
113	'Tulsa'		0.681
114	'Idaho'		0.670
115	'Purdue'	0.652
116	'Louisiana Tech	0.651
117	'Miami (OH)'	0.650
118	'SMU'		0.649
119	'Central Mich.'	0.579
120	'Western Mich.'	0.574
121	'Connecticut'	0.570
122	'New Mexico St'	0.564
123	'South Fla.'	0.555
124	'FIU'		0.553
125	'Georgia State'	0.444
And by conference:

pre:
SEC		1.100
PAC-12		1.069
Big 10		1.028
ACC		1.026
Big 12		1.000
MWC		0.878
AAC		0.872
Independent	0.847
Sun Belt	0.833
MAC		0.822
CUSA		0.819

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 6

Turns out when you massacre an undefeated team on the road, an ELO-based system flips its wig and gives you ALL THE POINTS, ALL OF THEM as a reward. I'm not sure Maryland was that good, but in absence of evidence to the contrary it's hard to argue with FSU #1. Missouri #2 we'll just pass over in silence, though. The rest of the top 25 looks pretty good, though!

pre:
Rank	Team		Rating
1	'Florida St.'	1.330
2	'Missouri'	1.297
3	'Alabama'	1.292
4	'Oregon'	1.290
5	'LSU'		1.289
6	'Stanford'	1.266
7	'Oklahoma'	1.231
8	'Clemson'	1.224
9	'Ohio St.'	1.215
10	'Washington'	1.206
11	'Texas Tech'	1.202
12	'Georgia'	1.196
13	'Michigan'	1.189
14	'Florida'	1.183
15	'Virginia Tech'	1.174
16	'Baylor'	1.171
17	'Miami (FL)'	1.169
18	'BYU'		1.168
19	'UCLA'		1.162
20	'Michigan St.'	1.154
21	'Louisville'	1.142
22	'Ball St.'	1.139
23	'Arizona St.'	1.114
24	'South Carolina	1.113
25	'Marshall'	1.090
26	'Nebraska'	1.082
27	'East Carolina'	1.082
28	'Texas A&M'	1.081
29	'Wisconsin'	1.079
30	'UCF'		1.078
31	'Maryland'	1.077
32	'Indiana'	1.070
33	'Notre Dame'	1.066
34	'Ohio'		1.059
35	'Auburn'	1.058
36	'Houston'	1.057
37	'Oklahoma St.'	1.046
38	'Western Ky.'	1.045
39	'Washington St'	1.042
40	'Georgia Tech'	1.034
41	'Pittsburgh'	1.024
42	'Iowa'		1.024
43	'Bowling Green'	1.022
44	'Utah St.'	1.020
45	'Northern Ill.'	1.015
46	'Boise St.'	1.015
47	'Ole Miss'	1.012
48	'Tennessee'	1.009
49	'La.-Lafayette'	1.001
50	'TCU'		1.000
51	'Oregon St.'	0.999
52	'Navy'		0.996
53	'Fresno St.'	0.993
54	'Vanderbilt'	0.990
55	'Utah'		0.986
56	'Mississippi St	0.982
57	'Rutgers'	0.974
58	'Southern Cal'	0.968
59	'Toledo'	0.965
60	'Boston College	0.964
61	'Northwestern'	0.957
62	'Syracuse'	0.956
63	'Illinois'	0.946
64	'Arkansas'	0.946
65	'Texas'		0.945
66	'Memphis'	0.945
67	'Wyoming'	0.943
68	'Penn St.'	0.941
69	'Wake Forest'	0.934
70	'Duke'		0.934
71	'Rice'		0.931
72	'Buffalo'	0.917
73	'Minnesota'	0.915
74	'Texas St.'	0.913
75	'Kentucky'	0.912
76	'South Ala.'	0.908
77	'Tulane'	0.908
78	'UNLV'		0.906
79	'Arizona'	0.904
80	'West Virginia'	0.897
81	'North Texas'	0.891
82	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.885
83	'Virginia'	0.878
84	'Kansas St.'	0.870
85	'Colorado St.'	0.863
86	'Middle Tenn.'	0.842
87	'North Carolina	0.838
88	'Nevada'	0.836
89	'Iowa St.'	0.835
90	'UTSA'		0.827
91	'North Car St.'	0.826
92	'Troy'		0.824
93	'Colorado'	0.813
94	'San Jose St.'	0.813
95	'Kansas'	0.808
96	'Arkansas St.'	0.803
97	'San Diego St.'	0.801
98	'Cincinnati'	0.799
99	'Army'		0.779
100	'Massachusetts'	0.776
101	'New Mexico'	0.775
102	'Kent St.'	0.766
103	'La.-Monroe'	0.724
104	'Air Force'	0.715
105	'UAB'		0.709
106	'California'	0.708
107	'Louisiana Tech	0.695
108	'South Fla.'	0.694
109	'Tulsa'		0.679
110	'Temple'	0.675
111	'Central Mich.'	0.675
112	'Akron'		0.667
113	'SMU'		0.649
114	'UTEP'		0.646
115	'Eastern Mich.'	0.644
116	'Purdue'	0.641
117	'Hawaii'	0.637
118	'Southern Miss'	0.626
119	'FIU'		0.626
120	'Idaho'		0.622
121	'Connecticut'	0.581
122	'Western Mich.'	0.541
123	'Miami (OH)'	0.532
124	'New Mexico St.	0.489
125	'Georgia State'	0.439

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
I find it surreal that all three of us have Alabama #3.

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll Week 7: Missouri Winning Was Not An Upset Edition

It's that time of year: The time I get to start crowing about getting things right! Always a special, special day in the heart of any moon-poller. Missouri vs. Georgia? I had Missouri by 3! Wisconsin-Northwestern? I had Wisconsin by 9.5! I'm... not sure how BYU is in the top 10 now, actually, that seems a bit hinky. But this is a time of CELEBRATION or something! On to the stats, and then I have the first Special Treat of the season.

pre:
1	'Oregon'	1.379
2	'Missouri'	1.354
3	'Alabama'	1.317
4	'Florida St.'	1.316
5	'LSU'		1.300
6	'Clemson'	1.230
7	'BYU'		1.203
8	'Texas Tech'	1.193
9	'Michigan St.'	1.185
10	'UCLA'		1.179
11	'Baylor'	1.177
12	'Virginia Tech'	1.174
13	'Stanford'	1.170
14	'Florida'	1.163
15	'South Carolina	1.162
16	'Wisconsin'	1.148
17	'Ball St.'	1.147
18	'Georgia'	1.147
19	'Arizona St.'	1.145
20	'Louisville'	1.138
21	'Miami (FL)'	1.133
22	'Washington'	1.132
23	'Oregon St.'	1.125
24	'Michigan'	1.112
25	'Ohio St.'	1.100
26	'Texas'		1.099
27	'Nebraska'	1.096
28	'Texas A&M'	1.094
29	'Utah'		1.092
30	'Marshall'	1.084
31	'Boise St.'	1.079
32	'Auburn'	1.074
33	'Maryland'	1.074
34	'Houston'	1.070
35	'Oklahoma'	1.063
36	'Notre Dame'	1.057
37	'Duke'		1.050
38	'Indiana'	1.034
39	'East Carolina'	1.031
40	'Western Ky.'	1.031
41	'Pittsburgh'	1.027
42	'Iowa'		1.026
43	'Oklahoma St.'	1.020
44	'Bowling Green'	1.014
45	'Ole Miss'	1.006
46	'TCU'		1.004
47	'Northern Ill.'	1.004
48	'Georgia Tech'	1.003
49	'Syracuse'	1.001
50	'Penn St.'	0.995
51	'Fresno St.'	0.989
52	'Mississippi St	0.984
53	'UCF'		0.984
54	'La.-Lafayette'	0.982
55	'North Texas'	0.974
56	'Tulane'	0.966
57	'Boston College	0.965
58	'Southern Cal'	0.965
59	'Rice'		0.955
60	'Tennessee'	0.954
61	'Rutgers'	0.949
62	'Utah St.'	0.946
63	'Memphis'	0.945
64	'Wake Forest'	0.939
65	'Ohio'		0.930
66	'Buffalo'	0.929
67	'Toledo'	0.927
68	'Wyoming'	0.925
69	'Washington St'	0.917
70	'UNLV'		0.913
71	'Vanderbilt'	0.913
72	'Minnesota'	0.907
73	'Illinois'	0.904
74	'West Virginia'	0.897
75	'Arizona'	0.890
76	'South Ala.'	0.890
77	'Virginia'	0.888
78	'Northwestern'	0.882
79	'Kansas St.'	0.881
80	'Kentucky'	0.878
81	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.878
82	'Arkansas'	0.876
83	'San Jose St.'	0.872
84	'Navy'		0.858
85	'Arkansas St.'	0.847
86	'Army'		0.832
87	'Iowa St.'	0.832
88	'Troy'		0.829
89	'La.-Monroe'	0.827
90	'Cincinnati'	0.824
91	'North Carolina	0.822
92	'San Diego St.'	0.816
93	'Kansas'	0.809
94	'UTSA'		0.808
95	'Central Mich.'	0.793
96	'Texas St.'	0.790
97	'North Car St.'	0.784
98	'Colorado St.'	0.783
99	'Colorado'	0.779
100	'Massachusetts'	0.776
101	'Nevada'	0.775
102	'New Mexico'	0.771
103	'Middle Tenn.'	0.763
104	'Kent St.'	0.762
105	'Tulsa'		0.717
106	'UAB'		0.713
107	'South Fla.'	0.697
108	'Louisiana Tech	0.690
109	'California'	0.685
110	'Air Force'	0.675
111	'Akron'		0.657
112	'SMU'		0.648
113	'Hawaii'	0.643
114	'Temple'	0.626
115	'Purdue'	0.624
116	'Southern Miss'	0.614
117	'FIU'		0.607
118	'Eastern Mich.'	0.580
119	'Connecticut'	0.574
120	'Idaho'		0.573
121	'UTEP'		0.569
122	'Miami (OH)'	0.533
123	'Western Mich.'	0.511
124	'New Mexico St.	0.483
125	'Georgia State'	0.439
What's the Magical Gift? LAUGHABLY EARLY BOWL PROJECTIONS! That's right, using the blind idiot god known as my moon poll, I've projected the remainder of the season (intervening only a few times to tweak a game here or there), and using that tried to figure out who would go to what bowl! To my eternal, inaccurate chagrin I have a bunch of things wrong, but let's go straight to: Who are the BCS contenders? (10+ wins from a major conference, 12+ wins from a midmajor)
AAC: Louisville* (12-0), Houston (10-2)
ACC: Florida State* (13-0), Miami (11-2), Clemson (10-2), Virginia Tech (10-2)
Big Ten: Michigan State* (12-1), Ohio State (11-1), Wisconsin (10-3), Michigan (10-2)
Big 12: Baylor* (11-1), Texas Tech (10-2)
CUSA: None
Independents: None
MAC: Ball State* (12-1) (this is not a typo)
MWC: None (still not a typo; I'm not at all high on Fresno/Northern Ill.)
Pac-12: Oregon* (13-0), UCLA (10-3) I am calling a Stanford collapse, because god their schedule is tough
SEC: Alabama* (13-0), LSU (10-2), South Carolina (11-2), Missouri (11-1)
Sun Belt: None

So for BCS seedings, Alabama-Oregon is the #1-#2 game because I don't see FSU or Louisville leapfrogging either- though that set of outcomes would be delicious controversy. FSU is slotted automatically into the Rose, Baylor into the Fiesta, and Michigan State into the Rose. Including the #1-#2 replacements, BCS bowls are:
NCG: Alabama-Oregon
Sugar: (first pick)-(fourth pick)
Rose: Michigan State-(second pick)
Fiesta: Baylor-(fifth pick)
Orange: Florida State-(third pick)

Sugar grabs South Carolina as the most 'national' SEC 11 win team, screwing Missou a bit. For the second pick, UCLA barely scrapes into qualification, and the Rose snaps them up. The Orange has to choose between an undefeated Louisville and a super-mega-TV draw Ohio State, and this goes the way most of these picks go, OSU and mad TV dolla. Sugar takes Louisville. Fiesta has to choose between a lot of not great options; they basically can take one of the ACC also rans or Houston, since I don't expect Ball State to climb into the top 14. Miami it is!

NCG: Alabama-Oregon
Sugar: South Carolina-Louisville
Rose: Michigan State-UCLA
Fiesta: Baylor-Miami
Orange: Florida State-Ohio State

From there, the other bowls slot in with some wonkiness, but anything that allows Virginia Tech-Texas A&M in the Peach Bowl is a scenario I desperately want to happen; Manziel's Last Stand against a Bud Foster defense makes me start grinning madly. Full Bowl Projections are Here!

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."

kayakyakr posted:

Do you have a 10-2 TTU team in the Big XII #4 bowl? That seems... odd.

Yeah, but I figured bowls would sooner chase the BIG NAMES BIG BUCKS and so had Oklahoma and Texas going to better bowls with worse records.

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
In the best telemarketing tradition,

BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! from the Mukai Moon Poll.

Using the predictions and the remaining schedule for each of the 15 remaining undefeated teams, I came up with an estimate of how likely each current unbeaten record is to remain that way! Keeping in mind that this moon poll cannot see things like "Missouri's starting QB is gone", it should give a pretty good handle on just how hard it is to go undefeated even when you get halfway there.

pre:
Oregon		26.7%
Louisville	24.5%
Missouri	19.1%
Florida State	15.2%
Alabama		13.3%
Texas Tech	11.1%
Baylor		7.8%
Clemson		6.9%
Northern Ill.	4.7%
Fresno State	3.9%
Houston		3.5%
Ohio State	3.0%
Miami (FL)	0.6%
UCLA		0.5%
--------------------
Nobody         21.3%
Only One team  35.7%
So we've got 4-in-5 odds or so of avoiding the "Nobody is undefeated, chaos year is reborn and the blood moon rises over the final BCS standings" scenario but only about 43% odds of having two undefeated teams in the championship. Still not super-great odds on any single team, yet. If Louisville beats UCF they'll jump to the top of the list, since that looks like a decently hard game for them; if chalk holds next week the undefeated odds will go Louisville (34.5%), Oregon (28.6%), Missou (25.5%), FSU (24.4%).

Mukaikubo fucked around with this message at 15:24 on Oct 14, 2013

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 8: Ten Teams Are Still At 1-AA Level or Worse Edition

...four of which this poll wouldn't favor *at home* against a generic 1-AA team. :downsrim:

FSU's beatdown of Clemson predictably shot them into the top; if there's one thing it loves, it's one good team wrecking another. Alabama finally relinquishes its deathgrip on #3, staying behind Missouri- again, this rating cannot adjust for dead QBs or injuries or anything like that. Arizona State shoots up to grab a top five spot over Stanford on the back of a dominant win, and BYU- WHAT ARE YOU DOING BYU GET OUT OF HERE *chases the midmajors away with a broom*

pre:
1	'Florida St.'	1.382
2	'Oregon'	1.377
3	'Missouri'	1.376
4	'Alabama'	1.342
5	'Arizona St.'	1.248
6	'Stanford'	1.222
7	'LSU'		1.214
8	'Baylor'	1.212
9	'BYU'		1.208
10	'Wisconsin'	1.187
11	'Texas Tech'	1.183
12	'Michigan St.'	1.178
13	'Virginia Tech'	1.151
14	'Michigan'	1.149
15	'Oregon St.'	1.140
16	'Miami (FL)'	1.139
17	'Ball St.'	1.138
18	'Florida'	1.130
19	'Ohio St.'	1.130
20	'Auburn'	1.126
21	'Clemson'	1.123
22	'Texas'		1.111
23	'Georgia Tech'	1.105
24	'UCLA'		1.102
25	'La.-Lafayette'	1.092
26	'Oklahoma'	1.091
27	'Ole Miss'	1.083
28	'Boise St.'	1.077
29	'Notre Dame'	1.077
30	'Duke'		1.074
31	'Fresno St.'	1.072
32	'Georgia'	1.071
33	'Oklahoma St.'	1.070
34	'Houston'	1.065
35	'South Carolina	1.065
36	'Marshall'	1.059
37	'Texas A&M'	1.056
38	'Wake Forest'	1.046
39	'Northern Ill.'	1.044
40	'Louisville'	1.038
41	'East Carolina'	1.038
42	'UCF'		1.037
43	'Washington'	1.037
44	'Nebraska'	1.027
45	'Iowa'		1.014
46	'Utah St.'	0.997
47	'Tennessee'	0.997
48	'Arizona'	0.988
49	'Buffalo'	0.987
50	'Indiana'	0.986
51	'Utah'		0.986
52	'Vanderbilt'	0.983
53	'Southern Cal'	0.975
54	'North Texas'	0.973
55	'Pittsburgh'	0.968
56	'Rice'		0.960
57	'Ohio'		0.951
58	'Mississippi St	0.945
59	'TCU'		0.944
60	'Western Ky.'	0.934
61	'Bowling Green'	0.933
62	'Tulane'	0.926
63	'South Ala.'	0.923
64	'Colorado St.'	0.922
65	'Minnesota'	0.922
66	'Maryland'	0.921
67	'Washington St.	0.917
68	'Toledo'	0.916
69	'Penn St.'	0.908
70	'Boston College	0.908
71	'Kansas St.'	0.893
72	'West Virginia'	0.891
73	'Syracuse'	0.882
74	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.875
75	'Kentucky'	0.864
76	'Cincinnati'	0.855
77	'Navy'		0.851
78	'Virginia'	0.851
79	'Illinois'	0.850
80	'Arkansas'	0.849
81	'Colorado'	0.846
82	'UNLV'		0.846
83	'Northwestern'	0.841
84	'Arkansas St.'	0.841
85	'Troy'		0.830
86	'La.-Monroe'	0.829
87	'Rutgers'	0.825
88	'Memphis'	0.816
89	'North Carolina	0.810
90	'UTSA'		0.804
91	'Iowa St.'	0.801
92	'Kansas'	0.793
93	'San Jose St.'	0.790
94	'Texas St.'	0.787
95	'SMU'		0.776
96	'Nevada'	0.769
97	'Temple'	0.768
98	'North Car. St.	0.764
99	'Wyoming'	0.753
100	'Central Mich.'	0.745
101	'Tulsa'		0.722
102	'Kent St.'	0.722
103	'San Diego St.'	0.717
104	'Middle Tenn.'	0.714
105	'Massachusetts'	0.712
106	'UAB'		0.710
107	'New Mexico'	0.702
108	'Army'		0.699
109	'South Fla.'	0.697
110	'Akron'		0.681
111	'Louisiana Tech	0.669
112	'California'	0.660
113	'Air Force'	0.658
114	'Hawaii'	0.638
115	'Purdue'	0.629
116	'FIU'		0.600
117	'Southern Miss'	0.585
118	'Idaho'		0.578
119	'UTEP'		0.569
120	'Eastern Mich.'	0.543
121	'Connecticut'	0.540
122	'Miami (OH)'	0.509
123	'Western Mich.'	0.504
124	'New Mexico St.	0.450
125	'Georgia State'	0.439
And now for the extracurriculars!

BCS projection: Teams Eligible for BCS (roughly 10+ wins for a major conference, 12+ wins for a midmajor)
AAC: UCF (11-1*), Louisville (11-1)
ACC: FSU (13-0*), VT (10-3), Clemson (10-2), Miami (10-2)
Big 10: Michigan State (12-1*), Ohio State (11-2), Wisconsin (10-2), Michigan (10-2)
Big 12: Baylor (11-1*), Texas Tech (10-2)
CUSA: None
Independents: None
MAC: Ball State (12-1*)
MWC: None
Pac 12: Oregon (13-0*), Stanford (10-2), Arizona State (10-3)
SEC: Alabama (13-0*), Missouri (12-1), Auburn (10-2)
Sun Belt: None

Autobids and #1-#2 make it:
Fiesta: Baylor vs. (5th pick)
Orange: FSU vs. (3rd pick)
Rose: (2nd pick) vs. Michigan State
Sugar: (1st pick) vs. (4th pick)
NCG: Alabama vs. Oregon

Sugar jumps on Missouri without hesitation, and similarly Rose grabs a 10-2 Stanford. The Orange has the first interesting choice. Since I don't expect a 12-1 Ball State to make the top 14, the field of viable choices are:
UCF (must be picked by someone), Louisville, VT, Clemson, Miami, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Michigan, Texas Tech.
Of those, the Orange goes for the biggest money matchup and grabs Ohio State. The Sugar, eying UCF and shaking its head, basically chooses between an ACC team and Texas Tech, and opts for Clemson to fill local seats. (I could and almost did argue myself into Miami.. we'll see how Clemson responds to the beatdown). That leaves the Fiesta with UCF.

Fiesta: Baylor vs. UCF
Orange: FSU vs. Ohio State
Rose: Stanford vs. Michigan State
Sugar: Missouri vs. Clemson
NCG: Alabama vs. Oregon

Remainder of projected bowls is here: Week 8 Bowl Projections. Some notable games:
Texas-LSU Cotton Bowl
Texas A&M-Miami Peach Bowl
Northern Illinois-Notre Dame Little Caesars Bowl :laugh:


And the final extracurricular, updated Going Undefeated Odds! That week helped a lot of teams out, none more than FSU which is approaching a coin flip to go 13-0. There's also almost a coin flip of either SEC team going 13-0 and locking up one slot in the NCG, which is probably underestimating things. I like Alabama significantly more than the numbers here do! Also, we're up to about a 1-in-3 chance of an undefeated BCS buster... and 11% odds of Chaos Year giving us no undefeated teams. :getin:

pre:
Florida State	40.8%
Missouri	29.3%
Oregon		25.9%
Fresno State	23.9%
Alabama		18.6%
Baylor		12.2%
Northern Ill.	11.5%
Texas Tech	9.6%
Ohio State	8.5%
Miami (FL)	0.4%

Mukaikubo
Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 9: The Three Best Teams Are Finally My Three Best Teams Edition

*cracks knuckles* Took you long enough to concur that Bama, Oregon, and FSU are the three best teams in the nation, MMP. Welcome to reality. Good thing there's nothing else screw- *looks at BYU #6, TEXAS #13, and Duke ranked above Texas Tech, vomits*

pre:
1	'Oregon'	1.404
2	'Florida St.'	1.388
3	'Alabama'	1.376
4	'Missouri'	1.253
5	'Stanford'	1.240
6	'BYU'		1.235
7	'Baylor'	1.233
8	'LSU'		1.224
9	'Michigan'	1.179
10	'Ohio St.'	1.179
11	'Auburn'	1.176
12	'South Carolina	1.174
13	'Texas'		1.173
14	'Arizona St.'	1.153
15	'Miami (FL)'	1.149
16	'Oklahoma'	1.144
17	'Ball St.'	1.144
18	'Clemson'	1.144
19	'Texas A&M'	1.142
20	'Houston'	1.131
21	'Duke'		1.129
22	'Florida'	1.122
23	'La.-Lafayette'	1.118
24	'Texas Tech'	1.115
25	'Georgia Tech'	1.107
26	'Ole Miss'	1.106
27	'Oklahoma St.'	1.103
28	'Virginia Tech'	1.093
29	'Oregon St.'	1.091
30	'Notre Dame'	1.087
31	'Michigan St.'	1.085
32	'Wisconsin'	1.076
33	'Fresno St.'	1.073
34	'Louisville'	1.065
35	'UCLA'		1.063
36	'Northern Ill.'	1.057
37	'UCF'		1.050
38	'Arizona'	1.046
39	'East Carolina'	1.044
40	'Wake Forest'	1.041
41	'Washington'	1.037
42	'Southern Cal'	1.035
43	'Boise St.'	1.035
44	'Iowa'		1.020
45	'Buffalo'	1.018
46	'Rice'		1.005
47	'North Texas'	0.999
48	'Minnesota'	0.996
49	'Kansas St.'	0.987
50	'Marshall'	0.985
51	'Utah St.'	0.985
52	'Georgia'	0.979
53	'Indiana'	0.976
54	'Tennessee'	0.969
55	'Toledo'	0.958
56	'Mississippi St	0.952
57	'North Carolina	0.950
58	'Ohio'		0.950
59	'Nebraska'	0.945
60	'Pittsburgh'	0.933
61	'Tulane'	0.930
62	'Colorado St.'	0.919
63	'Troy'		0.917
64	'Utah'		0.915
65	'TCU'		0.903
66	'Vanderbilt'	0.891
67	'Bowling Green'	0.889
68	'South Ala.'	0.889
69	'Maryland'	0.888
70	'Syracuse'	0.884
71	'Navy'		0.883
72	'UNLV'		0.871
73	'Western Ky.'	0.863
74	'UTSA'		0.863
75	'Penn St.'	0.856
76	'Kentucky'	0.856
77	'Virginia'	0.856
78	'Arkansas'	0.848
79	'Cincinnati'	0.846
80	'La.-Monroe'	0.844
81	'Northwestern'	0.839
82	'Washington St.	0.836
83	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.825
84	'Arkansas St.'	0.825
85	'Texas St.'	0.823
86	'SMU'		0.810
87	'Illinois'	0.807
88	'San Jose St.'	0.802
89	'West Virginia'	0.793
90	'Middle Tenn.'	0.793
91	'Boston College	0.792
92	'Colorado'	0.780
93	'Rutgers'	0.777
94	'Kansas'	0.773
95	'North Caro. St	0.766
96	'Iowa St.'	0.758
97	'Central Mich.'	0.751
98	'Nevada'	0.746
99	'Memphis'	0.746
100	'Wyoming'	0.739
101	'Louisiana Tech	0.729
102	'Temple'	0.727
103	'Tulsa'		0.719
104	'San Diego St.'	0.711
105	'New Mexico'	0.705
106	'Kent St.'	0.694
107	'Army'		0.690
108	'Akron'		0.678
109	'South Fla.'	0.656
110	'California'	0.643
111	'UAB'		0.641
112	'Hawaii'	0.639
113	'Air Force'	0.631
114	'Massachusetts'	0.626
115	'Purdue'	0.623
116	'Western Mich.'	0.592
117	'Idaho'		0.560
118	'UTEP'		0.557
119	'Southern Miss.	0.549
120	'Eastern Mich.'	0.527
121	'Connecticut'	0.525
122	'FIU'		0.520
123	'New Mexico St.	0.505
124	'Miami (OH)'	0.502
125	'Georgia State'	0.415
OKAY! FUN TIMES! How about :

MMP Odds Of Going Undefeated Into Bowl Season, Week 9

FSU remains most likely to get to bowl season without a loss, but the Ducks are charging hard behind them. Meanwhile, nobody loves Miami. Poor Miami.

pre:
Florida State	44.4%
Oregon		41.8%
Alabama		32.7%
Fresno State	31.0%
Ohio State	20.7%
Baylor		14.4%
Northern Ill.	12.0%
Miami (FL)	0.8%
Finally, MMP's Bowl Projections!

I'm actually moving them over to our Bowl Projections thread!

...but for old time's sake:

Fiesta Bowl: Baylor-Fresno State
Orange Bowl: Florida State-Louisville
Rose Bowl: Stanford-Ohio State
Sugar Bowl: Missouri-Michigan
NCG: Alabama-Oregon

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Mar 14, 2006

"You treat her like a lady... and she'll always bring you home."
Mukai Moon Poll, Week 10: FSU Separation Edition

Beat a good team decisively, get mad rating points. No mystery! Now FSU is #1 with a bullet in these rankings. More surprising is that Alabama is slipping, largely as an artifact of the teams they've beaten covering themselves in whatever the opposite of glory is. Also... BYU at #7 is, let's just not talk about it, okay? And also Houston outranking Baylor. I understand not why.

pre:
1	'Florida St.'	1.425
2	'Oregon'	1.323
3	'Missouri'	1.281
4	'Alabama'	1.251
5	'Michigan St.'	1.201
6	'Oklahoma St.'	1.195
7	'BYU'		1.193
8	'Ohio St.'	1.190
9	'South Carolina	1.185
10	'Auburn'	1.183
11	'Arizona St.'	1.180
12	'Clemson'	1.175
13	'Stanford'	1.165
14	'Texas'		1.164
15	'Wisconsin'	1.160
16	'Texas A&M'	1.137
17	'Southern Cal'	1.136
18	'LSU'		1.136
19	'Houston'	1.135
20	'Baylor'	1.133
21	'La.-Lafayette'	1.118
22	'Miami (FL)'	1.115
23	'Georgia Tech'	1.103
24	'Duke'		1.098
25	'Notre Dame'	1.093
26	'Ole Miss'	1.092
27	'Boise St.'	1.077
28	'UCLA'		1.071
29	'Fresno St.'	1.069
30	'Northern Ill.'	1.066
31	'Florida'	1.061
32	'Michigan'	1.061
33	'Ball St.'	1.045
34	'Arizona'	1.045
35	'East Carolina'	1.041
36	'North Texas'	1.040
37	'Georgia'	1.037
38	'Oklahoma'	1.036
39	'Kansas St.'	1.029
40	'Utah St.'	1.018
41	'Minnesota'	1.017
42	'Texas Tech'	1.012
43	'Louisville'	1.005
44	'Buffalo'	1.005
45	'Marshall'	0.996
46	'Washington'	0.996
47	'Virginia Tech'	0.991
48	'Oregon St.'	0.979
49	'UCF'		0.976
50	'Syracuse'	0.973
51	'Toledo'	0.960
52	'North Carolina	0.960
53	'Iowa'		0.953
54	'Rice'		0.946
55	'Indiana'	0.945
56	'Nebraska'	0.941
57	'Wake Forest'	0.938
58	'Mississippi St	0.934
59	'Tennessee'	0.933
60	'Pittsburgh'	0.930
61	'Ohio'		0.928
62	'Fla. Atlantic'	0.928
63	'La.-Monroe'	0.924
64	'UTSA'		0.905
65	'Boston College	0.891
66	'Kentucky'	0.891
67	'Cincinnati'	0.886
68	'Vanderbilt'	0.886
69	'Utah'		0.885
70	'Navy'		0.882
71	'Bowling Green'	0.880
72	'Colorado St.'	0.880
73	'San Jose St.'	0.880
74	'Penn St.'	0.861
75	'West Virginia'	0.860
76	'Arkansas St.'	0.856
77	'Northwestern'	0.848
78	'Western Ky.'	0.848
79	'Tulane'	0.835
80	'TCU'		0.835
81	'South Ala.'	0.834
82	'Texas St.'	0.832
83	'Arkansas'	0.827
84	'Troy'		0.810
85	'Virginia'	0.810
86	'Maryland'	0.801
87	'Illinois'	0.798
88	'Washington St.	0.796
89	'Middle Tenn.'	0.795
90	'SMU'		0.794
91	'UNLV'		0.783
92	'Rutgers'	0.779
93	'North Car St.'	0.760
94	'Colorado'	0.757
95	'Kansas'	0.755
96	'Central Mich.'	0.745
97	'Nevada'	0.739
98	'Wyoming'	0.739
99	'San Diego St.'	0.722
100	'Temple'	0.718
101	'Louisiana Tech	0.713
102	'Akron'		0.712
103	'Air Force'	0.709
104	'Iowa St.'	0.696
105	'New Mexico'	0.695
106	'Memphis'	0.690
107	'South Fla.'	0.660
108	'Kent St.'	0.646
109	'Tulsa'		0.646
110	'UAB'		0.644
111	'California'	0.639
112	'Purdue'	0.617
113	'Army'		0.616
114	'Hawaii'	0.608
115	'Massachusetts'	0.603
116	'Idaho'		0.537
117	'UTEP'		0.533
118	'Western Mich.'	0.530
119	'Connecticut'	0.524
120	'Southern Miss'	0.524
121	'FIU'		0.506
122	'Miami (OH)'	0.504
123	'Eastern Mich.'	0.504
124	'New Mexico St.	0.502
125	'Georgia State'	0.416
UPDATED ODDS OF ENTERING BOWL SEASON UNDEFEATED:
pre:
Florida State	67.4%
Oregon		47.0%
Fresno State	28.5%
Ohio State	23.9%
Alabama		23.0%
Baylor		23.0%
Northern Ill.	19.3%
Bowl Projections will be in the Bowl Projection thread, but feature:
FSU-Oregon NCG
Ohio State-Alabama Rose Bowl :catdrugs:
LSU-Texas Cotton Bowl

And more!

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