Week 7 Network Ranking

by Patrick Rhamey

Cupcake Saturday turned into Upset Saturday, but when your former national champion loses to Syracuse, it highlights the need for empirical, evidence based rankings over speculation of the AP Poll or the seat of the pants wisdom of the committee.  Of course, the losses were far reaching, with Syracuse now suddenly in the loss network for every team Clemson previously beat, they are punished by the network accordingly.

Remaining relatively immune from all the upsets, Georgia, Alabama, and the top teams of the Big 10 advance strongly, with Notre Dame hovering in the five spot.  While Georgia is above Alabama, that distance is very, very small, with Georgia demonstrating a slightly better win network than Bama.  Penn State v Michigan this week as the process begins of sorting out the Big 10. who thus far have demonstrated themselves to be the best overall conference.

 

Top 25 (Explanation; Full Ranking)

  1. Georgia (+1)
  2. Alabama (+7)
  3. Michigan State (+4)
  4. Penn State (nc)
  5. Notre Dame (nc)
  6. UCF (+2)
  7. Michigan (+7)
  8. TCU (+5)
  9. Wisconsin (+12)
  10. Memphis (+8)
  11. Miami (+9)
  12. Oklahoma State (+7)
  13. Navy (+16)
  14. Iowa (-2)
  15. USC (-12)
  16. Toledo (+31)
  17. Washington State (-16)
  18. South Florida (+22)
  19. Ohio State (-8)
  20. San Diego State (-10)
  21. Stanford (-6)
  22. Virginia (+2)
  23. Boise State (+10)
  24. Oklahoma (-8)
  25. Georgia State (+31)