Conference Power Rankings: Week 4

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Of Note


I'm not going to give a conference-by-conference breakdown this week, as I am pressed for time. A few notes:

-What is worse than having a team in your conference lose to an FCS school? Being the Mountain West this week, who fell four spots due to two crushing FCS losses. The Big Ten also lost a spot due to Minnesota's apparent lack of skillz. Once Jerry Kill has led a long an fulfilling life, I can revisit this loss and say that Minnesota has taken on the character of their coach. Their entire game against NDSU looked like one prolonged seizure. But I won't make that joke now, as it would be crude and inappropriate.



-The Denard WHHHHATTT of the week finds the Pac-12 gaining a spot in our standing after going 0-1 in this weeks OOC schedule. This is more due to the collapse of the Mountain West and the ACC than it is about a silver lining for the Pac-12.



-The Big 12 has all but wrapped up the Cy-Hawk Trophy Memorial Award this year after posting a perfect 3-0 record in Week 4 which included wins against Miami and two other FBS schools.



-Half of the Big Ten's 12 OOC losses stem from Indiana and Minnesota. Michigan is one of four teams to hand the conference a perfect 4-0 OOC record. Of those four, Michigan gained the most points for the Big Ten, scoring 1.966 non-adjusted points. Wisconsin was second (1.690), Nebraska third (1.540), and Illinois fourth (1.383). A large part of that is due to Michigan not playing an FCS school this year. In a follow up diary, I intend to go into more depth about the state of the Big Ten after OOC play. Look for that at some point in the next couple of days.

 




Chartography


CPR - Week 4

Conf. Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Season CPR Rank + / - CPR +/-
Big 12 10-0 4-1 9-1 3-0 26-2 1.000 - +0.000
SEC 10-2 8-0 4-2 3-0 25-4 0.747 - +0.052
Big East 8-0 4-4 4-3 5-2 21-9 0.410 +2 +0.086
Big 10 10-2 7-5 9-3 8-2 34-12 0.407 -1 +0.031
Indy 2-2 1-3 2-2 2-1 7-8 0.230 +4 +0.107
Pac 12 8-4 6-2 5-4 0-1 19-11 0.224 +1 -0.048
ACC 7-3 6-2 6-2 2-4 21-11 0.175 -1 -0.135
Mount 4-2 3-2 5-2 4-4 16-10 0.062 -4 -0.276
CUSA 5-6 3-3 5-3 2-5 15-17 -0.009 - +0.002
MAC 8-5 5-5 1-8 5-6 19-24 -0.203 - +0.029
Sun Belt 0-7 4-4 2-5 2-2 8-18 -0.309 - -0.061
WAC 1-6 4-4 1-4 1-3 7-17 -0.563 - -0.014
FCS 2-36 0-20 1-15 3-10 6-81 -0.932 - +0.003

 

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