Michigan football ranked #9 in SRS

Here's the link to Smart Football, where the column is posted. For those who don't want to bother, here is a description of the system:

The SRS takes only two factors into account: strength of schedule and adjusted margin of victory. Each game is given equal weight. Therefore, the sum of a team’s SOS and MOV rating is its SRS rating. A team could have an SRS rating of 60 by having an MOV of 30 and an SOS of 30, or an MOV rating of 40 and an SOS of 40. Once you have the SRS scores for each team, it’s very simple to understand how the system arrived at those ratings. Further, the numbers the system spits out are easy to understand: if Team A has a rating of 55 and Team B has a rating of 44, it means that Team A is predicted to be 11 points better than Team B. The units here mean exactly what you think they mean.

For starters, the road team is given 3 points for each game (but there is no home or road team for neutral site games). After that adjustment, all wins and losses of between 7 and 24 points as exactly that. So a 24-10 road win goes down as +17 for the road team, -17 for the home team. Wins of 7 or fewer points are scored as 7-point wins and losses of 7 or fewer points are scored as 7 point losses (except that road losses of 3 or fewer/home wins of 3 or fewer are graded as 0 point ties). This gives a very minor boost to teams that win by a couple of points. Finally, wins of more than 24 points/losses of more than 24 points are scored as the average between the actual number and 24. This is to avoid giving undue credit to teams that run up the score.

Now, the Top 10 SRS ratings after week 9:

Rk  Team             MOV      SOS      SRS      W-L
1.  LSU              24.5     43.9     68.4     8-0
2.  Alabama          27.4     40.7     68.1     8-0
3.  Oklahoma St      22.0     45.2     67.2     8-0
4.  Stanford         27.4     39.2     66.5     8-0
5.  Oklahoma         21.5     44.1     65.6     7-1
6.  Boise St         22.7     41.2     63.9     7-0
7.  Oregon           20.7     42.0     62.7     7-1
8.  Wisconsin        21.5     38.0     59.5     6-2
9.  Michigan         17.4     40.6     57.9     7-1
10. Texas A&M        9.9      46.3     56.2     5-3

And the Big 10:

8. Wisconsin        21.5     38.0     59.5     6-2
9.  Michigan        17.4     40.6     57.9     7-1
13. Nebraska        12.3     42.4     54.8     7-1
17. Michigan St     9.1      43.7     52.9     6-2
23. Ohio State      5.8      44.7     50.5     5-3
28. Penn State      8.4      40.8     49.3     8-1
39. Illinois        6.2      39.7     45.9     6-3
50. Iowa            9.2      34.0     43.2     5-3
61. Purdue          2.3      37.2     39.4     4-4
67. Northwestern    0.5      37.4     37.9     3-5
98. Minnesota       -13.8    43.6     29.8     2-6
107.Indiana         -12.4    38.9     26.6     1-8