Week 13 Polls and Ratings - AP #12, Coaches #12
Run down of the advanced stats after Week 12 and MSU win. As usual, FEI won't be out for a couple days so the F/+ (#15 before MSU) and FEI (#15 before MSU) are not updated at this time. Michigan made a slight jump in most of the advanced stats, but I doubt it will be reflected in the CFP rankings on Tuesday.
AP Poll #14: http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll
Coaches Poll #14: http://sportspolls.usatoday.com/ncaa/football/polls/coaches-poll/
F/+ #??: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fplus
S&P+ #10: https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28099946/sp+-rankings-week-12-battle-1-loss-teams
FEI #??: http://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/fei
Massey Ratings #11 (#12 Power Rating): http://www.masseyratings.com/cf/fbs/ratings
Sagarin Ratings #8 (#10 in Predictor): http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/sagarin/
ESPN FPI #10: http://espn.go.com/college-football/statistics/teamratings
SRS #8: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/years/2019-ratings.html
538 #11: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2019-college-football-predictions/
Michigan's team statistical profile:
ESPN FPI: http://www.espn.com/college-football/team/fpi?id=130&year=2019
Massey Ratings: https://www.masseyratings.com/team.php?t=4741&s=308075
- Despite dropping out of the Top 25 polls after their loss to PSU, Indiana looks more formidable in the advanced stats and rose in almost all of them despite the loss. Most of the ratings have Indiana rated around #30, but they have risen as high as #20 in S&P+ this week. S&P+ has Indiana almost equal to Notre Dame.
- Ohio State looks like a Death Star. Hopefully, Harbaugh and his band of rebels can find the single massive design vulnerability that will cause its destruction in two weeks. One can dream.
November 17th, 2019 at 6:46 PM ^
November 18th, 2019 at 2:55 AM ^
Id give a shit if we were #5 or #8 at that matter. Although with every loss the best SEC team just drops to 4th so does it really matter. 2 SEC teams and the other 128 teams get the other 2 spots. Rinse repeat
November 17th, 2019 at 8:24 PM ^
Florida lost fairly close to two really good teams. Michigan got blown out by Wisconsin and lost to paper tiger PSU.
The relative ranking seems reasonable to me.
November 18th, 2019 at 3:01 AM ^
Big ten country: “9-1 Minnesota is junk and Penn state is a paper tiger”
SEC country: “Auburn is great and so is Florida, also if Kentucky was 9-1 they would be great too”
Minimizing our conference opponents has a long term negative effect. Someday we will figure out why the SEC has the best ranking for 1 loss teams and 2 loss teams year in and year out. Its because they dont minimize each other. A piss poor misperception of Big Ten teams nationwide is fine with most fans in our footprint because we are playing checkers. They are playing chess and Bama and Florida are perfect examples. Has Florida beat a top ten team by 30+ points? Ah wait ND is a garbage team, a real paper tiger. Sound familiar.
November 18th, 2019 at 4:49 AM ^
Yep.
My feeling is that I want all of Michigan's opponents to do great and look great except in the game against Michigan.
And I root for all Big 10 teams in their bowl games, including Ohio State, Michigan State, and Penn State.
November 17th, 2019 at 6:59 PM ^
I care a lot about rankings, bowl games, and record. I think all of those things matter to recruiting, and even if they didn't, I enjoy them.
My happiness is not a step function.
November 18th, 2019 at 7:32 AM ^
Harbaugh-Brown-Gattis need to scheme out-of-their-minds for the OSU game. We can't out athlete them or out physical them like we do to other teams. We have to rely on the coaches for this victory.