It was a big weekend. LSU enjoyed a big win in one of the most entertaining games in the country this season. Pac-12 officials figured it was more important for the rest of the country to have another reason to hate Notre Dame than to call a game correctly. Mack Brown became to college football what Vice Admiral James Stockdale was to vice presidential debates.
Behold the debut of The Red Shtick’s official college football ratings. It’s a computer rating system, much like the six nerd-powered systems used in the BCS standings.
“What is the formula?” I hear you make the mistake of asking. It’s simple:
A team’s rating shall be thrice a team’s winning percentage, twice the team’s opponents’ combined winning percentage, and the team’s opponents’ opponents’ winning percentage, the sum of which is to be divided by six and then is to have subtracted from it an amount equal to the team’s number of losses to FCS schools divided by total games played, and is to have added to it, in any and all cases where the team has defeated a team whose sum of thrice its winning percentage, twice its opponents’ combined winning percentage, and its opponents’ opponents’ combined winning percentage is an amount equal to the defeated team’s aforementioned sum minus 0.66666, the difference between the defeated team’s sum and 0.66666.
If you read the above explanation and cannot understand it, don’t worry, because neither do I. I just made it up. There’s no way that a grown man would actually spend that much time devising a formula to rate athletes slightly more than half his age.
The Red Shtick College Football Ratings: Week VIII
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- Notre Dame
- Florida
- Oregon State
- Alabama
- Kansas State
- Ohio State
- Oregon
- Texas Tech
- Cincinnati
- Oklahoma
- Rutgers
- Mississippi State
- Louisville
- West Virginia
- Texas A&M
- South Carolina
- Louisiana State
- Boise State
- Ohio
- Iowa State
- Georgia
- Western Kentucky
- Northwestern
- Southern California
- Florida State
- Northern Illinois
- Louisiana Tech
- Tulsa
- Clemson
- Texas
- Texas Christian
- Iowa
- Arizona State
- UCLA
- Nevada
- Penn State
- Michigan State
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- Nebraska
- Wisconsin
- North Carolina
- Kent State
- Louisiana-Lafayette
- Stanford
- Central Florida
- Maryland
- Utah State
- North Carolina State
- Duke
- Louisiana-Monroe
- Miami (Florida)
- Minnesota
- San José State
- Baylor
- Toledo
- Arizona
- Ball State
- Brigham Young
- Washington
- Fresno State
- Mississippi
- Virginia Tech
- Temple
- Oklahoma State
- Tennessee
- Navy
- Central Michigan
- Missouri
- Indiana
- Troy
- Arkansas State
- Houston
- East Carolina
- Bowling Green
- Purdue
- Wake Forest
- Texas State
- Texas-San Antonio
- Arkansas
- California
- San Diego State
- Vanderbilt
- Connecticut
- Miami (Ohio)
- Kentucky
- South Florida
- Utah
- Syracuse
- Air Force
- Marshall
- Western Michigan
- Auburn
- North Texas
- Illinois
- Rice
- Virginia
- Tulane
- Georgia Tech
- Washington State
- Southern Methodist
- Middle Tennessee State
- Florida International
- Alabama-Birmingham
- Texas-El Paso
- Southern Mississippi
- Buffalo
- Florida Atlantic
- Kansas
- Hawaii
- Boston College
- South Alabama
- Massachusetts
- Akron
- New Mexico State
- Pittsburgh
- Nevada-Las Vegas
- Idaho
- Colorado State
- Army
- Wyoming
- Memphis
- Colorado
- Eastern Michigan