Through games of Saturday, September 4th.
[ Note: Eddie is off doing work-related stuff for much of this week, so I'm updating his rankings for him. --Justin ]
| Rank | +/- | Team | WinPct | SoS | Adjusted | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off. | Def. | Pace | |||||||||
| 1 | -- | Stanford | 1.000 | 0.548 | 17 | 26.9 | 1 | 9.2 | 4 | 83.8 | 47 |
| 2 | +1 | Alabama | 1.000 | 0.549 | 16 | 24.1 | 9 | 7.4 | 1 | 78.9 | 120 |
| 3 | +2 | Boise St. | 0.992 | 0.459 | 96 | 26.3 | 3 | 9.2 | 5 | 84.6 | 29 |
| 4 | -2 | TCU | 0.983 | 0.463 | 92 | 25.5 | 4 | 12.1 | 24 | 84.2 | 39 |
| 5 | +2 | Auburn | 0.974 | 0.543 | 25 | 24.6 | 7 | 16.9 | 68 | 79.5 | 117 |
| 6 | -- | Ohio St. | 0.974 | 0.529 | 50 | 23.4 | 12 | 7.9 | 2 | 79.8 | 113 |
| 7 | +1 | Oklahoma | 0.957 | 0.541 | 28 | 23.3 | 13 | 8.9 | 3 | 85.4 | 18 |
| 8 | +3 | LSU | 0.948 | 0.549 | 15 | 22.0 | 16 | 9.7 | 8 | 80.4 | 111 |
| 9 | -5 | Oregon | 0.941 | 0.534 | 40 | 25.3 | 5 | 10.9 | 14 | 87.9 | 3 |
| 10 | -1 | Iowa | 0.930 | 0.525 | 55 | 17.8 | 40 | 10.5 | 13 | 81.9 | 95 |
| 11 | -1 | Wisconsin | 0.922 | 0.536 | 38 | 26.3 | 2 | 14.1 | 43 | 81.1 | 106 |
| 12 | +5 | Oklahoma St. | 0.920 | 0.551 | 13 | 23.8 | 10 | 14.4 | 47 | 86.0 | 10 |
| 13 | +1 | Nebraska | 0.912 | 0.530 | 48 | 19.9 | 24 | 10.0 | 12 | 83.5 | 59 |
| 14 | +1 | Arkansas | 0.911 | 0.570 | 1 | 25.2 | 6 | 13.2 | 35 | 82.6 | 81 |
| 15 | -3 | West Virginia | 0.911 | 0.539 | 30 | 16.4 | 58 | 9.9 | 10 | 82.8 | 78 |
| 16 | -3 | Virginia Tech | 0.896 | 0.530 | 49 | 23.7 | 11 | 10.0 | 11 | 79.1 | 118 |
| 17 | +1 | Florida | 0.894 | 0.553 | 10 | 21.5 | 17 | 9.6 | 7 | 80.9 | 107 |
| 18 | -2 | Florida St. | 0.872 | 0.553 | 11 | 19.8 | 26 | 9.3 | 6 | 83.2 | 67 |
| 19 | -- | South Carolina | 0.852 | 0.543 | 26 | 24.2 | 8 | 16.1 | 62 | 79.0 | 119 |
| 20 | NA | Pittsburgh | 0.850 | 0.528 | 52 | 17.2 | 49 | 12.0 | 23 | 82.1 | 90 |
| 21 | -1 | North Carolina St. | 0.839 | 0.529 | 51 | 19.3 | 28 | 12.8 | 32 | 83.5 | 55 |
| 22 | +2 | Mississippi St. | 0.839 | 0.560 | 4 | 20.1 | 22 | 11.8 | 20 | 81.2 | 104 |
| 23 | -1 | Missouri | 0.814 | 0.525 | 54 | 15.5 | 66 | 9.9 | 9 | 86.9 | 7 |
| 24 | -3 | Georgia | 0.809 | 0.553 | 12 | 22.5 | 14 | 12.3 | 27 | 79.7 | 114 |
| 25 | -2 | Nevada | 0.807 | 0.467 | 88 | 22.5 | 15 | 15.2 | 56 | 85.1 | 21 |
New entries: Pittsburgh.
Dropped out: Notre Dame.
Compared to the TFG top 25, we can see where RBA takes a slightly different approach. It's not necessarily how you do against a weak opponent, it's how you do against all opponents. You can give up 38 points to a horrible offense, but if you also give up 38 points against a good opponent, too, then RBA won't punish you (see: Auburn). In short, teams that won (Boise, Auburn, LSU, Arkansas, Florida) went up, while those that lost or did poorly against so-so competition (TCU, Oregon, Georgia) fared the worst. RBA has less sense of a "good win" than TFG, and it shows.
As with TFG, it'll take a few weeks before RBA really catches on to what's happening this season. Until then, expect a few random picks to make no sense whatsoever. Until then, there's Tuesday Trivia and our regular predictions.
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