| Rank | +/- | Team | WinPct | SoS | Adjusted | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off. | Def. | Pace | |||||||||
| 1 | -- | Alabama | 0.975 | 0.667 | 5 | 37.7 | 2 | 8.8 | 1 | 149.8 | 120 |
| 2 | -- | LSU | 0.940 | 0.717 | 1 | 33.6 | 5 | 11.2 | 2 | 153.7 | 112 |
| 3 | -- | Boise St. | 0.898 | 0.432 | 83 | 34.1 | 4 | 14.3 | 5 | 160.9 | 83 |
| 4 | -- | Wisconsin | 0.874 | 0.555 | 50 | 40.2 | 1 | 18.5 | 38 | 152.3 | 117 |
| 5 | -- | Stanford | 0.865 | 0.561 | 45 | 34.7 | 3 | 16.5 | 21 | 158.1 | 99 |
| 6 | -- | Oregon | 0.858 | 0.614 | 15 | 30.1 | 9 | 14.7 | 7 | 180.2 | 6 |
| 7 | -- | Oklahoma | 0.852 | 0.596 | 28 | 24.9 | 26 | 12.4 | 3 | 179.2 | 7 |
| 8 | -- | TCU | 0.850 | 0.420 | 86 | 32.1 | 6 | 16.1 | 20 | 159.0 | 94 |
| 9 | -- | Oklahoma St. | 0.837 | 0.598 | 26 | 29.2 | 10 | 15.2 | 12 | 181.3 | 3 |
| 10 | -- | Arkansas | 0.821 | 0.642 | 8 | 31.9 | 7 | 17.3 | 29 | 168.0 | 33 |
| 11 | -- | South Carolina | 0.810 | 0.633 | 11 | 27.6 | 13 | 15.5 | 16 | 156.6 | 102 |
| 12 | -- | Florida St. | 0.797 | 0.547 | 52 | 26.3 | 19 | 15.2 | 13 | 155.5 | 108 |
| 13 | -- | Michigan St. | 0.785 | 0.607 | 20 | 25.7 | 22 | 15.3 | 14 | 161.8 | 75 |
| 14 | -- | Michigan | 0.784 | 0.574 | 34 | 31.0 | 8 | 18.5 | 39 | 156.1 | 106 |
| 15 | -- | USC | 0.771 | 0.570 | 37 | 27.6 | 14 | 17.0 | 23 | 164.0 | 53 |
| 16 | +2 | Notre Dame | 0.761 | 0.619 | 14 | 23.9 | 31 | 15.1 | 11 | 164.9 | 47 |
| 17 | -- | Virginia Tech | 0.759 | 0.518 | 61 | 24.5 | 29 | 15.4 | 15 | 156.6 | 103 |
| 18 | -2 | Florida | 0.757 | 0.673 | 4 | 24.7 | 27 | 15.7 | 17 | 157.3 | 101 |
| 19 | +1 | Texas A&M | 0.755 | 0.596 | 27 | 22.6 | 42 | 14.4 | 6 | 184.6 | 1 |
| 20 | -1 | Georgia | 0.754 | 0.619 | 13 | 26.9 | 16 | 17.2 | 24 | 163.1 | 58 |
| 21 | -- | Houston | 0.742 | 0.396 | 94 | 28.1 | 12 | 18.4 | 37 | 180.5 | 4 |
| 22 | -- | Ohio St. | 0.727 | 0.567 | 42 | 25.4 | 23 | 17.2 | 26 | 153.4 | 114 |
| 23 | -- | Missouri | 0.716 | 0.568 | 41 | 21.6 | 50 | 14.9 | 9 | 170.3 | 21 |
| 24 | NA | Nebraska | 0.709 | 0.602 | 25 | 22.5 | 43 | 15.7 | 18 | 164.2 | 51 |
| 25 | -- | Temple | 0.706 | 0.304 | 120 | 24.4 | 30 | 17.2 | 27 | 150.4 | 119 |
Rankings through games of 2012-08-26
If you're a regular reader of the Tempo-Free Gridiron you may be saying to yourself, "Justin, these rankings look almost exactly like the final top 25 rankings from last year." If so, you are correct. We don't use any data to try and prediction the upcoming season other than our historical data from the last few years. The upshot of this is that our early season predictions may be slightly off since we don't know that Ohio State and Arkansas have new coaches, or that USC is fully reloaded. The algorithm should figure it out, slowly but surely.
Until then, the only churn from last year to this year is the result of some housekeeping where we were improperly including results from some FCS teams last year. All of that has been cleaned up and the results you see are our starting point for the 2012-2013 season.
New entries: Nebraska.
Dropped out: Texas.
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