| Rank | +/- | Team | WinPct | SoS | Adjusted | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Off. | Def. | Pace | |||||||||
| 1 | -- | Alabama | 1.000 | 0.548 | 16 | 26.5 | 3 | 5.4 | 1 | 156.2 | 124 |
| 2 | -- | Oregon | 0.992 | 0.528 | 52 | 27.4 | 1 | 11.4 | 19 | 176.8 | 2 |
| 3 | +2 | LSU | 0.983 | 0.549 | 15 | 22.8 | 6 | 7.9 | 3 | 160.2 | 116 |
| 4 | -1 | Florida | 0.983 | 0.558 | 5 | 18.8 | 34 | 7.6 | 2 | 161.3 | 111 |
| 5 | +1 | Notre Dame | 0.983 | 0.566 | 2 | 20.3 | 22 | 8.6 | 4 | 164.5 | 92 |
| 6 | +3 | Kansas St. | 0.975 | 0.531 | 47 | 26.6 | 2 | 13.4 | 34 | 165.7 | 82 |
| 7 | +9 | Oklahoma St. | 0.966 | 0.550 | 14 | 21.8 | 17 | 13.1 | 32 | 173.9 | 7 |
| 8 | -4 | Oklahoma | 0.958 | 0.547 | 18 | 22.6 | 8 | 9.3 | 7 | 171.5 | 17 |
| 9 | -1 | Boise St. | 0.958 | 0.465 | 92 | 19.6 | 28 | 9.2 | 6 | 168.2 | 45 |
| 10 | -3 | South Carolina | 0.934 | 0.543 | 27 | 22.9 | 5 | 9.9 | 11 | 157.9 | 122 |
| 11 | -1 | Stanford | 0.932 | 0.542 | 29 | 19.7 | 27 | 11.0 | 16 | 167.2 | 57 |
| 12 | +5 | Ohio St. | 0.915 | 0.530 | 50 | 21.1 | 19 | 13.4 | 35 | 159.7 | 117 |
| 13 | -1 | Florida St. | 0.915 | 0.546 | 20 | 22.2 | 14 | 8.7 | 5 | 165.9 | 78 |
| 14 | -3 | Texas A&M | 0.908 | 0.556 | 8 | 25.0 | 4 | 11.7 | 22 | 173.5 | 10 |
| 15 | -1 | Georgia | 0.906 | 0.543 | 28 | 22.4 | 13 | 13.2 | 33 | 160.2 | 115 |
| 16 | +3 | Rutgers | 0.895 | 0.500 | 67 | 16.2 | 60 | 11.0 | 15 | 164.6 | 90 |
| 17 | -2 | USC | 0.891 | 0.532 | 44 | 22.6 | 7 | 11.0 | 17 | 166.9 | 66 |
| 18 | -5 | Wisconsin | 0.890 | 0.531 | 46 | 20.2 | 24 | 11.4 | 21 | 161.4 | 110 |
| 19 | -1 | Michigan | 0.860 | 0.544 | 24 | 21.9 | 16 | 10.2 | 13 | 166.9 | 68 |
| 20 | +3 | Clemson | 0.850 | 0.531 | 48 | 21.6 | 18 | 14.2 | 44 | 167.6 | 54 |
| 21 | NA | Nebraska | 0.846 | 0.535 | 41 | 20.3 | 21 | 13.5 | 36 | 167.1 | 61 |
| 22 | NA | Oregon St. | 0.832 | 0.547 | 17 | 14.4 | 81 | 11.3 | 18 | 170.8 | 22 |
| 23 | -2 | Arizona St. | 0.831 | 0.534 | 43 | 20.9 | 20 | 12.9 | 29 | 174.4 | 5 |
| 24 | +1 | Michigan St. | 0.829 | 0.545 | 23 | 15.4 | 72 | 9.7 | 9 | 166.9 | 67 |
| 25 | NA | BYU | 0.828 | 0.486 | 75 | 17.3 | 46 | 9.7 | 8 | 168.8 | 37 |
Rankings through games of 2012-10-28
New entries: Nebraska, Oregon St., BYU.
Dropped out: TCU, Mississippi St., Penn State.
I'd like to start by taking a few steps backwards before presenting the RBA top 25. The RBA top 25 is not a strict linear ordering of teams such that the (N-1)-th ranked team is expected to beat the N-th ranked team. It means that in aggregate, the (N-1)-th ranked team will win more games in a 124 team neutral field round robin than the N-th ranked team.
Alabama and Oregon remain the top two teams in the country, sporting the top defense and offense, respectively. RBA maintains a fairly consistent bias towards defensively-minded teams, so you'll find six of the top 10 defenses in the top 10. The only real WTF team in the top 15 is Oklahoma State at #7. They're sitting pretty thanks to an extremely consistent 22.2 +/- 0.8 PPH offense and an acceptably good-compared-to-most-of-the-Big-XII 8.3 +/- 9.5 PPH defense.
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