TPTPPPCS Rankings

This week:

I unveiled the second week of my TPTPI computer rankings.

and unveiled a poll based on won-loss record and quality of losses I called the Paul Poll after my friend and BCS proponent Paul.

If you combined The Pride and The Pageantry Index with the Paul Poll. You would get "The Pride and The Pageantry Paul Poll Championship Series" Rankings which sounds ridiculous, of course. Awarding 25 points for a 1 ranking, 24 for a 2 and so on... here is how the two polls combined would look.

Team PP TPTPI TPTPPPCS
1. Ohio State 25 21 46
2. Oregon 22 24 46
3. LSU 20 25 45
4.. Arizona State 21 22 43
5. Kansas 24 13 37
6. Oklahoma 19 16 35
7. Boston College 15 18 33
8. Missouri 18 14 32
9. Virginia Tech 13 19 32
10. Georgia 12 20 32
11. Connecticut 17 9 26
12. West Virginia 16 8 24
13. Hawaii 23 0 23
14. Florida 0 23 23
15. Texas 11 6 17
16. Virginia 7 10 17
17. Alabama 0 17 17
18. South Florida 0 15 15
19. Boise State 14 0 14
20. Penn State 3 11 14
21. Auburn 0 12 12
22. Clemson 10 0 10
23. Cincinnati 9 0 9
24. BYU 8 0 8
25. Michigan 5 3 8
26. Tennessee 0 7 7
27. USC 6 0 6
28. Kentucky 0 5 5
29. Illinois 4 0 4
30. Florida State 0 4 4
31.. Purdue 2 0 2
32. California 0 2 2
33 South Florida 1 0 1
34. Colorado 0 1 1

"The Paul Poll" November 8, 2007

When ranking teams in college football there seems to be two schools of thought:

1) That teams with lower winning percentage can and sometimes should be ranked higher if their schedules are much more challenging than that of the team with a higher winning percentage. That a one loss season in say the SEC or Pac Ten is better than an undefeated season in the Big XII or Big Ten. This is what I try to quantify in The Pride and The Pageantry Index

2) That each team should be judged by how they have handled only the schedule in front of them. That the 12 game season is in essence a three month tournament. This is the view of my friend Paul. To hold him to this principle I will attempt to rank the top 25 teams in an order in which no team is ranked higher than a team with fewer losses at this point in the season. Each team with equal number of losses would be ranked upon the quality of that loss. No team would be ranked higher to a team they had beaten if both teams had equal amount of losses.

Here is how such a ranking would go:

1. Ohio State 10-0
2. Kansas 9-0
3. Hawaii 8-0
4. Oregon 8-1 (California)
5. Arizona State 8-1 (Oregon)
6. LSU 8-1 (Kentucky)
7. Oklahoma 7-1 (Colorado)
8. Missouri 7-1 (Oklahoma)
9. Connecticut 8-1 (Virginia)
10. West Virginia 7-1 (South Florida)
11. Boston College 8-1 (Florida State)
12. Boise State 8-1 (Washington)
13. Virginia Tech 7-2 (LSU, Boston College)
14. Georgia 7-2 (South Carolina, Tennessee)
15. Texas 8-2 (Kansas State, Oklahoma)
16. Clemson 7-2 (Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech)
17. Cincinnati 7-2 (Rutgers, Pittsburgh)
18. BYU 6-2 (UCLA, Tulsa)
19. Virginia 8-2 (Wyoming, NC State)
20. USC 7-2 (Stanford, Oregon)
21. Michigan 8-2 (Appalachian State, Oregon)
22. Illinois 7-3 (Missouri, Michigan, Iowa)
23. Penn State 7-3 (Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State)
24. Purdue 7-3 (Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State)
25. South Florida 7-3 (Rutgers, UConn, Cincinnati)