2010 WASEAN Conference Ratings – Week 4

The cream is starting to rise to the top, and this year it looks like the Pac-10 and the SEC.

UCLA, probably the 8th best team in the Pac-10, 35-0 losers to Stanford - went out and destroyed Texas, 34-12. Stanford, one of the best teams in the country - pummeled a decent Notre Dame team. The league’s 6th best team, Oregon State hung in with Boise State, one of the best teams in the country. All three of these games were on the road.

The SEC is down a bit from the last few years, but is still a force to be reckoned with. Florida is finally starting to flex their muscles after a slow start, they moved up from #25 to #12 this week. The worst team in the league, Mississippi, blew out Fresno State (55-38), who had looked pretty strong before that game.

The ACC showed itself to be pretenders for the top spot this week. Which is strange, with Miami blowing out Pitt and UNC beating Rutgers, both on the road.

The bigger problem for the ACC was that several of the teams they played in earlier weeks showed themselves to be not as good as advertised, especially Fresno State. Right now I would say that Miami is the class of the league, with NC State and Virginia Tech as the only other viable contenders.

2010 looks it will be the year the Big East really became as bad as everyone has been saying it was for the last few years. There are some signs of live, as Cincinnati nearly knocked off Oklahoma and West Virginia played LSU tough before losing 20-14 on the road.

That being said, this league is still better than the WAC or the MWC, and if there are going to be six leagues with BCS automatic bids, WASEAN doesn’t see any reason to change that just yet.

If you are fan of FCS, the Colonial has 3 of the top 4, 4 of the top 8 and 5 of the top 13 teams right now.

Please click the “read more” link to see the ratings.

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Game Watchability Score – 2010 Week 4

I came up with a method that weighs the quality of teams and closeness of teams equally (with a home field adjustment thrown in). Games will score well if the teams are ranked high and the teams are closely matched.

The list is ranked by the ‘Game Watchability Score’, with the teams and their rankings. Remember it's early, the ratings used for this are based on 2-3 games per team. Still a fun method to look at it objectively. I’ll post these each week.

I’ll explain the methodology below in case you are interested.

Please click the “read more” link to see the scores. The rankings listed do not include games from Thursday/Friday and they combine FBS and FCS.

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2009 WASEAN ratings, week 4

Ratings updated through week 4. Nebraska jumps to the top spot, while former #1 Miami plummets to number 36 after losing at Virginia Tech 31-7. This early in the season teams still move a lot from week to week. Cal fell from 8 to 65 after losing to Oregon 42-3.

EDIT: The ratings below reflect a revised home-field advantage calculation (10/23/2009 1:05 AM CDT)

RK	LW	Team	WASEAN	RW	RL	RT
1	8	Nebraska	0.9040	3	1	0
2	20	Boise State	0.8932	4	0	0
3	6	Iowa	0.8891	4	0	0
4	9	Virginia Tech	0.8884	3	1	0
5	13	Florida	0.8841	4	0	0
6	4	Cincinnati	0.8836	4	0	0
7	5	Alabama	0.8809	4	0	0
8	19	Texas	0.8771	4	0	0
9	2	Northern Iowa	0.8733	3	1	0
10	17	Oklahoma	0.8251	2	1	0
11	23	TCU	0.8198	3	0	0
12	39	Fresno State	0.8142	1	2	1
13	40	South Florida	0.8097	4	0	0
14	1	Miami (FL)	0.8045	2	1	0
15	7	Georgia Tech	0.7988	3	1	0
16	12	Clemson	0.7956	2	2	0
17	29	Arizona	0.7930	3	1	0
18	67	Oregon	0.7907	3	1	0
19	28	UCLA	0.7884	3	0	0
20	15	USC	0.7880	3	1	0
21	27	Ohio State	0.7732	3	1	0
22	11	Kansas	0.7720	4	0	0
23	36	Texas Tech	0.7714	2	2	0
24	34	Tennessee	0.7709	2	2	0
25	33	Houston	0.7651	3	0	0
26	24	Mississippi	0.7651	2	1	0
27	22	LSU	0.7638	4	0	0
28	21	Pittsburgh	0.7630	3	1	0
29	37	Penn State	0.7606	3	1	0
30	88	South Carolina	0.7605	3	1	0
31	3	Florida State	0.7597	2	2	0
32	54	Notre Dame	0.7581	3	1	0
33	58	Stanford	0.7576	3	1	0
34	25	Connecticut	0.7574	3	1	0
35	44	Arizona State	0.7521	2	1	0
36	47	Wisconsin	0.7483	3	0	1
37	50	Wake Forest	0.7421	2	1	1
38	75	Michigan State	0.7416	1	3	0
39	16	North Carolina	0.7415	3	1	0
40	62	Central Michigan	0.7326	3	1	0
41	35	Missouri	0.7315	4	0	0
42	26	Brigham Young	0.7239	3	1	0
43	45	Baylor	0.7178	2	1	0
44	14	Jacksonville State	0.7103	2	2	0
45	42	South Dakota State	0.7097	3	0	0
46	139	North Carolina State	0.7096	3	1	0
47	99	Georgia	0.7079	3	1	0
48	18	Auburn	0.7058	4	0	0
49	31	Richmond	0.6930	4	0	0
50	82	Utah	0.6928	3	1	0
51	71	Central Arkansas	0.6924	1	1	0
52	10	California	0.6921	3	1	0
53	46	Northern Illinois	0.6872	2	2	0
54	61	Boston College	0.6845	2	1	1
55	48	Michigan	0.6815	4	0	0
56	83	Oklahoma State	0.6793	3	1	0
57	49	William & Mary	0.6779	4	0	0
58	38	Washington	0.6755	2	2	0
59	103	Texas A&M	0.6753	3	0	0
60	66	Hawaii	0.6716	2	1	0
61	43	Oregon State	0.6714	2	2	0
62	79	Purdue	0.6649	1	3	0
63	59	Air Force	0.6626	3	1	0
64	130	Arkansas	0.6449	1	2	0
65	41	Navy	0.6378	2	2	0
66	81	Southern Miss	0.6350	3	1	0
67	112	James Madison	0.6268	2	0	1
68	32	West Virginia	0.6219	2	1	0
69	92	Villanova	0.6142	4	0	0
70	90	Idaho	0.6130	3	1	0
71	52	Mississippi State	0.6105	2	2	0
72	127	Tulsa	0.6088	3	1	0
73	109	Iowa State	0.5972	3	1	0
74	60	Delaware	0.5967	1	2	0
75	77	Kansas State	0.5919	2	2	0
76	69	Rutgers	0.5910	3	1	0
77	73	Massachusetts	0.5901	3	1	0
78	111	Louisiana-Monroe	0.5836	2	2	0
79	84	Middle Tennessee	0.5807	3	1	0
80	80	Indiana	0.5785	3	1	0
81	78	Bowling Green	0.5767	1	3	0
82	135	Utah State	0.5753	1	2	0
83	63	Minnesota	0.5729	2	1	1
84	74	Ohio	0.5708	1	2	1
85	57	Kentucky	0.5655	2	1	0
86	98	Vanderbilt	0.5648	2	2	0
87	89	Marshall	0.5647	3	1	0
88	64	Duke	0.5532	2	2	0
89	125	Stephen F. Austin	0.5524	2	1	0
90	95	San Diego State	0.5498	1	3	0
91	104	Montana	0.5481	2	0	1
92	86	Southern Illinois	0.5471	1	1	0
93	132	Temple	0.5378	1	2	0
94	101	Virginia	0.5374	0	3	0
95	138	Colorado State	0.5364	3	1	0
96	72	UNLV	0.5301	2	2	0
97	68	Eastern Illinois	0.5275	4	0	0
98	121	Southern Methodist	0.5274	2	0	1
99	76	Arkansas State	0.5244	1	2	0
100	53	New Hampshire	0.5111	3	0	0
101	97	Northern Arizona	0.5110	1	1	1
102	85	Florida A&M	0.5089	4	0	0
103	136	Elon	0.5035	3	1	0
104	102	Delaware State	0.5020	1	2	0
105	51	East Carolina	0.4992	2	2	0
106	107	South Dakota	0.4964	2	1	0
107	145	Toledo	0.4951	2	2	0
108	116	Central Connecticut State	0.4927	2	1	0
109	65	Florida International	0.4919	0	3	0
110	142	Colorado	0.4911	1	2	0
111	131	Citadel	0.4833	2	1	0
112	141	Troy	0.4674	2	2	0
113	91	UCF	0.4649	2	2	0
114	153	Florida Atlantic	0.4606	0	3	0
115	96	Louisville	0.4595	1	2	0
116	55	St. Francis (PA)	0.4586	1	2	1
117	124	Western Michigan	0.4552	2	2	0
118	108	Syracuse	0.4493	2	1	1
119	126	Akron	0.4490	1	3	0
120	151	Cornell	0.4490	2	0	0
121	70	Liberty	0.4482	2	2	0
122	156	Furman	0.4403	3	1	0
123	193	Chattanooga	0.4398	2	1	0
124	113	Illinois	0.4385	1	2	0
125	87	North Texas	0.4362	1	2	1
126	150	Weber State	0.4336	2	2	0
127	119	Southern Utah	0.4326	0	3	0
128	105	Louisiana Tech	0.4235	1	2	0
129	158	Washington State	0.4162	0	3	1
130	174	North Dakota State	0.4146	1	3	0
131	56	Appalachian State	0.4142	1	2	0
132	159	Drake	0.4100	1	1	0
133	169	Wyoming	0.4075	2	2	0
134	128	Northwestern	0.4054	2	2	0
135	122	Texas State	0.3980	1	1	0
136	100	Buffalo	0.3952	1	3	0
137	106	Louisiana-Lafayette	0.3937	2	2	0
138	115	Army	0.3923	2	2	0
139	173	Youngstown State	0.3865	3	1	0
140	182	Nevada	0.3864	0	3	0
141	167	Pennsylvania	0.3771	0	1	1
142	148	UAB	0.3770	1	3	0
143	118	Maryland	0.3764	0	3	1
144	198	Virginia Military	0.3710	1	2	0
145	155	Memphis	0.3697	1	3	0
146	161	San Jose State	0.3694	1	3	0
147	94	Samford	0.3649	1	2	0
148	93	Eastern Kentucky	0.3626	2	1	0
149	120	UTEP	0.3583	1	3	0
150	30	McNeese State	0.3581	2	1	0
151	209	Montana State	0.3566	1	1	0
152	110	Columbia	0.3516	1	1	0
153	133	Lafayette	0.3445	1	1	1
154	163	Yale	0.3422	1	1	0
155	194	Colgate	0.3408	4	0	0
156	114	Alabama A&M	0.3404	3	1	0
157	137	Ball State	0.3397	0	4	0
158	176	Kent State	0.3389	2	2	0
159	178	Western Kentucky	0.3377	0	4	0
160	152	Wofford	0.3362	1	3	0
161	134	North Dakota	0.3341	1	2	0
162	165	Illinois State	0.3292	1	3	0
163	166	Western Illinois	0.3177	1	2	0
164	149	Eastern Michigan	0.3120	0	3	0
165	224	Missouri State	0.3119	2	2	0
166	199	Hofstra	0.3100	2	2	0
167	144	Rhode Island	0.2988	1	2	0
168	168	Dayton	0.2980	2	0	0
169	171	Rice	0.2965	0	4	0
170	117	South Carolina State	0.2951	3	0	0
171	146	Eastern Washington	0.2899	2	1	0
172	147	Norfolk State	0.2844	1	2	0
173	143	Cal Poly	0.2821	1	2	0
174	183	Georgia Southern	0.2804	2	2	0
175	162	Lehigh	0.2802	0	3	0
176	208	Gardner-Webb	0.2782	1	1	0
177	123	Hampton	0.2774	2	2	0
178	228	Wagner	0.2762	0	1	1
179	170	Portland State	0.2624	0	3	0
180	185	California-Davis	0.2579	0	2	0
181	213	Coastal Carolina	0.2537	2	2	0
182	211	Stony Brook	0.2531	1	3	0
183	204	Brown	0.2509	0	2	0
184	236	Bryant	0.2501	1	1	0
185	140	Grambling State	0.2443	2	2	0
186	234	Princeton	0.2443	1	1	0
187	189	Maine	0.2442	1	2	0
188	219	Tulane	0.2386	1	2	0
189	215	Holy Cross	0.2277	3	0	0
190	216	Monmouth	0.2245	2	2	0
191	197	Miami (OH)	0.2202	0	4	0
192	226	Harvard	0.2198	1	1	0
193	202	Robert Morris	0.2183	0	4	0
194	186	Sam Houston State	0.2172	1	2	0
195	172	Fordham	0.2171	0	3	0
196	157	Southeast Missouri State	0.2115	0	3	0
197	201	New Mexico State	0.2082	2	2	0
198	187	Albany	0.2081	2	2	0
199	NR	Butler	0.2080	0	0	1
200	220	Austin Peay	0.2054	0	3	0
201	227	Tennessee-Martin	0.2020	1	2	0
202	164	North Carolina A&T	0.1968	2	2	0
203	129	Tennessee Tech	0.1927	0	2	0
204	207	Prairie View A&M	0.1865	1	1	0
205	180	Northern Colorado	0.1849	1	3	0
206	203	New Mexico	0.1839	0	4	0
207	181	Southeastern Louisiana	0.1837	0	2	0
208	154	North Carolina Central	0.1806	0	3	1
209	221	Duquesne	0.1786	1	3	0
210	214	Bucknell	0.1768	2	2	0
211	179	Tennessee State	0.1733	1	3	0
212	229	Presbyterian	0.1725	0	4	0
213	160	Morehead State	0.1670	0	1	2
214	210	Towson	0.1645	1	2	0
215	231	Marist	0.1638	1	3	0
216	175	Southern University	0.1620	2	1	0
217	184	Northwestern State	0.1575	0	4	0
218	237	Dartmouth	0.1462	0	2	0
219	195	Arkansas-Pine Bluff	0.1457	1	1	0
220	177	Old Dominion	0.1455	1	1	0
221	212	Idaho State	0.1440	0	3	0
222	217	Charleston Southern	0.1438	0	3	0
223	223	San Diego	0.1417	1	1	0
224	200	Howard	0.1400	1	2	0
225	188	Indiana State	0.1346	0	4	0
226	240	Murray State	0.1273	0	3	0
227	191	Jackson State	0.1262	0	3	0
228	205	Winston-Salem State	0.1241	0	3	1
229	225	Morgan State	0.1170	1	1	1
230	235	Western Carolina	0.1168	0	4	0
231	233	Alcorn State	0.1161	0	3	0
232	222	Nicholls State	0.1143	1	3	0
233	190	Sacramento State	0.1134	0	3	0
234	230	Northeastern	0.1071	0	4	0
235	192	Jacksonville	0.1002	0	2	0
236	232	Georgetown	0.0934	0	4	0
237	238	Texas Southern	0.0847	0	3	0
238	206	Bethune-Cookman	0.0816	0	2	0
239	241	Sacred Heart	0.0759	0	3	0
240	242	Davidson	0.0338	1	1	0
241	239	Mississippi Valley State	0.0337	1	2	0
242	196	Alabama State	0.0237	1	1	0
243	218	Savannah State	0.0164	0	2	0
244	243	Campbell	0.0138	0	1	0
NR	NR	Valparaiso	#DIV/0!	0	0	0