Final 2013 FBS PRS Rankings

With the final BCS Championship game ever played (thank God), our final PRS Rankings for FBS Football has now been calculated. I thank Keith Harding, our chief statistician and co-editor for his hard work all season for his work on the PRS Rankings for both FBS and FCS football.
We congratulate the Florida State Seminoles for winning both the BCS and the PRS championship in 2013! What we found when Keith calculated the final PRS Rankings was that Florida State may very well have done enough to still finish first in the PRS Rankings even had they fell to Auburn. The Seminoles broke an all-time record when they finished with 3523 points on the season, more than 600 points higher than our previous best finish ever. In fact, when all was said and done, FSU finished an astounding 950 points ahead of our second ranked team, the UCF Knights, who finished with 2573 points. It would have taken UCF five weeks of winning to catch up to FSU in the end. No season in our history has ever seen such a huge gap between the champion and the runner up. Michigan State finished 3rd, at 2532 points, just 41 points back of UCF. Ohio State and Louisville rounded off the final top five.
Despite their loss in the Poinsettia Bowl to Utah State, Northern Illinois had put enough points up earlier to still finish 6th, despite also losing the MAC title game. Baylor, Missouri, Oregon, and Auburn wrapped up the top ten.
What's a PRS Ranking without conversation about the bottom ten, the worst of the worst in 2013. The worst program in the country in 2013 ended up being Georgia State, a transitional program who finished 125th at 0-12, with a bottom basement -2440 points, or over 5900 points behind Florida State. The nations other winless program, Miami (Ohio), finished 124th, with a staggering -2244 points. Purdue, Florida International, California, UMass, Idaho, Western Michigan, and Southern Mississippi all won just a single game to end up in the bottom ten, while two win New Mexico State rounds out the national FBS bottom ten for 2013.
Without further delay, here are the final PRS FBS Rankings for 2013, with all 125 schools ranked:

Rank	Points	Team	Record	Results
1	3523	Florida State	14-0	Def. Auburn 34-31
2	2573	Central Florida	12-1	Def. Baylor 52-42
3	2532	Michigan State	13-1	Def. Stanford 24-20
4	2481	Ohio State	12-2	Lost to Clemson 40-35
5	2462	Louisville	12-1	Def. Miami (FL) 36-9
6	2416	Northern Illinois	12-2	Lost to Utah State 21-14
7	2327	Baylor	11-2	Lost to Central Florida 52-42
8	2315	Missouri	12-2	Def. Oklahoma State 41-31
9	2250	Oregon	11-2	Def. Texas 30-7
10	2248	Auburn	12-2	Lost to Florida State 34-31
11	2166	Oklahoma	11-2	Def. Alabama 45-31
12	2162	Alabama	11-2	Lost to Oklahoma 45-31
13	2143	Fresno State	11-2	Lost to Southern California 45-20
14	2038	Stanford	11-3	Lost to Michigan State 24-20
15	1952	South Carolina	11-2	Def. Wisconsin 34-24
16	1909	UCLA	10-3	Def. Virginia Tech 42-12
17	1902	Clemson	11-2	Def. Ohio State 40-35
18	1776	Oklahoma State	10-3	Lost to Missouri 41-31
19	1770	East Carolina	10-3	Def. Ohio 37-20
20	1754	Marshall	10-4	Def. Maryland 31-20
21	1730	Ball State	10-3	Lost to Arkansas State 23-20
22	1644	Bowling Green State	10-4	Lost to Pittsburgh 30-27
23	1638	Rice	10-4	Lost to Mississippi State 44-7
24	1598	Louisiana State	10-3	Def. Iowa 21-14
25	1585	Southern California	10-4	Def. Fresno State 45-20
26	1584	Arizona State	10-4	Lost to Texas Tech 37-23
27	1497	North Texas	9-4	Def. Nevada-Las Vegas 36-14
28	1400	Duke	10-4	Lost to Texas A&M 52-48
29	1349	Wisconsin	9-4	Lost to South Carolina 34-24
30	1333	Washington	9-4	Def. Brigham Young 31-16
31	1317	Notre Dame	9-4	Def. Rutgers 29-16
32	1316	Texas A&M	9-4	Def. Duke 52-48
33	1310	Navy	9-4	Def. Middle Tennessee State 24-6
34	1264	Louisiana-Lafayette	9-4	Def. Tulane 24-21
35	1245	Cincinnati	9-4	Lost to North Carolina 39-17
36	1181	Utah State	9-5	Def. Northern Illinois 21-14
37	1155	Miami (FL)	9-4	Lost to Louisville 36-9
38	1124	Vanderbilt	9-4	Def. Houston 41-24
39	1098	Nebraska	9-4	Def. Georgia 24-19
40	1076	Texas	8-5	Lost to Oregon 30-7
41	990	Boise State	8-5	Lost to Oregon State 38-23
42	987	Western Kentucky	8-4	Season Over
43	932	Georgia	8-5	Lost to Nebraska 24-19
44	920	Arizona	8-5	Def. Boston College 42-19
45	917	Houston	8-5	Lost to Vanderbilt 41-24
46	916	Kansas State	8-5	Def. Michigan 31-14
47	872	Texas Tech	8-5	Def. Arizona State 37-23
48	855	Buffalo	8-5	Lost to San Diego State 49-24
49	838	Brigham Young	8-5	Lost to Washington 31-16
50	813	Colorado State	8-6	Def. Washington State 48-45
51	812	San Diego State	8-5	Def. Buffalo 49-24
52	791	Mississippi	8-5	Def. Georgia Tech 25-17
53	768	Middle Tennessee State	8-5	Lost to Navy 24-6
54	760	Iowa	8-5	Lost to Louisiana State 21-14
55	756	Arkansas State	8-5	Def. Ball State 23-20
56	700	Minnesota	8-5	Lost to Syracuse 21-17
57	690	Virginia Tech	8-5	Lost to UCLA 42-12
58	674	Penn State	7-5	Season Over
59	648	Texas-San Antonio	7-5	Season Over
60	635	Michigan	7-6	Lost to Kansas State 31-14
61	616	Toledo	7-5	Season Over
62	596	Oregon State	7-6	Def. Boise State 38-23
63	452	North Carolina	7-6	Def. Cincinnati 39-17
64	417	Florida Atlantic	6-6	Season Over
65	382	Tulane	7-6	Lost to Louisiana-Lafayette 24-21
66T	370	Mississippi State	7-6	Def. Rice 44-7
66T	370	Boston College	7-6	Lost to Arizona 42-19
68	329	Georgia Tech	7-6	Lost to Mississippi 25-17
69	326	Nevada-Las Vegas	7-6	Lost to North Texas 36-14
70	317	Ohio	7-6	Lost to East Carolina 37-20
71T	304	Maryland	7-6	Lost to Marshall 31-20
71T	304	South Alabama	6-6	Season Over
73	296	Pittsburgh	7-6	Def. Bowling Green State 30-27
74	246	Syracuse	7-6	Def. Minnesota 21-17
75	221	Troy	6-6	Season Over
76	181	San Jose State	6-6	Season Over
77	91	Central Michigan	6-6	Season Over
78	68	Texas State	6-6	Season Over
79	35	Washington State	6-7	Lost to Colorado State 48-45
80	24	Louisiana-Monroe	6-6	Season Over
81	-85	Rutgers	6-7	Lost to Notre Dame 29-16
82	-214	Indiana	5-7	Season Over
83	-225	Wyoming	5-7	Season Over
84	-256	Utah	5-7	Season Over
85	-274	Northwestern	5-7	Season Over
86	-289	Southern Methodist	5-8	Season Over
87	-371	Tennessee	5-7	Season Over
88	-393	Akron	5-7	Season Over
89	-584	Texas Christian	4-8	Season Over
90	-601	Florida	4-8	Season Over
91T	-642	Kent State	4-8	Season Over
91T	-642	West Virginia	4-8	Season Over
93	-653	Nevada-Reno	4-8	Season Over
94	-682	Louisiana Tech	4-8	Season Over
95	-705	Illinois	4-8	Season Over
96	-730	Wake Forest	4-8	Season Over
97	-777	New Mexico	3-9	Season Over
98	-930	Colorado	4-8	Season Over
99	-951	Tulsa	3-9	Season Over
100	-974	Army	3-9	Season Over
101	-986	Iowa State	3-9	Season Over
102	-1069	Connecticut	3-9	Season Over
103	-1098	Memphis	3-9	Season Over
104	-1154	Arkansas	3-9	Season Over
105	-1237	North Carolina State	3-9	Season Over
106	-1260	Temple	2-10	Season Over
107	-1300	Texas-El Paso	2-10	Season Over
108	-1325	Kansas	3-9	Season Over
109	-1475	Alabama-Birmingham	2-10	Season Over
110	-1526	Air Force	2-10	Season Over
111	-1532	Kentucky	2-10	Season Over
112	-1557	Hawaii	1-11	Season Over
113	-1563	South Florida	2-10	Season Over
114T	-1624	Eastern Michigan	2-10	Season Over
114T	-1624	Virginia	2-10	Season Over
116	-1667	New Mexico State	2-10	Season Over
117	-1793	Southern Mississippi	1-11	Season Over
118	-1813	Western Michigan	1-11	Season Over
119	-1925	Idaho	1-11	Season Over
120	-1966	Massachusetts	1-11	Season Over
121	-1986	California	1-11	Season Over
122	-2060	Florida International	1-11	Season Over
123	-2068	Purdue	1-11	Season Over
124	-2244	Miami (OH)	0-12	Season Over
125	-2440	Georgia State	0-12	Season Over

Finalists and Winner: 2013 FBS All-Bilo Defensive Back of the Year

We wrap up the FBS portion of our Awards Season by naming the final defensive award winner the Defensive Back of the Year for 2013. The top four were tight in scoring for this award, but we could name just three finalists. The finalists are:

Tim Bennett-Indiana
Lorenzo Doss-Tulane
Anthony Harris-Virginia

Every finalist on this list had clear qualifications for the award this season, but it came down to overall performance, or as we like to say, the big picture. That became clear by just a couple of performance indicators, and we named a winner by a mere 4600 points when all was said and done. The winner of our 2013 FBS All-Bilo Defensive Back of the Year Award is...



Lorenzo Doss-Tulane
Doss' huge season was capitalized by Tulane being one of the surprise programs in college football during the 2013 season, which finalized with a birth in the hometown New Orleans Bowl, which unfortunately ended for Tulane with a loss to UL-Lafayette, the champion of the un Belt Conference. Doss was on fire all season, finishing with 7 INTs for the year, which ranked second behind runner up Anthony Harris, who had 8.
Doss finished with 192 yards and 2 TDs on his 7 picks on the season, while adding a fumble return34 tackles, 1.5 TFLs and 9 pass breakups. Congratulations to Lorenzo Doss, and to the Tulane Program!

Finalists and Winner: 2013 FBS All-Bilo Linebacker of the Year

We continue our Defensive Awards for 2013 next by naming the finalists and the winner for our FBS Linebacker of the Year. What a year it was by so many great performances across the country at the LB position, but only one can be named as our LB of the Year. The finalists are:

Anthony Barr-UCLA
Trent Murphy-Stanford
Ryan Shazier-Ohio State

The final result was close, but one player managed to pull away with an outstanding all around performance that led his team to a BCS Bowl birth and the granddaddy of them all. The winner of our 2013 FBS All-Bilo Linebacker of the Year Award is...



Trent Murphy-Stanford
Murphy, a senior, closed out his brilliant Stanford career with a career season in tow. Murphy finished second in the nation only to DL of the Year award winner Aaron Donald in total TFLs with 23.5 on the year. Murphy returned a pick six, totaled 62 tackles, and registered 15 sacks on the season for 109 yards. He also managed to break up 6 passes, create 5 QB hurries, force 2 fumbles, and block a kick. It was one hell of a finish to one great career for the Cardinal. Congratulations to Trent Murphy and to the Stanford Program!

Finalists and Winner: 2013 FBS All-Bilo Defensive Lineman of the Year

We now switch our focus to defense for our 2013 Awards Season. We begin with our finalists for FBS Defensive Lineman of the Year. They are as follows:

Aaron Donald-Pittsburgh
Jackson Jeffcoat-Texas
Kareem Martin-North Carolina

Our winner for 2013 was all over the field, not only on defense, but on special teams as well, and wreaked havoc weekly. He won the award by approximately 8000 points in our scoring table, as this was once again a highly competitive position this year. Without further delay, the winner is:



Aaron Donald-Pittsburgh
Donald was a popular player during awards season across the board this season, and it was well deserved. Donald led the nation with an amazing 28.5 Tackles For Loss in 2013, averaging 2.19 per game, and totaling 142 yards. His TFLs and average both led the nation, while his yardage ranked second. Donald totaled 11.5 sacks on the season, and finished with 4.59 tackles per game off the line. Donald also forced 16 QB hurries on the year, while breaking up 3 passes, forcing 4 fumbles, and adding a blocked kick for good measure. Congratulations to Aaron Donald, and to the Pittsburgh Program!

Finalists and Winner: 2013 FBS All-Bilo Kicker of the Year

We now wrap up our special teams area of our FBS awards in 2013, by naming our All-Bilo PK of the Year. Once again, this award came down to the barest of margins, and is the first award given to a player from the same school as another recipient of our 2013 awards. The finalists are...

Roberto Aguayo-Florida State
Jeremiah Detmer-Toledo
Nate Freese-Boston College

The winner of the 2013 FBS All-Bilo PK of the Year award came down to one kick when all is said and done, and that one kick meant perfection, which cannot be ignored in any event. The winner is...



Nate Freese-Boston College
Freese finished the season a perfect 20 for 20 on field goals, and was the only kicker in FBS football to nail down all of his FG attempts on the season. Both of our other finalists missed just one kick on the season, which in any other year would have been fantastic for kickers with 20 or more attempts. Freese was spot on this season on his 1.5 attempts per game. Congratulations to Nate Freese and to the Boston College Program, that now boasts two of our award winners for the 2013 season, the only school to this point to have done so!