Conference Power Rankings: 11/24/15

Our final rankings piece of the night comes with our Conference Power Rankings using our CRI system to find the best conference in college football as it stands now, and how the rest of the conferences come together in order thereafter. The scores are a combined total for all schools in each conference by CRI score, divided by teams in said conference:

1. Southeastern Conference 105.95
2. Big Ten 91.19
3. Big 12 88.34
4. PAC-12 76.5
5. Independents 65.6
6. ACC 46.99
7. American Athletic Conference 7.82
8. MAC -45.06
9. Mountain West -62.84
10. Conference USA -68.81
11. Sun Belt -82.5

What this shows is that a conference cannot be measured by its top performers alone. It has to be measured from top to bottom, in its entirety to be truly measured against the competition. The American had a great run up top, but from the middle down, not so much. he same could be said for the Big 12, which was explosive at the top, but for most of the season only had four schools that could carry the load. The PAC-12 was much in the same boat, as overall, the conference failed to live up to pre-season hype.
At the bottom, the Sun Belt and CUSA were bottom heavy with underperformers for the most part, and therefore were the bottom two leagues. The Mountain West got a reprieve late in the season with solid winning streaks by San Diego State and Air Force, and ended with half of the membership gaining positive spins, but again, the bottom half, added to their rocky start, created a negative flow.
Stay tuned next week, as we will update the CRI Conference Power Rankings.

Combination PRS/QWI Index: 11/24/15

A week ago, we introduced a new system that would combine our PRS and QWI rankings, averaging them together to get an overview of straight up wins and losses merged with the quality of those wins and losses. The Combination Rankings Index, or CRI, brings together all of our areas of analytics to give you an overall power ranking covering all 128 FBS schools. What is interesting this week is that we have matched team for team the College Football Playoff Committee rankings in the top 4 this week. For a change, we agree on something. Here is our combined analytical rankings as we head into the last full week of the regular season:

Alabama	383.37
Clemson	375.46
Oklahoma	372.64
Iowa	367.55
Michigan State	358.06
Baylor	342.1
Notre Dame	334.18
Ohio State	334
Oklahoma State	327.64
Houston	322.93
North Carolina	311.82
Florida	304.18
Toledo	301
Michigan	281.55
Stanford	273.46
Western Kentucky	264.91
Temple	263.91
Texas Christian	255.91
Navy	251.1
Northwestern	230.27
Florida State	228.82
UCLA	210.64
Marshall	204.73
Bowling Green State	204.1
Appalachian State	196.4
Mississippi	194.64
Wisconsin	192.82
Pittsburgh	189.18
Louisiana State	189.1
Washington State	188.73
Utah	186.1
Mississippi State	182.64
Georgia	180.36
Oregon	178.55
Texas A&M	172.82
Memphis	161.64
Brigham Young	160.27
Northern Illinois	154.36
Southern Mississippi	150
Louisiana Tech	143.46
San Diego State	141.64
Air Force	136.91
Southern California	134.73
North Carolina State	125.64
Georgia Southern	123.2
South Florida	117.55
Arkansas State	116.9
West Virginia	115.3
Tennessee	112.55
Penn State	99
Boise State	86
Miami (FL)	84.27
Duke	79.27
Texas Tech	75.18
California	63
Arizona State	60.82
Ohio	50.55
Auburn	50.27
Colorado State	45.91
Arkansas	39.46
Arizona	33.92
Louisville	28.55
Akron	21.09
Nebraska	20.36
Middle Tennessee State	16
Western Michigan	11.91
Utah State	9.18
Minnesota	6.64
Cincinnati	6
Central Michigan	-7.64
Nevada-Reno	-9.27
Illinois	-13.09
Texas	-14.1
New Mexico	-16.73
Kentucky	-18.46
Indiana	-24.82
Washington	-31.55
Virginia Tech	-32.09
Connecticut	-34.73
East Carolina	-41.55
Missouri	-42.55
Buffalo	-50.73
South Alabama	-54.9
Tulsa	-59
San Jose State	-69.27
Kansas State	-70.7
Old Dominion	-82.73
Rutgers	-87.64
Florida International	-94.83
Georgia State	-96.4
Vanderbilt	-105
Virginia	-113.27
Louisiana-Lafayette	-125.1
Colorado	-126.92
Rice	-130.64
Georgia Tech	-131
Texas-El Paso	-142.46
South Carolina	-153.55
Syracuse	-155.81
Wake Forest	-158.82
Troy	-159.9
Iowa State	-167.73
Boston College	-174.18
Texas-San Antonio	-180.27
Texas State	-184
New Mexico State	-185.8
Idaho	-191.46
Nevada-Las Vegas	-194
Tulane	-205.09
Ball State	-216.46
Fresno State	-235.55
Maryland	-238.73
Kent State	-243
Miami (OH)	-243.33
Massachusetts	-245.82
Purdue	-249.27
Oregon State	-253.46
Southern Methodist	-269.73
Charlotte	-292.55
Army	-297.64
Hawaii	-301
Florida Atlantic	-316.09
Eastern Michigan	-321.82
Louisiana-Monroe	-346.46
Wyoming	-347.91
Kansas	-358.82
North Texas	-379.64
Central Florida	-422.18

Quality Win/Loss Index: 11/24/15

With one final week left in the season, the numbers are in from another weekend, and the wins and losses that have transpired have been measured as to the quality of the wins as well as the losses. Following is the latest look at the strength of schedule against quality of wins and losses against said schedule:

Alabama	176
Clemson	167
Iowa	166
Oklahoma	163
North Carolina	149
Michigan State	146
Notre Dame	145
Oklahoma State	144
Baylor	144
Ohio State	143
Florida	123
Stanford	123
Michigan	123
Northwestern	119
Toledo	110
Houston	108
Temple	105
TCU	103
Florida State	94
Pittsburgh	92
UCLA	90
Georgia	88
Western Kentucky	84
Ole Miss	84
Navy	83
LSU	81
Wisconsin	79
Mississippi State	79
Washington State	79
Texas A&M	76
Oregon	72
Utah	69
Bowling Green	64
Marshall	63
West Virginia	60
BYU	59
Appalachian State	53
Northern Illinois	50
USF	48
Memphis	47
Duke	47
NC State	47
USC	43
Tennessee	41
Arizona State	34
Southern Mississippi	33
Air Force	31
Texas Tech	30
San Diego State	30
Louisiana Tech	29
Penn State	28
Miami	28
California	23
Auburn	23
Arkansas State	22
Georgia Southern	20
Colorado State	19
Arizona	15
Boise State	5
Arkansas	5
Minnesota	5
Louisville	1
Texas	1
Illinois	-1
Nebraska	-1
Kentucky	-2
Akron	-4
Ohio	-8
Indiana	-16
Middle Tennessee	-18
Missouri	-22
Western Michigan	-26
Utah State	-29
Virginia Tech	-31
Cincinnati	-33
Washington	-33
Nevada	-34
Rutgers	-36
Kansas State	-39
Central Michigan	-40
East Carolina	-42
Buffalo	-45
Vanderbilt	-47
New Mexico	-49
South Alabama	-52
U Conn	-52
Old Dominion	-60
Georgia Tech	-64
Virginia	-66
San Jose State	-68
Boston College	-71
Tulsa	-72
Wake Forest	-74
FIU	-75
Colorado	-75
Georgia State	-75
South Carolina	-78
Syracuse	-79
Rice	-80
UTEP	-88
Iowa State	-90
Troy	-96
UL-Lafayette	-98
Texas State	-105
Tulane	-112
Idaho	-113
Maryland	-114
UNLV	-115
UTSA	-118
Oregon State	-122
Purdue	-130
New Mexico State	-130
Ball State	-135
U Mass	-143
Miami (Ohio)	-145
Kent State	-146
Fresno State	-146
Kansas	-157
SMU	-158
Charlotte	-162
Hawaii	-165
Army	-176
Eastern Michigan	-184
UL-Monroe	-192
Wyoming	-199
FAU	-217
North Texas	-221
UCF	-234