Isaac Luber's Unofficial BCS Rankings: Week Nine

Isaac Luber by Senior Analyst Written on October 28, 2008
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I grade teams on a scale to 1,000.  400 comes from performance of teams, 200 comes from record, 100 comes from strength of schedule, 100 comes from quality wins, 100 comes from conference strength, and 100 points are ones that every team gets, and points that good teams in weak conferences have so they can be in the Top 25 if they are good.

The numbers in parentheses and italics are last week's rankings.  The numbers that have decimals and are in parentheses are their percentages based on my scale, and LW is last week's results.

Here are my BCS rankings for Week Nine:

1) Penn State (2), (.998) LW-W 13-6 at Ohio State

2) Texas (1), (.997) LW-W 28-24 vs. Oklahoma State

3) Alabama (3), (.996) LW-W 29-9 at Tennessee

4) Texas Tech (10), (.995) LW-W 63-21 at Kansas

5) Florida (4), (.994) LW-W 63-5 vs. Kentucky

6) Georgia (7), (.991) LW-W 52-38 at LSU

7) Oklahoma (5), (.987) LW-W 58-35 at Kansas State

8) USC (9), (.981) LW-W 17-10 at Arizona

9) Oklahoma State (6), (.979) LW-L 28-24 at Texas

10) Michigan State (20), (.977) LW-W 35-21 at Michigan

11) Utah (11), (.973) LW-Idle.

12) Ohio State (8), (.971) LW-L 13-6 vs. Penn State

13) Boise State (13), (.965) LW-W 33-16 at San Jose State

14) Minnesota (16), (.960) LW-17-6 at Purdue

15) Missouri (17), (.953) LW-W 58-0 vs. Colorado

16) TCU (21), (.947) LW-W 54-7 vs. Wyoming

17) LSU, (12), (.945) LW-L 52-38 vs. Georgia

18) Tulsa (15), (.941) LW-W 49-19 vs. UCF

19) Ball State (14), (.936) LW-W 38-16 vs. Eastern Michigan

20) North Carolina (NR), (.930) LW-W 45-24 vs. Boston College

21) Florida State (NR), (.928) LW-W 30-20 vs. Virginia Tech

22) Maryland (NR), (.925) LW-W 27-24 vs. North Carolina State

23) California (NR), (.921) LW-W 41-20 vs. UCLA

24) Kansas (19), (.917) LW-L 63-21 vs. Texas Tech

25) BYU (22), (.915) LW-W 42-35 vs. UNLV

On the edge: Connecticut, Boston College, Cincinnati, West Virginia, Notre Dame, Northwestern, Fresno State

Stay tuned for Week 10's unofficial BCS rankings!

*All rankings are subject to change based on performance, strength of schedule, and record...and some other things will be taken into account as well.

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