College Football Kraus Index: KPI Week 5

College Football Kraus Index: Week 5

Teaser:

After taking a few weeks off to adjust and re-adjust the calculations, the Kraus Performance Index is back after week 5 play.

 

I took a couple of weeks off to fiddle with my calculations and I think the Kraus Performance Index (KPI) is now a much better indicator of who played well, and who stunk it up, each week. Again, this is an indicator of weekly performance and not a ranking of who are the best teams.

I pared down the data to only track the teams in the six BCS conferences, Notre Dame (due to their special BCS bowl rules) and the remaining “BCS Busters”. I narrowed this list down to Utah, BYU, Boise State and Ball State. Fresno State and East Carolina dropped out due to their losses.

Conference Performance

First off, lets take a look at how each conference has done with their out of conference play. SEC fans should be happy to see that their conference leads in both KPI and win-loss percent. The KPI is the average KPI for all out of conference games.

Conference	KPI	Wins	Losses	Win %
SEC	28.74	27	5	84%
Big 12	27.71	38	10	79%
Big Ten	22.44	31	9	78%
ACC	13.45	26	10	72%
Pac 10	12.00	20	11	50%
Big East	10.21	13	13	65%

 

I don’t think that these index scores are too surprising. The ACC, Pac-10 and Big East have not played well out of conference. Indiana’s loss to Ball State, Purdue and Michigan losing to Notre Dame and Ohio State’s debacle at USC all cost the Big Ten index points.

Team Performance

If week 5 is any indication, it looks like this season will be every bit as crazy as last year in the rankings. Upsets were everywhere. USC, Florida and Wisconsin lost to unranked opponents. Alabama stunned Georgia at home. Seveal other top 25 teams also lost. This is the stuff that makes College Football some much more fun than the NFL.

So, without further ado here are the KPI rankings for both week 5 and the season in total. Note that 11 teams did not play this week.

 

Team	week 5
Alabama	134.83
Oregon State	116.78
Oregon	98.29
Texas	85.95
South Florida	79.38
Penn State	77.39
Mississippi	73.21
Oklahoma	67.74
Duke	62.13
Pittsburgh	61.08
Kentucky	57.72
Michigan State	57.44
Michigan	54.87
West Virginia	53.10
Maryland	52.17
Virginia Tech	51.95
Notre Dame	50.65
LSU	50.55
Ohio State	47.98
California	47.06
Ball State	45.37
Northwestern	45.13
Florida State	44.32
Oklahoma State	41.72
North Carolina	41.00
South Carolina	37.82
Stanford	36.73
Auburn	34.77
Connecticut	32.82
Cincinnati	29.31
Kansas State	27.27
Texas A&M	23.71
Rutgers	19.86
Boston College	18.69
Utah	12.73
Wisconsin	(8.41)
Tennessee	(11.74)
Florida	(14.89)
Louisville	(15.83)
Illinois	(18.09)
Georgia	(20.39)
Mississippi State	(20.74)
Minnesota	(22.68)
Miami (FL)	(24.31)
UCLA	(27.29)
Washington	(27.31)
Iowa	(27.71)
Clemson	(27.78)
USC	(30.97)
Colorado	(31.57)
Arkansas	(32.52)
Nebraska	(32.71)
Syracuse	(37.09)
Virginia	(40.52)
North Carolina State	(41.18)
Purdue	(42.17)
Indiana	(43.05)
Wake Forest	(46.84)
Washington State	(82.30)
Arizona	DNP
Arizona State	DNP
Baylor	DNP
Boise State	DNP
BYU	DNP
Georgia Tech	DNP
Iowa State	DNP
Kansas	DNP
Missouri	DNP
Texas Tech	DNP
Vanderbilt	DNP

 

 

Here are the KPI’s for the season in total.

 

Team	Season Avg
Alabama	95.01
USC	72.53
Penn State	66.51
Texas	60.61
Oklahoma	59.23
LSU	54.05
BYU	53.88
South Florida	50.35
Missouri	49.41
California	45.85
Oregon	45.46
Kentucky	43.45
Vanderbilt	43.32
Arizona	43.04
Florida	42.65
Oklahoma State	42.36
Ball State	41.66
Utah	40.96
Connecticut