College Football Preview: November 24-28, 2015

Need Nine More
As of today, there are 71 bowl eligible teams with nine more needed to avoid having to invite a team with a losing record. Good news, because there are 18 teams that still have a chance to become bowl eligible, so just half of these teams need to get to six wins. At the present time, we project 82 teams to become bowl eligible, meaning two teams will not get invitations.

Here is a breakdown by conference.

POWER 5 CONFERENCES
Atlantic Coast
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 7:45 PM or 8:00 PM Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte, NC on ABC or ESPN

Atlantic Division Champion: Clemson

Coastal Division Champion: North Carolina

Bowl Eligible: 8 (9)
Clemson, Duke, Florida St., Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina St., Pittsburgh, (Notre Dame)

Still Alive
Virginia Tech 5-6 must defeat Virginia this week
Note: Notre Dame can receive any ACC Bowl, and they can jump ahead of any ACC team with one more win than they have.

Big 12
No Championship Game
Championship Scenarios
Oklahoma controls its own destiny. If they beat Oklahoma St., the Sooners are champs.
Oklahoma State can win title if TCU beats Baylor, and Oklahoma State beats Oklahoma.
Baylor can win title if they beat TCU and Texas and Oklahoma St. beats Oklahoma.

Bowl Eligible: 6
Baylor, Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., TCU, Texas Tech, West Virginia

Still Alive
Kansas St. 4-6 must beat Kansas and West Virginia
Texas 4-6 must beat Texas Tech and Baylor

Big Ten
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 8:15 PM Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, IN on Fox Sports

East Division Scenarios
Michigan St. controls its own destiny. If they beat Penn St., the Spartans are division champions
If Michigan St. loses, the Ohio St.-Michigan winner wins the division title

West Division Champion: Iowa

Bowl Eligible: 7
Iowa, Michigan, Michigan St., Northwestern, Ohio St., Penn St., Wisconsin

Still Alive
Illinois 5-6 must beat Northwestern
Indiana 5-6 must beat Purdue
Minnesota 5-6 must beat Wisconsin
Nebraska 5-6 must beat Iowa

Pac-12
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 7:45 PM or 8:00 PM Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, CA on ABC or ESPN

North Division Champion: Stanford
South Division Champion: UCLA-USC winner

Bowl Eligible: 9
Arizona, Arizona St., California, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Utah, Washington St.

Still Alive
Washington 5-6 must beat Washington St.

Southeastern
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 4:00 PM Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA on CBS

East Division Champion: Florida

West Division Champion Scenarios
Alabama controls its own destiny. If they beat Auburn, they are West Division champions
Ole Miss can win the division if they beat Mississippi St., and Auburn beats Alabama

Bowl Eligible: 10
Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, LSU, Ole Miss, Mississippi St., Tennessee, Texas A&M

Still Alive
Kentucky 5-6 must beat Louisville
Missouri 5-6 must beat Arkansas

GROUP OF 5 CONFERENCES
American Athletic
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 12:00 Noon at West Division Champion on ABC or ESPN

East Division Scenarios
Temple controls their own destiny. If they beat Connecticut, the Owls are in the AAC Championship Game.
If South Florida beats Central Florida and Temple loses, then USF is division champ.
West Division Champion: Houston-Navy winner will host Championship Game

Bowl Eligible: 7
Cincinnati, Connecticut, Houston, Memphis, Navy, South Florida, Temple

Still Alive
East Carolina 5-6 must beat Cincinnati
Tulsa 5-6 must beat Tulane

Conference USA
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 12:00 Noon at home stadium of team with the better record, on ESPN2

East Division Champion: Western Kentucky-Marshall winner

West Division Champion: Louisiana Tech-Southern Miss. winner

Bowl Eligible: 5
Louisiana Tech, Marshall, Middle Tennessee, Southern Miss., Western Kentucky

Still Alive
Old Dominion 5-6 must beat Florida Atlantic

Independents
Notre Dame is bowl eligible and figures in the ACC bowls
BYU is bowl eligible and will play in the Las Vegas or Hawaii Bowl
Army is not bowl eligible, opening up an at-large spot in the Poinsettia Bowl

Mid-American
Championship Game: Friday, December 4, 8:00 PM Ford Field, Detroit, MI on ESPN2

East Division Champion: Bowling Green

West Division Scenarios
Northern Illinois controls its own destiny. If the Broncos beat Ohio, they are division champs.
Toledo wins the division title if they beat Western Michigan, and Ohio beats Northern Illinois.

Bowl Eligible: 7
Akron, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan

Still Alive
Buffalo 5-6 must beat Massachusetts

Mountain West
Championship Game: Saturday, December 5, 7:30 PM at Air Force on ESPN2

Mountain Division Champion: Air Force

West Division Champion: San Diego St.

Bowl Eligible: 7
Air Force, Boise St., Colorado St., New Mexico, Nevada, San Diego St., Utah St.

Still Alive
San Jose St. 5-6 must beat Boise St.

Sun Belt
No Championship Game

Championship Scenarios
Arkansas St. 6-0 controls its own destiny and has New Mexico St. and Texas St. remaining
Appalachian St. 5-1 wins the SBC if Arkansas St. loses both games, and Appy beats ULL and South Alabama
Georgia Southern 5-1 wins the SBC if Arkansas St. loses both games, Appy St. loses one game, and GSU beats South Alabama and Georgia St.

Bowl Eligible: 3
Appalachian St., Arkansas St., Georgia Southern

Still Alive
Georgia St. 4-6 must beat Troy and Georgia Southern
UL-Lafayette 4-6 must beat Appalachian St. and Troy
South Alabama 5-5 must beat either Georgia Southern or Appalachian St.

This Week’s Ratings

PiRate Ratings
#	Team	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
1	Alabama	131.7	129.4	131.8	131.0
2	Oklahoma	127.7	124.0	128.4	126.7
3	Baylor	127.3	123.6	127.7	126.2
4	Ohio St.	126.7	121.9	127.0	125.2
5	Stanford	123.4	120.6	123.4	122.5
6	North Carolina	121.8	122.2	122.2	122.1
7	Ole Miss	124.0	119.2	122.6	121.9
8	Clemson	121.5	122.5	121.4	121.8
9	TCU	123.0	115.3	123.7	120.7
10	Notre Dame	121.0	118.6	120.5	120.0
11	UCLA	121.9	116.2	120.8	119.6
12	Arkansas	120.5	115.6	119.7	118.6
13	Tennessee	119.8	115.8	119.7	118.4
14	Oregon	120.1	114.8	120.3	118.4
15	USC	119.6	115.0	118.7	117.8
16	LSU	119.3	115.6	118.4	117.8
17	Michigan	117.8	115.4	117.8	117.0
18	Utah	119.3	113.6	117.8	116.9
19	Oklahoma St.	117.6	114.4	117.2	116.4
20	Mississippi St.	116.9	113.8	117.5	116.1
21	Michigan St.	117.1	114.2	116.8	116.0
22	Florida	116.7	113.4	116.7	115.6
23	Florida St.	115.2	116.5	114.8	115.5
24	Texas A&M	116.9	113.7	115.4	115.3
25	Georgia	116.1	110.8	115.4	114.1
26	West Virginia	115.2	109.7	114.4	113.1
27	California	115.0	109.7	114.1	112.9
28	Arizona St.	114.4	109.5	114.0	112.6
29	Washington	113.4	110.1	113.3	112.3
30	Auburn	113.6	110.4	112.3	112.1
31	Iowa	110.9	112.7	111.4	111.7
32	Virginia Tech	110.8	110.7	111.1	110.9
33	Wisconsin	111.0	110.3	109.5	110.3
34	Houston	107.7	113.1	109.1	110.0
35	Washington St.	110.5	107.1	111.3	109.6
36	Navy	107.5	111.6	109.2	109.4
37	North Carolina St.	109.4	110.6	107.9	109.3
38	Western Kentucky	108.9	109.0	109.9	109.3
39	Pittsburgh	108.6	109.6	109.5	109.2
40	Bowling Green	106.6	111.2	109.5	109.1
41	Nebraska	109.1	107.4	108.6	108.4
42	San Diego St.	106.1	110.7	108.2	108.3
43	Temple	107.1	109.3	108.3	108.2
44	Georgia Tech	109.1	106.9	107.5	107.8
45	BYU	107.3	107.2	107.9	107.5
46	Louisville	107.0	108.9	106.4	107.4
47	Missouri	108.2	104.7	107.2	106.7
48	Toledo	105.4	106.9	107.1	106.5
49	Penn St.	106.3	106.1	105.9	106.1
50	Boise St.	107.0	104.0	106.5	105.8
51	Northwestern	105.6	105.9	105.7	105.7
52	Arizona	107.9	102.4	106.8	105.7
53	Memphis	105.2	106.3	105.5	105.7
54	Minnesota	105.7	104.5	105.5	105.2
55	South Carolina	106.9	103.3	105.4	105.2
56	Texas Tech	107.9	99.7	107.7	105.1
57	Miami	104.7	104.9	105.2	104.9
58	Illinois	104.9	102.6	103.7	103.7
59	Texas	104.9	101.1	104.7	103.6
60	Cincinnati	102.0	103.9	103.3	103.1
61	Duke	103.0	102.7	102.7	102.8
62	South Florida	100.3	106.1	101.4	102.6
63	Colorado	104.6	99.7	102.7	102.3
64	Virginia	102.6	101.5	102.8	102.3
65	Western Michigan	101.2	102.2	102.1	101.8
66	Louisiana Tech	101.3	101.6	102.1	101.7
67	Kansas St.	105.1	95.6	104.1	101.6
68	Boston College	100.8	103.3	99.5	101.2
69	Air Force	99.8	103.5	100.1	101.1
70	Kentucky	102.8	99.0	101.6	101.1
71	Georgia Southern	99.7	102.1	101.2	101.0
72	Northern Illinois	98.2	102.3	99.6	100.0
73	Iowa St.	100.8	97.1	101.1	99.7
74	Indiana	99.6	99.7	99.5	99.6
75	Vanderbilt	100.5	96.4	99.9	98.9
76	Marshall	98.4	99.3	98.6	98.8
77	Appalachian St.	96.9	100.2	98.9	98.7
78	Utah St.	98.4	98.9	97.4	98.2
79	Wake Forest	96.5	99.6	96.2	97.4
80	Southern Mississippi	95.4	98.0	96.4	96.6
81	East Carolina	94.7	98.5	95.6	96.3
82	Purdue	96.5	95.7	95.2	95.8
83	Syracuse	94.6	97.2	94.3	95.4
84	Arkansas St.	93.9	95.1	95.5	94.8
85	Middle Tennessee	94.6	93.9	94.4	94.3
86	Colorado St.	93.6	94.0	93.5	93.7
87	Connecticut	91.3	96.5	93.1	93.6
88	San Jose St.	92.5	95.3	92.9	93.6
89	Maryland	94.0	92.7	93.7	93.5
90	Central Michigan	91.1	95.2	93.3	93.2
91	Rutgers	94.0	91.5	91.9	92.5
92	Tulsa	89.4	93.4	90.3	91.0
93	Nevada	89.6	93.4	89.7	90.9
94	New Mexico	90.9	91.3	89.8	90.7
95	Ohio	87.2	91.3	88.8	89.1
96	Akron	85.0	91.0	87.1	87.7
97	SMU	85.3	88.9	84.9	86.4
98	Oregon St.	87.7	84.3	85.6	85.9
99	Florida Atlantic	84.2	87.6	85.1	85.6
100	Florida International	83.8	86.2	83.9	84.6
101	Buffalo	81.5	87.1	82.6	83.7
102	Massachusetts	82.2	85.3	82.5	83.3
103	UNLV	82.3	84.2	82.9	83.1
104	Tulane	82.6	85.2	81.5	83.1
105	Troy	81.9	83.4	82.9	82.7
106	Georgia St.	80.5	82.0	81.5	81.3
107	Army	78.1	85.6	79.4	81.0
108	Fresno St.	80.7	83.5	78.5	80.9
109	Ball St.	80.0	82.2	80.4	80.9
110	UL-Lafayette	80.2	82.6	79.8	80.9
111	UT-San Antonio	78.8	81.5	79.4	79.9
112	Wyoming	79.6	81.0	78.2	79.6
113	Kent St.	78.2	80.9	78.7	79.3
114	UTEP	78.4	81.0	78.2	79.2
115	Rice	78.2	80.9	77.6	78.9
116	Hawaii	78.2	79.8	76.9	78.3
117	Old Dominion	76.6	80.5	76.2	77.8
118	Central Florida	76.7	79.5	76.6	77.6
119	South Alabama	75.4	80.5	76.3	77.4
120	Miami (O)	75.4	80.3	76.3	77.3
121	Idaho	73.8	78.8	75.0	75.9
122	Texas St.	74.5	77.2	74.5	75.4
123	New Mexico St.	73.2	75.3	73.8	74.1
124	North Texas	72.4	75.8	72.2	73.5
125	Kansas	75.7	69.3	73.4	72.8
126	Eastern Michigan	70.7	76.6	70.1	72.5
127	UL-Monroe	70.8	69.7	70.1	70.2
128	Charlotte	67.9	69.6	67.8	68.4

 

PiRate Retrodictive
#	Team
1	Alabama
2	Clemson
3	Oklahoma
4	Ohio St.
5	Notre Dame
6	Iowa
7	Baylor
8	Michigan St.
9	Stanford
10	Oklahoma St.
11	Michigan
12	TCU
13	Florida
14	North Carolina
15	Ole Miss
16	Florida St.
17	Navy
18	Mississippi St.
19	Northwestern
20	Oregon
21	Utah
22	LSU
23	USC
24	UCLA
25	Toledo
26	Tennessee
27	Houston
28	Pittsburgh
29	Wisconsin
30	Texas A&M
31	Washington St.
32	Arkansas
33	Georgia
34	West Virginia
35	Temple
36	Memphis
37	California
38	BYU
39	Penn St.
40	Western Kentucky
41	Bowling Green
42	Texas Tech
43	Auburn
44	South Florida
45	Miami (Fla)
46	Washington
47	North Carolina St.
48	Arizona St.
49	Appalachian St.
50	San Diego St.
51	Northern Illinois
52	Louisville
53	Georgia Southern
54	Nebraska
55	Air Force
56	Virginia Tech
57	Minnesota
58	Louisiana Tech
59	Marshall
60	Texas
61	Indiana
62	Boise St.
63	Kansas St.
64	Duke
65	Southern Miss.
66	Central Michigan
67	Cincinnati
68	Illinois
69	Arkansas St.
70	Arizona
71	Connecticut
72	Virginia
73	Western Michigan
74	Georgia Tech
75	Utah St.
76	Kentucky
77	Iowa St.
78	Ohio
79	Tulsa
80	Missouri
81	Vanderbilt
82	East Carolina
83	South Carolina
84	Rutgers
85	Middle Tennessee
86	Syracuse
87	Maryland
88	San Jose St.
89	Buffalo
90	Boston College
91	Colorado
92	Akron
93	Colorado St.
94	Wake Forest
95	Nevada
96	Troy
97	New Mexico
98	Purdue
99	South Alabama
100	Oregon St.
101	Georgia St.
102	SMU
103	Florida Int’l.
104	Old Dominion
105	Louisiana-Lafayette
106	UNLV
107	Tulane
108	Ball St.
109	Rice
110	Florida Atlantic
111	UTSA
112	Idaho
113	New Mexico St.
114	Texas St.
115	Kent St.
116	Fresno St.
117	Kansas
118	Massachusetts
119	UTEP
120	Miami (O)
121	Army
122	Hawaii
123	Wyoming
124	Louisiana-Monroe
125	North Texas
126	Charlotte
127	Eastern Michigan
128	Central Florida

 

PiRate Ratings By Conference

American Athletic Conference
East Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Temple	6-1	9-2	107.1	109.3	108.3	108.2
Cincinnati	3-4	6-5	102.0	103.9	103.3	103.1
South Florida	5-2	7-4	100.3	106.1	101.4	102.6
East Carolina	3-4	5-6	94.7	98.5	95.6	96.3
Connecticut	4-3	6-5	91.3	96.5	93.1	93.6
Central Florida	0-7	0-11	76.7	79.5	76.6	77.6
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Houston	6-1	10-1	107.7	113.1	109.1	110.0
Navy	7-0	9-1	107.5	111.6	109.2	109.4
Memphis	4-3	8-3	105.2	106.3	105.5	105.7
Tulsa	2-5	5-6	89.4	93.4	90.3	91.0
SMU	1-6	2-9	85.3	88.9	84.9	86.4
Tulane	1-6	3-8	82.6	85.2	81.5	83.1
AAC Averages			95.8	99.4	96.6	97.2
Atlantic Coast Conference
Atlantic Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Clemson	8-0	11-0	121.5	122.5	121.4	121.8
Florida St.	6-2	9-2	115.2	116.5	114.8	115.5
North Carolina St.	3-4	7-4	109.4	110.6	107.9	109.3
Louisville	5-3	6-5	107.0	108.9	106.4	107.4
Boston College	0-7	3-8	100.8	103.3	99.5	101.2
Wake Forest	1-6	3-8	96.5	99.6	96.2	97.4
Syracuse	1-6	3-8	94.6	97.2	94.3	95.4
Coastal Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
North Carolina	7-0	10-1	121.8	122.2	122.2	122.1
Virginia Tech	3-4	5-6	110.8	110.7	111.1	110.9
Pittsburgh	6-1	8-3	108.6	109.6	109.5	109.2
Georgia Tech	1-7	3-8	109.1	106.9	107.5	107.8
Miami	4-3	7-4	104.7	104.9	105.2	104.9
Duke	3-4	6-5	103.0	102.7	102.7	102.8
Virginia	3-4	4-7	102.6	101.5	102.8	102.3
ACC Averages			107.5	108.4	107.3	107.7
Big 12 Conference
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Oklahoma	7-1	10-1	127.7	124.0	128.4	126.7
Baylor	6-1	9-1	127.3	123.6	127.7	126.2
TCU	6-2	9-2	123.0	115.3	123.7	120.7
Oklahoma St.	7-1	10-1	117.6	114.4	117.2	116.4
West Virginia	3-4	6-4	115.2	109.7	114.4	113.1
Texas Tech	3-5	6-5	107.9	99.7	107.7	105.1
Texas	3-4	4-6	104.9	101.1	104.7	103.6
Kansas St.	1-6	4-6	105.1	95.6	104.1	101.6
Iowa St.	2-6	3-8	100.8	97.1	101.1	99.7
Kansas	0-8	0-11	75.7	69.3	73.4	72.8
Big 12 Averages			110.5	105.0	110.2	108.6
Big Ten Conference
East Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Ohio St.	6-1	10-1	126.7	121.9	127.0	125.2
Michigan	6-1	9-2	117.8	115.4	117.8	117.0
Michigan St.	6-1	10-1	117.1	114.2	116.8	116.0
Penn St.	4-3	7-4	106.3	106.1	105.9	106.1
Indiana	1-6	5-6	99.6	99.7	99.5	99.6
Maryland	0-7	2-9	94.0	92.7	93.7	93.5
Rutgers	1-6	4-7	94.0	91.5	91.9	92.5
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Iowa	7-0	11-0	110.9	112.7	111.4	111.7
Wisconsin	5-2	8-3	111.0	110.3	109.5	110.3
Nebraska	3-4	5-6	109.1	107.4	108.6	108.4
Northwestern	5-2	9-2	105.6	105.9	105.7	105.7
Minnesota	2-5	5-6	105.7	104.5	105.5	105.2
Illinois	2-5	5-6	104.9	102.6	103.7	103.7
Purdue	1-6	2-9	96.5	95.7	95.2	95.8
Big Ten Averages			107.1	105.8	106.6	106.5
Conference USA
East Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Western Kentucky	7-0	9-2	108.9	109.0	109.9	109.3
Marshall	6-1	9-2	98.4	99.3	98.6	98.8
Middle Tennessee	5-2	6-5	94.6	93.9	94.4	94.3
Florida Atlantic	2-5	2-9	84.2	87.6	85.1	85.6
Florida International	3-5	5-7	83.8	86.2	83.9	84.6
Old Dominion	3-4	5-6	76.6	80.5	76.2	77.8
Charlotte	0-7	2-9	67.9	69.6	67.8	68.4
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Louisiana Tech	6-1	8-3	101.3	101.6	102.1	101.7
Southern Mississippi	6-1	8-3	95.4	98.0	96.4	96.6
UT-San Antonio	3-4	3-8	78.8	81.5	79.4	79.9
UTEP	2-5	4-7	78.4	81.0	78.2	79.2
Rice	2-5	4-7	78.2	80.9	77.6	78.9
North Texas	1-6	1-10	72.4	75.8	72.2	73.5
CUSA Averages			86.1	88.1	86.3	86.8
FBS Independents
Team		Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Notre Dame		10-1	121.0	118.6	120.5	120.0
BYU		8-3	107.3	107.2	107.9	107.5
Army		2-9	78.1	85.6	79.4	81.0
Independents Averages			102.1	103.8	102.6	102.8
Mid-American Conference
East Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Bowling Green	6-1	8-3	106.6	111.2	109.5	109.1
Ohio	4-3	7-4	87.2	91.3	88.8	89.1
Akron	4-3	6-5	85.0	91.0	87.1	87.7
Buffalo	3-4	5-6	81.5	87.1	82.6	83.7
Massachusetts	1-6	2-9	82.2	85.3	82.5	83.3
Kent St.	2-5	3-8	78.2	80.9	78.7	79.3
Miami (O)	2-6	3-9	75.4	80.3	76.3	77.3
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Toledo	6-1	9-1	105.4	106.9	107.1	106.5
Western Michigan	5-2	6-5	101.2	102.2	102.1	101.8
Northern Illinois	6-1	8-3	98.2	102.3	99.6	100.0
Central Michigan	5-2	6-5	91.1	95.2	93.3	93.2
Ball St.	2-5	3-8	80.0	82.2	80.4	80.9
Eastern Michigan	0-7	1-10	70.7	76.6	70.1	72.5
MAC Averages			87.9	91.7	89.1	89.6
Mountain West Conference
Mountain Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Boise St.	4-3	7-4	107.0	104.0	106.5	105.8
Air Force	6-1	8-3	99.8	103.5	100.1	101.1
Utah St.	5-3	6-5	98.4	98.9	97.4	98.2
Colorado St.	4-3	6-5	93.6	94.0	93.5	93.7
New Mexico	4-3	6-5	90.9	91.3	89.8	90.7
Wyoming	1-6	1-10	79.6	81.0	78.2	79.6
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
San Diego St.	7-0	8-3	106.1	110.7	108.2	108.3
San Jose St.	4-3	5-6	92.5	95.3	92.9	93.6
Nevada	4-3	6-5	89.6	93.4	89.7	90.9
UNLV	2-5	3-8	82.3	84.2	82.9	83.1
Fresno St.	2-6	3-8	80.7	83.5	78.5	80.9
Hawaii	0-8	2-10	78.2	79.8	76.9	78.3
MWC Averages			91.6	93.3	91.2	92.0
Pac-12 Conference
North Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Stanford	8-1	9-2	123.4	120.6	123.4	122.5
Oregon	6-2	8-3	120.1	114.8	120.3	118.4
California	3-5	6-5	115.0	109.7	114.1	112.9
Washington	3-5	5-6	113.4	110.1	113.3	112.3
Washington St.	6-2	8-3	110.5	107.1	111.3	109.6
Oregon St.	0-8	2-9	87.7	84.3	85.6	85.9
South Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
UCLA	5-3	8-3	121.9	116.2	120.8	119.6
USC	5-3	7-4	119.6	115.0	118.7	117.8
Utah	5-3	8-3	119.3	113.6	117.8	116.9
Arizona St.	4-4	6-5	114.4	109.5	114.0	112.6
Arizona	3-6	6-6	107.9	102.4	106.8	105.7
Colorado	1-7	4-8	104.6	99.7	102.7	102.3
Pac-12 Averages			113.2	108.6	112.4	111.4
Southeastern Conference
East Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Tennessee	4-3	7-4	119.8	115.8	119.7	118.4
Florida	7-1	10-1	116.7	113.4	116.7	115.6
Georgia	5-3	8-3	116.1	110.8	115.4	114.1
Missouri	1-6	5-6	108.2	104.7	107.2	106.7
South Carolina	1-7	3-8	106.9	103.3	105.4	105.2
Kentucky	2-6	5-6	102.8	99.0	101.6	101.1
Vanderbilt	2-5	4-7	100.5	96.4	99.9	98.9
West Division
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Alabama	6-1	10-1	131.7	129.4	131.8	131.0
Ole Miss	5-2	8-3	124.0	119.2	122.6	121.9
Arkansas	4-3	6-5	120.5	115.6	119.7	118.6
LSU	4-3	7-3	119.3	115.6	118.4	117.8
Mississippi St.	4-3	8-3	116.9	113.8	117.5	116.1
Texas A&M	4-3	8-3	116.9	113.7	115.4	115.3
Auburn	2-5	6-5	113.6	110.4	112.3	112.1
SEC Averages			115.3	111.5	114.5	113.8
Sunbelt Conference
Team	Conference	Overall	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
Georgia Southern	5-1	7-3	99.7	102.1	101.2	101.0
Appalachian St.	5-1	8-2	96.9	100.2	98.9	98.7
Arkansas St.	6-0	7-3	93.9	95.1	95.5	94.8
Troy	2-4	3-7	81.9	83.4	82.9	82.7
Georgia St.	3-3	4-6	80.5	82.0	81.5	81.3
UL-Lafayette	3-3	4-6	80.2	82.6	79.8	80.9
South Alabama	3-3	5-5	75.4	80.5	76.3	77.4
Idaho	2-5	3-8	73.8	78.8	75.0	75.9
Texas St.	2-4	3-7	74.5	77.2	74.5	75.4
New Mexico St.	3-3	3-7	73.2	75.3	73.8	74.1
UL-Monroe	0-7	1-10	70.8	69.7	70.1	70.2
Sun Belt Averages			81.9	84.3	82.7	82.9

 

PiRate Ratings By Conference
#	League	PiRate	Mean	Bias	Average
1	SEC	115.3	111.5	114.5	113.8
2	Pac-12	113.2	108.6	112.4	111.4
3	Big 12	110.5	105.0	110.2	108.6
4	ACC	107.5	108.4	107.3	107.7
5	Big Ten	107.1	105.8	106.6	106.5
6	Indep.	102.1	103.8	102.6	102.8
7	AAC	95.8	99.4	96.6	97.2
8	MWC	91.6	93.3	91.2	92.0
9	MAC	87.9	91.7	89.1	89.6
10	CUSA	86.1	88.1	86.3	86.8
11	SBC	81.9	84.3	82.7	82.9

 

Projected Playoff Teams

NCAA Playoffs
1	Clemson
2	Alabama
3	Iowa
4	Oklahoma

 

Group of 5 Contenders For Automatic New Year’s Six Bowl Bid
#	Team
1	Navy
2	Houston
3	Toledo
4	Western Kentucky
5	Air Force

 

Power 5 Conferences Bottom 10
#	Team
10	Iowa St.
9	Indiana
8	Vanderbilt
7	Wake Forest
6	Purdue
5	Syracuse
4	Maryland
3	Rutgers
2	Oregon St.
1	Kansas

 

FCS Top 10
#	Team	PiRate
1	Jacksonville St.	97.5
2	North Dakota St.	91.9
3	Dartmouth	91.8
4	Harvard	91.6
5	McNeese St.	91.5
6	Illinois St.	91.0
7	Charleston Southern	90.1
8	Portland St.	89.8
9	James Madison	89.7
10	Citadel	89.6

 

This Week’s Games
Home	Visitor	PiRate	Mean	Bias
Tuesday, November 24
Ball St.	Bowling Green	-24.1	-26.5	-26.6
Northern Illinois	Ohio	14.0	14.0	13.8
Thursday, November 26
Central Florida	South Florida	-21.6	-24.6	-22.8
Texas	Texas Tech	0.0	4.4	0.0
Friday, November 27
Pittsburgh	Miami (Fla.)	6.9	7.7	7.3
Western Kentucky	Marshall	13.5	12.7	14.3
Houston	Navy	3.2	4.5	2.9
Toledo	Western Michigan	7.2	7.7	8.0
Akron	Kent St.	9.3	2.6	10.9
Central Michigan	Eastern Michigan	22.9	21.1	25.7
Georgia St.	Troy	0.6	0.6	0.6
Arkansas	Missouri	15.3	13.9	15.5
Oregon	Oregon St.	34.4	32.5	36.7
Washington	Washington St.	4.9	5.0	4.0
Nebraska	Iowa	1.2	-2.3	0.2
San Jose St.	Boise St.	-11.5	-5.7	-10.6
Buffalo	Massachusetts	1.8	4.3	2.6
TCU	Baylor	-1.8	-5.8	-1.5
Tulane	Tulsa	-4.3	-5.7	-6.3
Saturday, November 21
East Carolina	Cincinnati	-4.3	-2.4	-4.7
Memphis	SMU	22.9	20.4	23.6
West Virginia	Iowa St.	17.4	15.6	16.3
Purdue	Indiana	-1.1	-2.0	-2.3
Rutgers	Maryland	2.5	1.3	0.7
Louisiana Tech	Southern Miss.	8.4	6.1	8.2
Michigan	Ohio St.	-5.9	-3.5	-6.2
Old Dominion	Florida Atlantic	-5.1	-4.6	-6.4
South Carolina	Clemson	-12.6	-17.2	-14.0
Virginia	Virginia Tech	-6.2	-7.2	-6.3
Georgia Tech	Georgia	-5.0	-1.9	-5.9
Kentucky	Louisville	-2.2	-7.9	-2.8
Syracuse	Boston College	-3.7	-3.6	-2.7
Wake Forest	Duke	-4.5	-1.1	-4.5
Appalachian St.	Louisiana-Lafayette	19.2	20.1	21.6
Wyoming	UNLV	-0.2	-0.7	-2.2
Georgia Southern	South Alabama	26.8	24.1	27.4
UTSA	Middle Tennessee	-13.3	-9.9	-12.5
Utah	Colorado	17.7	16.9	18.1
North Carolina St.	North Carolina	-10.4	-9.6	-12.3
Auburn	Alabama	-16.1	-17.0	-17.5
Rice	Charlotte	12.3	13.3	11.8
Michigan St.	Penn St.	13.8	11.1	13.9
Minnesota	Wisconsin	-2.3	-2.8	-1.0
North Texas	UTEP	-4.0	-3.2	-4.0
USC	UCLA	-0.3	2.0	-0.1
Northwestern (Chi.)	Illinois	0.7	3.3	2.0
Utah St.	BYU	-6.9	-6.3	-8.5
New Mexico St.	Arkansas St.	-18.2	-17.3	-19.2
Kansas	Kansas St.	-27.4	-24.3	-28.7
Tennessee	Vanderbilt	22.3	22.4	22.8
Idaho	Texas St.	1.8	4.1	3.0
Temple	Connecticut	18.3	15.3	17.7
Mississippi St.	Ole Miss	-5.1	-3.4	-3.1
Stanford	Notre Dame	5.4	5.0	5.9
Florida	Florida St.	3.5	-1.1	3.9
LSU	Texas A&M	5.4	4.9	16.0
Oklahoma St.	Oklahoma	-8.1	-7.6	-9.2
Fresno St.	Colorado St.	-10.4	-8.0	-12.5
California	Arizona St.	3.6	3.2	3.1
New Mexico	Air Force	-5.9	-9.2	-7.3
San Diego St.	Nevada	19.5	20.3	21.5
Hawaii	Louisiana-Monroe	11.4	14.1	10.8

 

Bowl	Conferences		Team	vs.	Team
Cure	AAC	SBC	Cincinnati	vs.	Washington *
New Mexico	MWC	CUSA	New Mexico	vs.	Tulsa *
Las Vegas	Pac-12	MWC/BYU	USC	vs.	BYU
Camellia	MAC	SBC	Ohio	vs.	Georgia Southern
New Orleans	CUSA	SBC	Louisiana Tech	vs.	Arkansas St.
Miami Beach	AAC	CUSA	South Florida	vs.	Western Kentucky
Idaho Potato	MAC	MWC	Akron	vs.	Boise St.
Boca Raton	AAC	MAC	Connecticut	vs.	Northern Illinois
Poinsettia	MWC	Army	Air Force	vs.	Arizona St. *
GoDaddy	MAC	SBC	Toledo	vs.	Appalachian St.
Bahamas	CUSA	MAC	Southern Miss.	vs.	Bowling Green
Hawaii	AAC	MWC/BYU	Houston	vs.	San Diego St.
St. Petersburg	AAC	CUSA	Memphis	vs.	Marshall
Sun	ACC	Pac-12	Pittsburgh	vs.	Utah
Heart of Dallas	Big 12	CUSA	Utah St. *	vs.	Middle Tennessee
Pinstripe	ACC	Big Ten	Duke	vs.	Indiana
Independence	SEC	ACC	Kentucky	vs.	Miami (Fla.)
Foster Farms	Big Ten	Pac-12	Minnesota	vs.	California
Military	ACC	AAC	Louisville	vs.	Temple
Quick Lane	ACC	Big Ten	Central Michigan *	vs.	San Jose St. *
Armed Forces	Big Ten	MWC	Washington St. *	vs.	Colorado St.
Russell Athletic	ACC	Big 12	Florida St.	vs.	Oklahoma St.
Arizona	CUSA	MWC	Old Dominion	vs.	Nevada
Texas	Big 12	SEC	Texas Tech	vs.	Texas A&M
Birmingham	AAC	SEC	East Carolina	vs.	Auburn
Belk	ACC	SEC	Virginia Tech	vs.	LSU
Music City	ACC/B10	SEC	Penn St.	vs.	Tennessee
Peach	N. Y. 6	N. Y. 6	Clemson	vs.	Navy
Cotton	Playoff	Playoff	Alabama	vs.	North Carolina
Orange	Playoff	Playoff	Oklahoma	vs.	Iowa
Holiday	Big Ten	Pac-12	Wisconsin	vs.	UCLA
Ouback	Big Ten	SEC	Northwestern	vs.	Georgia
Citrus	Big Ten	SEC	Ohio St.	vs.	Mississippi St.
Sugar	Big 12	SEC	Baylor	vs.	Florida
Rose	Big Ten	Pac-12	Michigan St.	vs.	Stanford
Fiesta	N. Y. 6	N. Y. 6	Michigan	vs.	Notre Dame
TaxSlayer	ACC/B10	SEC	North Carolina St.	vs.	Ole Miss
Liberty	Big 12	SEC	West Virginia	vs.	Arkansas
Alamo	Big 12	Pac-12	TCU	vs.	Oregon
Cactus	Big 12	Pac-12	Kansas St.	vs.	Arizona
Nat’l Champ.	Semifinal	Winners	Alabama	vs.	Oklahoma
* = At-large selection due to contracted conference not having an eligible team for this slot