Daily Blog • Sunday, November 29th

 

This week’s top performance went to Oklahoma in their dominating shutout win over Oklahoma St as they came in with a potent offense so the computer loved the fact they held the Cowboys to 109 total yards.

The #2 performance was Tim Tebow’s final home game at Florida and it was n

ot even as close as the 37-10 final would indicate with Florida St getting a late TD and Florida having a 276 yard edge. Georgia’s win at Georgia Tech got my vote for the FWAA Tostitos Fiesta Bowl National Team of the Week, of which I am a member of. The situation did greatly favor UGA as GT had the ACC Title game on deck and UGA was a rare underdog in this series and was out to avenge last year’s embarrassing loss. GT even got a late TD to only lose the game by 6.

Houston could have beaten Rice by a much worse as they led 49-0 at the half with most of Rice yards coming versus the Cougars backups on defense.

South Carolina had the situational edge against Clemson and outgained the Tigers by 128 yards winning as a home dog and salvaging the season. They earned my computer's #5 performance.

TCU’s domination of New Mexico was #6 and even though they won 51-10 keep in mind that my computer takes into account strength of opponent played and site and TCU did not even win as much as expected (they were a 44 point favorite in Vegas).

Miami, Fl’s win over USF was so dominating that they cut away from the game to go to the Kansas/Missouri game in the 4Q. That earned my #8 spot and while USF played a much anticipated game against their “big brother”, Miami dominated with a 181 yard edge and the game was never really in question.

Auburn’s near upset of Alabama earned them the #9 spot and they were the highest rated losing team to appear on the chart. They actually outgained Bama by 41 yards and this just in - Alabama is a pretty good team.

Boise St gave up a late TD vs Nevada which probably hurt their style points but they probably did enough to earn a trip to the BCS bowls. Hopefully both Boise and TCU will make it there.

Mississippi St’s win over Mississippi in the Egg Bowl earned them the #11 spot even though they only outgained the Rebels by 27 yards, their 41-27 win was indeed impressive.

Texas A&M was the #2 losing team on the chart coming in at #12 for their game vs Texas. They only lost by 10 piling up 532 yards vs a D that was allowing just 239 ypg. Texas comes in behind them, even though they won the game on the road in College Station. Naturally they played the softer foe in Texas A&M while the Aggies had to play them.

USC was helped by their 58 yard TD at the end of the game one play after taking a knee but UCLA’s Rick Neuheisel had called timeout. The 58 yards and 7 points probably bumped them up a couple of notches.

Colorado actually outgained Nebraska by 186 yards and come in as the 3rd highest losing team from this past weekend. While they lost the game by 8 points, scoring a Hail Mary on the final play, they had a 403-220 yard edge giving up both a punt and IR TD and 2/3 of the computer formula takes into the yards and not just the points.

Ohio’s win over Temple not only wrapped up the MAC East Title for them and a trip to next week’s Title game, it earned them the #17 performance. They did outgain the previously unbeaten in MAC play Owls by 116 yards.

West Virginia’s win over Pittsburgh in the Backyard Brawl earned them the #18 spot.

Arkansas lost at LSU by my computer has them as the #19 best performance and the 4th best losing performance. They, of course, lost the game in OT and in my computer, we take out all OT yards and points so it actually counted the game as a tie, which it was after regulation.

Central Michigan played a meaningless game against Northern Illinois and of all the teams with a Championship Game on deck, probably fared the best outgaining the Huskies by 180 yards winning 45-31 even allowing a late TD.

Baylor’s near miss vs Texas Tech earned them the #21 spot. They failed on 4th & goal at the 5 at the end of the game and led through most of it.

Washington makes an appearance in the Top 25 for their shutout win over Washington St.

Just missing out on the Top 25 were Alabama at #26, LSU #27, Utah #28, Nevada #29 and Notre Dame #30.

Game Off Off Off Def Def Def Ttl Yd
Rating Opp Rush Pass Pts Rush Pass Pts TO Diff
1 OKLA 105.88 Okla St 143 224 27 62 47 0 0 258
2 FLORIDA 100.65 Florida St 311 234 37 83 186 10 0 276
3 GEORGIA 95.43 AT Ga Tech 339 76 30 205 135 24 1 75
4 HOUSTON 95.15 Rice 221 463 73 243 134 14 3 307
5 S CAR 94.33 Clemson 223 165 34 48 212 17 1 128
6 TCU 93.23 N Mexico 202 228 51 10 162 10 3 258
7 VA TECH 91.85 AT Virginia 298 185 42 175 120 13 1 188
8 MIAMI, FL 91.58 AT USF 240 161 31 143 77 10 2 181
9 AUBURN 91.03 Alabama 151 181 21 73 218 26 -2 41
10 BOISE ST 91.03 Nevada 165 262 44 242 141 33 0 44
11 MISS ST 90.75 Miss 317 95 41 90 295 27 2 27
12 TX A&M 88.00 Texas 190 342 39 293 304 49 -1 -65
13 TEXAS 87.73 AT Texas A&M 293 304 49 190 342 39 1 65
14 USC 87.73 UCLA 130 206 28 134 188 7 3 14
15 STANFORD 87.45 Notre Dame 280 216 45 107 340 38 0 49
16 COLO 86.63 Nebraska 134 269 20 144 73 28 -2 186
17 OHIO 85.53 Temple 170 324 35 255 123 17 3 116
18 W VIRG 85.25 Pitt 205 164 19 146 179 16 2 44
19 ARKANSAS 84.98 AT LSU 150 219 30 141 179 30 1 49
20 C MICH 84.98 N Illinois 257 255 45 126 206 31 1 180
21 BAYLOR 84.43 TX Tech 103 234 13 100 268 20 0 -31
22 TENN 84.43 AT Kentucky 205 206 24 167 100 24 0 144
23 UTEP 83.05 Marshall 72 517 52 146 347 21 3 96
24 ARIZ ST 82.50 Arizona 86 217 17 117 148 20 -1 38
25 WASH 82.23 Wash St 265 196 30 47 116 0 0 298