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Daily Blog • Sunday, October 18th

Here is my computer’s individual grade performance of this past weekend’s games. It was a week where the Top 7 teams in the country had one team that won by double digits and that was Alabama and they only outgained South Carolina by 78 yards in the game. There were no 100+ ratings this week.

    Game     OFF OFF OFF DEF DEF DEF   Ttl Yd
Rank   Rating   FOE RUSH PASS PTS RUSH PASS PTS TO's Diff
1 TCU 99.55   Colorado St 275 224 44 70 112 6 0 317
2 CLEMSON 99.00   Wake Forest 195 187 38 81 97 3 0 204
3 OKLAHOMA 98.995 † Texas -16 327 13 142 127 16 -2 42
4 ARKANSAS 97.35 AT Florida 133 224 20 136 255 23 4 -34
5 TEXAS 95.975 † Oklahoma 142 127 16 -16 327 13 2 -42
6 TEXAS TECH 95.975 AT Nebraska 25 234 31 70 215 10 2 -26
7 USC 95.975 AT Notre Dame 121 380 34 82 285 27 -1 134
8 KANSAS ST 95.15   Texas A&M 232 192 62 13 314 14 5 97
9 PENN ST 94.875   Minnesota 177 287 20 37 101 0 1 326
10 MICHIGAN 92.675   DELAWARE ST 461 266 63 65 151 6 -1 511
11 ALABAMA 90.75   South Carolina 264 92 20 64 214 6 -2 78
12 PURDUE 89.925   Ohio St 80 281 26 66 221 18 2 74
13 FLORIDA 89.375   Arkansas 136 255 23 133 224 20 -4 34
14 CINCINNATI 89.375 AT USF 189 212 34 168 208 17 1 25
15 CALIFORNIA 88.825 AT UCLA 289 205 45 137 311 26 2 46
16 GEORGIA TECH 88.825   Virginia Tech 309 51 28 175 159 23 0 26
17 BOSTON COLL 88.55   NC State 293 187 52 79 315 20 3 86
18 GEORGIA 87.45 AT Vanderbilt 173 226 34 122 174 10 0 103
19 IOWA 87.175 AT Wisconsin 65 218 20 87 143 10 2 53
20 BOISE ST 87.175 AT Tulsa 193 187 28 88 207 21 -2 85
21 MISSISSIPPI 86.625   UAB 163 338 48 230 121 13 1 150
22 LOUISIANA TECH 85.25   New Mexico St 315 225 45 74 68 7 2 398
23 NOTRE DAME 84.975   USC 82 285 27 121 380 34 1 -134
24 KENTUCKY 84.7 AT Auburn 282 75 21 220 95 14 1 42
25 MIAMI FLA 84.425 AT UCF 70 293 27 53 176 7 1 134

Surprisingly my computer’s top performance went to TCU who got off to a sluggish start versus Colorado St but showed no signs of look-ahead dominating the Rams with a 499-182 yard edge in their 44-6 rout. Surprisingly the week’s #3 performance went to Oklahoma who lost to Texas. Keep in mind OU was playing a team that my computer has ranking very high in Texas and they outgained them by 42 yards at a neutral site.

Arkansas earned my #4 grade at 97.35 as they went into The Swamp facing the #1 team in the country and were only outgained by 34 yards and lost by a last second FG.

Texas Tech’s 31-10 win over Nebraska is impressive but they were outgained by 26 yards which is a bit misleading as Tech only had 47 yards in the second half vs the Huskers protecting their big lead.

USC outgained Notre Dame by 134 yards in South Bend earning them the week’s #7 performance.   

Kansas St’s blowout of Texas A&M put them high on the charts and it may move higher as I analyze the games to see if there are garbage yards coming out from A&M. Keep in mind Kansas St led 59-0 in the 3Q.

Remember that these ratings adjust on a weekly basis as the opponent adjust. If the opponent that a team played gets stronger during the course of the year, then their ratings goes up on those individual week’s as well and visa versa.

Penn St blew out Minnesota outgaining them 464-138 and was also a Top 10 performance.

Purdue’s upset of Ohio St surprisingly only came up #12 despite the fact they outgained the Buckeyes by 74 yards. The game was a home game for Purdue.

Cincinnati only outgained USF by 25 yards on the road but because they won by 17, that helped them get into the Top 15.

Georgia finally had an impressive game after waffling through most of their season as they outgained Vanderbilt by 103 yards on the road in their 34-10 win an were #18.

Iowa trailed Wisconsin 10-0 but rallied to win that game and outgained the Badgers by 53 yards. I continue to compare them to last year’s Alabama squad as the similarities are strong. I did a blog about them over the summer and you can click here to read it.

Louisiana Tech steam rolled New Mexico St outgaining them by 398 yards in their 45-7 win. NMSt’s only score was on a fumble returned for a TD late.

Notre Dame broke into the Top 25 with their performance against USC despite losing by 7 at home.

Kentucky’s upset of Auburn got them into the Top 25 this week.

Right now I would say that if there is only one unbeaten FBS team at the end of the season, the one loss team that would have the best chance at playing for the Title Game figures to be USC which has survived some pretty tough road tests this season and generally plays their best ball at the end of the season.

Don’t forget - I have added to the NFL team pages which now include the weekly individual game grade for each team. That format will be ready for the college teams and each individual team page should have that up by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week. It will also have the overall ranking of each team based on my computer’s individual game performances. In future week’s it will be available every Monday.