Daily Blog • September 5, 2010	Blog Archives

Welcome to my Sunday Blog. During the offseason I had just one weekend blog but each week during the season I will take a look at the Top 25 performances from the just completed week with a little analysis as well as a quick review of the past weekend. On Monday I will give you my News & Notes where I delve deeper into every game that was played this past weekend, breaking down individual drives and giving you misleading finals and other interesting tidbits.

As far as my game grades go after the 2008 season was completed I devised a power ratings system, which lets me analyze at what level each team played during an individual game. This “game grade” takes into account the yards rushing, yards passing, points scored, rushing yards allowed, passing yards allowed and points allowed and factors them in against the opponent played and even factors in the site the game was played at.

With all these factors taken into consideration you will see teams that lost the game having a better individual game grade than teams that beat them simply because the team they played was superior and much less was expected of them.

Top 25 Performances of the Week So Far

Rk	Tm		FOE	Off Rush	Off Pass	Off Pts	Def Rush	Def Pass	Def Pts	TO's	Ttl Yd Diff	Gm Grade
1	OREGON		New Mexico	392	359	72	39	80	0	4	632	117.7
2	ARIZONA	AT	Toledo	105	413	41	80	103	2	1	335	100.9
3	TCU	AT	Oregon St	278	176	30	90	180	21	-2	184	100.1
4	OHIO ST		Marshall	280	249	45	44	155	7	3	330	98.7
5	MISS ST		Memphis	197	372	49	41	196	7	1	332	95.7
6	CALIFORNIA		UC DAVIS	230	287	52	14	67	3	0	436	94.6
7	ALABAMA		San Jose St	268	310	48	84	92	3	0	402	94.3
8	UTAH ST	AT	Oklahoma	97	340	24	198	215	31	-1	24	93.2
9	GEORGIA		Louisiana	184	193	55	14	114	7	2	249	91.3
10	N CAROLINA	AT	LSU	23	410	24	176	157	30	1	100	90.7
11	MICHIGAN		Connecticut	287	186	30	138	205	10	1	130	89.7
12	TENNESSEE		UT MARTIN	332	205	50	56	86	0	0	395	89.1
13	OKLAHOMA ST		Washington St	291	253	65	112	212	17	2	220	88.8
14	WISCONSIN	AT	UNLV	278	197	41	110	105	21	-1	260	88.6
15	Utah		Pittsburgh	122	283	27	82	184	24	-1	139	87.7
16	Fresno St		Cincinnati	49	247	28	15	219	14	0	62	87.2
17	S CAROLINA		S Mississippi	224	225	41	67	337	13	1	45	86.6
17	Hawaii		USC	129	459	36	146	277	49	1	165	86.6
19	SYRACUSE	AT	Akron	202	229	29	55	111	3	-3	265	86.1
20	MISSOURI	AT	Illinois	98	281	23	200	81	13	3	98	85.8
21	STANFORD		SACRAMENTO	213	316	52	54	113	17	-1	362	84.7
22	TEXAS	AT	Rice	196	172	34	89	131	17	1	148	84.6
23	FLORIDA ST		SAMFORD	185	296	59	77	223	6	-1	181	84.4
24	BYU		Washington	146	262	23	128	266	17	0	14	84.2
25	ARIZONA ST		PORTLAND ST	242	311	54	54	209	9	2	290	84.1
25	AUBURN		Arkansas St	367	241	52	43	323	26	-2	242	84.1

1. Despite breaking in a new QB and last year’s top RB LaMichael James being suspended for the game, the Ducks easily had the top performance of the week rolling up a 751-119 yd advantage and scoring 72 points against an overmatched New Mexico team.

2. Arizona used last year’s Holiday Bowl defeat as motivation all offseason and roared to a great start with a 518-183 yd edge over a Toledo team that beat Colorado in the same spot a year ago.

3. TCU only won by 9 over Oregon St but dominated the stat sheet with 454-270 yd edge over Oregon St. A couple of TO’s by the Frogs cost them a chance to win the game by a much larger margin.

4. Ohio St started their quest to make it to a 4th national title game in the last 9 years with a dominating win over Marshall. The Bucks were balanced offensively with 280 yards rushing and 249 yds passing and the defense limited the Herd to just 199 yds.

5. Miss St used two different QB’s effectively in their 49-7 trouncing of Memphis and gained 569 yards. The Bulldog D was so dominant that it did not even give up a 3rd down conversion until late in the 4th quarter.

6. California had a 331-32 yd edge at the half and cruised from their in their 52-3 win over FCS UC Davis.

7. No Ingram, no Dareus, no problem for the defending national champs as the Crimson Tide rolled San Jose St 48-3 and had a 578-176 yd edge.

8. Despite playing without their leading receiver and rusher from a year ago Utah St was still able to gain 437 yds against the Sooners and nearly pulled off the monumental upset in the 31-24 loss.

9. Georgia was playing without All-American WR AJ Green but still rolled up 55 points and limited Louisiana to just 128 total yards.

10. North Carolina HC Butch Davis did an outstanding job getting his depleted Tar Heels ready for a big game against LSU as North Carolina had a 433-333 yd edge and nearly pulled out a big comeback win in the 2nd half.