Daily Blog • October 20, 2014

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.

Week 8 Top Team Performances
According To My Computer's Game Grades

        OFF OFF OFF DEF DEF DEF   TOTAL GAME
RANK TEAM   OPPONENT RUSH PASS PTS RUSH PASS PTS TO's YARDS GRADE
1 Alabama   Texas A&M 298 304 59 31 141 0 1 430 134.75
3 Michigan St at Indiana 330 332 56 213 11 17 0 438 112.68
2 TCU   Oklahoma St 261 415 42 126 132 9 1 418 116.03
4 West Virginia   Baylor 134 322 41 95 223 27 -3 138 110.00
5 Ohio St   Rutgers 324 261 56 149 196 17 2 240 106.37
5 Ole Miss   Tennessee 180 203 34 0 191 3 4 192 106.37
7 LSU   Kentucky 303 120 41 71 146 3 -1 206 105.27
9 Nebraska at Northwestern 234 237 38 117 173 17 1 181 104.39
10 Oregon   Washington 218 336 45 133 184 20 2 237 101.92
8 Georgia at Arkansas 207 179 45 126 296 32 3 -36 104.59
11 Arizona St   Stanford 114 242 26 76 212 10 2 68 100.27
12 Notre Dame at Florida St 157 313 27 50 273 31 -1 147 100.10
13 USC   Colorado 213 319 56 172 231 28 1 129 95.48
14 Clemson at Boston College 113 285 17 120 143 13 0 135 95.06
15 UCLA at California 237 330 36 56 310 34 -2 201 94.93
17 Cincinnati at SMU 240 268 41 98 178 3 4 232 89.82
18 Missouri at Florida 99 20 42 135 148 13 5 -164 89.73
19 Kansas St at Oklahoma 160 225 31 198 335 30 2 -148 89.60
21 Appalachian St at Troy 441 110 53 79 229 14 3 243 88.77
22 Utah at Oregon St 253 62 29 119 272 23 0 -76 88.55
23 Oklahoma   Kansas St 198 335 30 160 225 31 -2 148 88.45
16 Marshall at FIU 243 214 45 177 208 13 1 72 89.84
24 Syracuse at Wake Forest 199 171 30 71 99 7 2 200 87.62
20 Iowa St at Texas 179 345 45 191 321 48 -1 12 89.46
25 Boise St   Fresno St 264 228 37 186 127 27 0 179 87.40