Daily Blog • September 29, 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 5 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 YDS GRADE
1 USC   Oregon St 200 261 35 58 123 10 4 280 109.51
2 TCU at SMU 265 349 56 89 156 0 3 369 106.92
3 Ohio St   Cincinnati 380 330 50 70 352 28 -4 288 102.41
4 Northwestern at Penn St 103 258 29 50 216 6 1 95 102.10
5 Maryland at Indiana 123 361 37 206 126 15 1 152 101.61
6 Minnesota at Michigan 206 167 30 83 88 14 2 202 101.54
7 Baylor at Iowa St 244 357 49 127 212 28 0 262 101.53
8 UCLA at Arizona St 225 355 62 138 488 27 4 -46 100.67
9 Mississippi   Memphis 178 248 24 23 81 3 -2 322 100.17
10 Washington St at Utah 78 417 28 192 165 27 -2 138 99.83
11 Nebraska   Illinois 458 166 45 78 261 14 1 285 99.39
12 Michigan St   Wyoming 338 195 56 98 188 14 3 247 99.22
13 Notre Dame † Syracuse 161 362 31 135 294 15 -4 94 98.52
14 Texas A&M   Arkansas 137 386 35 285 199 28 0 39 96.97
15 Tennessee at Georgia 117 284 32 289 147 35 0 -35 95.65
16 Auburn   Louisiana Tech 254 219 45 105 216 17 2 152 95.36
17 Stanford at Washington 186 178 20 81 98 13 -3 185 95.10
18 Arkansas † Texas A&M 285 199 28 137 386 35 0 -39 93.56
19 LSU   New Mexico St 363 200 63 172 102 7 0 289 93.43
20 Miami, Fl   Duke 203 223 22 85 179 10 1 162 92.95
21 Iowa at Purdue 175 245 24 84 72 10 1 264 91.58
22 Akron at Pittsburgh 169 213 21 129 220 10 1 33 91.00
23 Georgia   Tennessee 289 147 35 117 284 32 0 35 88.88
24 Florida St at NC State 166 365 56 161 359 41 -2 11 88.60
25 Clemson   North Carolina 92 436 50 84 394 35 0 50 88.28