Strength of Wins/ Pain of Losses Thru Week 11.

Strength of Wins

I find this chart to be very interesting every year. How it’s devised is if you beat an FBS opponent you get credit for all their wins over their FBS opponents.

In this first chart below you can see Strength of Wins. Here you can see Alabama still holds the lone #1 spot on this list. Alabama has faced Wisconsin, Middle Tenn, ULM, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas A&M, Tennessee, LSU and Miss St and those teams have a total of 54 wins. You can also see the quality of opponent Alabama has played with 1 less win then Ohio St and Clemson but still has more combined foe wins. At the bottom you will see your winless teams UCF, and Kansas. While there are only 2 winless teams, my chart grades only 1 team as having credit with a win but their foes have not won a single game vs a FBS foe.

Here is the Complete list of Strength of Wins with rank:Games Played Thru 11/18/15

Pain of Losses

This next chart we will go over is the Pain of Losses. Here if you lose to an opponent you get credit for all their losses. While there are 5 teams unbeaten, there are an additional 2 teams who have only lost to an unbeaten foe. Eastern Michigan is still at the top of this list with a combined 44 foe losses. Their foe losses include Old Dominion, Ball St, Army, LSU, Akron, Toledo, Northern Illinois, Western Michigan, Miami, Oh and UMass. Unlike the Strength of Wins chart, the Pain of Losses chart does include a loss to an FCS foe. I count that loss a 4 towards the combined foe loss record due to the weakness of the opponent.

Here is your complete Pain of Losses Chart with rank: Games Played Thru 11/18/15

Overall Wins and Losses

In this last chart below you can see the overall wins and losses. As you can see the top teams are Notre Dame, Ohio St, and Clemson. The bottom teams are all the winless teams. One of the most interesting teams here is Notre Dame (highlighted in green). If you take a closer look, Notre Dame has a 9-1 record, but have 0 losses in this list because their only loss came to a unbeaten Clemson team. So Notre Dame does not get credit for any losses.

Here is your complete Overall Wins and Losses Chart with %:Games Played Thru 11/18/15