Sagarin 2009

[StuckinNJ]

Rank School Rating
1 Southern Cal 95.75
2 Florida 93.95
3 Oklahoma 92.19
4 Texas 90.95
5 Ohio State 89.29
6 LSU 88.55
7 Georgia 86.59
8 Penn State 86.58
9 Virginia Tech 85.98
10 Oregon 85.07
11 West Virginia 84.48
12 Utah 84.18
13 Texas Tech 84.16
14 Alabama 83.93
15 California 83.86
16 TCU 83.49
17 Oregon State 83.32
18 Missouri 83.07
19 Boise State 82.93
20 Florida State 82.30
21 Clemson 81.65
22 Boston College 81.40
23 BYU 80.81
24 Auburn 80.60
25 Kansas 80.09
26 Oklahoma State 80.08
27 Iowa 79.63
28 Nebraska 79.45
29 Tennessee 79.39
30 Wake Forest 78.92
Other Notables
31 South Carolina 78.72
35 Michigan 77.66
36 Miami-Florida 77.56
42 Georgia Tech 76.93
43 Mississippi 76.55
48 Notre Dame 75.02
68 Appalachian State 70.25
70 Troy 70.04

Either Jeff or I am way off. I don't like to go against him too much, but JC on a pogo-stick, WVa at 11 and Ole Miss at 43...

 

[Mr. Poon]

I remember seeing a few years back that his pre-season numbers have some prior season bias in them. Just found this from the wikipedia page on him:

At the beginning of a season, when only a few games have been played, a Bayesian network weighted by starting rankings is used as long as there are whole groups of teams that have not played one another, but once the graph is well-connected, the weights are no longer needed. Sagarin claims that from that point, the rankings are unbiased.

 

[thebsmanofkent]

Power Ratings are always interesting, if not agreeable they are worth discussing.....:SIB