Obviously, there’s going to be some disagreement about this, and I certainly welcome discussion about the top-25. A note on the methodology first: the rankings are based on what the teams have accomplished on the field so far (as displayed in chart form here), loosely based upon Laxpower ratings. Since there’s such a wide disparity between schedules, a bit of conventional wisdom on teams comes into play, but I want to minimize that.
- Michigan
- Colorado State
- Arizona State
- BYU
- Chapman
- Cal Poly
- Texas
- Michigan State
- Florida State
- Colorado
- Boston College
- UC Santa Barbara
- Central Florida
- Utah
- Stanford
- Illinois
- Clemson
- South Carolina
- Chico State
- Arizona
- Boston University
- Virginia Tech
- Santa Clara
- Oregon
- Florida
I had a bit of a crisis placing SELC teams, because they don’t play a whole lot of non-conference games against good opposition, so their ratings are inflated by Laxpower. I decided to give teams like undefeated South Carolina the benefit of the doubt for now.
What say you? Based on the chart, what should change?
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