College Football Rankings Week 8

I found a bit of a glitch in the matrix of my college football FBS model this week so I had to re-run the whole thing from scratch, going all the way back to 2000. There were a few games from my source material that have the home and away teams the wrong way around and I did not realise that 'Louisiana' and 'Lafayette' were the same team in the source games I had (even though they had a different name for different years) so had to consolidate all of that.

This means that some of my predictions in this season to date and the individual team ratings may have been a touch off, but I do not think it made too much difference to the top of the rankings. At some point I will post all of the predictions that the model came out with for the previous weeks - that will be one long post!

I believe week 7 was pretty random in the FBS. I cannot really comment as all I do is enter the games, then enter the results and my model does the rest. There are far to many games and teams for me to really keep track of what is going on - I struggle with just the NFL.

1. Alabama
2. Ohio State
3. Clemson
4. Oklahoma
5. Georgia
6. Notre Dame
7. Louisiana State
8. Central Florida
9. Wisconsin
10. Southern California
11. Michigan
12. North Carolina State
13. Penn State
14. Washington
15. Michigan State
16. Iowa
17. Florida
18. Texas A&M
19. Stanford
20. Washington State
21. Miami (FL)
22. Texas
23. Mississippi State
24. Virginia Tech
25. Iowa State