Monday, September 13, 2010

New Coaches' Poll

Let's look at this week's Coaches' Poll, which is 1/3 of the BCS formula:

1 Alabama (55) 2-0 1470 1
2 Ohio State (4) 2-0 1410 2
3 Boise State 1-0 1278 3
4 Texas 2-0 1262 4
5 TCU 2-0 1168 5
6 Oregon 2-0 1122 8
7 Florida 2-0 1108 6
8 Nebraska 2-0 1095 7
9 Oklahoma 2-0 1062 10
10 Iowa 2-0 1050 9
11 Wisconsin 2-0 889 11
12 LSU 2-0 740 16
13 Arkansas 2-0 738 15
14 Utah 2-0 625 20
15 Auburn 2-0 618 20
16 South Carolina 2-0 527 25
17 Miami (FL) 1-1 417 12
18 Arizona 2-0 410 23
19 Stanford 2-0 338 NR
20 Penn State 1-1 296 14
21 West Virginia 2-0 264 22
22 Michigan 2-0 254 NR
23 Houston 2-0 220 NR
24 California 2-0 131 NR
25 Missouri 2-0 82 NR

Conference breakdowns:

Conf.      Ranked Teams      High                  Low                           Median
SEC:         6                         1 (Alabama)     16 (South Carolina)    12.5 (LSU/Arkansas)
Big 10:      5                         2 (Ohio State)   22 (Michigan)             11 (Wisconsin)
Big 12:      4                         4 (Texas)          25 (Missouri)              8.5 (Nebraska/Oklahoma)
PAC 10:   4                         6 (Oregon)        24 (California)            18.5 (Arizona/Stanford)
MWC:      2                         5 (TCU)            14 (Utah)                   9.5 (TCU/Utah)
ACC:        1                       17 (Miami)          17 (Miami)                17 (Miami)
Big East    1                       21(West Virginia) 21(West Virginia)     21(West Virginia)
C-USA    1                        23 (Houston)       23 (Houston)            23 (Houston)

Last week the SEC had 7(!) teams ranked in the top 25. While Georgia dropped out after losing to USCe, and Florida dropped one spot after another rocky start offensively, the remaining SEC teams in the poll all moved up (except Alabama, for obvious reasons). Some, like Auburn and Carolina, moved up considerably. Virginia Tech's loss to James Madison didn't seem to hurt Boise State; they remian at #3.
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4 comments:

  1. Dr. KSeptember 13, 2010 at 6:25 PM

    Nice statistical analysis. The median is, of course, more resistant to being pulled by outliers. Get Sugar Lumps to ask his woman about it...she'll know what I'm saying.

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  2. Sugar LumpsSeptember 13, 2010 at 10:51 PM

    So are you saying I don't know what median is? I learned it when I learned mean, median, mode, and range! How dare you sir, how dare you!

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  3. Drake McHugh, Esq.September 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    Next time I'm going to get Brocktoon to give the standard deviation.

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  4. Dr. KSeptember 15, 2010 at 5:59 PM

    Hey Sugar Lumps,

    I'm not saying you don't know the median. I'm just saying that she would know it. Maybe you guys could both know it...they're not mutually exclusive.

    Instead of standard deviation, we should do a chi-square analysis comparing proportions of teams in each conference that are in the top 25 (have I officially nerded out this post's comments?).

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