Saturday, January 21, 2012

2011 Final PRI Ratings


Figured out Google Docs new interface finally.

My final ratings are expanded from the week to week, showing each team's strength of schedule, final BCS ranking, final AP ranking and whether or not they made a bowl, with a bold X standing for a BCS berth. Please remember that these were completed using regular season games only, no conference championships or bowl results are included.



This table is sorted by a team's difference in rating from the first week (Week 6) to the last (Week 14), and also includes their average rating throughout the season.

If you are interested in how the teams did sorted by average this year:



Alabama ends up slightly better than LSU, which is surprising.

I appreciate your page views during this inaugural blogging year. Posting will be infrequent over the off-season, but will still happen as I have applied these rankings to previous years, currently as far back as 2003. The goal will be to release two years per month, probably beginning in March or so. As a preview, here is a list of teams who finished outside of my top 50, yet made the BCS anyways from 2003-11:



2003 Kansas State 77th

2004 Pittsburgh 51st

2005 Florida State 70th

2008 Virginia Tech 53rd

2010 Connecticut 71st

2011 Wisconsin 53rd

Monday, January 9, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 17

And so it ends.  This one is for all the insurance.  Let's see if I can pick this matchup right this time:

Alabama -2.5 v. LSU

Bowl Season:  15-19

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 16

Pick'em time:

MAACO Bowl:  Arkansas State -1 v. Northern Illinois

This is the MAACO Bowl, right?

Bowl Season:  14-19

Edit:  It's the GoDaddy Bowl.  Whatever.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Friday, January 6, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 14

I was right about not feeling good about that Clemson pick.  Mount 500 ain't happening, how about a war at .333?

Cotton:  Arkansas -9 v. Kansas State

Bowl Season:  13-19

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 13

Down with this sort of thing:

Orange:  Clemson -3 v. West Virginia

Picking Clemson?  Yeesh.

Bowl Season:  13-18

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 12

Good thing these games start late.

Sugar:  Michigan -3 v. Virginia Tech

Bowl season:  12-18.

The summit of Mount .500 looks awfully high.

Monday, January 2, 2012

Bowl-o-rama, Day 11

Happy quasi-New Year's Day.

Ticket City Bowl:  Houston -7.5 v. Penn State

Outback Bowl:  Georgia -3 v. Michigan State

Capital One Bowl:  South Carolina -3 v. Nebraska

Gator Bowl:  Florida -2 v. Ohio State

Rose:  Oregon -6 v. Wisconsin

Fiesta:  Oklahoma State -4.5 v. Stanford

Can't really pick against the Gators in the Gator Bowl can you?