Ramlbing's Week 3 CFB Top 25

Alright, so here’s the plan, each week, Sunday night I will put out the Power Ranking’s Top 25 (i.e. this column), Mondays will be the Power Ranking’s prediction column and Tuesday will be my prediction column. This schedule will keep me on schedule to update the ranks, and account for later in the year when we have Tuesday games. Without further ado here is my prediction systems top 25 power rated teams.

Rank	Team	Rating	LW Rank
1	Ohio State	39.04	1
2	UCLA	37.41	2
3	Oregon	33.78	3
4	Notre Dame	32.24	5
5	Alabama	30.92	4
6	Missouri	29.88	7
7	Arizona State	29.14	6
8	Mississippi	28.16	8
9	Georgia	27.84	12
10	Michigan State	26.99	10
11	USC	26.02	9
12	LSU	25.6	17
13	Texas A&M	25.55	14
14	TCU	25.49	11
15	Baylor	24.95	13
16	Arizona	24.79	19
17	Utah	23.74	18
18	Tennessee	22.65	15
19	Boise State	22.65	16
20	Florida State	22.51	20
21	Georgia Tech	21.13	21
22	Wisconsin	19.51	22
23	California	19.11	23
24	Arkansas	16.22	24
25	Kentucky	15.45	32
	Dropped Out
28	Mississippi State	14.57	25

This is based on my ratings, not on who most deserves it, not who’s played the best schedule. This is as of now, what my system thinks are the best teams. Average this week was a 1.165 rating, the closest to that mark is NIU at .998. Lastly, I’ll address some of the surprises, Oregon didn’t get hit much for a road loss at the 10^th place team. If I was doing my own ratings I would probably adjust each team a touch more, but a three point game is a pretty even matchup. LSU took a nice bump up with a road win over last week’s #25, while their opponent dropped just outside. Boise State and Tennessee both dropped three spots based on their losses to BYU and Oklahoma respectively, while Arkansas didn’t drop in the rankings, but did drop 1.69 points in the system. Kentucky is the lone new team in the rankings, bumping up after a dominant performance against South Carolina on the road this weekend. To repeat what I said at the top of the paragraph, these aren’t where I think they are now this is looking at home my system thinks they are overall and how I think they’d matchup on a neutral field (i.e. Oregon would still be just under a 7 point favorite over Michigan State.). This I will not apologize for.