A little late to the party this week, so here are last week’s ratings as a reminder. Given the late publishing date, I am also including the games from Tuesday and Wednesday night, which means Western Michigan is now 10-0 in these rankings.
The big win of week ten was by Ohio State, as the Buckeyes recorded the single biggest SRS win of the season. Playing at home against Nebraska (ranked 31st, SRS of 48.8), the Buckeyes won 62-3. That’s a 56-point HFA-adjusted margin of victory, which gets adjusted down to a 40-point win after the adjustment we use here in the SRS (i.e., the average of 24 and 56). That translates to an 88.8 single-game rating, which trails only Alabama’s 52-6 neutral site win over USC (90.5) for the top rating of the season.
And here are the ratings through week ten (and four games of week eleven):
The top six teams in the SRS are also the top six teams in the college football playoff committee rankings. That makes for a pretty boring discussion, actually: there is no “great” team that is 7-2, or a only decent team that is 9-0. This year, at least so far, things are moving along at an unusually noncontroversial pace.
