Final Ratings 2000  
Final Ratings (2000-2001)

Lucky BCS! Oklahoma wins, there's a unanimous champion, very little controversy except some who say that Miami or Washington would have given Oklahoma a better game. On the other hand, if FSU had won there would have been six teams at the top with one loss and innumerable arguments as to who should get a championship. Everybody's happy, Sports Illustrated uses a Case Closed headline. Except that I'm supposed to explain to you why my computer ranking has Oklahoma #3. It probably won't do much good to mention that the top 3 are separated by only 0.3 points, so it's basically a dead heat. It probably also won't help to mention that Florida State had an average point spread of +28.84 against opponents with an average rating of 45.72, whereas Oklahoma won by an average of 21.23 over teams with an average rating of 44.53. I think that in this case our human ideas of deciding who's #1 make more sense than the computer's. Oklahoma was 6-0 against teams the computer ranked in the top 20 and that's more than a good enough schedule and point differential for me.

I hope you enjoyed this year's By the Numbers. See you next year.

1 Miami F 65.67
2 Florida State 65.57
3 Oklahoma 65.36
4 Nebraska 62.2
5 Washington 61.64
6 Virginia Tech 60.45
7 Oregon State 59.96
8 Kansas State 58.51
9 Florida 58.37
10 Oregon 56.52
11 Notre Dame 54.28
12 Michigan 54.17
13 Clemson 52.77
14 Texas 52.61
15 Georgia Tech 52.49
16 Ohio State 51.33
17 Wisconsin 50.8
18 Purdue 50.55
19 TCU 50.07
20 Texas A&M 50.05
21 South Carolina 49.21
22 Mississippi State 49.21
23 Tennessee 49.2
24 Northwestern 49.15
25 Georgia 48.95
26 Auburn 48.75
27 Toledo 48.71
28 Iowa State 48.56
29 LSU 48.2
30 UCLA 48.14
31 Colorado State 47.43
32 West Virginia 47.18
33 Arizona 46.8
34 Syracuse 46.62
35 Louisville 46.44
36 Boston College 46.25
37 East Carolina 46.23
38 Western Michigan 46.14
39 Stanford 45.98
40 Boise State 45.49
41 Southern Miss 45.22
42 Pittsburgh 45.19
43 Arizona State 45.09
44 NC State 43.77
45 Air Force 43.58
46 Southern Cal 43.49
47 Texas Tech 43.14
48 Michigan State 43.07
49 Mississippi 42.66
50 Texas El Paso 42.31
51 North Carolina 41.98
52 Colorado 41.44
53 Virginia 41.04
54 Minnesota 41
55 Fresno State 40.87
56 Washington State 40.64
57 Illinois 40.47
58 Arkansas 40.37
59 UNLV 40.29
60 California 39.86
61 Penn State 39.86
62 Maryland 39.43
63 BYU 39.31
64 UAB 39.24
65 Northern Illinois 39.04
66 Cincinnati 38.99
67 Alabama 38.55
68 San Jose State 38.5
69 Marshall 38.36
70 Central Florida 38.15
71 Ohio 37.69
72 Kansas 37.55
73 Iowa 36.91
74 Temple 35.9
75 Utah 35.22
76 New Mexico 35.01
77 Indiana 34.63
78 Missouri 34.33
79 Tulane 32.65
80 Akron 32.33
81 Oklahoma State 32.32
82 Idaho 32.23
83 Vanderbilt 32.12
84 Middle Tennessee 32.07
85 San Diego State 31.94
86 Kentucky 31.22
87 Miami O 30.67
88 Memphis 30.22
89 Rutgers 30.05
90 Tulsa 29.37
91 Rice 29.16
92 Utah State 28.36
93 Ball State 27.81
94 Houston 26.37
95 New Mexico State 26.36
96 Baylor 25.81
97 Wake Forest 25.26
98 Hawaii 24.58
99 Louisiana Tech 24.41
100 Eastern Michigan 23.32
101 SMU 22.92
102 Navy 22.61
103 Duke 22.53
104 Bowling Green 22.11
105 North Texas 21.58
106 Arkansas State 21.17
107 Army 21.07
108 Nevada 20.22
109 Wyoming 19.38
110 Central Michigan 18.63
111 Connecticut 16.53
112 Kent 14.01
113 Buffalo 12.84
114 Louisiana Lafayette 11.24
115 Louisiana Monroe 8.28