Final 2008 College Football Ratings

Before we start the 2009 college football season, let's take a look back at 2008.

Florida won the national championship and my computer ultimately rated them #1, but there was plenty of fodder for those that felt USC or Texas deserved a shot in the championship game.  In fact, before the bowl games Oklahoma was my computer's clear #1 with Texas #2.  By the time of the BCS Championship game Florida was a close #2 and proved themselves the better team in the game.

For those interested in such things, my computer was 332-271-10 against the spread in all the games I had spreads for.  Those games matching my best pick criteria were an even better 51-25-1.

The ratings below will serve as the starting point for this coming season and for the sake of not having over 700 lines of teams, I've listed just the division I-A teams.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule
1	Florida	96.620	13-1	75.935
2	Oklahoma	94.802	12-2	76.260
3	Southern Cal	93.011	12-1	74.821
4	Texas	92.284	12-1	76.186
5	Penn State	88.831	11-2	71.759
6	Texas Tech	86.171	11-2	74.839
7	Alabama	85.982	12-2	73.488
8	Utah	85.714	13-0	71.052
9	TCU	85.566	11-2	70.557
10	Boise St	85.296	12-1	67.043
11	Ohio State	84.752	10-3	73.539
12	Mississippi	83.909	9-4	74.412
13	Oregon	83.839	10-3	74.133
14	Oklahoma St	82.892	9-4	73.682
15	Missouri	82.629	10-4	73.631
16	Georgia	81.998	10-3	75.391
17	Florida St	81.966	9-4	72.291
18	Iowa	81.018	9-4	71.045
19	Virginia Tech	80.692	10-4	73.800
20	Oregon St	80.498	9-4	75.851
21	North Carolina	80.311	8-5	74.552
22	California	80.285	9-4	73.659
23	Arizona	80.232	8-5	70.608
24	Nebraska	80.191	9-4	73.860
25	Clemson	79.533	7-6	73.581
26	Kansas	78.737	8-5	73.824
27	Georgia Tech	78.482	9-4	73.041
28	Boston College	78.432	9-5	73.519
29	LSU	78.166	8-5	73.001
30	West Virginia	78.097	9-4	71.934
31	Pittsburgh	77.971	9-4	73.802
32	Wake Forest	77.872	8-5	76.005
33	Rutgers	77.711	8-5	69.954
34	Michigan St	77.393	9-4	73.301
35	South Carolina	76.862	7-6	76.301
36	Brigham Young	76.779	10-3	69.479
37	Miami FL	76.638	7-6	75.450
38	Tulsa	76.401	11-3	65.488
39	Cincinnati	76.315	11-3	71.261
40	Connecticut	75.610	8-5	72.109
41	Northwestern	75.374	9-4	70.477
42	North Carolina St	74.970	6-7	75.656
43	Virginia	74.910	5-7	77.459
44	Vanderbilt	74.809	7-6	75.307
45	Maryland	74.723	8-5	73.437
46	Baylor	74.436	4-8	75.847
47	Rice	74.386	10-3	67.841
48	South Florida	74.356	8-5	70.339
49	Ball St	73.978	12-2	63.590
50	Notre Dame	73.914	7-6	72.127
51	Navy	73.486	8-5	69.642
52	Houston	73.316	8-5	67.531
53	Tennessee	73.108	5-7	73.299
54	Wisconsin	73.101	7-6	72.574
55	Arizona St	73.054	5-7	72.744
56	Duke	72.769	4-8	76.088
57	Troy	72.686	8-5	65.148
58	Arkansas	72.400	5-7	76.517
59	Nevada	72.312	7-6	68.549
60	Air Force	72.303	8-5	69.335
61	Auburn	72.233	5-7	72.924
62	Stanford	72.219	5-7	75.319
63	East Carolina	72.194	9-5	70.620
64	Southern Miss	71.748	7-6	68.492
65	Kentucky	71.371	7-6	70.880
66	Illinois	70.546	5-7	71.554
67	Minnesota	70.305	7-6	70.283
68	Buffalo	70.123	8-6	68.308
69	Colorado	69.541	5-7	75.375
70	Kansas St	69.434	5-7	71.767
71	Purdue	68.874	4-8	72.917
72	Western Michigan	68.835	9-4	65.216
73	Colorado St	68.814	7-6	70.812
74	Bowling Green	68.697	6-6	66.909
75	Fresno St	68.596	7-6	68.133
76	Temple	67.960	5-7	67.948
77	New Mexico	67.883	4-8	71.432
78	Hawaii	67.760	7-7	70.075
79	Louisiana Tech	67.687	8-5	66.005
80	UCLA	67.152	4-8	74.301
81	UTEP	67.033	5-7	69.363
82	Mississippi St	66.939	4-8	72.572
83	Northern Illinois	66.860	6-7	64.166
84	Central Michigan	66.839	8-5	66.182
85	Texas A&M	66.537	4-8	75.003
86	Michigan	66.311	3-9	73.223
87	Louisville	66.285	5-7	68.127
88	Louisiana-Lafayette	65.703	6-6	65.584
89	Akron	65.701	5-7	67.028
90	Arkansas St	65.681	6-6	63.834
91	Marshall	65.474	4-8	69.757
92	Florida Atlantic	65.096	7-6	67.304
93	Memphis	65.002	6-7	66.043
94	Iowa St	64.881	2-10	72.442
95	UNLV	64.737	5-7	70.619
96	San Jose St	64.288	6-6	67.005
97	Central Florida	64.248	4-8	68.651
98	Utah St	64.223	3-9	70.668
99	Ohio U.	63.596	4-8	66.704
100	Syracuse	63.320	3-9	73.546
101	Florida Int'l	63.226	5-7	66.287
102	Alabama-Birmingham	63.055	4-8	66.933
103	Middle Tennessee St	62.072	5-7	65.369
104	Wyoming	61.712	4-8	69.996
105	Army	61.391	3-9	68.017
106	Louisiana-Monroe	61.019	4-8	64.288
107	Kent St	60.585	4-8	65.669
108	Indiana	60.476	3-9	69.312
109	Toledo	60.382	3-9	66.971
110	San Diego St	60.190	2-10	70.217
111	Eastern Michigan	58.882	3-9	66.220
112	Washington	58.374	0-12	77.283
113	New Mexico St	58.200	3-9	66.079
114	Washington St	57.614	2-11	74.407
115	SMU	57.402	1-11	70.816
116	Tulane	56.357	2-10	69.612
117	Miami OH	55.493	2-10	66.734
118	Western Kentucky	53.809	2-10	65.709
119	Idaho	52.807	2-10	66.955
120	North Texas	51.885	1-11	67.807