2010 Week 10 College Football Ratings and Rankings; Oregon #1, TCU #2, Stanford #3; Auburn up to #6

In what I termed Separation Saturday, the top-4 teams separated themselves from the rest, helped by 1-loss teams Alabama and Oklahoma losing.  Oregon, TCU, Stanford, and Boise State all moved up a bit and now over a 3 point gap back to a clump of teams behind them.

Behind Oregon, TCU and Stanford made strong moves in the ratings but are still well back of Oregon, TCUs gap just over 4 points and Stanford another 4 points back.  Boise State is right behind Stanford.  Auburn does move up 4 spots but that was more due to Iowa, Utah, Arizona, and Missouri all dropping. They will have a chance to move up when they play Alabama, but Alabama's loss hurts them a bit and all the close games they had that I highlighted last week may not allow them to reach the very top.

I've updated the performance charts to show additional detail, and Boise State's is interesting and supports the belief that their schedule strength has been hurt by their conference.

The light-blue line indicates the schedule strength by week, and you can see how it was very high early in the year but had been steadily declining.  They do get Nevada in 3 weeks to try to remedy that and make one last push to get back into the top-2.

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The computer continued it prowess in picking games going 33-21 in all games but only 4-4 in locks but that is 4 consecutive winning weeks overall.  After some of the strangeness early in the year, the computer seems dialed in.  See the prediction performance for more details.

Here is the top-30.  See the web-site for the full list.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	Oregon	93.632	9-0	66.887	+0, +0.300
2	TCU	89.627	10-0	64.172	+0, +3.236
3	Stanford	85.591	8-1	70.848	+1, +2.414
4	Boise St	84.835	8-0	63.858	-1, +0.526
5	Nebraska	81.496	8-1	67.310	+0, -1.668
6	Auburn	80.859	10-0	66.619	+4, +0.386
7	Iowa	80.786	7-2	65.366	-1, -1.995
8	Alabama	80.296	7-2	69.178	+4, -0.059
9	Oklahoma St	79.879	8-1	66.550	+9, +2.538
10	Ohio State	79.805	8-1	62.643	+3, -0.205
11	Arizona	78.999	7-2	69.185	-2, -2.273
12	Arkansas	78.966	7-2	67.583	+13, +3.142
13	Utah	78.754	8-1	63.845	-6, -3.016
14	Southern Cal	78.034	6-3	72.079	+1, -0.913
15	Oregon St	77.974	4-4	77.029	-1, -1.174
16	Missouri	77.958	7-2	68.375	-8, -3.695
17	LSU	77.949	8-1	68.842	+3, +0.900
18	Wisconsin	77.942	8-1	63.237	-2, -0.540
19	Nevada	77.261	8-1	61.019	+3, +0.741
20	Oklahoma	76.615	7-2	69.209	-9, -3.803
21	Texas A&M	76.399	6-3	67.357	+12, +2.972
22	Michigan St	76.333	9-1	63.769	-3, -0.823
23	Arizona St	76.104	4-5	71.932	+3, +0.283
24	Virginia Tech	75.409	7-2	63.533	-1, -0.765
25	South Carolina	75.196	6-3	68.223	-8, -2.570
26	California	75.182	5-4	71.125	-2, -0.939
27	Florida	74.995	6-3	68.131	+2, +0.698
28	Miami FL	74.474	6-3	67.117	-1, -0.752
29	Florida St	74.312	6-3	65.928	-8, -2.735
30	Mississippi St	74.217	7-2	64.325	+0, +0.004