College Football Week 4 Ratings and Rankings

This week's ratings and rankings are now posted.  Things are becoming clearer after most teams have played 4 games and some of the usual suspects are back where we expect them to be.

LSU remains #1 after an impressive win over West Virginia but Alabama makes the big move improving over 5 points and moving to #2 after their thumping of Arkansas, passing idle and now #3 Stanford.  Oregon benefits from LSU appearing to be so good as well as drubbing Arizona and moves up to #4, fractionally ahead of Boise State and also just ahead of Oklahoma State.

Michigan makes the huge move of the week, moving up over 7 points and 19 spots to #9.  Even early in the year this is a big move and is done because:

• They beat formerly undefeated San Diego State by 21.
• Earlier opponent Western Michigan (24 point win) lost by only 3 at Illinois.
• Earlier opponent Notre Dame won on the road.

We'll see if Michigan can make this stick as they have weaker opponents the next few weeks and will need to continue to win comfortably.

The computer went 24-23 against the spread, so not great, but went a sparkling 5-0 in the highlighted games:

• Picked LSU by 9 giving the points and they won by 26.
• Picked Alabama by over 14 giving the points and they won by 24.
• Picked Clemson by 5 giving the points and they won by 5.
• Picked Arizona State by 3.5 giving the points and they won by 21.
• Picked Oklahoma State by 2.6 in the upset and they won by 1.

The top-25 is below, the full rankings on the web-site.

Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
Rank	Team	Rating	Record	Schedule	Change
1	LSU	93.117	4-0	72.331	+0, +2.875
2	Alabama	91.709	4-0	63.613	+2, +5.107
3	Stanford	88.016	3-0	65.841	-1, +0.557
4	Oregon	86.863	3-1	71.194	+4, +2.747
5	Boise St	86.821	3-0	70.919	-2, +0.050
6	Oklahoma St	86.775	4-0	72.678	+0, +1.077
7	Oklahoma	84.799	3-0	71.959	-2, -1.624
8	Wisconsin	84.384	4-0	59.147	-1, -1.294
9	Michigan	82.422	4-0	66.486	+19, +7.162
10	South Florida	82.418	4-0	60.233	+4, +4.870
11	Texas A&M	82.116	2-1	67.478	-1, +2.005
12	Florida	80.505	4-0	58.186	+6, +3.317
13	Nebraska	80.059	4-0	63.641	+4, +2.770
14	Arizona St	80.020	3-1	67.359	+6, +3.273
15	Notre Dame	79.515	2-2	76.857	+10, +3.769
16	TCU	78.860	3-1	63.225	-7, -2.299
17	South Carolina	78.808	4-0	68.660	-4, +1.058
18	Georgia Tech	78.389	4-0	60.689	-3, +0.903
19	Virginia Tech	77.892	4-0	61.477	-3, +0.551
20	Penn State	77.652	3-1	68.580	+22, +6.215
21	Utah	76.590	2-1	69.940	-2, -0.234
22	Illinois	76.497	4-0	63.754	+2, +0.606
23	Tennessee	76.364	2-1	67.875	+12, +2.845
24	Clemson	76.035	4-0	64.411	-12, -2.229
25	Temple	75.322	3-1	59.677	+48,+11.275