College Football Week 18 Ratings and Rankings -

This week's ratings and rankings are now posted.  These ratings are through the 12/31 bowl games.

Most of the top teams are still to play their bowl game, so there aren't radical moves in the top-25, but we can begin to see the effect of the results of games closely related to the top teams.  The SEC was supposed to go 2-1 but Auburns big win has buoyed the SEC teams ratings a touch which has moved Arkansas ahead of Boise State who was hurt a fraction by Tulsa's loss.  The Big-12 has also improved a bit with a 5-1 record thus far and they now have 5 of the top-16 teams and 7 of the top-20 teams.

The regular algorithm 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	95.836	13-0	72.390	+0, +0.100
2	Alabama	92.134	11-1	71.458	+0, +0.142
3	Oklahoma St	87.776	11-1	72.830	+0, +0.189
4	Oregon	85.113	11-2	69.511	+0, -0.421
5	Arkansas	83.926	10-2	71.100	+1, +0.117
6	Boise St	83.915	12-1	65.699	-1, -0.128
7	Oklahoma	83.543	10-3	73.603	+0, +0.513
8	Wisconsin	83.011	11-2	66.670	+0, +0.072
9	Stanford	82.243	11-1	68.390	+0, -0.441
10	Georgia	79.749	10-3	71.068	+1, +0.003
11	Southern Cal	79.564	10-2	70.167	-1, -0.458
12	Michigan	79.548	10-2	68.514	+0, -0.006
13	South Carolina	79.266	10-2	70.187	+0, +0.050
14	Baylor	79.087	10-3	71.982	+1, +0.397
15	Texas A&M	79.048	7-6	72.967	-1, +0.306
16	Missouri	78.149	8-5	71.740	+2, +0.904
17	Michigan St	77.995	10-3	68.182	-1, -0.057
18	TCU	77.509	11-2	64.253	-1, +0.145
19	Kansas St	77.484	10-2	71.788	+0, +0.278
20	Texas	76.423	8-5	73.265	+4, +0.771
21	Houston	76.369	12-1	61.233	-1, -0.185
22	Nebraska	76.316	9-3	69.946	-1, -0.037
23	Florida St	76.309	9-4	65.655	+0, +0.438
24	Notre Dame	75.777	8-5	70.843	-2, -0.349
25	Southern Miss	74.529	12-2	62.515	+0, -0.129