College Football Week 6 Ratings and Rankings - Alabama stays #1

This week's ratings and rankings are now posted.  The rankings in the top-10 moved around a bit but generally were fairly stable.

Alabama stays #1 improving their rating and LSU improves theirs two and stays #2 although the teams are in a virtual tie right now and well ahead of new #3 Boise State.  BSU's schedule is generally weak the rest of the year with only 1 team (TCU) with a rating about BSU's current schedule strength so their rating could begin to leak a bit.

LSU and BSU moved ahead of Wisconsin even though the Badgers were idle.  This is largely because Wisconsin's only meaningful game this year was against Nebraska, and Nebraska proved to be a little weaker than expected against Ohio State, and Nebraska prior opponent Wyoming got drubbed 63-19 by Utah State, so both Nebraska (down 4 spots) and Wisconsin were hurt.  Wisconsin will have plenty of opportunity to improve this as they play Illinois, Penn State, and Michigan State still, but 2 of those aren't until the end of the season so their impact may depend on how those teams do the rest of the season too.

Oklahoma's impressive win over Texas boosts their rating over 2 points and their ranking up to #5.  They too will have an opportunity to state their case at the end of the year as they face K-State, Texas A&M, Baylor, and Oklahoma State in consecutive games to end the regular season.

Thirteen teams remain undefeated, but 5 will be lost due to head to head matchups.  Look for the projections shortly to see who is projected to finish the regular season undefeated.

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	Alabama	97.721	6-0	70.058	+0, +2.096
2	LSU	97.422	6-0	71.687	+1, +3.333
3	Boise St	91.358	5-0	72.747	+1, +2.312
4	Wisconsin	90.614	5-0	63.332	-2, -4.299
5	Oklahoma	89.220	5-0	70.891	+2, +2.444
6	Oregon	88.269	4-1	69.277	-1, +1.031
7	Oklahoma St	86.554	5-0	68.920	+1, +1.067
8	Stanford	85.854	5-0	63.870	-2, -1.178
9	Arkansas	84.524	5-1	66.446	+8, +6.116
10	Michigan	84.511	6-0	64.883	-1, -0.134
11	Texas A&M	83.422	3-2	74.263	+1, +2.642
12	Notre Dame	81.012	4-2	73.055	-1, -0.065
13	Clemson	80.969	6-0	65.449	-3, -1.066
14	Arizona St	80.916	5-1	66.654	+6, +3.265
15	West Virginia	80.887	5-1	66.965	+6, +3.544
16	Georgia	80.107	4-2	73.056	+6, +3.124
17	Florida	79.665	4-2	71.621	-4, -0.988
18	Nebraska	78.073	5-1	69.509	-4, -2.338
19	Penn State	78.067	5-1	69.178	+12, +3.707
20	Rutgers	78.064	4-1	63.399	+20, +5.110
21	Baylor	77.956	4-1	64.429	+20, +5.011
22	Texas	77.488	4-1	70.669	-7, -1.632
23	TCU	77.450	4-2	67.082	+9, +3.254
24	South Carolina	76.648	5-1	66.110	+1, +0.551
25	Georgia Tech	76.603	6-0	61.149	-6, -1.320