Earlier this year I took some time looking at ESPN’s FPI rankings and had a lot of questions. Although the latest FPI rankings now at least have Georgia ahead of Clemson (unlike right after they straight-up beat them), I’ve still got questions.
Georgia is atop the rankings while Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Michigan, and Cincinnati come in 2-6. You can make some argument for an unbeaten Oklahoma over Ohio State, who lost at home to Oregon, but it’s hard to be overly upset about any of those teams.
So you’re aware, Notre Dame checks in 18th which is hilarious when you see some of the teams ranked ahead of them. I obviously think they should be higher than that but as you’ll quickly see, losing closely seems to reward teams more than winning narrowly does in this formula.
So which teams had me the most bumfuzzled (shoutout to Bobby Bowden for that one) this week?
Here are just a few observations: