I have been playing around with college football rankings for many years. Tonight I decided to make my ranking open to public ridicule praise. My ranking is based on quality of play and not on some sort of power ranking. A team may be well able to beat teams above them in my rankings. My rankings are based only on performance during games already played.
Since someday the world will realize I have a great ranking formula and someone will pay me a bunch of mony for it, I am going to keep the the details secret to protect my intellectual property. However I will give some hints:
- Of course, winning matters
- Playing teams with winning records matter
- Wins against FCS don’t count. Losses do. Beating East Central North Dakota A&M 77-3 is meaningless
- Margin of victory does not matter
- Winning on the road is a bonus, losing at home is penalized
So, without further ado, here are my first rankings:
| Rank | Team | W | L | Score | BCS |
| 1 | Florida St | 7 | 0 | 49.61 | 2 |
| 2 | Alabama | 8 | 0 | 33.05 | 1 |
| 3 | Oregon | 7 | 0 | 23.85 | 3 |
| 4 | Ohio St | 8 | 0 | 20.92 | 4 |
| 5 | Baylor | 6 | 0 | 12.46 | 6 |
| 6 | Clemson | 7 | 1 | 11.79 | 7 |
| 7 | Stanford | 7 | 1 | 10.61 | 5 |
| 8 | Fresno St | 7 | 0 | 10.29 | 16 |
| 9 | Missouri | 7 | 1 | 9.58 | 8 |
| 10 | Miami Florida | 6 | 1 | 9.56 | 11 |
| 11 | Auburn | 7 | 1 | 9.39 | 9 |
| 12 | Oklahoma | 7 | 1 | 7.05 | 10 |
| 13 | N Illinois | 8 | 0 | 6.48 | 18 |
| 14 | Michigan St | 7 | 1 | 5.86 | 17 |
| 15 | Notre Dame | 7 | 2 | 5.44 | 23 |
| 16 | South Carolina | 7 | 2 | 5.18 | 12 |
| 17 | Texas A&M | 6 | 2 | 5.00 | 15 |
| 18 | Arizona St | 5 | 2 | 4.92 | 22 |
| 19 | UCF | 6 | 1 | 4.59 | 21 |
| 20 | Louisiana St | 6 | 2 | 3.84 | 13 |
| 21 | Georgia | 5 | 3 | 3.57 | – |
| 22 | Mississippi | 4 | 3 | 2.88 | – |
Note that the wins/losses only include games with FBS teams.