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Over the last few months I have been working on an NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) model of offensive, defensive and total production in order to determine a ranking for FBS schools that relates on field performance to how FBS schools are ranked. I have written about this on my other blog, but I thought that I would create a new blog devoted just to NCAA college football analysis. Thanks to cfbstats.com for posting the NCAA FBS data.

So to get us started, I will link to the other posts from my Hawkonomics blog and give the top 25 as of last week. Later this week, I will be posting about measuring conference strength, and then giving the back story of how I use statistics to rank the teams below.

Top 25 for the first week of the BCS (October 16, 2010).
Top 25 for the second week of the BCS (October 23, 2010).

Here is my ranking (re-posted) through October 30, 2010.

Rank		School
1		Oregon
2		TCU
3		Boise State
4		Ohio State
5		Utah
6		Alabama
7		Iowa
8		Arizona
9		Hawai'i
10		Nebraska
11		Wisconsin
12		Auburn
13		Nevada
14		Oklahoma
15		Stanford
16		UCF
17		Oklahoma State
18		Virginia Tech
19		Miami (Florida)
20		West Virginia
21		Florida State
22		Northern Illinois
23		Michigan State
24		Baylor
25		Missouri