Congrats to Northern Illinois University on receiving a BCS bowl bid. If you check out the links below, you will see that the model has consistently (for the last half of the season) ranked NIU in the Top 25.
As you can already tell, the model has Alabama more productive than Notre Dame. I will be blogging on each bowl game over the next few weeks, so check back to see how well the model does.
| Rank | Team |
| 1 | Alabama |
| 2 | Oregon |
| 3 | Northern Illinois |
| 4 | Florida State |
| 5 | Notre Dame |
| 6 | Georgia |
| 7 | Utah State |
| 8 | Fresno State |
| 9 | Florida |
| 10 | Boise State |
| 11 | Ohio State |
| 12 | LSU |
| 13 | Texas A&M |
| 14 | San Jose State |
| 15 | Kansas State |
| 16 | Stanford |
| 17 | Oregon State |
| 18 | Oklahoma |
| 19 | Clemson |
| 20 | North Carolina |
| 21 | Wisconsin |
| 22 | South Carolina |
| 23 | Arkansas State |
| 24 | BYU |
| 25 | UCF |
Here are this year's Top 25 for the previous weeks:
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #13
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #12
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #11
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #10
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #9
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #8
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #7
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #6
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #5
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #4
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #3
2012 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week #2