2014 NCAA Football Top 25 for Week 11

Now that week 11 is finished, here is the latest Complex Invasion College Football Production Model Top 25 rankings.  Marshall has re-taken the top spot in the Top 25, followed by Baylor, TCU and Oregon.

Rank	Team
1	Marshall
2	Baylor
3	TCU
4	Oregon
5	Georgia Southern
6	Michigan State
7	Mississippi
8	Wisconsin
9	Alabama
10	Mississippi State
11	Georgia
12	Louisville
13	Ohio State
14	Nebraska
15	Auburn
16	Duke
17	Utah State
18	LSU
19	Louisiana Tech
20	Miami (Florida)
21	Arizona State
22	UCLA
23	Florida State
24	Georgia Tech
25	USC

Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 10
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 9
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 8
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 7
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2  

Competitive Balance in MLS

Now that the Major League Soccer regular season is over let's take a look at competitive balance in MLS for the 2014 season.  Using the Noll-Scully measure of competitive balance under the trinomial distribution (since ties are a part of the MLS) I find that competitive balance is higher for the 2014 regular season than the average over the last 15 seasons.  The Noll-Scully for 2014 is 1.488 which is still more competitive than the other "major" US sports leagues.  Yet the average Noll-Scully has been increasing - meaning that competitive balance is decreasing over the last five years.  Here is the Noll Scully since the 2000 regular season.

2014 NCAA Football Top 25 for Week 10

We are now 10 weeks into the regular season and again we have a new #1 team (or repeat) from two weeks ago: Michigan State.  Surprises are that Georgia Southern, Marshall, Memphis and Louisana Tech are also in the top 25.  There are still six SEC teams in the top 25 (Alabama, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Auburn, Georgia and LSU) and four Big 10 and four Big 12 teams as well.

Below is the list of Top 25 teams as of last week using the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model using data from cfbstats.com.

Rank	Team
1	Michigan State
2	Baylor
3	TCU
4	Georgia Southern
5	Marshall
6	Alabama
7	Oregon
8	Ohio State
9	Nebraska
10	Wisconsin
11	Mississippi
12	Miami (Florida)
13	Mississippi State
14	Auburn
15	Georgia
16	Oklahoma
17	East Carolina
18	Louisville
19	Duke
20	LSU
21	USC
22	Kansas State
23	Memphis
24	Louisiana Tech
25	Utah State

Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 9
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 8
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 7
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2  

2014 NCAA Football Top 25 for Week 9

For some reason, I have been unable to post this week.  Most likely human error on my part.  Anyway this seems to work, so here is the top 25 at the end of last weekend using the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model using data from cfbstats.com.
Again, we have a new number one team:  Marshall Thundering Herd!

Rank	Team
1	Marshall
2	Michigan State
3	Baylor
4	TCU
5	Alabama
6	Mississippi
7	Georgia Southern
8	Oregon
9	Nebraska
10	Georgia
11	Auburn
12	Wisconsin
13	East Carolina
14	Ohio State
15	LSU
16	Mississippi State
17	Louisville
18	Duke
19	Stanford
20	Miami (Florida)
21	Florida State
22	Clemson
23	Oklahoma
24	Arkansas
25	Memphis

Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 8
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 7
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2 

BYU AD on CFB Scheduling

Last Fall semester I taught a First Year Freshman Seminar on College Football and one of the topics we talked about was the economic reason for athletic conferences (and the incentives for schools to move between conferences).  One of the reasons I discussed was that conferences reduce transactions costs of scheduling.  Here is a really good article about BYU (independent) on football scheduling.

2014 NCAA Football Top 25 for Week 8

We are now halfway through the 2014 NCAA football season.  Here is the latest top 25 based on the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model using data from cfbstats.com.  Notice that we have a new number one team in the Michigan State Spartans.

Rank	Team
1	Michigan State
2	East Carolina
3	Nebraska
4	Marshall
5	Baylor
6	Wisconsin
7	USC
8	Mississippi
9	Houston
10	Minnesota
11	Alabama
12	Maryland
13	Georgia
14	Memphis
15	Penn State
16	Iowa
17	Utah State
18	TCU
19	UCLA
20	Oregon
21	Northern Illinois
22	Georgia Southern
23	UAB
24	Auburn
25	LSU

Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 7
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2 

2014 NCAA Football Top 25 for Week 7

Here is the latest Top 25 based on the Complex Invasion College Football Production Model using data from cfbstats.com.  Of the top four teams, Auburn has dropped from #4 to #7 and Georgia Southern has moved into the top 4.  Yes, that is a shock to me as well.

Notice that the SEC has 7 teams in the top 25, and that Florida State is back in the top 25 at #24.

Rank	Team
1	Baylor
2	Michigan State
3	Marshall
4	Georgia Southern
5	Georgia
6	Mississippi
7	Auburn
8	East Carolina
9	Louisville
10	Alabama
11	Duke
12	Mississippi State
13	Oklahoma
14	Oregon
15	Nebraska
16	Wisconsin
17	Kentucky
18	Texas A&M
19	TCU
20	Miami (Florida)
21	LSU
22	Stanford
23	Clemson
24	Florida State
25	Notre Dame

Previous 2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 Rankings
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 6
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 5
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 4
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 3
2014 NCAA FBS Top 25 for Week 2