through games of 11/21/15
Beginning with Football Outsiders Almanac 2009, Brian Fremeau and Bill Connelly, originators of Football Outsiders' two statistical approaches -- FEI and S&P+, respectively -- began to create a combined ranking that would serve as Football Outsiders' 'official' college football rankings.
The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) considers each of the nearly 20,000 possessions every season in major college football. All drives are filtered to eliminate first-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores. A scoring rate analysis of the remaining possessions then determines the baseline possession efficiency expectations against which each team is measured. A team is rewarded for playing well against good teams, win or lose, and is punished more severely for playing poorly against bad teams than it is rewarded for playing well against bad teams.
The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from both play-by-play and drive data from all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays).
The components for S&P+ reflect the components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency), explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. (A fifth factor, turnovers, is informed marginally by sack rates, the only quality-based statistic that has a consistent relationship with turnover margins.)
NOTE: Because special teams ratings are integrated into Offensive and Defensive S&P+, and because Special Teams has its own ratings within FEI, creating Offensive, Defensive, and Special Teams F/+ ratings has become difficult since the most recent S&P+ redesign. For now, there will therefore be no unit ratings presented -- only overall F/+ ratings.
Team Conference Rec F/+ Rk Last Wk Change S&P+ Rk FEI Rk
Alabama SEC 10-1 63.7% 1 1 0 24.5 2 0.293 1
Clemson ACC 11-0 59.8% 2 2 0 25.2 1 0.256 2
Oklahoma Big 12 10-1 51.9% 3 3 0 20.9 4 0.230 4
Michigan Big Ten 9-2 47.2% 4 6 2 21.5 3 0.191 10
Notre Dame Ind 10-1 46.9% 5 4 -1 17.4 9 0.231 3
Ohio State Big Ten 10-1 46.2% 6 5 -1 20.1 5 0.193 9
Baylor Big 12 9-1 44.9% 7 7 0 18.7 6 0.195 8
Navy American 9-1 41.0% 8 10 2 15.2 11 0.204 7
Stanford Pac-12 9-2 40.8% 9 8 -1 14.1 12 0.225 5
Michigan State Big Ten 10-1 39.3% 10 15 5 13.3 14 0.223 6
Ole Miss SEC 8-3 38.7% 11 13 2 17.4 8 0.158 16
Florida SEC 10-1 37.2% 12 11 -1 15.5 10 0.164 14
Florida State ACC 9-2 34.7% 13 14 1 17.5 7 0.127 25
Mississippi State SEC 8-3 32.7% 14 21 7 11.8 23 0.171 11
LSU SEC 7-3 32.5% 15 12 -3 13.5 13 0.144 23
Tennessee SEC 7-4 32.1% 16 17 1 11.7 24 0.166 13
TCU Big 12 9-2 31.6% 17 24 7 11.9 18 0.159 15
Arkansas SEC 6-5 31.1% 18 22 4 11.9 20 0.154 19
Toledo MAC 9-1 30.6% 19 26 7 11.9 21 0.149 21
Oklahoma State Big 12 10-1 30.6% 20 16 -4 11.9 19 0.148 22
USC Pac-12 7-4 30.1% 21 9 -12 11.1 25 0.156 17
North Carolina ACC 10-1 28.9% 22 18 -4 9.7 31 0.167 12
Utah Pac-12 8-3 27.5% 23 19 -4 9.4 32 0.156 18
Iowa Big Ten 11-0 27.5% 24 23 -1 10.3 29 0.140 24
Western Kentucky Conf USA 9-2 27.4% 25 31 6 13.1 16 0.106 33
Beginning with Football Outsiders Almanac 2009, Brian Fremeau and Bill Connelly, originators of Football Outsiders' two statistical approaches -- FEI and S&P+, respectively -- began to create a combined ranking that would serve as Football Outsiders' 'official' college football rankings.
The Fremeau Efficiency Index (FEI) considers each of the nearly 20,000 possessions every season in major college football. All drives are filtered to eliminate first-half clock-kills and end-of-game garbage drives and scores. A scoring rate analysis of the remaining possessions then determines the baseline possession efficiency expectations against which each team is measured. A team is rewarded for playing well against good teams, win or lose, and is punished more severely for playing poorly against bad teams than it is rewarded for playing well against bad teams.
The S&P+ Ratings are a college football ratings system derived from both play-by-play and drive data from all 800+ of a season's FBS college football games (and 140,000+ plays).
The components for S&P+ reflect the components of four of what Bill Connelly has deemed the Five Factors of college football: efficiency), explosiveness, field position, and finishing drives. (A fifth factor, turnovers, is informed marginally by sack rates, the only quality-based statistic that has a consistent relationship with turnover margins.)
NOTE: Because special teams ratings are integrated into Offensive and Defensive S&P+, and because Special Teams has its own ratings within FEI, creating Offensive, Defensive, and Special Teams F/+ ratings has become difficult since the most recent S&P+ redesign. For now, there will therefore be no unit ratings presented -- only overall F/+ ratings.
Team Conference Rec F/+ Rk Last Wk Change S&P+ Rk FEI Rk
Alabama SEC 10-1 63.7% 1 1 0 24.5 2 0.293 1
Clemson ACC 11-0 59.8% 2 2 0 25.2 1 0.256 2
Oklahoma Big 12 10-1 51.9% 3 3 0 20.9 4 0.230 4
Michigan Big Ten 9-2 47.2% 4 6 2 21.5 3 0.191 10
Notre Dame Ind 10-1 46.9% 5 4 -1 17.4 9 0.231 3
Ohio State Big Ten 10-1 46.2% 6 5 -1 20.1 5 0.193 9
Baylor Big 12 9-1 44.9% 7 7 0 18.7 6 0.195 8
Navy American 9-1 41.0% 8 10 2 15.2 11 0.204 7
Stanford Pac-12 9-2 40.8% 9 8 -1 14.1 12 0.225 5
Michigan State Big Ten 10-1 39.3% 10 15 5 13.3 14 0.223 6
Ole Miss SEC 8-3 38.7% 11 13 2 17.4 8 0.158 16
Florida SEC 10-1 37.2% 12 11 -1 15.5 10 0.164 14
Florida State ACC 9-2 34.7% 13 14 1 17.5 7 0.127 25
Mississippi State SEC 8-3 32.7% 14 21 7 11.8 23 0.171 11
LSU SEC 7-3 32.5% 15 12 -3 13.5 13 0.144 23
Tennessee SEC 7-4 32.1% 16 17 1 11.7 24 0.166 13
TCU Big 12 9-2 31.6% 17 24 7 11.9 18 0.159 15
Arkansas SEC 6-5 31.1% 18 22 4 11.9 20 0.154 19
Toledo MAC 9-1 30.6% 19 26 7 11.9 21 0.149 21
Oklahoma State Big 12 10-1 30.6% 20 16 -4 11.9 19 0.148 22
USC Pac-12 7-4 30.1% 21 9 -12 11.1 25 0.156 17
North Carolina ACC 10-1 28.9% 22 18 -4 9.7 31 0.167 12
Utah Pac-12 8-3 27.5% 23 19 -4 9.4 32 0.156 18
Iowa Big Ten 11-0 27.5% 24 23 -1 10.3 29 0.140 24
Western Kentucky Conf USA 9-2 27.4% 25 31 6 13.1 16 0.106 33
