Total Div IA Teams:.....................119 Total Div IA Teams playing this week:....97 (One game involving two Div IA teams cancelled because of Hurricane Ike) Total Games involving Div IA Teams:......54 (Minus the one cancelled game)
Div IA Teams playing non-IA teams:........8 (All games played at Div IA home)
Div IA Teams losing to non-Div IA team....0
Average Points per game:.................50 Highest Total:...........................86 (Nevada at Missouri[w] Lowest Total:.............................5 (Auburn[w] at Mississippi State)
Average spread of victory:...............21 Highest Spread:..........................65 (Alcorn State at Troy[w])
Lowest Spread:............................1 (two games) (Auburn[w] at Mississippi State & Memphis at Marshall[w])
Visiting Teams that won:.................16 Visiting Teams that won - Non-Div IA:.....0
Conf......W.....L ACC......20....11 Big 12...28.....4 Big East.10.....9 Big Ten..25.....6 C-USA....14....18 MAC......16....21 MWC......18.....8 Pac-10...14....14 SEC......26.....6 Sun Belt..7....14 WAC.......9....13 Ind.......3.....4
Interesting Facts:
Two of the AP Top 25 did not play in Week 3.
Coaches AP Poll Ranks 25 teams each week.
Number of Games involving Ranked Teams in the first 3 weeks: 61 (Minus cancelled games)
In those 61 games:
Average Points per game:.................54 Highest Total:...........................94 (Illinois(2) at Missouri(6)[w](Week 1) Lowest Total:.............................5 (Auburn(9)[w] at Mississippi State)(Week 3)
Average spread of victory:...............25 Highest Spread:..........................69 (Kansas(14)[w] at Louisiana Tech)(Week 2)
Lowest Spread:............................1 (Auburn(9)[w] at Mississippi State)(Week 3)
Ranked Teams that have lost: Week 1: Pittsburgh(25), Texas A&M(12), Clemson(9) to ranked Alabama(24), Virginia Tech(17), Tennessee(18), Illinois(20) to ranked Missouri(6) Week 2: South Carolina(24), West Virginia(8) Week 3: Arizona State(15), California(23), Ohio State(5) to ranked USC(1), Kansas(13) to ranked South Florida(19), Fresno State(21) to ranked Wisconsin(10)
Next Week, Week 4 and Top 25 analysis. Or, you could pose a question that could be answered in a statistical fashion...and I'll give it a try.
Reading this has blown out the synapsis in the left hemisphere of my brain leaving me with no ability to comment. Maybe if Tophat leaves one of his trademark entries it will clear things up. Go Ducks!!
p.s. Hope I didn't kill your entry last week. Oh well the way things are looking here it could be two in row.
Last edited by goutdaddy on September 17th at 10:36 PM.
Gamby - actually, it was a lot of work to set up the data tables, but once past week 2, all the bug are out and it's just a matter of "sucking" the data off of fox's NCAA FB site. I'll actually have some predictive ability as I firm up the offensive and defensive stats...you know, how does this aspect of one team's offense work against the competing aspect of this other teams defense...
