Probably will add in 1 loss teams within a week or two.

Teams with 1st loss week 4: 6
North Carolina State
Michigan State
Arkansas
Arizona State
Texas State
Auburn

Teams with 1st win week 4: 2
UAB
Memphis

Percent of Last Week's Undefeated Teams with 1st loss:
Week 1: 41.13% (51 of 124)
Week 2: 31.51% (23 of 73)
Week 3: 30% (15 of 50)
Week 4: 17.14% (6 of 35)

Week 4 Thoughts: Not the most interesting of weeks. Stanford killed previously unbeaten Arizona State and Clemson did the same to North Carolina State. Maryland staying unbeaten by killing West Virginia 37-0 with other good results suggests this might finally be a really good year for the ACC in the BCS.

Texas State loosing to Texas Tech eliminated the last undefeated Sunbelt team. That leaves only Northern Illinois of the MAC (barely beat I-AA Eastern Illinois last night) and Fresno State (who beat Boise State Friday) as undefeated non-AQs.

UAB got a win for the first time in 2 seasons.


Week 5 Thoughts: We have 2 games between undefeated teams and 2 games between winless teams this week. The undefeated teams are #21 Ole Miss @ #1 Alabama and Arizona @ #16 Washington. The winless teams are San Diego State @ New Mexico State and Temple @ Idaho.

Other games of note involving undefeated teams (either involving big names or possible/likely losses) are Virignia Tech @ undefeated Georgia Tech, South Carolina @ undefeated Central Florida, undefeated North Illinois @ Purdue, #6 undefeated LSU @ #9 Georgia, #14 undefeated Oklahoma @ Notre Dame, Iowa @ undefeated Minnesota, #23 Wisconsin @ undefeated #4 Ohio State.

Of all those game, the two that stand out most to me for purposes of this thread are Ohio State/Wisconsin and Central Florida/South Carolina. The winner between Ohio State/Wisconsin will be the big favorite to win the division. Central Florida meanwhile has its toughest test of the season, but if it manages to win this one it, beyond giving the American a lot credibility, it will be likely to be on this list for awhile and instantly become the main competition for Louisville going into conference play.

Remaining Undefeated Teams: ACC: 5, American Athletic: 3, Big 12: 4, Big Ten: 4, MAC: 1, Mountain West: 1, PAC-12: 6, SEC: 4, Sun Belt: 0, independents: 1, total: 29

Clemson
Florida State
Maryland
Georgia Tech
Miami (FL)
Baylor
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State
Texas Tech
Louisville
Michigan
Minnesota
Northwestern
Ohio State
Central Florida
Houston
Northern Illinois
Fresno State
Oregon
Stanford
Washington
Arizona
Colorado
UCLA
Missouri
Alabama
LSU
Ole Miss
Navy

Winless Teams: American: 3, Big 12: 1, Conference USA: 2, MAC: 3, Mountain West: 2, independents: 2, total: 13
Uconn
South Florida
Temple
Iowa State
Southern Miss
Florida International
New Mexico State
Idaho
Miami (OH)
Massachusetts
Western Michigan
Hawaii
San Diego State

Other interesting note:

You can kind of see the American's middle ground position this year in this (as an AQ this year, but not a power 5). All of the non-AQs have 1 or no undefeated teams while the power 5 conferences all have multiple. Meanwhile, 3 of the 4 non-AQs still have at least 2 winless teams while there is only 1 power 5 conference team winless.

The American takes elements from both groups with 3 undefeated teams, but also 3 winless teams. I'll grant this isn't a very telling stat (switch schedules around some and you change a lot), but I thought it was interesting.

You put a lot of thought into this... Thanks for the read, it's interesting to see where everyone stands.

Thank you.

(09-23-2013 11:26 AM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  You put a lot of thought into this... Thanks for the read, it's interesting to see where everyone stands.

Indeed. I read this thread after every weekend. Thank you!

Thanks JR. Really enjoyed our conversation over on the SEC board. Had another response out, but had to leave and lost it.