Through Week 3-

AAC
.360 (9-16) Overall
.167 (1-5) vs Top 25
.181 (2-9) vs P5
.125 (1-7) vs G5
1.000 (6-0) vs FCS

CUSA
.500 (17-17) Overall
.000 (0-6) vs Top 25
.000 (0-16) vs P5
1.000 (11-0) vs G5
.857 (6-1) vs FCS

MAC
.371 (13-22) Overall
.000 (0-3) vs Top 25
.188 (3-13) vs P5
.222 (2-7) vs G5
.800 (8-2) vs FCS

MWC
.483 (14-15) Overall 5-4
.000 (0-7) vs Top 25 0-1
.188 (3-13) vs P5
.500 (2-2) vs G5
1.000 (9-0) vs FCS

SBC
.360 (9-16) Overall
.000 (0-2) vs Top 25
.100 (1-9) vs P5
.143 (1-6) vs G5
.875 (7-1) vs FCS

IND
.750 (6-2) Overall
.000 (0-2) vs Top 25
.333 (1-2) vs P5
1.000 (5-0) vs G5
N/A (0-0) vs FCS

Independents are doing well, CUSA has not lost to a G5 opponent but everybody else is pretty much playing like crap.
Take out the FCS games and these are each conference's records

CUSA 11-16
MWC 5-15
MAC 5-20
AAC 3-16
SBC 2-15

Indies are 7-2 with no games vs FCS teams.

Several of those FCS games have been extremely close wins also

(09-14-2014 09:01 PM)Policiious Wrote:  ... CUSA has not lost to a G5 opponent ...

... nor beat a P5 opponent. Sort the records by different subsets and you get radically different rankings.

(09-18-2014 05:07 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(09-14-2014 09:01 PM)Policiious Wrote:  ... CUSA has not lost to a G5 opponent ...

... nor beat a P5 opponent. Sort the records by different subsets and you get radically different rankings.

vs P5 AAC is 2-9 and CUSA is 0-16. ECU's win over VTech was impressive but Temple beating a Vandy team that nearly lost to UMass is not impressive, regardless of conference affiliation.

Compare that to their records vs G5 teams- AAC is 1-7 and CUSA is 11-0, including 4-0 vs AAC. That's a huge difference. And CUSA isn't squeaking out wins either, they are dominating. Check out the margin of victory for their G5 wins-

+38 UAB over Troy
+37 UNT over SMU
+30 Marshall over Ohio
+29 FAU over Tulsa
+28 WKU over BGSU
+28 La tech over LA-La
+20 UTSA over Houston
+18 UTEP over NMSU
+15 Marshall over Miami
+14 ODU over EMU
+7 UTEP over New Mexico

That's an average margin of victory of +24pts for CUSA teams over G5 opponents. Conversely, AAC is 1-7 vs G5 teams with UC over Toledo 58-34 as their only win. In 7 losses vs G5 teams the AAC lost by an average margin of 20.4pts.

-37 SMU vs UNT
-29 Tulsa vs FAU
-25 UConn vs BYU
-20 Houston vs UTSA
-17 UConn vs Boise St
-8 Houston vs BYU
-7 Temple vs Navy

Either way you sort it CUSA has been more impressive than AAC after 3 weeks.

IMO. UC and ECU are better than maybe every MAC, Sunbelt, and CUSA team. Boise the exception in the Mountain West.