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Welcome Back! Before I get to my early picks, I want to give the top 10 teams in my statistical analysis that I use for my Power Rankings. These are the teams that are doing the best so far this season offensively and defensively combined, based on a formula I devised. 1. Oregon 2. Georgia 3. SMU 4. Notre Dame 5. Michigan 6. Penn State 7. Ohio State 8. FSU 9. Texas 10. Louisville Here are the teams doing the worst statistically: 133. Nevada 132. ULM 131. Vanderbilt 130. FIU 129. Kent State 128. Stanford 127. BYU 126. Temple 125. Michigan State 124. Arizona State   Inter-conference results  I will give a full update on this next week. Intra-conference results Here are how the divisions stack up against each other going into the conference championship games: The SEC West leads the SEC East 8-6, as the East was 1-0 vs the West last week. The Big Ten East leads the Big Ten West 13-8, as the West was 1-0 vs the East last week. The Sun Belt East leads the Sun Belt West 11-3, as the...

Welcome Back! I apologize for this being a day late (my Odds and Ends will come out Thursday, and my Paul's Picks on Friday), but I've just been super busy, and it took me a while to update my rankings. There are quite a few changes in the Power Rankings again this week, as everything is now based on what the teams have accomplished this season.  The Top 10 had had quite a bit of movement, as did the bottom 10, but there was a lot of movement in between.  Most teams moved 9 spots or less. Here are the teams that moved up at least 10 places: Kentucky +11 to #47 Wisconsin +21 to #60 California +11 to #64 Marshall +12 to #85 USF +11 to #92 Twice as many teams dropped 10 or more places: UCLA -11 to #39 South Alabama -11 to #50 Air Force -12 to #56 Jacksonville State -10 to #59 Texas Tech -11 to #66 Fresno State -10 to #75 Georgia Southern -10 to #77 Arkansas State -13 to #97 Boston College -10 to #89 Virginia -12 to #90 As you can tell, fewer teams moved a lot of spots. I feel the...