cfrc

I decided to look further into the CFRC.

Michigan's lowest rank is by Massey. They give M a ranking of 98. They also gave M their lowest ranking last week (M moved up one spot from 99!) Somehow they ranked WMU 48 this week - 50 spots above a team the Broncos lost to by 24 points. Once I noticed this I decided to see which other rankings had placed WMU above M.

Over all WMU has a ranking of 83. Three others have Western ranked higher. KMV (M 84, WMU 72); KEL (M 87, WMU 68); and ALD (M 81, WMU 64). Also IMS ranked M one spot ahead of WMU (70-71). Apparently Michigan Stadium is now a 23 point home field advantage...

Now later in the year when teams have played several times you can get yourself in trouble by thinking team A beat team B so they have to be ranked higher. Because often teams C, D and E are also involved. When all teams have only played one game and there are clear winners and losers - I don't see how it can be acceptable to rank the losers above the winners.

Removing those 4 rankings from the system (due to their week one ineptitude) changes M's over all ranking from 57 to 56 in front of Navy.