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College Football: 2008 Power Ratings End

Explanation of Power Ratings: Power ratings are purely objective and a deadly weapon in any handicapper's arsenal. No emotion or bias is involved. PR calculations must be very responsive or they become old news before you get a chance to use them. Our PR method allows us to judge pretty accurately the relative strengths of teams in any given sports event. PR's are an exceptional handicapping tool and should be utilized with many other handicapping tools such as trend, statistical and fundamental analysis. Our first step is to obtain a total Offensive/Defensive index along with each teams strength of opposition (SOS). We then logarithmically increment or front load our PR's to reflect each teams recent performance. We use linear regression analysis to calculate and integrate all this information into an overall power rating. Our aim is to obtain winners via Power Ratings and using other tools contained in our Prophet Zone software package to confirm, rather than just rely on teams via an RPI or BCS rating system. If you like our ideas but don't have the time or energy to execute your own, you can always purchase our Prophet Zone software packages to get that winning edge over the uninformed individual. Our software includes a host of other invaluable handicapping tools and information.

To make predictions for scheduled upcoming games, simply compare the Home Team's Power Rating to that of the Away Team's Power Rating and add 3 points for the home team advantage. Thus, for example, a HOME team with a rating of 110.7 would be favored by 17.2 points, 110.7 + 3 = 113.7 over a VISITING team having a rating of 96.5. Or a VISITING team with a rating of 91.0 would be favored by 5 points over a HOME team having a rating of 83.0, 83.0 + 3 = 86.0. The Overall Power Power Rating can be used to confirm the Home/Away Power Ratings.

Rank	Team	Overall	Home	Away
1	LSU	110.9	110.7	109.4
2	Oklahoma	109.6	108.2	107.4
3	Kansas	109.2	105.2	103.8
4	BYU	109.0	107.0	108.7
5	Boston Coll	108.8	105.3	105.4
6	USC	108.6	107.7	109.8
7	Ohio St	108.1	107.6	114.1
8	West Virginia	107.5	105.5	110.6
9	Florida	107.0	107.7	105.9
10	Missouri	106.5	104.2	105.0
11	Georgia	106.5	101.0	107.5
12	Michigan St	106.5	100.4	105.1
13	Virginia Tech	106.0	105.1	108.1
14	Clemson	105.9	108.9	106.5
15	Boise St	105.9	106.3	106.5
16	Hawaii	105.9	104.4	107.4
17	Cincinnati	105.9	103.0	102.2
18	Oregon	105.8	105.2	107.2
19	TCU	105.8	110.3	104.8
20	Texas Tech	105.7	108.3	106.8
21	Michigan	105.7	105.0	108.3
22	Utah	105.4	104.3	103.7
23	S Florida	104.9	104.3	102.6
24	Texas	104.8	103.3	110.6
25	Arizona St	104.7	101.4	103.5
26	Penn St	104.5	105.6	104.8
27	Rutgers	104.3	101.8	107.5
28	Georgia Tech	104.2	101.8	104.7
29	Wisconsin	104.1	106.3	106.1
30	Virginia	104.0	100.0	99.4
31	Houston	103.9	99.8	103.8
32	Central Fla	103.8	100.6	98.2
33	Purdue	103.3	99.1	102.8
34	Illinois	103.3	94.6	102.0
35	Florida St	103.2	101.3	102.5
36	Louisville	103.0	106.6	106.3
37	Tulsa	102.9	105.1	101.6
38	Oklahoma St	102.9	99.2	103.4
39	Arkansas	102.6	101.8	105.1
40	Texas A&M	102.4	103.4	100.2
41	California	102.4	104.2	102.6
42	Nebraska	102.3	104.4	100.1
43	Auburn	102.2	101.3	105.9
44	Oregon St	102.2	101.5	102.3
45	Ucla	102.0	103.0	99.1
46	Air Force	101.9	98.8	102.2
47	Wake Forest	101.9	99.9	103.4
48	Tennessee	101.3	104.1	102.0
49	S.Carolina	101.3	99.3	100.9
50	Arizona	101.2	99.2	99.5
51	Kansas St	101.1	98.9	100.1
52	Kentucky	101.0	98.7	96.0
53	Alabama	101.0	99.5	103.9
54	Colorado	100.9	96.8	100.8
55	Troy	100.4	99.0	99.2
56	Maryland	99.8	97.8	102.0
57	Iowa	99.7	99.9	102.8
58	Mississippi S	99.7	94.5	98.9
59	Southern Miss	99.6	98.1	103.3
60	Ball St	99.6	95.6	101.0
61	East Carolina	99.5	100.1	99.1
62	Pittsburgh	99.2	99.7	102.9
63	New Mexico	99.0	97.4	101.0
64	Nevada	99.0	100.3	101.1
65	Fresno St	98.9	98.1	99.7
66	Vanderbilt	98.7	96.2	99.6
67	Washington	98.7	96.4	100.6
68	Central Mich	98.4	101.8	99.6
69	New Mexico St	98.3	95.2	96.3
70	Miami Fla	98.2	101.2	101.0
71	Northwestern	98.0	95.7	101.3
72	N. Carolina	97.7	97.9	96.1
73	N.Carolina St	97.5	95.9	100.8
74	Bowling Green	97.4	98.3	98.4
75	Navy	97.4	96.1	103.3
76	Marshall	97.2	98.0	93.2
77	Toledo	97.2	98.9	99.0
78	Washington St	97.1	102.6	99.8
79	Western Mich	96.9	97.0	99.7
80	Minnesota	96.9	97.2	100.7
81	Indiana	96.8	95.3	97.9
82	Connecticut	96.8	97.7	96.9
83	Wyoming	96.8	98.4	99.0
84	Notre Dame	96.7	98.6	104.1
85	Colorado St	96.7	97.2	99.3
86	Ohio	96.5	96.8	97.9
87	UNLV	96.4	93.9	91.6
88	UL Monroe	96.4	94.4	96.7
89	Memphis	96.2	92.7	98.4
90	Arkansas St	95.8	96.1	95.4
91	Fla Atlantic	95.5	96.2	92.0
92	Stanford	95.4	90.8	96.0
93	Mississippi	95.4	94.5	93.0
94	Iowa St	95.2	95.3	99.5
95	Rice	95.1	95.5	95.3
96	Miami Ohio	94.8	99.1	97.4
97	SMU	94.7	95.8	96.1
98	San Jose St	94.3	98.6	93.5
99	Duke	94.2	89.5	95.1
100	Texas El Paso	93.6	95.7	97.7
101	Middle Tenn	93.6	96.9	96.5
102	Buffalo	93.0	94.8	93.9
103	Northern Ill	92.9	97.3	97.0
104	Tulane	92.8	92.1	95.2
105	Temple	92.4	90.5	89.9
106	Eastern Mich	92.4	94.5	95.8
107	Kent St	92.2	96.5	96.3
108	San Diego St	92.0	95.8	94.2
109	Akron	91.7	96.0	97.8
110	Idaho	91.7	91.7	95.3
111	UL Lafayette	91.6	92.5	97.0
112	Louisiana T	91.2	95.2	89.2
113	North Texas	89.8	90.2	89.5
114	Baylor	89.2	90.5	95.9
115	Army	89.1	91.0	93.0
116	Syracuse	89.0	89.1	94.2
117	UAB	88.9	92.3	94.5
118	Utah St	88.7	86.8	93.1
119	Florida Intl	85.5	91.8	88.3