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NCAA Football Team Rankings After Week 5 (Oct. 4)

Authored by Christopher Reina - 4th October, 2010 - 12:05 am

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With many teams now having played five games, the Trench Counter rankings have begun to look increasingly like the standard Associated Press and Coaches rankings.

Alabama, Ohio State, Oregon and Boise State are the four top-ranked teams and are all in the top-five with this purely statistical ranking system.

Over time, the Trench Counter will more closely resemble the standard rankings, but it will always tell us less about reputation and flukes and more about who controls the line of scrimmage.

The scoreboard is where games are officially won and lost, but they are largely decided by the team that wins the battles of yards per pass, yards per carry, penalty yards lost, first downs, and turnovers.

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Special thanks to William Pilat for his work compiling our data.

RANK	SCHOOL	CONFERENCE	AVERAGE TC
1	Ohio State	Big 10	22.4
2	Oregon	Pac-10	21.2
3	Iowa	Big 10	20.8
4	Boise State	WAC	20.0
5	Alabama	SEC	18.7
6	Nebraska	Big 12	17.3
7	TCU	Mountain West	17.1
8	San Diego State	Mountain West	16.7
9	Michigan	Big 10	16.6
10	Auburn	SEC	16.3
11	Wisconsin	Big 10	16.0
12	California	Pac-10	13.2
13	Michigan State	Big 10	12.6
14	Stanford	Pac-10	12.6
15	Texas A&M	Big 12	12.5
16	Air Force	Mountain West	12.0
17	Utah	Mountain West	11.7
18	Missouri	Big 12	11.1
19	Florida State	ACC	10.8
20	Oklahoma State	Big 12	10.3
21	Nevada	WAC	10.1
22	Syracuse	Big East	10.0
23	Northwestern	Big 10	10.0
24	Arizona	Pac-10	9.6
25	Army	Independent	9.6
26	Houston	C-USA	9.5
27	Navy	Independent	9.4
28	Virginia Tech	ACC	8.9
29	Mississippi	SEC	8.7
30	Tulsa	C-USA	8.6
31	Kentucky	SEC	8.5
32	Kansas State	Big 12	8.5
33	Idaho	WAC	8.4
34	Northern Illinois	Mid-American	7.9
35	South Florida	Big East	7.7
36	Connecticut	Big East	7.7
37	Mississippi State	SEC	7.5
38	Baylor	Big 12	7.5
39	Arkansas	SEC	7.3
40	West Virginia	Big East	7.3
41	North Carolina State	ACC	6.9
42	UTEP	C-USA	6.7
43	Florida	SEC	6.0
44	Miami (FL)	ACC	5.9
45	Rutgers	Big East	5.9
46	South Carolina	SEC	5.7
47	Georgia Tech	ACC	5.6
48	SMU	C-USA	5.4
49	Oklahoma	Big 12	5.3
50	Clemson	ACC	4.3
51	Buffalo	Mid-American	4.0
52	Penn State	Big 10	3.8
53	Texas	Big 12	3.8
54	Southern Miss	C-USA	3.8
55	Virginia	ACC	3.8
56	UCF	C-USA	3.5
57	USC	Pac-10	3.3
58	Maryland	ACC	3.2
59	LSU	SEC	3.1
60	Tennessee	SEC	2.9
61	Miami (OH)	Mid-American	2.7
62	Hawaii	WAC	2.5
63	Troy	Sun Belt	2.2
64	Indiana	Big 10	2.2
65	Notre Dame	Independent	2.0
66	Utah State	WAC	1.7
67	North Carolina	ACC	1.6
68	Pittsburgh	Big East	1.5
69	Fresno State	WAC	1.4
70	Texas Tech	Big 12	1.4
71	Louisville	Big East	1.3
72	Toledo	Mid-American	0.6
73	Georgia	SEC	0.1
74	Minnesota	Big 10	0.0
75	Cincinnati	Big East	-0.3
76	Temple	Mid-American	-0.5
77	Tulane	C-USA	-0.7
78	Arizona State	Pac-10	-0.9
79	LA Lafayette	Sun Belt	-1.1
80	Boston College	ACC	-1.2
81	Purdue	Big 10	-1.3
82	Colorado	Big 12	-1.4
83	Middle Tennessee State	Sun Belt	-1.4
84	Oregon State	Pac-10	-1.6
85	Illinois	Big 10	-1.8
86	UCLA	Pac-10	-2.3
87	Kansas	Big 12	-2.8
88	Kent State	Mid-American	-3.0
89	Ohio	Mid-American	-3.2
90	Iowa State	Big 12	-4.1
91	UAB	C-USA	-4.2
92	Washington	Pac-10	-4.8
93	Ball State	Mid-American	-5.4
94	UNLV	Mountain West	-5.7
95	North Texas	Sun Belt	-6.1
96	BYU	Mountain West	-6.6
97	Duke	ACC	-6.8
98	Wake Forest	ACC	-7.1
99	Central Michigan	Mid-American	-7.3
100	Vanderbilt	SEC	-8.2
101	Florida International	Sun Belt	-8.3
102	Western Michigan	Mid-American	-8.4
103	Arkansas State	Sun Belt	-8.9
104	East Carolina	C-USA	-9.4
105	Marshall	C-USA	-9.6
106	Rice	C-USA	-9.8
107	Wyoming	Mountain West	-10.2
108	Florida Atlantic	Sun Belt	-10.7
109	Louisiana Tech	WAC	-11.2
110	Bowling Green	Mid-American	-11.5
111	Washington State	Pac-10	-12.3
112	Western Kentucky	Sun Belt	-12.8
113	San Jose State	WAC	-13.1
114	Memphis	C-USA	-13.4
115	Eastern Michigan	Mid-American	-13.8
116	LA Monroe	Sun Belt	-15.4
117	Akron	Mid-American	-15.5
118	Colorado State	Mountain West	-17.4
119	New Mexico State	WAC	-21.0
120	New Mexico	Mountain West	-21.7

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