The College Football Playoffs Football Power Index Ratings have Utah State #24.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... /_/tab/fpi
They also have Duke #25 so it can't be trusted.

The ESPN article- http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ll-playoff

ncs53 wrote:The College Football Playoffs Football Power Index Ratings have Utah State #24.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... /_/tab/fpi
They also have Duke #25 so it can't be trusted.

The ESPN article- http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ll-playoff

They are 7-2 with a win over V Tech on a 5 game win streak. We are 6-4, sitting 2-2 in our last 4 games. I'm frankly surprised we are up there.

We are the highest rated MW team BSU is #30 and FSU is #54

galileo wrote:We are the highest rated MW team BSU is #30 and FSU is #54

Strength of schedule, I guess: Pukes, Boogars, Spoiled Children, Boazybunch and Hosers make for a pretty hefty strength of schedule.

ncs53 wrote:The College Football Playoffs Football Power Index Ratings have Utah State #24.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... /_/tab/fpi
They also have Duke #25 so it can't be trusted.

The ESPN article- http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ll-playoff

Duke has a decent chance to play fsu for the conference championship.

QuackAttackAggie wrote:

ncs53 wrote:The College Football Playoffs Football Power Index Ratings have Utah State #24.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... /_/tab/fpi
They also have Duke #25 so it can't be trusted.

The ESPN article- http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ll-playoff

Duke has a decent chance to play fsu for the conference championship.

Duke has hats in the mall - but only because of their basketball team. They don't count for football strength perception.

Not sure where you are looking, when I go to the link (http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... eamratings) it shows USU at #61.

The article also mentions that Utah had the toughest schedule of any football team this year! ouch!

Edit: I've got it now, the article has two different ranking systems.

Needhamizer wrote:

ncs53 wrote:The College Football Playoffs Football Power Index Ratings have Utah State #24.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... /_/tab/fpi
They also have Duke #25 so it can't be trusted.

The ESPN article- http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... ll-playoff

They are 7-2 with a win over V Tech on a 5 game win streak. We are 6-4, sitting 2-2 in our last 4 games. I'm frankly surprised we are up there.

USU ranks high in the Power Index because it measures how dominant a team has been over it's competition in all three phases. The top four teams are Florida State, Oregon, Baylor, and Alabama for good reason - they have dominated the majority of their games. The Football Power Index is supposed to measure exactly what it implies; how powerful a team is.

The article also mentions that Utah had the toughest schedule of any football team this year! ouch!

Well then it can help balance out the fact that their basketball team has the wussiest schedule.

JSHarvey wrote:Not sure where you are looking, when I go to the link (http://espn.go.com/college-football/sta ... eamratings) it shows USU at #61.

The article also mentions that Utah had the toughest schedule of any football team this year! ouch!

Edit: I've got it now, the article has two different ranking systems.

I don't know how utah has the hardest schedule in any way. tennesee's is way harder. They've played more top 15 teams in the last 5 weeks (5) than Utah has played top 25 teams all year (3). their schedule doesn't even compare to how hard tennesee's is.

I was just looking at this again. USU is ranked pretty high except in offense

#10 Defense
#9 Special Teams
#30 Overall

and #81 Offense