Another week, another Vegas Power Ratings update from Phil Steele
- Dawgs make nearly three point improvement while Bucks drop almost a whole point and are now dead even. It appears the Georgia vs Oregon and UT may be the "real" Georgia. While they are knocked for close games at Missouri and Kent St., I don't doubt they were playing with their food now that we have seen them at their best.
- Michigan also with a big jump of about two points. Line today would be about OSU -10 according to this. But that's a shrinking line compared to last week.
- Bama still Vegas' 3rd best team on a neutral field, but likely out of any playoff talk barring a longshot situation.
- LSU up four spots, into the top ten
- PSU up two spots to #11
- ND up eleven spots to #14. Who the hell are the real Irish?
- Texas still a darling. They did cover the spread last week, surprising many. Big game against TCU. I am seeing UT -6.5 which is about the difference here, with a small home field advantage to UT.
- I'm not buying the hype of Maryland being any sort of look-ahead scare. If they were borderline top 25 I'd say maybe, but OSU has dominated all team outside of top 25 (obv. NW the outlier)
- Rank RATING
- 1 GEORGIA 138.95
- 1 OHIO ST 138.95
- 3 ALABAMA 134.81
- 4 MICHIGAN 131.04
- 5 TENNESSEE 130.28
- 6 TEXAS 125.47
- 7 OREGON 123.19
- 7 LSU 123.19
- 9 USC 122.50
- 10 UTAH 122.42
- 11 PENN ST 122.11
- 12 CLEMSON 121.72
- 13 MISSISSIPPI 120.54
- 14 NOTRE DAME 120.39
- 15 TCU 120.17
- 16 UCLA 120.00
- 17 BAYLOR 119.41
- 18 MISS ST 119.20
- 19 FLORIDA ST 119.18
- 20 ARKANSAS 118.96
- 21 KANSAS ST 118.32
- 22 WAKE FOREST 118.17
- 23 OKLAHOMA 117.64
- 24 CINCINNATI 117.30
- 25 KENTUCKY 117.20
- Notables:
- 26 MINNESOTA 117.02
- 27 ILLINOIS 116.50
- 32 WISCONSIN 115.28
- 41 IOWA 113.49
- 42 MARYLAND 113.49
- 43 PURDUE 113.33
- 53 MICHIGAN ST 110.88
- 94 INDIANA 99.43
- 100 NORTHWESTERN 98.60
