2012 NCAA Basketball Tournament 1st Round of 64 Bracket SHAMBLES

Are you kidding me?

It would take an unlikely miracle, indeed, 10 miracles,
for any bracket to have survived the first round of 64 unscathed,
as lower-seeded teams beat higher-seeded teams in 10 of the 32 games.

Even when higher-seeded teams won
it was sometimes an "upset" as in the decisive 77-64 win
of 8th-seeded Iowa State over 9th-seeded Connecticut,
a result prognosticated in less than a majority of the brackets.

Here are the schockers in the first round of 64,
where lower-seeded teams beat higher-seeded teams:

SOUTH
(in 4 of 8 games the lower-seeded team won, including the 15th seed,
 and, as noted, the clear Iowa State win over UConn was a shocker to this observer)
15th-seeded Lehigh beat 2nd-seeded Duke 75-70
12th-seeded VCU beat 5th-seeded Wichita State 62-59
11th-seeded Colorado beat 6th-seeded UNLV 68-64
10th-seeded Xavier beat 7th-seeded Notre Dame 67-63

WEST
(in 2 of 8 games the lower-seeded team won, including the 15th seed)
15th-seeded Norfolk State beat 2nd-seeded Missouri 86-84
9th-seeded Saint Louis beat 8th-seeded Memphis 61-54

EAST
(the higher-seeded team won all games)

MIDWEST
(in 4 of 8 games the lower-seeded team won, including the 13th seed)
13th-seeded Ohio beat 4th-seeded Michigan 65-60
12th-seeded South Florida beat 5th-seeded Temple 58-44
11th-seeded N.C. State beat 6th-seeded San Diego State 79-65
10th-seeded Purdue beat 7th-seeded St. Mary's 72-69

Who would have expected Duke AND Missouri to get beaten, two teams surely in the Final Four or at least the Elite Eight on many brackets. Indeed, Missouri had been so dominant in the closing Big 12 Championship Tournament that it looked like a world beater, and now a loss to Norfolk State. Basketball is truly an exciting game.

Rules for Winning March Madness Brackets

Jason Gay at the Wall Street Journal has the story at The 23 Rules for Winning March Madness

March Madness 2012 Brackets Everywhere for Everybody Unveiled at CBS Sports and Turner Sports Starring Conan O'Brien and a Host of Celebrities

Have you seen this?!

As reported at NCAA.com, March Madness 2012 is about to be turned into a multimedia national event for everybody via Turner Sports and CBS Sports in 'Brackets Everywhere'. As written at NCAA.com:

"Turner Sports and CBS Sports will provide live, full national coverage of the championships 67 games across four national television networks – TBS, CBS, TNT and truTV – as well as across multiple platforms. The tournament tips-off on March 13-14 with the First Four and concludes with the Final Four and National Championship Game on March 31 and April 2."

Read the story here.

Nebraska Cornhuskers Add FCS Idaho State to Husker Football 2012 Schedule

The football Huskers are not taking any chances
in not making it to a bowl game next year
as
Nebraska Rounds Out 2012 Schedule
with FCS Idaho State.

New York Giants beat New England Patriots 21-17 in Super Bowl 46 in a Game Won by an Unwanted Touchdown: Maybe the Clock Should Not Run Between Plays in the Last 2 Minutes of the Game

To score or not to score, to let score or not to let score, that is the question.

With about 1 minute left to play and the ball on the 6-yard line, the Patriots elected to let the Giants' Ahmad Bradshaw score the game's final TD to save time on the clock for their own Patriot offense and to give their quarterback Tom Brady a chance to launch a closing perhaps game-winning drive, rather than to allow the Giants to run down the clock and then kick a winning chip-shot field goal with not enough time left on the clock to sustain a catch-up drive.

The strategy backfired as the Patriots could not move down the field, losing the game.

It was a remarkable, virtually unwanted touchdown that won the game, as some of the Giants were yelling at Bradshaw not to score, as he virtually fell back unwillingly into the end zone for the TD.

The NFL may have to enact a special penalty rule for that kind of thing, on either side of the ball, or, what we would recommend, stop the running of the clock between plays in the last two minutes of the game to put a stop to games being decided by serendipity clock management instead of football play.

The safety by penalty on Tom Brady for intentional grounding of the ball on a long pass play in the Patriots' opening drive should also be carefully reviewed and the rule changed to not give opposing teams scored points as gifts. On a pass as long as that play was, a receiver merely has to change his route due to blockage by the defender and the quarterback's throw falls quite unintentionally into an unoccupied part of the field.

We say that as an observer who was rooting for the Giants if only because we have long-standing ties to the Big Apple and because a family member went to the same Waterloo High School in New York State as Tom Coughlin, head coach of the Giants.

The New York Giants came back from a 17-9 deficit to unexpectedly beat the favored New England Patriots 21-17 in U.S. National Football League Super Bowl XLVI in an entertaining game otherwise marked by top coaching by Tom Coughlin and Bill Belichick and their coaching staffs, top defensive play and great passing by both Eli Manning and Tom Brady, the latter of whom set a record for most career Super Bowl yards passing and also completed a record 16 consecutive pass completions, but it was not enough to beat the well-prepared Giants, whose offensive strategy proved to be the right one, dominating the clock and keeping Brady off the field.

In spite of the loss, congratulations have to go out to the Patriots' Danny Woodhead, who scored one TD for the Patriots on a 4-yard pass reception in putting a real topper on his football career.

Take a look at our 2006 posting:

Danny Woodhead : The Best Running Back and Best "Little Guy" in NCAA College Football 2006

This was not the year for the Patriots to win the NFL championship, but there will be others. 

 

Golfing Bosses Earn MoreThan Non-Golfers -- Really

Yes, it pays to read The Economist,
which has a brilliant article
by their business editor and golf blogger at
Golf and business: Why golfers get ahead.

That editor and golfer notes, e.g.,
that
"a recent study found that bosses who don’t play golf
are paid 17% less on average than those who do,"
-- incredible --
although no verifiable reason was found for that discrepancy.

Gee. The answer is easy.
My own experience is that people who do not play golf are not as trustworthy as golfers are.
Would YOU hire a non-golfer as a CEO?
Caveat emptor.
Really.
Show me a man on a golf course and you have a Rorschach test in place.
How can a man NOT play golf if he has the opportunity and means to do so?
What is he hiding?

Just to prove the honesty of golfers,
let me ask the rhetorical question as to whether I wrote this posting
so that the business editor at The Economist
might be motivated to invite me for a round of golf at Wentworth?

I did, definitely. You see, that is golfing honesty. CEO worthy.

Make sure you read the invigorating article at The Economist here.

Super Bowl Winner a "Can't Call" for President Obama at Ann Arbor, University of Michigan College Affordability Speech

GO BLUEprint!





President Obama in a speech largely on college affordability at the University of Michigan diverged to say that he can't call the winner of Super Bowl XLVI 2012 between the Patriots and the Giants because "it would get him into trouble" politically. Wise move.

The most important thing of course is that he emphasized that Americans want a future in America where "everybody" is positively involved in American life and can get AND afford an optimal education.

He emphasized that student loan money owed now tops credit-card money owed, a situation that Obama said was intolerable.

Obama especially concentrated on his Blueprint for America for a "Go Blue" audience in Ann Arbor.

Joe Paterno, Longtime Penn State Coach, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com

Joe Paterno, Longtime Penn State Coach, Dies at 85 - NYTimes.com: - Sent using Google Toolbar

Dr. Saturday Matt Hinton Reports on New SEC ‘Oversigning’ Rules in the case of an Alabama Crimson Tide Recruit

On of the more negative things about college football consists of the maze of regulations on recruiting. See Dr. Saturday Matt Hinton at Yahoo! Sports in New ‘oversigning’ rules force Nick Saban to tip his hand (Updated).

Just imagine if, say, law firm or business recruitment were subject to a similar plethora of virtually useless over-regulation.

The lesson here is that if you give people power, they will use it, and, as is often the case, misuse it.

How much better it would be to treat college football as the business it is and apply the normal laws accordingly.

NCAA Prez Says Yes to Playoff

NCAA Prez Says Yes to Playoff: - Sent using Google Toolbar

Can Jim Harbaugh Coach? Yes, he can, as 49ers beat Saints in one of Best NFL Playoff Games Ever

See the brilliantly written article by Bill Reiter at Jim Harbaugh's improbable rookie season continues as he outsmarts the New Orleans Saints in a stunning win

Broadway Joe Namath Has a Nice Site at Broadway Joe TV

Broadway Joe Namath was already famous as the quarterback of the Alabama Crimson Tide under Bear Bryant (national champions in 1964) and continued in that role for the AFL New York Jets, beating the NFL Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III (1969). Namath was the first professional football quarterback to pass for more than 4000 yards (1967).

He now has a nice site online at
Welcome to BroadwayJoe.tv!

The Fly is the Hottest New Play in College Football

See the story of "the Fly" and football "engineering" at CBS Sports
in
The man behind the hottest play in football,

a report on a play used by Dana Holgorsen,
football head coach at West Virginia,
in blitzing Clemson 70-33 in the Orange Bowl,

Holgorsen learned the play from Bob Stitt, head coach of the Colorado School of Mines.

FINAL College Football Rankings and Ratings 2011-2012 FBS After Bowl Games -- by SportPundit

 
FINAL College Football Rankings and Ratings 2011 FBS After Bowl Games -- by SportPundit 


-- by YPPSYS (yards per play system) and NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage)
-- modified by schedule difficulty and losses

Our rankings and ratings at the end of this college football season permit the teams to be divided into the following GROUP RANKS:

1st Level Teams - Positions 1 through 15 - except for the top 3, covering ca. 1.0 rating point difference
2nd Level Teams - Positions 16-32 - covering ca. the next 1.0 of rating point difference
3rd Level Teams- Positions 33-62 - covering ca. the next 1.0 of rating point difference
4th Level Teams - Positions 63-97 -  covering ca. the next 1.0 of  rating point difference
5th Level Teams - Positions 98-110 - covering ca. the next 1.0 of rating point difference, and
6th Level Teams - Positions 111-120 covering ca. the next 1.0 of rating point difference or more.

Since 1 point of rating difference in our YPPSYS system = 7 scoreboard points, if we remove the extremes at each end of the rating scale then ca. 3 touchdowns separate the top teams from the average teams in FBS and another ca. 3 touchdowns separate the average teams from the lower teams in FBS. Between 2nd-ranked LSU and 117th and 118th-ranked New Mexico and UNLV there are 6.4 rating points difference, or ca. 45 scoreboard points.


 

General observations on our system as based on net average yards per play advantage (NAYPPA) minus schedule difficulty and losses:

Year in and year out, yards per play per team for a season is a very constant statistic in FBS football (our discovery some years ago), with a mean for 120 FBS teams (i.e. at ca. position 60 or 61 of those 120 teams for each parameter) of about 5.3 to 5.5 yards on offense and defense (the stat is out of whack at the beginning of the year because of easy schedules but evens out for all 120 teams in the course of a normal season). The steadiness of this stat is really quite remarkable in view of ever-changing offenses and defenses, strategies, and tactics. See YPP (yards per play) applied at: The Best College Football Teams of All Time Can Be Narrowed Down Using NAYPPA - Net Average Yards Per Play Advantage, where the greatest teams approach a NAYPPA stat of near to 3.0 Net Average Yards Per Play Advantage (yards per play offense vs. yards per play defense), but not more, even though Boise State last year set the modern FBS record with 3.5, but lost a game to a much weaker team and hence can not be counted to the greatest teams. Hence, if teams now have stats above a NAYPPA of 3, those drop in the course of a season.

The YPPSYS rating system of two primary parameters -- NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage) and schedule difficulty -- (plus we add a 0.2 penalty for each loss) gets more accurate in judging a team's strength as the season wears on, rivalling pure points, i.e. margin of victory, as a good predictor of game outcomes (see the somewhat adjusted final 2010 YPPSYS ratings and rankings). YPPSYS stats can of course be supplemented by margin of victory, won-loss record, turnover ratio, big gainers, total yardage stats, quality of the head coach and coaching staff, conference affiliation, home field advantage, player injuries, etc., but for that we would have to computerize the whole thing, whereas we do it here by hand just for fun, and also apply subjective judgment where we want. Please do not rely on our stats or analysis for any football wagering or betting. See the next paragraph.

Caveat emptor. Buyer beware! We make no guarantees or warranties of accuracy and disclaim any and all liability for anyone using our stats, rankings and ratings for any purpose!

We have simplified YPPSYS (yards per play system) in 2011 so that team ratings for 2011 are NOT fully comparable with team ratings for 2010, even if the ratings LOOK similar.

Yards per play stats (ypp) are taken as available, primarily from cfbstats.com, but also as the case may be from Yahoo Sports Rivals.com, ESPN College Football, and/or individual team stat pages, so that the links that you find for any team in the rankings may not always point to the most current stat source.

To determine schedule difficulty at this early stage of the season, in the 1st week we took the average of schedule difficulty given at Massey Ratings plus Sagarin USA Today. We took their sum, then multiplied that by 2, divided by 100 to get a decimal fraction and took that amount off the NAYPPA (net average yards per play advantage).

From Week 2 to Week 5, we used Sagarin alone, unless there is a specific link to Massey Ratings, AND in the second week we use schedule difficulty without doubling, but do divide the schedule difficulty by 100 to give a decimal fraction that is subtracted from the NAYPPA. Yards per play on offense and defense are very much a function of the strength of the opponent played, so that this schedule difficulty adjustment is essential.

For Week 6, since Massey Ratings had their ratings up before Sagarin -- that was a new development -- we used the Massey Ratings schedule difficulty (SchP = schedule thus far played).

For Week 7, we used the schedule difficulty ranking at Sagarin USA Today. 

For Week 8, we used our own schedule difficulty calculation based on opponent rankings at Massey Ratings, with the change that we rated no opponent worse than 120th. 

For Ratings at the end of Week 9, we used the Sagarin schedule difficulty ratings. In addition, we calculated the best win rank and the worst loss rank based on the Sagarin predictor, add those two together and subtracted 1/100th of that sum from the rating since the best win and worst loss help to place a team in a certain level of performance. This still ded not give perfect results, but was thought to be an improvement over what we have been using -- which turned out not to be so.

We did no ratings at the end of Week 10 because of time constraints caused by other matters.


Starting Week 11 etc., we have gone back to our basic system, which seems to work best as the season progresses. Schedule difficulty is calcualted using the Sagarin Ratings.

As of the 2nd week, .2 is also subtracted from NAYPPA for every game lost, since losses reflect weaknesses which may not surface in yards per play stats -- e.g. turnovers.

This system, as all ranking and ratings systems, is imperfect, but the YPPSYS yards per play approach can provide a general objective idea as to how college football teams actually are performing, rather than concentrating on team ratings based in good part on the subjective judgments of various polls, although the rankings generally are very similar as the season progresses, whether one uses subjective or objective criteria, or a combination of the two.

The red figures in parentheses next to the current ranking in black are last year's final post-bowl rankings on YPPSYS. Although there are always exceptions to the rule, as a general rule, not that much changes from one year to the next, so these are a good check on whether current rankings or ratings are sensible, regardless of stats.

Final College Football Rankings and Ratings 2011 FBS
-- by YPPSYS and NAYPPA

Final YPPSYS 2011 Team Rankings after Bowl Game Play (2010 rank in red)	The Football TEAM that was ranked & rated	NAYPPA 2010 2011 (net average yards per play advant- age)		YPP OFF 2010 2011 yards per play offense		YPP DEF 2010 2011 yards per play defense			Schedule difficulty  2010 2011		W-L record 2010 2011		YPPSYS Team Rating yards per play advantage minus schedule difficulty (x .01) 2010 2011 minus .2 for each loss
1 (4)	Alabama	2.4 3.2 !		7.0 6.5		4.6 3.3			14 15		10-3 12-1		1.5 2.9
2 (12)	LSU	0.4 1.6		5.3 5.7		4.9 4.1			15 7		11-2 13-1		0.0 1.5
3 (9)	Oklahoma State	1.9 1.7		6.9 7.2		5.0 5.5			34 3		11-2 12-1		0.8 1.5
4 (2)	Oregon	2.0 2.1		6.7 7.2		4.7 5.1			7 35		12-1 12-2		1.6 1.3
5 (74)	Houston	0.6 2.5		6.4 7.6		5.8 5.1			89 97		5-7 13-1		-3.3 1.3
6 (10)	Wisconsin	1.4 1.8		6.7 7.0		5.3 5.2			38 44		11-2 11-3		0.1 0.8
7 (21)	South Carolina	0.6 1.4		6.0 5.6		5.4 4.2			11 32		9-5 11-2		-0.5 0.7
8 (8)	Arkansas	1.9 1.3		7.1 6.5		5.2 5.2			12 20		10-3 11-2		1.2 0.7
9 (3)	Stanford	1.6 1.4		6.7 6.8		5.1 5.4			2 36		12-1 11-2		1.5 0.6
10 (42)	Baylor	0.8 1.2		6.6 7.6		5.8 6.4			52 10		7-6 10-3		-1.3 0.5
11 (17)	Michigan State	0.9 1.5		6.2 5.8		5.3 4.3			43 38		11-2 11-3		-0.4 0.5
12 (29)	USC	0.1 1.1		6.0 6.5		5.9 5.4			5 20		8-5 10-2		-0.9 0.5
13 (15)	Oklahoma	0.5 1.1		5.6 6.3		5.1 5.2			20 6		12-2 10-3		-0.4 0.4
14 (7)	Boise State	3.5! 1.3		7.5 6.5		4.0 5.2			46 75		12-1 12-1		1.3 0.3
15 (33)	West Virginia	1.1 1.5		5.3 6.4		4.2 4.9			58 57		9-4 10-3		-1.0 0.3
16 (27)	Georgia	0.9 1.2		6.1 5.6		5.2 4.4			26 23		6-7 10-4		-0.8 0.2
17 (40)	Michigan	0.7 1.0		6.8 6.2		6.1 5.2			33 40		7-6 11-2		-1.2 0.2
18 (16)	Florida State	1.1 1.7		6.0 5.9		4.9 4.2			16 68		10-4 9-4		-0.4 0.2
19 (73)	Southern Miss	0.2 1.6		5.7 6.2		5.5 4.6			90 94		8-5 12-2		-3.3 0.2
20 (6)	TCU	2.5 1.3		6.7 6.5		4.2 5.2			56 86		13-0 11-2		1.3 0.0
21 (64)	Kansas State	-0.6 -0.8		5.8 4.9		6.4 5.7			57 8		7-6 10-3		-2.8 -1.5* 0.0*  *adjusted  for wins
22 (24)	Missouri	0.7 1.1		5.7 6.3		5.0 5.2			30 13		10-3 8-5		-0.6 0.0
23 (22)	Texas A&M	0.8 1.3		5.6 6.1		4.8 4.8			22 4		9-4 7-6		-0.6 0.0
24 (48)	Texas	0.6 0.8		5.2 5.4		4.6 4.6			50 5		5-7 8-5		-1.7 -0.3
25 (49)	Clemson	0.2 0.3		5.1 5.9		4.9 5.6			25 43		6-7 10-4		-1.7 -0.9 -0.3*  *adjusted  for wins
26 (14)	Virginia Tech	0.5 0.9		6.2 5.8		5.7 4.9			19 59		11-3 11-3		-0.3 -0.3
27 (28)	Notre Dame	0.3 0.9		5.5 5.9		5.2 5.0			17 25		8-5 8-5		-0.9 -0.4
28 (60)	Georgia Tech	0.0 1.2		5.7 6.7		5.7 5.5			60 76		6-7 8-5		-2.5 -0.4
29 (61)	SMU	1.3 1.2		6.3 6.1		5.0 4.9			80 70		7-7 8-5		-2.5 -0.5
30 (55)	Northern Illinois	1.7 1.1		6.9 6.6		5.2 5.5			104 103		11-3 11-3		-1.9 -0.5
31 (25)	Florida	0.5 0.8		5.2 5.4		4.7 4.6			18 22		8-5 7-6		-0.7 -0.6
32 (30)	North Carolina	0.8 1.1		5.9 6.3		5.1 5.2			24 51		8-5 7-6		-0.9 -0.6
33 (58)	Cincinnati	0.7 0.7		6.0 5.6		5.3 4.9			51 73		4-8 10-3		-2.0 -0.6
34 (51)	Tulsa	0.3 0.8		6.5 6.1		6.2 5.3			86 45		10-3 8-5		-1.8 -0.7
35 (102)	Utah State	-1.2 1.5		4.9 6.5		6.1 5.0			82 100		4-8 7-6		-4.9 -0.7
36 (11)	Nebraska	1.5 0.3		6.1 5.5		4.6 5.2			28 26		10-4 9-4		0.0 -0.8
37 (52)	Penn State	0.1 0.3		5.5 5.0		5.4 4.7			48 31		7-6 9-4		-1.9 -0.8
38 (20)	Mississippi State	0.5 0.7		5.8 5.4		5.3 4.7			23 28		9-4 7-6		-0.5 -0.8
39 (104)	Arkansas State	-0.2 1.0		5.7 5.7		5.9 4.7			105 124		4-8 10-3		-5.2 -0.8
40 (65)	BYU	-0.1 0.6		5.0 5.5		5.1 4.9			61 90		7-6 10-3		-2.8 -0.9
41 (66)	Temple	0.8 1.1		5.5 6.0		4.7 4.9			102 119		8-4 9-4		-2.8 -0.9
42 (47)	Illinois	0.3 0.7		5.7 5.1		5.4 4.4			49 53		7-6 7-6		-1.7 -1.0
43 (35)	California	0.5 0.5		5.3 5.7		4.8 5.2			10 29		5-7 7-6		-1.0 -1.0
44 (82)	Toledo	0.2 0.6		5.5 6.4		5.3 5.8			91 81		8-5 9-4		-3.8 -1.0
45 (23)	Iowa	1.3 0.5		6.2 5.6		4.9 5.1			42 39		8-5 7-6		-0.6 -1.1
46 (31)	Miami (Florida)	1.1  0.7		5.9 6.2		4.8 5.5			21 61		7-6 6-6		-0.9 -1.1
47 (53)	South Florida	0.3 0.9		5.0 5.7		4.7 4.8			67 62		8-5 5-7		-1.9 -1.1
48 (32)	Nevada	1.4 0.9		7.0 6.4		5.6 5.5			68 88		13-1 7-6		-1.0 -1.2
49 (88)	Ohio	0.2 0.8		5.5 6.1		5.3 5.3			114 118		8-5 10-4		-4.1 -1.2
50 (78)	Vanderbilt	-1.2 0.4		4.6 5.2		5.8 4.8			47 27		2-10 6-7		-3.7 -1.3
51 (26)	UCF	1.0 1.0		5.8 6.0		4.8 5.0			95 102		11-3 5-7		-0.7 -1.4
52 (1)	Auburn	2.0 -0.4		7.4 5.3		5.4 5.7			4 14		14-0 8-5		1.7 -1.5
53 (75)	Virginia	-0.5 0.2		5.6 5.5		6.1 5.3			65 71		4-8 8-5		-3.4 -1.5
54 (41)	Air Force	0.8 0.7		6.0 6.4		5.2 5.7			64 104		9-4 7-6		-1.3 -1.5
55 (36)	Utah	0.8 0.0		6.1 5.0		5.3 5.0			40 49		10-3 8-5		-1.1 -1.5
56 (89)	Louisiana Tech	-0.7 0.3		5.3 5.2		6.0 4.9			78 74		5-7 8-5		-4.1 -1.5
57 (18)	San Diego State	2.0 0.2		6.9 5.9		4.9 5.7			79 95		9-4 8-5		-0.5 -1.7
58 (19)	Arizona State	0.8 0.0		5.8 6.1		5.0 6.1			7 34		6-6 6-7		-0.5 -1.7
59 (39)	Washington	-0.1 -0.2		5.5 6.2		5.6 6.4			3 24		7-6 7-6		-1.2 -1.7
60 (5)	Ohio State	2.2 0.0		6.5 5.1		4.3 5.1			27 30		12-1 6-7		1.4 -1.7
61 (54)	Louisville	0.7 0.1		5.7 5.1		5.0 5.0			71 60		7-6 7-6		-1.9 -1.7
62 (91)	Rutgers	-1.2 -0.2		4.6 4.7		5.8 4.9			84 69		4-8 9-4		-4.2 -1.7
63 (113)	Louis.-Lafayette	-0.9 0.3		5.0 5.7		5.9 5.4			109 122		3-9 9-4		-6.1 -1.7
64 (68)	UCLA	-1.4 0.0		4.7 5.9		6.1 5.9			8 16		4-8 6-8		-3.0 -1.8
65 (94)	Florida Int'l FIU	0.1 0.5		5.7 5.4		5.6 4.9			103 127		7-6 8-5		-4.3 -1.8
66 (43)	Tennessee	0.3 -0.4		5.7 5.0		5.4 5.4			32 12		6-7 5-7		-1.4 -1.9
67 (97)	Western Michigan	0.0 0.2		5.7 6.3		5.7 6.1			107 99		6-6 7-6		-4.4 -2.0
68 (34)	Pittsburgh	1.0 -0.2		5.7 4.8		4.7 5.0			41 48		8-5 6-7		-1.0 -2.1
69 (72)	Purdue	-0.5 -0.2		4.7 5.3		5.2 5.5			62 65		4-8 7-6		-3.2 -2.1
70 (70)	Iowa State	-0.9 -0.8		4.6 4.9		5.5 5.7			35 2		5-7 6-7		-3.1 -2.2
71 (46)	N.C. State	-0.1 -0.4		5.2 4.9		5.3 5.3			29 83		9-4 8-5		-1.7 -2.2
72 (56)	Texas Tech	-0.1 -0.8		5.7 5.7		5.8 6.5			53 11		8-5 5-7		-2.0 -2.3
73 (81)	Wake Forest	-1.0 -0.4		4.8 5.2		5.8 5.6			39 54		3-9 6-7		-3.8 -2.3
74 (13)	Arizona	1.1 -0.5		6.0 6.1		4.9 6.6			13 18		7-6 4-8		-0.2 -2.3
75 (63)	Syracuse	0.6 -0.3		5.2 5.1		4.6 5.4			74 55		8-5 5-7		-2.7 -2.3
76 (37)	Hawaii	2.4 0.2		7.6 5.8		5.2 5.6			81 114		10-4 6-7		-1.1 -2.3
77 (67)	Northwestern	-0.5 -0.5		5.4 5.6		5.9 6.1			76 46		7-6 6-7		-2.9 -2.4
78 (44)	Navy	0.5 -0.3		6.2 5.8		5.7 6.1			69 67		9-4 5-7		-1.5 -2.4
79 (45)	Oregon State	-0.5 -0.4		5.2 5.5		5.7 5.9			1 19		5-7 3-9		-1.7 -2.4
80 (95)	Marshall	-0.3 -0.6		4.9 5.1		5.2 5.7			93 56		5-7 7-6		-4.3 -2.4
81 (118)	Bowling Green	-1.8 -0.1		4.3 5.6		6.1 5.7			100 93		2-10 5-7		-6.9 -2.4
82 (87)	Miami (Ohio)	-0.2 0.1		5.2 5.4		5.4 5.3			108 85		10-4 4-8		-4.1 -2.4
83 (92)	Wyoming	-0.8 -0.6		5.0 5.5		5.8 6.1			70 92		3-9 8-5		-4.2 -2.5
84 (98)	East Carolina	-0.8 -0.4		5.7 5.2		6.5 5.6			66 72		6-7 5-7		-4.5 -2.5
85 (119)	Eastern Michigan	-2.3 -0.1		5.0 5.3		7.3 5.4			99 117		2-10 6-6		-7.4 -2.5
86 (80)	Washington St.	-1.8 -0.5		4.9 5.8		6.7 6.3			9 47		2-10 4-8		-3.8 -2.6
87 (107)	Louis.-Monroe	-0.9 0.1		4.8 5.0		5.7 4.9			110 113		5-7 4-8		-5.7 -2.6
88 (103)	Central Michigan	-0.1 0.0		5.4 5.9		5.5 5.9			101 91		3-9 3-9		-5.0 -2.7
89 (59)	Connecticut	-0.3 -0.8		4.9 4.6		5.2 5.4			75 64		8-5 5-7		-2.4 -2.8
90 (79)	Army	-0.9 -0.2		4.9 5.7		5.8 5.9			98 79		7-6 3-9		-3.7 -2.8
91 (106)	San Jose State	-1.2 -0.7		5.2 5.4		6.4 6.1			73 80		1-12 5-7		-5.6 -2.9
92 (38)	Maryland	0.9  -0.5		5.6 5.3		4.7 5.8			54 42		9-4  2-10		-1.1 -2.9
93 (71)	Fresno State	-0.2 -0.4		5.6 6.0		5.8 6.4			77 77		8-5 4-9		-3.2 -3.0
94 (83)	Minnesota	-1.3 -1.0		5.3 5.0		6.6 6.0			45 17		3-9 3-9		-3.9 -3.0
95 (50)	Boston College	0.4 -0.9		4.8 4.7		4.4 5.6			31 52		7-6 4-8		-1.8 -3.0
96 (93)	UTEP	-0.1 -0.7		5.6 5.6		5.7 6.3			117 87		6-7 5-7		-4.2 -3.0
97 (116)	New Mexico St.	-2.5 -0.4		4.3 5.8		6.8 6.2			92 89		2-10 4-9		-6.6 -3.1
98 (115)	West. Kentucky	-1.2 -0.9		4.8 5.0		6.0 5.9			112 120		2-10 7-5		-6.6 -3.1
99 (57)	Kentucky	0.5 -1.4		6.1 4.1		5.6 5.5			59 41		6-7 5-7		-2.0 -3.2
100 (77)	Kent State	0.5 -0.9		4.9 3.9		4.4 4.8			106 96		5-7 5-7		-3.5 -3.3
101 (112)	Buffalo	-0.7 -0.5		4.2 5.1		4.9 5.6			118 98		2-10 3-9		-6.0 -3.3
102 (69)	Colorado	-0.8 -1.3		5.1 5.3		5.9 6.6			36 21		5-7 3-10		-3.1 -3.5
103 (111)	Ball State	-1.0 -1.5		4.9 5.3		5.9 6.8			122 78		4-8 6-6		-6.0 -3.5
104 (108)	North Texas	-0.3 -1.1		5.6 5.0		5.9 6.1			116 105		3-9 5-7		-5.7 -3.6
105 (90)	Troy	0.1 -0.7		5.9 5.3		5.8 6.0			111 109		8-5 3-9		-4.1 -3.6
106 (105)	Rice	-1.2 -1.6		5.2 4.9		6.4 6.5			94 37		4-8 4-8		-5.3 -3.6
107 (100)	Colorado State	-1.4 -0.9		5.1 5.3		6.5 6.2			72 106		3-9 3-9		-4.8 -3.8
108 (84)	Duke	-1.2 -1.4		5.2 5.1		6.4 6.5			37 63		3-9 3-9		-3.9 -3.8
109 (101)	Mid. Tennessee	0.2 -0.7		5.3 5.1		5.1 5.8			132 116		6-7 2-10		-4.8 -3.9
110 (62)	Mississippi	-0.5 -1.9		5.8 4.3		6.3 6.2			44 9		4-8 2-10		-2.7 -4.0
111 (76)	UAB	0.0 -1.5		5.8 5.2		5.8 6.7			96 84		4-8 3-9		-3.4 -4.1
112 (86)	Indiana	-1.2 -1.5		5.4 5.0		6.6 6.5			87 50		5-7 1-11		-4.0 -4.2
113 (85)	Idaho	-0.4 -1.4		5.5 4.5		5.9 5.9			88 82		6-7 2-10		-4.0 -4.2
114 (96)	Tulane	-1.0 -1.0		5.0 5.0		6.0 6.0			97 110		4-8 2-11		-4.3 -4.3
115 (99)	Kansas	-1.9 -2.5		4.3 4.7		6.2 7.2			63 1		3-9 2-10		-4.7 -4.5
116 (109)	Florida Atlantic	-0.7 -1.3		4.9 4.0		5.6 5.3			113 101		4-8 1-11		-5.9 -4.5
117 (117)	New Mexico	-2.4 -2.0		4.0 4.7		6.4 6.7			83 58		1-11 1-11		-6.6 -4.8
118 (110)	UNLV	-2.3 -2.2		4.4 4.3		6.7 6.5			55 66		2-11 2-10		-6.0 -4.9
119 (120)	Akron	-2.0 -1.9		4.3 4.2		6.3 6.1			120 107		1-11 1-11		-7.5 -5.2
120 (114)	Memphis	-1.8 -2.4		4.8 4.2		6.6 6.6			85 112		1-11 2-10		-6.5 -5.5