Comments on: Week Six (2014) College Football SRS Ratings: State of Mississippi Dominates http://www.footballperspective.com/week-six-2014-college-football-srs-ratings-state-of-mississippi-dominates/ NFL History and Stats Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tim Truemper http://www.footballperspective.com/week-six-2014-college-football-srs-ratings-state-of-mississippi-dominates/#comment-180002 Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:06:47 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=22012#comment-180002 As an Ole Miss alum, I have to say THANK YOU for noticing that Ole Miss outplayed Alabama in the second half. In many of these games, Ole Miss has kept it close in the first half only to get steamrolled in the second. Once Alabama got that cheap TD at the end of the first half, I thought to myself “game over.” Missed the 3rd qts but came back for the 4th and man, what a game.
BTW- Mississippi State looks super powerful after the win over LSU in Baton Rouge and Texas A & M (my graduate school alma mater). I know both teams have issues, but MSU was physically dominant. There QB looks like another Cam Newton.

]]> By: Chase Stuart http://www.footballperspective.com/week-six-2014-college-football-srs-ratings-state-of-mississippi-dominates/#comment-178622 Sun, 05 Oct 2014 15:45:46 +0000 http://www.footballperspective.com/?p=22012#comment-178622 Here’s a quick look at which teams have no “blemishes” yet. A blemish is either: a loss, a win by less than 20 against a bad team (SRS rating of less than 43), or a win by less than 14 against a team with an SRS rating of less than 50. In other words, to avoid blemishes, you need to just beat teams with SRS ratings of greater than 50, beat teams with SRS ratings of between 43 and 50 by at least 14, and beat every other team by at least 20.

Only 4 teams have no blemishes yet: Auburn, Baylor, TCU, and Ole Miss. Of the other 6 undefeated teams:

Mississippi State has a blemish for beating UAB (74th in the SRS) by only 13 points.
Marshal beat Miami (OH) (#115) by only 15 points.
Notre Dame has two blemishes — beating Syracuse (#59) and Purdue (#78) by 16 points each.
Florida State beat NC State (#67) by only 15 and Oklahoma State (#32) by only 6.
Arizona has three blemishes — beating Cal by only 4, Nevada by only 7, and UTSA by only 3
Georgia Tech beat Georgia Southern by only 4, Tulane by only 17, and Wofford by only 19

One could quibble with the Notre Dame and FSU blemishes, but none of those four games qualify as dominant. Otherwise, I think this is a pretty decent rough test.

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