There are four B1G teams among the top nine, but only two others are in even the top 40. With a lack of Bama Effect, the SEC gets dragged down, while the incredibly top-heavy Big Ten gets dragged down by not having many middle-class teams. What if we look at the ratings midpoint of each conference? FBS conferences in order of median S&P+ rating Of course, this is an average, which means conferences can be dragged up or down by outliers. Each has at least two teams in the top 15 the Big Ten has four, the Pac-12 has two, and the others each have three. The main story here might be how close all the conferences are. The SEC is still on top, though it’s only by a margin of “we have Alabama, and you don’t.” FBS conferences in order of average S&P+ rating We’ll look at this answer in two different ways. Five weeks into the season, what conference has been the best in the land? Now that most teams have played at least four games, and their ratings are therefore at least 50 percent based on in-season results, let’s rotate the prism a bit and look instead at achievers. Through the first month of the season, I used part of this weekly Numerical space to take a look at which teams and conferences were over- or underachieving, compared to their S&P+ projections (which were still mostly grounded in the preseason numbers).
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