Inaugural 2015 rankings have arrived (a bit late in the week)! The Gators, with pretty good wins against a high performing Kentucky and a ECU team that took down Virginia Tech, take the first spot. For a comparison of the difference between a post-dictive, evidence based model and the popular survey approach, I've placed each team's ranking in the AP poll in parentheses below. The difference between the two provides some indicator of the degree to which teams at this point in the season are under or over rated.
Top 25 (Explanation; Full Ranking)
- Florida (25)
- UCLA (7)
- Utah (10)
- Northwestern (16)
- TCU (4)
- Texas A&M (14)
- Ole Miss (3)
- Oklahoma (15)
- Ohio State (1)
- Temple (NR)
- Kentucky (NR)
- LSU (9)
- Indiana (NR)
- Michigan (22)
- Michigan State (2)
- Alabama (13)
- Georgia (8)
- Notre Dame (6)
- Stanford (18)
- Memphis (NR)
- Miami (NR)
- North Carolina State (NR)
- California (tied for 22) (24)
- Navy (NR)
- Minnesota (NR)
- Florida State (tied for 25) (11)
- Iowa (tied for 25) (NR)
- Oklahoma State (tied for 25) (20)
- Toledo (tied for 25) (NR)
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