2014 NCAA NCSS Rankings: Week 10

Another week, another batch of college football games to look over.

We're really getting down to the nitty-gritty of the season at this point. With only three teams still undefeated, wins are really at a premium. And you thought a playoff would devalue the regular season...

Most teams still have another five games to go, though some might have more or less depending on byes. Most of the action this week is once again in-conference, but there will still be a handful of games outside of those boundaries that will change the NCSS metric around a bit.

You can refer back to last week's rankings here. Let's see how this week changes the numbers.

1. Conference USA (0.31, 6.15; LW: 2). Middle Tennessee hosts BYU, Old Dominion visits Vanderbilt.
2. MAC (0.00, 6.08; LW: 1). No change.
3. Mountain West (0.17, 5.92; LW: 3). Air Force visits Army.
4. American Athletic (0.00, 5.64; LW: 4). No change.
5. Sun Belt (0.27, 5.09; LW: 5). Louisiana-Monroe visits Texas A&M.
6. Big 10 (0.00, 4.21; LW: 6). No change.
7. ACC (0.00, 3.36; LW: 7). No change.
8. Big XII (0.00, 3.10; LW: 8). No change.
9. Pac 12 (0.00, 3.08; LW: 9). No change.
10. SEC (0.14, 2.93; LW: 10). Texas A&M hosts Louisiana-Monroe, Vanderbilt hosts Old Dominion.

If they were their own conference, the independents would have an NCSS of 14, good for first, though this is skewed by Notre Dame visiting Navy and would bump the score down to 13.25, though that would still be good for first place. If you want to see the individual numbers for each school, you can view them on my spreadsheet here.

Also interesting: the MAC only has two games this weekend, both in conference. I think this is in preparation for the glory of MACtion, since the following week has a ton of weeknight games.

Thursday night sees the kickoff of the week, as we get a Sun Belt game, and Florida State visits Louisville. The American Athletic Conference has a couple Halloween games, and then everything else is on Saturday as we kick off November. Good luck to your teams this week!