...then you'll want to know that we've moved ALL of our blogging onto our ACT II site. While we'll probably touch on Christian themes about half the time, I spend quite a lot of time and energy tracking both FBS and FCS college football, using an exclusive tiered rating system I've developed over the last few years. It's loosely based on the ELO or chess rating systems, which are "zero-sum" productions where depending on how big an "upset" a result is (or isn't), one team moves up the same amount as the other moves down. (Especially in college, especially early in the season, I'm not wedded to that zero-sum-ness - sometimes teams just need to be adjusted.) To introduce all of you FF-rating "virgins" to the system, here are the current tiers (A being the best, Z the worst) within each conference:
ACC) Clemson (A), Louisville (C), Florida St (D+), UNC (D), Miami (E), VaTech (E-), NCSU and Pitt (F), Duke (H+), GaTech (I+), Syracuse and Virginia (J+), Wake (K-), and BC (L+).
Big Ten) OSU (A+), Michigan (A-), Wisconsin (C-), MSU, Iowa, and Nebraska (F+), NW (G+), Penn St (H+), Minnesota (H), Illinois (I+), Indiana (I), Maryland (J-), Purdue (L), and Rutgers (M+).
Big Twelve) Baylor and OU (C), TCU (C-), OSU (E+), Texas Tech and WVU (F), Texas (F-), KSU (G+), Iowa St (I), and Kansas (N).
Pac 12) UW (C+), Stanford (D), Utah (E), USC (E-), UCLA (F+), WSU (F), Cal and Oregon (F-), Arizona and ASU (G-), Colorado (H), and Oregon St (M+).
SEC) Alabama (A+), Ole Miss (B+), UGA (D+), Arkansas (D), LSU (D-), Tennessee and Texas A&M (E+), Auburn (E), MSU and Florida (E-), So Carolina (J+), Kentucky (J), and Vanderbilt (J-).
Independents) Notre Dame (D+), BYU (F), Army (K), and UMass (M).
AAC) Houston (A), Navy and Memphis (E-), USF (F), Temple (H), Cincy and Tulsa (J+), ECU and UCF (K), UConn (K-), SMU (L-), and Tulane (M).
Conference USA) WKU (F+), LaTech (G), SoMiss (G-), MTSU (H), Marshall (J-), ODU (L+). Rice (N+), FAU, FIU, and UTSA (N), UTEP (O-), North Texas (P+), and Charlotte (R-).
MAC) Toledo and WMU (D-), Akron (I), CMU (I-), Ohio (J+), BGSU (K+), NIU (L), Ball St and EMU (L-), Miami-OH (M), Kent St (N-), and Buffalo (O+).
Mountain West) Boise St and SDSU (F-), Air Force (H), Utah St (H-), Nevada, Wyoming, and UNM (K-), UNLV (L), CSU (M), Hawaii and SJSU (M-), and Fresno St (N-).
Sun Belt) App St (G-), GaSouthern (H+), Troy and Arkansas St (J), SoAlabama (K+), Georgia St (K), ULL (M-), Texas St (N-), ULM (O+), Idaho (O), and NMSU (P).
If we haven't completely lost you yet, here are the twelve FCS conferences, and they use the SAME system, so you can compare teams up and down the leagues...
Big Sky) Eastern Washington (J-), Montana (K+), SoUtah (L), Portland St (L-), NoDakota (M), Cal Poly SLO and NAU (M-), MSU (N+), NoColorado (Q-), WeberSt (Q), UCDavis (S+), Sacramento St and Idaho St (S-).
Big South) Charleston Southern (I-), *Coastal Carolina (J - transitioning to FBS), Liberty (N+), GardnerWebb (Q), Monmouth (Q-), Kennesaw St (R), and Presbyterian (S).
Colonial) JMU (J), Richmond (J-), Villanova (L+), UNH (L-), Towson (M-), Wm&Mary (N), StonyBrk (O+), Maine and Delaware (P), Albany (Q+), Elon (S+), and URI (U).
Missouri Valley) NoDakotaSt (F+), NoIowa (H-), SoDakotaSt (I-), IllinoisSt (J), YoungstownSt (J-), Western Illinois (J-), SoIllinois (M+), IndianaSt and SoDakota (M-), and MissouriSt (Q+).
Northeast) Duquesne (P-), Sacred Heart and St. Francis (Q-), Bryant (R), Wagner (U+), CCSU (U-), and Robert Morris (W-).
Ohio Valley) Jacksonville St (G-), EIU (L), UT Martin (M+), EKU (M), SEMO (N-), Tenn St (P+), Tenn Tech and Murray St (Q), and Austin Peay (V+).
Patriot) Fordham (L), Colgate (M+), Lehigh (M), HC (O+), Bucknell (Q), Georgetown (R), and Lafayette (S-).
Pioneer) San Diego (P), Dayton and Jacksonville (Q-). Marist and Morehead St (U), Drake (U-), Butler (V+), Campbell (V), Stetson (W+), Valparaiso and Davidson (X).
Southern Conf) Chattanooga (I-), Citadel (K), Wofford (M-), Samford (N+), Furman (N-), WCU (P+), Mercer (P-), VMI (R), and ETSU (T+).
Southland) McNeese (J-), SamHouston St and Central Ark (K), Lamar (P), NW St (Q+), SFA (Q), Nicholls St and SE LA(R+), Abilene Christian (S+), Incarnate Word (S), and Houston Baptist (W+).
Finally there are the three FCS conferences who do not participate (by choice) in the national championship tournament: the Ivy League and the two "Historically Black College" conferences...
Ivy League) Dartmouth and Harvard (K-), Penn (M+), Princeton (N), Brown and Cornell (Q), Yale (R+), and Columbia (S-).
MEAC) NC A&T (N), Bethune-Cookman (P-), NC Central and Hampton (R-), SC St (S), Morgan St (U), Norfolk St (V+), Howard (W+), Savannah St (W-), Delaware St (Y), and Fla A&M (Y-).
SWAC) Grambling St (O-), Southern (P), Prairie View (R), Ala A&M (S+), Ala St and Tx Southern (U), Alcorn St (U-), Jackson St (W+), Ark-PB (Y+), MVSU (Y-).
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