Let me explain...

OK, I need to explain a few things because truthfully my numbers this week are ridiculous. I wanted to tell you that I have double and triple checked my spreadsheet and I can't find any issues, or at least nothing obvious.

Here's me vs the AP:

	AP		RR	Diff
1	Georgia	SEC	34	33
2	Michigan	Big Ten	11	9
3	Ohio State	Big Ten	3	0
4	Texas	Big 12	1	-3
5	Florida State	ACC	12	7
6	Penn State	Big Ten	2	-4
7	Southern California	Pac-12	114	107
8	Washington	Pac-12	24	16
9	Oregon	Pac-12	28	19
10	Alabama	SEC	9	-1
11	Notre Dame	Independent	13	2
12	Oklahoma	Big 12	4	-8
13	North Carolina	ACC	8	-5
14	Washington State	Pac-12	7	-7
15	Mississippi	SEC	6	-9
16	Oregon State	Pac-12	31	15
17	Miami (FL)	ACC	18	1
18	Tennessee	SEC	54	36
19	Utah	Pac-12	15	-4
20	Kentucky	SEC	113	93
21	Duke	ACC	17	-4
22	Missouri	SEC	44	22
23	Louisiana State	SEC	19	-4
24	Fresno State	Mountain West	112	88
25	Louisville	ACC	5	-20

As you can see, I have some HUGE variances. Why? It's the system. Lets start with Georgia.

Rk	School	Rec	Score	1ST	2ND	SRS
34	Georgia	6-0	0.0755	0.2980	-0.3818	15.5000

First, UGAs 1st level points are bad. This is because of who they've played, plain and simple. 

FCS Tennesee-Martin (pain here)
#129 Ball State
#40 South Carolina
#56 UAB
#90 Auburn
#113 Kentucky

Already not great, and as you can guess these teams have terrible 1st level points and are a combined 13-15. Bad 1st level points means UGA's 2nd level points are equally bad. Now add in the mediocre SRS score and here we are at #34.

And I can already hear you: "Kentucky at 113???!?!?" Yes.

#129 Ball State

FCS Eastern Kentucky

#133 Akron

#100 Vandy

#76 Florida

#34 UGA - Loss

C'mon. Talk about overrated. 

#114 USC needs some explanation as well, even though the issue is the same.

#126 SJSU 1-5

#130 Nevada 0-5

#95 Stanford 1-4

#127 AZ State 1-5

#77 Colorado (sorry, Prime) 4-2

#101 Zona 3-3

That's a combined 10-24, a .294 winning percentage. And they needed 3OT to beat Zona! Ouch.

Now, let's look at #4 Oklahoma.

#109 Arkansas St

#84 SMU

#71 Tulsa

#72 Cincinnati

#29 Iowa State

#1 Texas

Rk	School	Rec	Score	1ST	2ND	SRS	SOS
4	Oklahoma	6-0	1.0103	0.5455	0.2182	24.8200	45
34	Georgia	6-0	0.0755	0.2980	-0.3818	15.5000	97

Both teams are 6-0. That's the only thing they share. OU has nearly double the 1st level points, 0.6000 more 2nd level points, and nearly double in SRS. SoS? Also clearly favors OU. 

Rk	School	Rec	Score	1ST	2ND	SRS	SOS
7	Washington State	4-1	0.8453	0.3833	0.3002	15.9400	13
114	Southern Cal	6-0	-0.8962	0.1793	-1.1917	11.5400	129

The differences here are even more stark. FWIW, UW is being hurt by the same issue, only less so.

Look, I know that these teams cannot control their conference schedules. And there's no way to know how good or bad a conference opponent will be in a given season (with exceptions for top tier schools like Bama and OSU). At the end of the day, that's just too bad. A couple of decent out of conference games would make all the difference. 

So hey, I'm sorry that your team has played a marshmallow schedule. Suck it up, buttercup.

Anyway, I know no one reads this. It's ok. I love you still!