Power: 20, SoR: 17; LW: 23

SoR %: 75.98%; Power Rank = 22

3-loss P4

71125

+1

1.269 [8.4 - 3.6]

Illinois has snuck their way back in, largely riding off their win against USC. I probably should start considering cross country travel in some of these in conference 2+ time zone matchups, but I’ll need to do an actual analysis on that this offseason to see how much I think it affects outcomes. Too busy rn.

NEW. Deservedness allowance over North Texas (10 P4 games (P4) - 0 P4 games (G6) = 10 = 1 allowance). Deservedness keeping them behind JMU (10 P4 games (P4) - 1 P4 games (G6) = 9 = 0 allowance)

Last Week: NR

(NEW)

25. Illinois — Score: 0.530 | Results: 0.580, SOS Rank: #24, Quality: -0.010, Recency: 0.118 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #39, Def Rk: #68

NR

The second tier of the B1G is better than they've been getting credit for in national polls. Cannibalism is disguising how good teams like Washington, Illinois, and Iowa are.

69.603

+3

T29ᵗʰ W/L, T18ᵗʰ Predicted Wins, 19ᵗʰ Team Strength, 19ᵗʰ Quality of Wins

808

#20 Illinois, 6-3 (-0.18272434 pts), Wins: [#13 Southern California (1.1533916 pts), #52 Duke (0.260404 pts), #58 Rutgers (0.15361494 pts), #71 Maryland (0.088388346 pts), #90 Western Mich. (0.048002332 pts), #107 Purdue (0.028285645 pts)], Losses: [#34 Washington (-1.330312 pts), #3 Ohio St. (-0.35355338 pts), #2 Indiana (-0.23094572 pts)]

Group Score .500, Team Score 4717: 73.8% #18 USC + 12.8% #51 Duke + 7.5% #60 Rutgers + 3.4% #73 Maryland + 1.5% #90 Western Michigan + 1.0% #98 Purdue = 100.0% #31 Washington. [In this model, < #1 Indiana and < #2 Ohio State do not currently count against Illinois' Team Score, since they are in higher groups.]

0.756, +2

77.20%

NEW (Biggest Riser: Virginia +5, Biggest Faller: Texas -8)

+ ~6 (NR)

usc win puts them over tennessee