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So, here's the latest Overall FEI ranking:
Footballoutsiders' "official ranking" is there F/+ ranking which combines FEI with S&P+ rankings, and it has us at #12. Still, I think that this measure that focuses primarily on scoring-efficiency is pretty interesting.
A couple of things jump out at me. First, we are still #1 in Offense FEI. Two, we are now up to #48 in Defense FEI. Considering that we were about #100 a few weeks ago, that's a pretty significant improvement.
We may have gone from bottom 20 to top 20 on D in the week between UNC and Pitt.
To me this table is a statistical answer to the "Are we there yet?" question. Obviously, we haven't won anything yet. However, consider these rankings as part of an overall picture of where we're at as a program. At the end of last year, we took georgie to double overtime and played old miss to within a single score, pretty close to how Bama lost to them this season. Both Ole Miss and georgie were preseason top 20 and both have been top 10 this year. We've now beaten georgie this year, another team that's been competitive with the top of the SEC this year.
So, yeah, we haven't gone undefeated yet, or won the big bowl game against top a 10 team, but we've been better than our record indicates. We may not be there yet, but we're getting there.
Footballoutsiders' "official ranking" is there F/+ ranking which combines FEI with S&P+ rankings, and it has us at #12. Still, I think that this measure that focuses primarily on scoring-efficiency is pretty interesting.
A couple of things jump out at me. First, we are still #1 in Offense FEI. Two, we are now up to #48 in Defense FEI. Considering that we were about #100 a few weeks ago, that's a pretty significant improvement.
We may have gone from bottom 20 to top 20 on D in the week between UNC and Pitt.
To me this table is a statistical answer to the "Are we there yet?" question. Obviously, we haven't won anything yet. However, consider these rankings as part of an overall picture of where we're at as a program. At the end of last year, we took georgie to double overtime and played old miss to within a single score, pretty close to how Bama lost to them this season. Both Ole Miss and georgie were preseason top 20 and both have been top 10 this year. We've now beaten georgie this year, another team that's been competitive with the top of the SEC this year.
So, yeah, we haven't gone undefeated yet, or won the big bowl game against top a 10 team, but we've been better than our record indicates. We may not be there yet, but we're getting there.
