There was a bit of shuffling at the top of the rankings this week. Florida remains atop the ESP but Texas jumped an idle Alabama squad with their win over Oklahoma State. There were some other teams in top 10 that shuffled around as well. Check out the latest BCS rankings for comparison purposes.

As most teams have played eight games, the AV Ranking nearly has enough data to begin being a good predictor of wins and losses. As was the case last week, Iowa holds the top spot in Clashmore Mike’s computer ranking. Florida holds on to the second spot but is quite a bit below the Hawkeyes in points. The Irish barely missed the top 25 coming at number 26.

Washington holds on to the number one strength of schedule ranking. The Huskies are followed by a host of rather poorly performing teams with one major exception (Virginia Tech). The Irish strength of schedule took a tumble from 25th down to 65th with their game against Washington State and losses by several former opponents, most notably USC and Michigan.

Nota bene, the AV Ranking strength of schedule calculation only includes games played, i.e. it does not give credit—or debit—for future opponents. The impending contest with Pittsburgh should bolster the schedule difficulty while future games against Navy, Connecticut and Stanford may act to lower the schedule difficulty.

Elite Selection Playoff (ESP)

Rank	Team	AP Poll	Coach's Poll	AV Ranking	Points
1	Florida	1	1	2	1
2	Texas	2	2	3	0.959
3	Alabama	3	3	7	0.878
4	Iowa	8	6	1	0.851
4	Cincinnati	4	7	4	0.851
6	Boise St	5	5	6	0.837
7	TCU	6	4	8	0.81
8	Oregon	7	8	5	0.783
9	Georgia Tech	10	11	10	0.635
9	LSU	9	9	13	0.635
11	Penn State	11	10	11	0.621
12	Pittsburgh	14	14	9	0.554
13	Southern Cal	12	13	16	0.5
14	Houston	13	15	14	0.486
14	Ohio State	15	12	15	0.486
16	Miami FL	16	17	12	0.445
17	Utah	17	16	18	0.364
18	Oklahoma St	18	18	24	0.243
18	Oklahoma	20	20	20	0.243
20	Virginia Tech	22	24	17	0.202
21	Wisconsin	24	22	19	0.175
22	Arizona	21	19	27	0.162
22	Notre Dame	19	21	26	0.162
24	Brigham Young	25	25	22	0.081
24	California	23	23	28	0.081

AV Ranking

Rank	Team	Points	Strength of Schedule	Quality Wins/Losses	Adjusted Win Percentage	Margin of Victory	Team Performance Ratio
1	Iowa	0.937	40	1	4	28	17
2	Florida	0.905	44	7	5	3	3
3	Texas	0.896	34	14	5	1	1
4	Cincinnati	0.881	50	16	1	11	8
5	Oregon	0.866	21	2	14	10	11
6	Boise St	0.857	111	3	2	2	10
7	Alabama	0.848	62	16	7	8	5
8	TCU	0.831	93	27	2	4	6
9	Pittsburgh	0.773	70	16	10	13	7
10	Georgia Tech	0.764	79	16	8	22	14
11	Penn State	0.75	76	52	9	5	4
12	Miami FL	0.742	32	3	19	48	24
13	LSU	0.725	57	52	10	17	23
14	Houston	0.725	88	21	10	18	42
15	Ohio State	0.712	53	11	17	6	21
16	Southern Cal	0.712	25	13	19	30	31
17	Virginia Tech	0.706	2	12	47	25	12
18	Utah	0.7	97	34	10	32	40
19	Wisconsin	0.665	26	52	26	39	16
20	Oklahoma	0.654	22	22	47	7	2
21	Clemson	0.651	18	8	47	16	25
22	Brigham Young	0.647	78	32	17	33	46
23	Rutgers	0.64	75	36	29	45	15
24	Oklahoma St	0.64	52	52	24	23	38
25	South Florida	0.635	92	52	19	19	18

Adjusted Win Percentage (AWP)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Cincinnati	0.873
2	Boise St	0.858
2	TCU	0.858
4	Iowa	0.854
5	Florida	0.849
5	Texas	0.849
7	Alabama	0.84
8	Georgia Tech	0.773
9	Penn State	0.765
10	Pittsburgh	0.758

Strength of Schedule (SOS)

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Team Performance Ratio (TPR)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Texas	0.891
2	Oklahoma	0.878
3	Florida	0.862
4	Penn State	0.819
5	Alabama	0.814
6	TCU	0.809
7	Pittsburgh	0.805
8	Cincinnati	0.804
9	Air Force	0.773
10	Boise St	0.761

Margin of Victory (MOV)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Texas	0.902
2	Boise St	0.89
3	Florida	0.853
4	TCU	0.839
5	Penn State	0.837
6	Ohio State	0.802
7	Oklahoma	0.782
8	Alabama	0.78
9	Texas Tech	0.756
10	Oregon	0.75

Quality Wins/Losses (QWL)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Iowa	1
2	Oregon	0.851
3	Miami FL	0.666
3	Boise St	0.666
5	North Carolina St	0.592
6	Washington	0.522
7	Florida	0.518
8	Clemson	0.49
9	UTEP	0.481
10	Purdue	0.47