Iowa’s loss to Northwestern dropped them out of the top five in the ESP while the other top teams largely remained the same. Florida or Alabama have to lose at least one game, but—with few exceptions—the remaining top five teams have favorable schedules for the remainder of the year. For comparison purposes the BCS results can be seen here.

Movement in the top 10 of the AV Ranking was fairly tumultuous. Iowa surrendered the top spot to Alabama who jumped all the way up from number seven due to a big push in schedule strength while Texas, Florida and Cincinnati round out the top five.

The Irish come in 37th in the AV Ranking this week with a 42nd ranked strength of schedule and 44th best TPR. Up next for Notre Dame is number 11 Pittsburgh. The Panthers have the sixth best TPR but have played only the 83rd toughest schedule. The last Irish opponent, Navy, cracks the top five at number 23.

Elite Selection Playoff (ESP)

Rank	Team	AP Poll	Coach's Poll	AV Ranking	Points
1	Florida	1	1	3	1
2	Texas	2	2	2	0.986
3	Alabama	3	3	1	0.972
4	TCU	4	4	6	0.876
5	Cincinnati	5	5	5	0.863
6	Boise St	6	6	7	0.808
7	Georgia Tech	7	7	9	0.753
8	Ohio State	10	8	8	0.712
9	Pittsburgh	8	9	11	0.684
10	Iowa	15	13	4	0.63
11	Southern Cal	11	10	13	0.602
12	LSU	9	11	16	0.575
13	Houston	13	12	12	0.561
14	Oregon	14	16	10	0.52
15	Miami FL	12	15	14	0.506
16	Utah	16	14	19	0.397
17	Penn State	19	17	17	0.342
18	Oklahoma St	17	18	20	0.315
19	Virginia Tech	20	21	15	0.301
20	Wisconsin	21	20	18	0.26
21	Arizona	18	19	25	0.219
22	Brigham Young	22	22	22	0.164
23	Clemson	24	NR	21	0.095
24	South Florida	23	24	27	0.068
25	West Virginia	NR	23	28	0.041

AV Ranking

Rank	Team	Points	Strength of Schedule	Quality Wins/Losses	Adjusted Win Percentage	Margin of Victory	Team Performance Ratio
1	Alabama	0.931	32	3	6	7	5
2	Texas	0.888	36	21	4	1	1
3	Florida	0.881	60	15	4	4	4
4	Iowa	0.859	45	2	7	36	25
5	Cincinnati	0.851	52	38	1	11	8
6	TCU	0.85	82	28	2	2	3
7	Boise St	0.836	113	13	2	3	11
8	Ohio State	0.823	29	1	13	5	16
9	Georgia Tech	0.779	78	16	7	28	18
10	Oregon	0.768	14	10	22	13	15
11	Pittsburgh	0.761	83	28	10	8	6
12	Houston	0.75	79	21	9	24	35
13	Southern Cal	0.741	44	8	15	29	29
14	Miami FL	0.738	51	7	17	36	24
15	Virginia Tech	0.73	2	19	36	27	10
16	LSU	0.724	21	24	17	25	21
17	Penn State	0.709	57	49	13	6	9
18	Wisconsin	0.685	30	72	22	44	14
19	Utah	0.673	114	52	10	22	41
20	Oklahoma St	0.668	50	72	17	21	23
21	Clemson	0.664	24	14	42	16	27
22	Brigham Young	0.656	85	72	12	15	31
23	Navy	0.637	58	49	28	41	13
24	Oregon St	0.635	19	53	32	50	26
25	Arizona	0.633	64	63	26	36	33

Adjusted Win Percentage (AWP)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Cincinnati	0.87
2	Boise St	0.865
2	TCU	0.865
4	Florida	0.849
4	Texas	0.849
6	Alabama	0.841
7	Iowa	0.781
7	Georgia Tech	0.781
9	Houston	0.776
10	Pittsburgh	0.768

Strength of Schedule (SOS)

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Team Performance Ratio (TPR)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Texas	0.912
2	Oklahoma	0.853
3	TCU	0.847
4	Florida	0.842
5	Alabama	0.818
6	Pittsburgh	0.811
7	Air Force	0.793
8	Cincinnati	0.792
9	Penn State	0.79
10	Virginia Tech	0.767

Margin of Victory (MOV)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Texas	0.916
2	TCU	0.879
3	Boise St	0.866
4	Florida	0.857
5	Ohio State	0.799
6	Penn State	0.771
7	Alabama	0.766
8	Pittsburgh	0.739
8	Oklahoma	0.739
10	Texas Tech	0.729

Quality Wins/Losses (QWL)

Rank	Team	Points
1	Ohio State	1
2	Iowa	0.987
3	Alabama	0.84
4	Northwestern	0.694
5	North Carolina St	0.658
6	Purdue	0.625
7	Miami FL	0.621
8	Southern Cal	0.585
8	UTEP	0.585
10	Oregon	0.548