2013 Week 9 poll: WVU @ K-State

The results of the polls so far:

The preseason poll is 3-3 after this week and the weekly polls are 3-3.

Continuing with the analysis using the Mathletics formulas.

The predicted winning percentage (adjusted for football from baseball) is runs scored / runs scored + runs allowed. The current numbers for the Big XII:

As this was calculated using the NFL adjustment, it may or may not be accurate. The conference schedule is approaching meaningful numbers but still a week to go at least, the problem with small sparse data sets.

In the NFL, passing yards / attempts and defensive passing yards /attempt explain about 70% of a team's performance, while rushing yards / attempt and defensive rushing yards / attempt explain another 6%. Below is how each Big XII team is doing in these two areas:

In conference games Baylor leads the league in passing and rushing per attempt. Texas Tech now leads in passing defense, while TCU has the best rushing defense.

K-State has the second worst passing defense and a middlin' rush defense (5th in the league) after playing the top passing/rushing team (Baylor), a team having trouble rushing (O-State) and team in the middle of the pack (Texas). The good news is 5 of the last 6 teams K-State plays are in the bottom half of the conference for passing, while the Cats face only OU and WVU in the top 5 of the conference in rushing.

The remaining Big XII schedule (red = top 3 confPW%, orange=2nd 3 confPW%, green=3rd 3 confPW%):

Using the conference predicted winning percentages (which is probably not accurate) rankings, WVU and I-State have the easiest schedules remaining, while K-State, TCU and Kansas make up the second tier, followed by Texas and Baylor. Oklahoma and O-State trail Tech who has arguably the toughest schedule remaining.