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2007 F/+ Rankings Now Available At Football Outsiders

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By Bill C.
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Rankings Week continues with a visit to 2007. This really was one of the strangest, most ridiculous, awesome seasons in recent memory.

New 2007 S&P+ Rankings
Official 2007 F/+ Rankings
Expanded 2007 Off. S&P+ Rankings
Expanded 2007 Def. S&P+ Rankings

The F/+ Top 40 for 2007 is below. The entire list can be found at Outsiders. Some quick notes:

  • These rankings pretty quickly show you why so many teams lost: because no team was good in all three aspects of the game. No team in the Off. F/+ Top 10 also ranked in the top ten in Def. F/+, and vice versa. And in fact, it wasn't close; the only Top 10 offense in the Def. F/+ Top 40 was BYU, and the only Top 10 defense in the Off. F/+ Top 25 was West Virginia. An odd, odd season.
  • It makes sense in such an odd year, then, that a 6-7 team would actually slide into the Top 25. Karl Dorrell's final team ranked well ahead of any of Rick Neuheisel's teams, the best of which ranked 50th (2009).
  • It is also wonderfully odd that there were no undefeated teams and only two one-loss teams ... and one of those two didn't even make it into the Top 40 (No. 42 Hawaii). For that matter, none were in the Top 13. The 12-1 Kansas Jayhawks ranked behind four four-loss teams. Odd, odd, odd.

2007 F/+ Top 40

F/+ Rk Team Record F/+ Off
F/+		 Rk Def
F/+		 Rk Spec.
Tms
F/+		 Rk
1 USC 11-2 +26.2% 1.6% 41 23.9% 1 0.7% 14
2 West Virginia 11-2 +25.3% 6.7% 21 17.8% 9 0.8% 10
3 LSU 12-2 +24.1% 6.2% 24 17.6% 10 0.3% 36
4 Florida 9-4 +23.9% 25.7% 1 -2.9% 72 1.1% 2
5 Ohio State 11-2 +23.2% 2.0% 39 20.8% 5 0.4% 29
6 Oregon 9-4 +21.6% 7.3% 17 14.1% 13 0.2% 47
7 Oklahoma 11-3 +19.3% 5.7% 27 12.8% 16 0.9% 8
8 Virginia Tech 11-3 +19.1% -3.9% 73 21.7% 4 1.3% 1
9 South Florida 9-4 +16.9% -2.7% 65 19.4% 6 0.2% 49
10 Georgia 11-2 +16.7% 2.8% 34 13.2% 14 0.7% 13
11 Missouri 12-2 +16.5% 11.1% 6 5.3% 42 0.0% 62
12 BYU 11-2 +16.0% 9.2% 9 6.7% 35 0.1% 55
13 Clemson 9-4 +15.2% -1.3% 59 16.0% 12 0.5% 24
14 Kansas 12-1 +15.0% 1.6% 40 13.0% 15 0.4% 33
15 Auburn 9-4 +14.3% -3.9% 74 18.0% 8 0.2% 43
16 Oregon State 9-4 +14.3% -8.6% 96 23.2% 2 -0.3% 86
17 Cincinnati 10-3 +13.6% 0.9% 45 11.8% 19 0.8% 11
18 Boston College 11-3 +13.0% 7.1% 18 6.5% 36 -0.7% 105
19 Tennessee 10-4 +12.8% 8.9% 11 3.6% 47 0.2% 42
20 California 7-6 +12.7% 7.5% 15 5.2% 43 0.0% 69
F/+ Rk Team Record F/+ Off
F/+		 Rk Def
F/+		 Rk Spec.
Tms
F/+		 Rk
21 Texas 10-3 +12.7% 7.0% 20 5.1% 44 0.6% 20
22 UCLA 6-7 +12.3% -11.5% 109 22.8% 3 1.0% 5
23 Michigan 9-4 +11.4% -5.6% 84 17.0% 11 0.1% 58
24 Illinois 9-4 +11.4% 5.9% 26 5.4% 40 0.1% 57
25 Arkansas 8-5 +11.2% 4.3% 29 6.9% 33 -0.1% 70
26 Arizona State 10-3 +10.8% 2.3% 35 8.2% 28 0.3% 40
27 Texas Tech 9-4 +10.4% 14.8% 3 -4.6% 85 0.2% 44
28 Penn State 9-4 +10.1% 3.7% 32 6.0% 38 0.3% 37
29 Utah 9-4 +9.9% -9.4% 101 18.4% 7 0.9% 6
30 Kentucky 8-5 +9.8% 8.9% 10 1.0% 56 -0.2% 76
31 South Carolina 6-6 +8.9% 1.0% 44 7.8% 30 0.1% 54
32 Arizona 5-7 +8.1% 0.6% 47 7.2% 31 0.4% 32
33 Michigan State 7-6 +7.8% 6.4% 23 1.1% 55 0.3% 38
34 Boise State 10-3 +7.7% 5.9% 25 0.8% 57 1.0% 4
35 Rutgers 8-5 +7.4% 5.5% 28 2.1% 51 -0.3% 80
36 Wake Forest 9-4 +7.2% -3.8% 72 10.2% 23 0.8% 12
37 Central Florida 10-4 +7.1% -3.6% 71 10.1% 24 0.6% 17
38 Wisconsin 9-4 +7.0% 7.5% 14 -1.1% 65 0.6% 19
39 TCU 8-5 +6.7% -5.7% 85 11.8% 20 0.6% 18
40 Alabama 7-6 +6.7% -3.0% 66 9.2% 25 0.5% 25

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