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Winning vs. winning big.
Kentucky is 6th in The Precedent Ratings but 64th in scoring margin, at +1.6 points a game. Its last two wins were both 35-34 in overtime.
New Mexico goes the other way: 5th in scoring margin at +25.2 a game, but 68th in the ratings because of who it has played.
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Indiana is 6-0, and its rank in The Precedent Ratings has gone up and down all season.
It was tied for 1st after Week 2, then fell to 78th after a 38-0 win over Western Kentucky because its opponents kept losing.
Winning at Nebraska, unbeaten against FBS teams until Saturday, moved Indiana to 5th.
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The AP and The Precedent Ratings disagree most on these 10 teams.
Ohio State is 4th in the AP and 30th in The Precedent. It has won by almost 30 points a game, but its opponents are a combined 12-18.
The AP ranks 8 of the 10 higher. Boise State (4th vs. 23rd) and Wisconsin (11th, unranked in the AP) go the other way.
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Full Week 6 recap and the new Precedent Ratings:
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Biggest movers in The Precedent Ratings after Week 6:
Indiana climbed from 54th to 5th after winning at a Nebraska team that was unbeaten against FBS opponents.
Florida State fell from 35th to 72nd after blowing a 14-point lead in a 44-20 loss to Louisville.
14 teams moved 30 or more spots this week.
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SMU is No. 24 in the AP poll and No. 81 in The Precedent, the biggest gap between the two.
Ohio State: AP No. 4, The Precedent No. 30.
The Precedent is higher on two teams: Boise State (No. 4, AP No. 23) and Wisconsin (No. 11, unranked by the AP).
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Georgia at Alabama is GameDay's game today. Both are 5-0.
The AP: Georgia No. 2, Alabama No. 6.
The Precedent: Alabama No. 3, Georgia No. 38.
Alabama has beaten our No. 7 and No. 8. Georgia's best win is over No. 45.
6:30pm CT, ABC.
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Kentucky is No. 7 in The Precedent but 60th in scoring margin.
The Wildcats beat Texas A&M by 10 and South Carolina by 1, and lost to Alabama by 28. Our ratings count who you beat, not by how much.
New Mexico is the reverse: +25.2 scoring margin per game, but No. 65.
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The night before the Rams' vote to leave St. Louis, staff reportedly drafted a farewell letter to the city. Internally they called it the AMF letter.
It stood for "Adios, motherf-ers."
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Florida was The Precedent's No. 1 team after Weeks 3 and 4.
Then it lost 45-17 at Missouri, a game the Gators were favored to win. Florida trailed 30-10 after three quarters.
Its Rating dropped from .750 to .529, and it's now No. 4. Up next: South Carolina on Saturday.
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Cleveland got its team back in 3 seasons. Baltimore waited 12 years. St. Louis took a $790M settlement and is still waiting. Montreal got nothing.
Why did four cities get such different results?
Tomorrow in The Precedent.
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The SEC is the top-rated conference in The Precedent ratings after Week 5 at .397. The Big Ten is No. 2 at .342.
Half the SEC is in our top 25 (8 of 16 teams). The Big Ten has 8 of 18.
The Pac-12 moved up to No. 5, passing the American.
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Northwestern's 23 points at Indiana are the most anyone has scored on the Hoosiers this season. Then it ran for 413 yards against Penn State. The Wildcats jumped from 27th to 15th in The Precedent Ratings, and the AP still doesn't rank them.
Alabama beat Mississippi State by 33. Mississippi State beat Missouri by 7. Missouri beat Florida by 28. Florida beat Ole Miss, and Ole Miss beat LSU. The SEC loop is in this week's recap, along with the new ratings.
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Alabama beat Mississippi State by 33. Mississippi State beat Missouri by 7. Missouri beat Florida by 28. Florida beat Ole Miss, and Ole Miss beat LSU. The SEC loop is in this week's recap, along with the new ratings.
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Two unbeaten matchups. The top team in The Precedent Ratings on the road at Missouri. A 25.5-point line in Athens. The Week 5 Weekend Viewing Guide has every window mapped out.
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New from The Precedent: Florida is clearly No. 1, Week 4 was the most upset-prone weekend of the season, and the ratings expose a resume gap for two unbeaten teams everyone assumes are elite.
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Four different windows this weekend average a single-digit game rank. That's how stacked Saturday is. The Weekend Viewing Guide is live.
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Every champion gets called "the best team." Most leagues never built their playoffs to prove that.
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How does an unbeaten team fall in the ratings? And why is the SEC suddenly the top conference? Florida leads this week's Precedent ratings, and the rest of the picture is in the new issue:
theprecedentmedia.com/p/flor…
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Three ranked-vs-ranked games. A new unanimous #1. And the sleeper buried at the bottom of Saturday night that nobody's talking about.
Your Week 3 viewing guide is up.
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