Recruiting vs. Ranking College Football Team Performance: WAC

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Caveats:

  • Each year's recruiting rating is an average of the rank order ratings from two major recruiting services.
  • The Recruiting Rating Average is weighted to give the most weight for 3rd and 4th year student-athletes, and the least for 1st year student-athletes.
  • The Recruiting Rating Averages are rank ordered to assign each team a Recruiting Ranting Ranking for the team's recruiting rating average.
  • The Post-Bowl Ranking is an average of 20+ ranking services. It is not simply the AP, Coaches, or BCS ratings.
  • Read the full explanation on the index page.

Index | Top 20 Overachieving Teams
ACC | Big 12 | Big East | Big Ten | Conference USA | Independents | MAC | Mountain West | Pac-10 | SEC | Sun Belt | WAC

Updated 21 July 2009: 2008 post-bowl rankings have now been included and the differences between those rankings and the recruiting ratings have been calculated.

School Conference 2008 Rating 2007 Rating 2006 Rating 2005 Rating 2004 Rating 2008 Recruiting Rating Avg 2008 Recruiting Rating Ranking 2008 Pre-Bowl Ranking Average 2008 Pre-Bowl Difference 2008 Post-Bowl Ranking Average 2008 Post-Bowl Difference Missing Ratings?
Boise State WAC 76.5 62.5 74 68.5 79 70.49 67 9 58 10 57
Fresno State WAC 101 99 98 85.5 87 75.31 82 68 -4 60 22
Hawaii WAC 82 113 98.5 84 104.5 96.56 88 67 21 70 18
Idaho WAC 93 79 105 84 89 90.79 87 117 -30 114 -27
Louisiana Tech WAC 46.5 94.5 84 93.5 90 88.34 92 77 15 51 41 2002S
Nevada WAC 94 94 87 98.5 100 93.78 98 54 44 49 49
New Mexico St. WAC 116.5 101.5 112.5 68.5 81.5 92.84 115 111 4 111 4 2002S, 2003S
San Jose St. WAC 59 71 87.5 83.5 110.5 93.1 109 86 14 72 37
Utah State WAC 117.5 108 109 89 85 84.04 108 98 23 106 2
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