2019 Strength of Wins/ Pain of Losses thru week 8.

I find this chart to be very interesting every year. How it’s devised is if you beat an FBS opponent you get credit for all their wins over their FBS opponents

Strength of Wins

In this first chart below you can see Strength of Wins. Ohio St still holds the #1 spot. Ohio St has wins over FAU, Cincinnati, Indiana, Miami, Oh, Nebraska, Michigan St and Northwestern and those teams have a total of 24 wins. My chart this week grades 9 teams as having credit with a win but their foes have not won a single game vs a FBS foe.

Here is the Complete list of Strength of Wins with rank: Games Played thru 10/21/19

Pain of Losses

This next chart we will go over is the Pain of Losses. Here if you lose to an opponent you get credit for all their losses. At the bottom of the list you can see there are 12 teams unbeaten. Akron is on top of this list with a combined 25 foe losses. Akron foe losses include Illinois, UAB,Central Michigan, Troy, UMass Kent St and Buffalo. UMass does not get credit for their win over Akron because they are still winless. Unlike the Strength of Wins chart, the Pain of Losses chart does include a loss to an FCS foe. I count that loss a 4 towards the combined foe loss record due to the weakness of the opponent.

Here is your complete Pain of Losses Chart with rank: Games Played thru 10/21/19

Overall Wins and Losses

In this last chart below you can see the overall wins and losses. As you can see the top teams are Ohio St, LSU and Penn St. There are three winless teams in blue. UMass in red is at the botom of this list even with 1 win as their 1 win was against a winless Akron team. The other teams with 0 wins have at least 1 win vs an FCS team which we do not count in their record on this list.

Here is the Overall Wins and Losses Chart with %:Games Played thru 10/21/19

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