Finally got around to making an algorithm. Methodology: Combine team W-L record with “best win”; helps to neuter complications with teams having played a different number of games. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of data yet, so there’s not a lot to differentiate 1-0 teams from one another.

The algorithm gives me:

• 1: Iowa State, by a small margin (they beat someone who also beat someone else)
• 2-T: Arizona
• 2-T: Kansas
• 4-T: 80-something-way tie

Observations:

• It has South Alabama above Alabama
• Hawai’i is also above Alabama

After some human-bias-led tie-breaking:

1. Iowa State
2. Kansas
3. Arizona
4. an Ohio State
5. LSU

…

24. Texas Tech