Updated Rankings - just in time for the bowl matchups!

While looking at the bowl match-ups, some of them seemed like bad match-ups, and also the SEC seemed to have easy match-ups across the board.  For example, why wasn't Bama playing Baylor?  So I reran my rankings, and generated the bowl match-ups:
 

Team 1 Team 1 Rank Team 2 Team 2 Rank Predicted Margin Colorado State 80 /vs./ Washington State 61 Washington State by 6 Fresno State 17 /vs./ Southern California 23 Fresno State by 3 Buffalo 52 /vs./ San Diego State 75 Buffalo by 5 Tulane 67 /vs./ Louisiana-Lafayette 63 Louisiana-Lafayette by 1 East Carolina 35 /vs./ Ohio 74 East Carolina by 10 Boise State 46 /vs./ Oregon State 68 Boise State by 4 Bowling Green State 34 /vs./ Pittsburgh 70 Bowling Green State by 9 Northern Illinois 19 /vs./ Utah State 53 Northern Illinois by 11 Marshall 47 /vs./ Maryland 56 Marshall by 2 Minnesota 36 /vs./ Syracuse 66 Minnesota by 8 Brigham Young 30 /vs./ Washington 26 Washington by 1 Notre Dame 24 /vs./ Rutgers 81 Notre Dame by 15 Cincinnati 49 /vs./ North Carolina 64 Cincinnati by 3 Louisville 18 /vs./ Miami FL 27 Louisville by 4 Kansas State 48 /vs./ Michigan 37 Michigan by 4 Middle Tennessee State 62 /vs./ Navy 51 Navy by 2 Georgia Tech 60 /vs./ Mississippi 40 Mississippi by 5 Oregon 13 /vs./ Texas 28 Oregon by 7 Arizona State 9 /vs./ Texas Tech 54 Arizona State by 15 Arizona 41 /vs./ Boston College 55 Arizona by 4 UCLA 16 /vs./ Virginia Tech 39 UCLA by 8 Mississippi State 50 /vs./ Rice 31 Rice by 6 Duke 29 /vs./ Texas A&M 25 Texas A&M by 1 Georgia 22 /vs./ Nebraska 42 Georgia by 5 North Texas 44 /vs./ Nevada-Las Vegas 73 North Texas by 6 South Carolina 12 /vs./ Wisconsin 21 South Carolina by 4 Iowa 32 /vs./ Louisiana State 20 Louisiana State by 5 Michigan State 7 /vs./ Stanford 4 Stanford by 2 Baylor 3 /vs./ Central Florida 14 Baylor by 7 Alabama 5 /vs./ Oklahoma 11 Alabama by 3 Missouri 8 /vs./ Oklahoma State 10 Missouri by 2 Clemson 15 /vs./ Ohio State 6 Ohio State by 5 Houston 38 /vs./ Vanderbilt 43 Houston by 1 Arkansas State 65 /vs./ Ball State 33 Ball State by 8 Florida State 1 /vs./ Auburn 2 Florida State by 1
My predicted margin is simply the differences in my ranking factors multiplied by 20, which was an arbitrary number that made the margins seem realistic. You'll see that the SEC is indeed favored in EVERY GAME except Vandy, Miss St, and Auburn.  What that means is that the SEC will go 7-3 or 8-2 in bowl games and everyone will still concede that the SEC is the best conference.  But it will warm my Grinch heart if they go just 5-5.  You'll also notice that Notre Dame is very heavily favored in what I found was a puzzling match-up against the lowest ranking team in a bowl, Rutgers at #81. Penn St. was the highest ranking team (#45) not going to a bowl (ineligible), followed by Texas-San Antonio, Toledo, and W. Kentucky (#57-59, respectively), who are marching in the streets right now!  The highest ranking 5-win team was Indiana, who had a big win against Penn St, and looked almost decent at times this year. My overall rankings are below.  I realize that the format is less than desirable, but I don't care enough about this to spend the time to write the HTML or look into it.  So this is what you get.
team teamconf Total SOS Rank Florida State ACC) 1.290519 85 1 Auburn SEC) 1.235572 13 2 Baylor Big 12) 1.20023 59 3 Stanford Pac 12) 1.147084 17 4 Alabama SEC) 1.105492 65 5 Ohio State Big Ten) 1.096835 64 6 Michigan State Big Ten) 1.030932 76 7 Missouri SEC) 1.030233 21 8 Arizona State Pac 12) 0.973311 4 9 Oklahoma State Big 12) 0.944364 46 10 Oklahoma Big 12) 0.934291 54 11 South Carolina SEC) 0.916229 25 12 Oregon Pac 12) 0.910985 62 13 Central Florida American) 0.870508 113 14 Clemson ACC) 0.833313 38 15 UCLA Pac 12) 0.786823 42 16 Fresno State MWC) 0.776742 117 17 Louisville American) 0.765355 123 18 Northern Illinois MAC) 0.765267 125 19 Louisiana State SEC) 0.726853 43 20 Wisconsin Big Ten) 0.710639 51 21 Georgia SEC) 0.621555 9 22 Southern California Pac 12) 0.621467 41 23 Notre Dame Independent) 0.590699 19 24 Texas A&M SEC) 0.59053 16 25 Washington Pac 12) 0.582241 23 26 Miami FL ACC) 0.565296 68 27 Texas Big 12) 0.53958 48 28 Duke ACC) 0.520572 72 29 Brigham Young Independent) 0.514771 35 30 Rice CUSA) 0.510659 111 31 Iowa Big Ten) 0.498482 30 32 Ball State MAC) 0.483301 116 33 Bowling Green State MAC) 0.479903 102 34 East Carolina CUSA) 0.465065 120 35 Minnesota Big Ten) 0.458071 39 36 Michigan Big Ten) 0.454465 22 37 Houston American) 0.396651 77 38 Virginia Tech ACC) 0.395517 27 39 Mississippi SEC) 0.390989 12 40 Arizona Pac 12) 0.362104 28 41 Nebraska Big Ten) 0.350662 66 42 Vanderbilt SEC) 0.334523 73 43 North Texas CUSA) 0.32124 109 44 Penn State Big Ten) 0.310067 47 45 Boise State MWC) 0.262635 104 46 Marshall CUSA) 0.252551 106 47 Kansas State Big 12) 0.244892 61 48 Cincinnati American) 0.241309 122 49 Mississippi State SEC) 0.234081 5 50 Navy Independent) 0.221621 83 51 Buffalo MAC) 0.210993 92 52 Utah State MWC) 0.205791 88 53 Texas Tech Big 12) 0.205361 55 54 Boston College ACC) 0.180929 58 55 Maryland ACC) 0.159098 96 56 Texas-San Antonio CUSA) 0.157358 84 57 Toledo MAC) 0.155459 67 58 Western Kentucky Sun Belt) 0.154713 115 59 Georgia Tech ACC) 0.14237 29 60 Washington State Pac 12) 0.134075 14 61 Middle Tennessee State CUSA) 0.131596 114 62 Louisiana-Lafayette Sun Belt) 0.121814 119 63 North Carolina ACC) 0.085647 50 64 Arkansas State Sun Belt) 0.06148 89 65 Syracuse ACC) 0.061125 34 66 Tulane CUSA) 0.054913 90 67 Oregon State Pac 12) 0.053885 44 68 Indiana Big Ten) 0.048228 8 69 Pittsburgh ACC) 0.031911 40 70 Tennessee SEC) 0.02913 3 71 Utah Pac 12) 0.026817 2 72 Nevada-Las Vegas MWC) 0.024226 99 73 Ohio MAC) -0.03897 86 74 San Diego State MWC) -0.04081 105 75 San Jose State MWC) -0.04839 63 76 Louisiana-Monroe Sun Belt) -0.11026 71 77 South Alabama Sun Belt) -0.11672 100 78 Northwestern Big Ten) -0.11897 33 79 Colorado State MWC) -0.14847 121 80 Rutgers American) -0.17595 95 81 Troy Sun Belt) -0.18704 98 82 Florida Atlantic CUSA) -0.24505 110 83 Old Dominion Independent) -0.26144 82 84 Akron MAC) -0.27502 37 85 Florida SEC) -0.29913 11 86 Texas Christian Big 12) -0.30015 26 87 Central Michigan MAC) -0.32062 101 88 Texas State Sun Belt) -0.32657 124 89 Illinois Big Ten) -0.35637 18 90 Southern Methodist American) -0.36578 91 91 Nevada MWC) -0.37763 45 92 Wake Forest ACC) -0.4097 36 93 Colorado Pac 12) -0.42484 20 94 West Virginia Big 12) -0.42791 53 95 Arkansas SEC) -0.46152 15 96 Wyoming MWC) -0.47134 108 97 Kent MAC) -0.48539 49 98 Iowa State Big 12) -0.52377 24 99 North Carolina State ACC) -0.53298 32 100 Tulsa CUSA) -0.5747 60 101 Kansas Big 12) -0.60036 31 102 Memphis American) -0.69308 75 103 Kentucky SEC) -0.70542 7 104 Connecticut American) -0.72399 80 105 New Mexico MWC) -0.76112 107 106 Virginia ACC) -0.76881 10 107 Louisiana Tech CUSA) -0.79761 126 108 Purdue Big Ten) -0.82627 1 109 California Pac 12) -0.84678 6 110 Army Independent) -0.8496 118 111 Temple American) -0.88482 87 112 Alabama-Birmingham CUSA) -0.98886 79 113 Hawaii MWC) -1.0042 78 114 Eastern Michigan MAC) -1.01692 74 115 Texas-El Paso CUSA) -1.02847 112 116 South Florida American) -1.03204 52 117 Air Force MWC) -1.03486 93 118 Idaho Independent) -1.04587 56 119 New Mexico State Independent) -1.04624 81 120 Western Michigan MAC) -1.10643 70 121 Massachusetts MAC) -1.17977 57 122 Southern Mississippi CUSA) -1.22802 103 123 Florida International CUSA) -1.29919 94 124 Miami OH MAC) -1.4104 97 125 Georgia State Sun Belt) -1.53502 69 126