Well , except that during the election , you guys claimed to be much more than just a fan sub , right ? So are you saying that was all shit posting ? <| sep |> Good looking soup , sweet shirt , bitching scar . 1010 <| sep |> Totally valid . Although as a correction , Youngstown actually has the edge in average MOV , not SDSU . So the easy hand waving answer , I think , would be to point out that they they had near identical seasons , with the degree of win over essentially the same level of competition for Youngstown being just ever so slightly better . But that would be a cop out , and honestly isn ' t really what ' s going on . Truthfully , this is one of the rankings that I don ' t have a great argument for . I ' ve been relatively happy with the model , but this is an instance of a symptom of what I think is a weakness still in this year ' s model I plan on reexamining it at the end of the season . In three of the four models , they are very close in ranking , with SDSU having a small edge in each . But the fourth model seems to be a lot lower on FCS teams than the others , while also being much more aggressive in how it ' s handling SOS . As such , it ' s hitting SDSU a bit harder for it ' s losses , which it sees as slightly worse compared to Youngstown ' s . This is just enough to shift the averaging of the four model rankings in favor of Youngstown , although just ever so slightly . But it ' s also why , if you look at the experimental ranking , when I drop the high and low models , it keeps them still close to each other , but with the swing to SDSU ' s favor . And for what it ' s worth , I know I ' ve been pretty adamant in my argument for why the model as been low on Sam Houston State and that I felt ok about it being so . But part of the reason for being so low on them was the same model really hitting them hard and not liking their SOS . I don ' t feel the overall result has been that unfair to SHSU , but I do think it ' s worth acknowledging that it is partly a byproduct of something that I do see a need for changing . Basically , I ' m fairly happy with the model ' s overall output . Partly because the more aggressive SOS model is acting as a check on the system . But it ' s probably been doing so a bit harder than I really wanted , and I next year unless I blow the whole thing up and start from scratch , I ' ll either give it less weight , or modify it a bit to be a slightly less punitive on SOS .