UB's Penultimate Road to the CFP

UB's Rank: 97

Billingsley + MOV	103		ESPN FPI	100		Anderson	98
Massey	95		USA Today Myerberg	93		Sagarin	98
Football Study Hall	92		Colley	96		Wolfe	94

UB's College Football Playoff Magic Number:

93

UB needed to be better than 93 teams to earn a bid into the 2015 college football playoff.

UB's Group of 5 Magic Number:

31

UB is 32nd of 61 group of 5 teams, thus UB would have had to been better than 31 G5 teams to earn the G5 auto-bid to a top 6 bowl game.

Aggregate Playoff

#1: Alabama vs #4 Ohio State

#2: Oklahoma vs #3 Clemson

Aggregate rest of the Top 10

#5: Michigan State - Big 10

#6: Notre Dame - Independent

#7: Stanford - Pac 12

#8: TCU - Big 12

#9: Baylor - Big 12

#10: Iowa - Big 10

The G5 Top 15:

#1: Navy - American Athletic - #22

#2: Houston - American Athletic - #24

#3: Temple - American Athletic - #31

#4: Memphis - American Athletic - #32

#5: Western Kentucky - Conference USA - #34

#6: Toledo - Mid American - #36

#7: Bowling Green - Mid American - #38

#8: South Florida - Amerian Athletic - #47

#9: Georgia Southern - Sun Belt - #50

#10: San Diego State - Mountain West  - #51

#11: Appalachian State - Sun Belt - #52

#12: Western Michigan - Mid American - #55

#13: Cincinnati - American Athletic - #56

#14: Southern Miss - Conference USA - #57

#15:  Boise State - Mountain West - #59

The Bottom 10

#119: Texas State - Sun Belt

#120: Wyoming - Mountain West

#121: Army - Independent

#122: Hawaii - Mountain West

#123: Kansas - Big 12

#124: UL Monroe - Sun Belt

#125: N. Texas - Conference USA

#126: Charlotte - Conference USA

#127: Eastern Michigan - Mid American

#128: UCF - American Athletic

UB's Schedule:

UB Ranked below but within 15 record: 0-2
Average score: 21 - 33

UB Ranked 16-30 spots below:  not close than: CMU, Ohio, NIU,
UB Ranked 16-30 spots below record: 1-2
Average score: 28.3 - 36.3

UB Ranked 31+ spots below: BGSU, Penn State
UB Ranked 31+ spots below record: 0-2
Average score: 18 - 27.5

MAC Standings:

MAC Rank	Division Rank	Team	National Rank
#1	West #1	Toledo	#36
#2	East  #1	BGSU	#38
#3	West #2	Western Mich	#55
#4	West #3	NIU	#67
#5	East #2	Ohio	#73
#6	West #4	CMU	#74
#7	East #3	Akron	#85
#8	East #4	Buffalo	#97
#9	West #5	Ball St	#106
#10	East #5	Kent St	#113
#11	East #6	Miami	#116
#12	West #6	Eastern Mich	#127