teams with highest %s of shutouts against FBS opponents

The table below lists the ten teams which, in the  BCS era , shut out the highest percentages of their FBS opponents.

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team FBS SO %
Virginia Tech 10.29
TCU  7.74
USC  7.30
Kansas State  6.75
Oklahoma  6.08
Virginia  6.02
LSU  5.81
Texas  5.59
Auburn  5.42
Boise State  5.42

best & worst coaches in AQ OOC games

(during the BCS era; by winning percentage in at least 11 games against teams in [other] automatically qualifying conferences - and Notre Dame)

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coach W L % coach W L %
Urban Meyer 23 3 88.5 Bobby Wallace 0 15 0.0
Pete Carroll 26 4 86.7 Mark Snyder 0 13 0.0
Barry Alvarez 13 3 81.3 Bill Lynch 0 12 0.0
Bobby Petrino 16 4 80.0 Neil Calloway 0 11 0.0
Mark Richt 22 6 78.6 Phil Bennett 0 11 0.0
Les Miles 14 4 77.8 Joe Hollis 0 11 0.0
Nick Saban 17 5 77.3 Jeff Genyk 0 11 0.0
Larry Coker 13 4 76.5 Howard Schnellenberger 1 23 4.2
Gary Patterson 16 6 72.7 Steve Roberts 1 21 4.5
Chuck Amato  8 3 72.7 Rickey Bustle 1 20 4.8
Mike Gundy  8 3 72.7 Mike Kruczek 1 19 5.0

undefeated in AQ OOC games; winless in non-AQ FBS games

The table below lists all 22 teams which, in a season of the BCS era, Won at least one game against out-of-conference automatically qualifying opponents without a loss, while Losing at least one game against teams in other FBS conferences without a win.

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season team W L season team W L
1998 Vanderbilt 1 2 2004 Nebraska 1 1
1999 East Carolina 5 1 2005 Air Force 1 2
1999 North Carolina 1 1 2005 Vanderbilt 1 1
1999 North Carolina State 2 1 2007 Iowa State 1 2
2000 Kentucky 1 1 2008 UCLA 1 2
2000 Vanderbilt 2 1 2009 California 2 1
2001 Vanderbilt 1 1 2009 Houston 3 1
2002 Bowling Green 2 1 2009 Virginia 1 2
2003 Cincinnati 2 1 2010 California 1 1
2003 Northwestern 2 3 2010 Oregon State 1 2
2004 Kentucky 1 2 2011 Central Florida 1 2

best & worst conference seasons vs. non-AQ OOC teams

The following table lists the conferences which, during a particular season of the BCS era, had the highest and lowest winning percentages against out-of-conference FBS opponents which were not automatic qualifiers.

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conf season W% conf season W%
Big Ten 2005 100.0 Sun Belt 2005  0.0
Big 12 2011 100.0 Sun Belt 2003 12.5
SEC 2007  96.3 Sun Belt 2001 20.0
SEC 2002  96.3 MAC 2004 25.0
SEC 2006  96.2 MAC 2003 27.3
SEC 2010  95.5 WAC 2011 28.0
Pac-10 2002  94.7 Sun Belt 2004 28.6
Big East 2006  94.4 MAC 1999 30.0
Big East 2009  93.8 Big West 1999 31.6
ACC 2001  92.3

highest & lowest margins of victory over non-FBS teams

Of the FBS teams that have faced lower-division opponents at least 7 times during the BCS era, the table shows those with the highest and lowest average margins of victory.

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team MOV team MOV
Texas Tech 47.50 Buffalo  4.6
Florida 47.29 Ball State  5.3
Miami (FL) 43.33 Eastern Michigan  8.0
Houston 41.43 Louisiana-Lafayette  9.5
Missouri 38.50 Louisiana-Monroe  9.7
Air Force 38.45 Navy 10.5
Southern Mississippi 37.33 Temple 12.4
Virginia Tech 37.00 Tulane 13.3
Tulsa 36.00 North Carolina 13.3
South Florida 35.88 Duke 13.4

top consistent conference W-L streaks

West Virginia not only has the longest streak (in the BCS era) of identical Win-Loss records in its conference, it is the only team with a streak of at least four seasons that is ongoing.

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team conference began in W L # of seasons
West Virginia Big East 2006 5 2 6
Michigan Big Ten 1999 6 2 4
Fresno State WAC 2000 6 2 4
Georgia Tech ACC 2001 4 4 4
UCLA Pac-10 2001 4 4 4
Indiana Big Ten 2002 1 7 4
Syracuse Big East 2006 1 6 4
New Mexico State WAC 2007 1 7 4
Ohio State Big Ten 2007 7 1 4

teams with most wins over non-FBS teams without a loss

(during the BCS era)
Notre Dame, UCLA, and USC have not played any lower-division team since 1998.

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team W
South Florida 16
Central Florida 15
Troy 14
North Carolina State 14
Boise State 13
Kansas State 13
Western Michigan 12
Baylor 12
Wyoming 11
Kentucky 11
Air Force 11

teams’ highest & lowest conference MoV in BCS seasons

The table on this page shows the ten teams, which, in a season of the BCS era, had the highest and lowest average margins of victory within an FBS conference.

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scoring differences : in-conference vs. out-of-conference play

The table on this page lists the teams which, in any one season during the BCS era, had the largest and smallest differences between average margin of victory in conference games as opposed to out-of-conference contests.  Although not very surprising, it is striking that all the teams with the largest differences played in non-AQ conferences, in complete contrast to the teams on the right-hand side of the table.

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13 teams that gave as good as they got on the road

The teams listed in the table below scored exactly as many points as they allowed in away games – during a season in the BCS era.

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team season A_PF = A_PA
Purdue 1998 165
Louisiana Tech 1999 217
North Carolina State 2000 151
TCU 2001 151
Georgia Tech 2004  98
Navy 2004  63
Texas Tech 2004 155
Baylor 2005 130
Boston College 2006  98
Clemson 2009 148
Utah 2009 158
Michigan State 2010 103
South Carolina 2011 101

top 10 teams that were outscored despite having winning records

It’s happened 68 times during the BCS era – although racking up more wins than losses, a team has scored fewer points that it has allowed.  The table below is sortable by clicking on yellow column headers.

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team season W L PF PA PF - PA
Wyoming 2009 7 6 238 355 -117
Washington 2010 7 6 284 381  -97
Marshall 2011 7 6 284 372  -88
Rice 2006 7 6 350 432  -82
Akron 2004 6 5 271 347  -76
Colorado State 2008 7 6 327 393  -66
North Texas 2004 7 5 309 358  -49
Florida Atlantic 2008 7 6 326 373  -47
Idaho 2009 8 5 425 468  -43
Auburn 2011 8 5 334 376  -42

teams that scored equal # of pts in a season’s Ws & Ls

There doesn’t appear to be anything other than chance to explain this fact:  All six of the teams that, in a season of the BCS era, have put up the same number of points in wins and losses are from non-automatically qualifying conferences.

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team season PF
San Jose State 1998 137
San Diego State 2001  92
Eastern Michigan 2004 164
Ball State 2006 163
Marshall 2008 123
Louisiana Tech 2009 275