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I like Sagarin's win50 metric, which is, "the rating required to win 50% of the games if playing an infinite number of round-robins in the given group at a neutral location."  Especially since all conferences play a round robin within their division.  For the P12N, it is 79.21, which corresponds to roughly the rating that #33 ranked Texas has.  With the caveat that Sagarin doesn't have enough data points to "connect" the teams (and thus still relies a bit on pre-season priors), the P12N teams are:
#3 Stanford 92.37 (predictor)
#8 Washington 87.16
#36 Oregon 76.99
#41 WSU 77.30
#53 Cal 74.23
#77 Oregon State 67.14

Stanford, Washington, and Oregon seem about right.  Cal and WSU are probably swapped.  Oregon State is probably about right.

BC

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I like Sagarin's win50 metric, which is, "the rating required to win 50% of the games if playing an infinite number of round-robins in the given group at a neutral location."  Especially since all conferences play a round robin within their division.  For the P12N, it is 79.21, which corresponds to roughly the rating that #33 ranked Texas has.  With the caveat that Sagarin doesn't have enough data points to "connect" the teams (and thus still relies a bit on pre-season priors), the P12N teams are:
#3 Stanford 92.37 (predictor)
#8 Washington 87.16
#36 Oregon 76.99
#41 WSU 77.30
#53 Cal 74.23
#77 Oregon State 67.14

Stanford, Washington, and Oregon seem about right.  Cal and WSU are probably swapped.  Oregon State is probably about right.

BC