FEI Week 13 Ratings and Recency-Weighted Ratings

The college football regular season approaches its final act, with a handful of key conference championship games that will ultimately determine the College Football Playoff field, plus a few other FBS games that will clarify the set of bowl-eligible teams and determine the bowl match-ups that will carry us through the conclusion of the season in January. There appear to be more certainties this year than we usually have, but there is still time for the 2018 season to surprise us with chaos. If not, I don't expect much movement in the FEI ratings next week, since single-game results at this point in the year, even in blowout fashion, only carry a fraction of the weight given to the rest of the season's results.

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