Started tinkering around with some data now that the season is over. This is just a basic scatterplot of the Sagarin ratings from this year compared to last year. If a team is on the line, they basically are at about the same Sagarin ranking as they were last year. If they are above the line, they improved. If they are below the line, they got worse.
I labeled all of the SEC teams, and a few notable outliers. I use Sagarin because it factors in strength of schedule.
It's nice to be "above the line" for a change. If we hadn't dropped those first couple of games, we'd probably would have been between Navy and Baylor on the y-axis.
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