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Finally each team's MOAPs were used to find their relative MOAP scores (let's call it the RMOAP) by dividing by the average AP for all the teams in Div-1A.  This way, a team with an average schedule of opponents has an RMOAP = 1.0.

Note that teams with the most APs in a conference tend to have reduced MOAP scores because they don't get to play themselves!

However, MOAP scores aren't the only factor associated with SoS.  I also used the fraction of each team's games that were played on the road (let's call it FRG) - a high percentage of road games means a more difficult schedule.  If a team played 6 road games out of 12 games, then FRG = 0.50.  Neutral sites didn't count as road games.

This resulted in the Round 2 APs in the following way:

AP (round2) = [AP (round 1)+80]*FRG*RMOAP

Note that the APs from round 1 were normalized so that the normalized APs were all nonnegative - this was done to prevent some issues with the way the APs were revised to account for a team's schedule.  This method accounts separately for strength of a team's opponents and the fraction of its games played on the road.  It rewards teams that play a preponderance of high quality opponents, and for having more road games on its schedule.  The revised rankings that account for SoS are:

Round 2 Accomp. Points

Team 

  
Oklahoma = 171.56
Cincinnati = 154.72
Pittsburgh = 148.74
Virginia Tech = 144.34
Florida = 141.18
Texas = 130.86
Miami (FL) = 123.89
Boston College = 118.89
Texas Tech = 116.96
USC = 116.03
South Florida = 113.15
Oregon State = 111.41
Georgia Tech = 109.58
Fresno State = 107.81
Arkansas = 106.29
North Carolina = 102.86
Ohio State = 102.51
Georgia = 102.42
Colorado State = 99.94
Rutgers = 99.83
Virginia = 98.67
West Virginia = 98.63
Connecticut = 98.40
Michigan State = 96.72
North Carolina State = 96.29
Illinois = 96.06
Air Force = 94.61
Oklahoma State = 93.41
Vanderbilt = 92.84
Colorado = 92.69
Wake Forest = 90.77
Alabama = 89.60
Houston = 89.45
California = 88.43
Maryland = 88.23
Nevada = 88.16
South Carolina = 87.98
Penn State = 86.97
Florida State = 86.49
Baylor = 80.86
Nebraska = 79.20
TCU = 79.02
Duke = 78.96
Notre Dame = 78.01
Mississippi = 77.82
Kansas = 74.54
Hawaii = 74.25
Syracuse = 74.24
Oregon = 73.77
Missouri = 73.60
Clemson = 73.49
Stanford = 71.47
Utah = 70.93
Iowa = 69.98
Marshall = 66.49
LSU = 65.60
Purdue = 64.58
Navy = 61.06
Boise State = 59.99
Western Michigan = 59.37
East Carolina = 58.57
Wisconsin = 58.28
Utah State = 57.66
Temple = 53.94
Central Michigan = 53.46
Northwestern = 52.93
Auburn = 52.34
New Mexico = 52.10
UTEP = 51.30
Minnesota = 51.29
Florida Atlantic = 51.20
UCLA = 50.93
Kentucky = 49.80
Mississippi State = 48.19
Buffalo = 45.88
Louisville = 44.96
San Jose State = 44.87
Rice = 43.80
Arizona State = 40.82
UNLV = 39.81
Troy = 38.27
Florida International = 36.19
Middle Tennessee State = 36.03
Tennessee = 35.73
Louisiana - Lafayette = 33.80
Michigan = 33.39
Southern Miss = 32.78
Ohio = 32.12
Brigham Young = 31.25
Idaho = 31.05
Arizona = 30.49
Kansas State = 30.12
Tulsa = 29.86
Indiana = 29.58
Northern Illinois = 29.28
New Mexico State = 27.65
UCF = 27.59
Texas A&M = 26.98
Arkansas State = 26.62
Akron = 24.82
Army = 24.46
Louisiana Tech    22.88
Western Kentucky = 22.03
Southern Methodist = 21.98
San Diego State = 21.90
Bowling Green = 21.34
Louisiana - Monroe = 20.83
Toledo = 20.24
Wyoming = 19.40
Ball State = 18.63
Memphis = 15.87
Eastern Michigan = 15.30
Washington State = 14.74
Tulane = 14.52
Kent State = 14.23
North Texas = 12.87
Iowa State = 10.60
UAB = 9.62
Miami (OH) = 4.44
Washington = 0.00

Average    63.635
Median    58.966

Note it will be possible to re-do the SoS evaluation using the Round 2 APs.  This will be reported upon in the future.