There has been a lot of discussion this week about the mighty SEC and its unprecedented 10 teams in the AP Top 25.  As a self-professed hater of preseason and early season polls, I decided to look at Football Outsiders' Week One F+ Ratings for comparison.  Personally, I find the F+ ratings a better indicator of statistical, on-field performance based on the amount of data they use (every snap, down-and-distance, garbage time, etc.) and the rigor they put behind their ratings.

In the table below, I placed the teams in order of current F+ rating and added AP rankings data (Week 2, Preseason and Change) in the last three columns.  A few things jump out:

1) 8 SEC teams appear in the Top 25 for F+, not 10 as in the AP Poll.  Miss St and Tenn are at 26 and 29 in F+ ratings.  That's still way more than the next closest P5 conference, PAC 12, which has 5, followed by the ACC (4) and the B1G and Big XII with 3 each.

2) ASU and Stanford are still in the F+ Top 25 despite losing.  In fact, ASU actually climbed 3 spots, while they dropped 14 in the AP Poll.  Stanford dropped one spot in F+, but fell 20 places in the AP voting.

3) Four SEC teams (UGA, Ark, Ole Miss, and Auburn) dropped in F+, despite winning last weekend.  Ole Miss dropped 4 spots, putting them closer to their AP ranking, and AUB dropped 5 spots to 18 (which is a stunning 12 places lower than their AP Ranking).  USC, UCLA, OU and Clemson also dropped with a win.

4) Eight teams are 'undervalued' in the AP Top 25, appearing four or more places lower than their F+ rating: ORE, UGA, LSU (I don't know how they have a rating without taking a snap), UCLA, Ole Miss, ASU, Stanford and VaTech.

5) Ten teams are 'overvalued' in the AP Top 25, appearing four or more places above their F+ rating: TCU, USC, ND, Auburn, Clem, A&M, ARK, AZ, UT, & Tenn.  Four of those teams are in the SEC.  Auburn has the largest disparity at 12 places.

6) tOSU and 'Bama are clearly a step above the field in F+ ratings, about 8-10 points ahead of Oregon, which is pretty much alone at #3. After that it's gets competitive at 4-9, all within 6 points of each other.  10-20 are somewhat close within about 8 points of each other.

I know it's early in the season, and lot will change as more games are played and we have more statistics to evaluate. But based on what I saw last weekend, I put a little more faith in this index than some of the overreaction and subjectivity we see in the early AP Polls.  I'm interested in hearing the community's thoughts.