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This year’s Massey Ratings reflect what has been a common theme on the Boneyard: the absence of dominant teams.

Today, the highest rated team, Baylor, has a score of 2.59. If memory serves me, the UConn team in Stewie’s last year came in at 3.05. In the flattened scale of Massey, that’s a tremendous difference.
 
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Here's a graphical display of the Massey rating scores as of this morning. There's no one team that dominates, but there four teams that have separated a little bit from the others: Baylor, South Carolina, Oregon, and Connecticut (and one team that has some separation at the other end: poor Coppin State).

The font is a little small in an effort to minimize overstrikes. It's in a pdf file, so it can be enlarged to one's heart desires.
 

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This year’s Massey Ratings reflect what has been a common theme on the Boneyard: the absence of dominant teams.

Today, the highest rated team, Baylor, has a score of 2.59. If memory serves me, the UConn team in Stewie’s last year came in at 3.05. In the flattened scale of Massey, that’s a tremendous difference.
Massey preserves archives back a decade, so you can actually still access this data. As it turns out, for the 2015-16 season, Stewie et al. reached a 3.51 by season end, with the next highest team rated a 2.75 (Baylor). For perspective, the following three seasons were UConn at 2.91 (followed by South Carolina at 2.82), Notre Dame at 2.90 (then UConn also at 2.90), and Baylor at 2.94 (followed by Notre Dame at 2.68).

I suspect it will be a very long time before we see a nearly three-quarters of a point separation between the highest and next highest ranked teams. And there hasn't even been a team that's finished a season above 3.00 since then. Talk about a dominant season!

The nearest comparable team besides UConn was Baylor's 2012 undefeated run, but there the separation between them (3.49) and Notre Dame (3.05) was a quarter of a point smaller.
 

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