After hearing on the ATN podcast that D3football will post a conference ranking on the site tomorrow, I wanted to see how the D3 editorial team's list would correlate to my model, so I decided to run a test to rank the conferences after removing preseason data from the inputs. This is based only on the average rating of conference members - no extra weight for the top teams. I also omitted NESCAC in this version due to the lack of non-conference games.
1 WIAC
2 Empire 8
3 MIAA
4 OAC
5 American Southwest
6 CCIW
7 North Coast
8 Centennial
9 NEWMAC
10 NJAC
11 ODAC
12 Northwest
13 American Rivers
14 MIAC
15 SAA
16 Middle Atlantic
17 Heartland
18 USA South
19 SCIAC
20 Landmark
21 Presidents'
22 Liberty League
23 MASCAC
24 New England
25 NACC
26 SCAC
27 Midwest
28 UMAC