You're right. I was thinking things would improve as more games were played. But almost everything has been within conferences, so there's little chance for "connecting" the data.
The most absurd aspect of his ratings: B1G West is the #1 conference!
Part of it must be thinking Penn State is good and every team getting a win against Penn State. 0-5 Penn State is still ranked above lots of Big Ten teams with wins.
Even with small sample size and unconnected data I still don't understand how a 0-5 team could be 19th unless it's using mostly the previous year to evaluate that 0-5 team.
Pump 5 wins against a fraudulent #19 team into any conference and yeah that conference will always be #1 by a mile.
Just like ISU, Iowa is legitimately playing better after a very rough start, but teams are cutting through Penn State like a warm knife through butter. Something is wrong with Penn State beyond just a weird covid year. Other typical top 20 programs did not just completely turn into one of the worst teams in FBS.