The College Hockey Computer Rating compiled by Keith Instone Includes games on 1/29/91. Last week's ranking includes games on 1/20/91. Last Division I Schedule Schedule Rank Week Team Record Rating Strength Rank 1 1 Lake Superior 23 3 4 100.00 60.19 14 2 4 Michigan 22 5 3 92.78 60.46 12 3 3 Northern Michigan 22 5 3 92.57 57.61 19 4 6 Minnesota 22 4 3 90.54 55.13 22 5 2 Boston College 21 7 0 89.69 61.36 10 6 5 Maine 22 6 2 89.67 59.26 16 7 7 Providence 15 5 2 81.39 54.35 23 8 8 Boston University 17 8 2 80.62 60.05 15 9 9 Wisconsin 19 8 2 79.37 58.85 17 10 10 Clarkson 15 5 1 77.16 50.51 28 11 12 North Dakota 17 11 2 72.13 60.38 13 12 11 Ferris State 18 7 5 71.78 52.69 26 13 15 New Hampshire 17 8 2 67.38 48.93 29 14 14 Cornell 11 5 2 65.20 44.88 34 15 13 Michigan State 11 13 5 63.12 65.40 4 16 19 Western Michigan 15 12 3 61.14 56.58 21 17 17 St Lawrence 12 9 1 59.31 52.70 25 18 16 RPI 10 9 0 57.01 53.07 24 19 25 Minnesota-Duluth 10 15 5 54.29 64.28 7 20 20 St Cloud 10 15 3 54.03 64.89 6 21 27 Merrimack 13 9 1 53.12 44.31 37 22 18 Bowling Green 11 17 2 53.09 66.31 2 23 22 Colgate 10 8 3 51.16 43.39 38 24 24 Michigan Tech 9 18 3 50.28 66.15 3 25 23 Harvard 8 8 0 50.12 44.88 33 26 26 Alaska-Anchorage 9 10 3 49.99 51.79 27 27 28 Vermont 10 10 1 46.02 47.49 32 28 32 Lowell 9 17 1 43.17 60.47 11 29 30 Colorado College 9 19 1 42.34 61.48 9 30 21 Yale 8 8 1 41.69 42.73 39 31 31 Illinois-Chicago 9 18 1 41.42 58.26 18 32 29 Ohio State 8 17 3 41.23 62.32 8 33 34 Alaska-Fairbanks 9 9 0 37.83 39.05 41 34 35 Brown 6 9 3 35.28 47.76 31 35 33 Denver 5 23 2 33.72 69.71 1 36 36 Princeton 6 11 1 29.46 44.64 35 37 37 Miami 4 22 3 26.86 65.00 5 38 38 Northeastern 4 20 2 23.35 57.59 20 39 39 Notre Dame 5 9 1 23.09 38.07 42 40 41 Kent State 5 13 1 12.18 33.98 44 41 42 Alabama-Huntsville 4 15 2 9.16 36.86 43 42 40 Army 2 12 3 7.70 40.10 40 43 44 Dartmouth 1 17 2 0.44 48.69 30 44 43 Air Force 1 15 2 0.00 44.31 36 The College Hockey Computer Rating uses a connected schedule graph and a least squares optimization to rate the 44 Division I college hockey teams. This method considers a team's opponents, and their opponents, etc., until all 540 Division I games are included. In addition to rating the teams, a strength of schedule is calculated for each team. The schedule strength can be computed by averaging the ratings of a team's opponents for each game. The ratings are normalized so that the #1 team receives a 100.00 and #44 gets a 0.00. Thus, the ratings are purely relative numbers, rating a team based on the rest of college hockey and not on any absolute basis. For every game, the teams are evaluated based on: the outcome (win, lose, tie); the margin of victory; the site of the game (home, away, neutral ice); and overtime or regulation time. Only games against other Division I teams are considered.