The Matchup Zone

2008 TAPE Index

Since 2013, each season's TAPE and PAPER ratings are normalized to an index of the 100 teams with the best performance over the previous five seasons. For earlier seasons, the TAPE index consisted of the teams in the six BCS Conferences. The teams in the 2008 index are listed below.

Alabama (SEC) Arizona (Pac12) Arizona St. (Pac12) Arkansas (SEC)
Auburn (SEC) Baylor (Big12) Boston College (ACC) California (Pac12)
Cincinnati (BigEast) Clemson (ACC) Colorado (Big12) Connecticut (BigEast)
DePaul (BigEast) Duke (ACC) Florida (SEC) Florida St. (ACC)
Georgetown (BigEast) Georgia (SEC) Georgia Tech (ACC) Illinois (BigTen)
Indiana (BigTen) Iowa (BigTen) Iowa St. (Big12) Kansas (Big12)
Kansas St. (Big12) Kentucky (SEC) Louisville (BigEast) LSU (SEC)
Marquette (BigEast) Maryland (ACC) Miami (FL) (ACC) Michigan (BigTen)
Michigan St. (BigTen) Minnesota (BigTen) Mississippi (SEC) Mississippi St. (SEC)
Missouri (Big12) N.C. State (ACC) Nebraska (Big12) North Carolina (ACC)
Northwestern (BigTen) Notre Dame (BigEast) Ohio St. (BigTen) Oklahoma (Big12)
Oklahoma St. (Big12) Oregon (Pac12) Oregon St. (Pac12) Penn St. (BigTen)
Pittsburgh (BigEast) Providence (BigEast) Purdue (BigTen) Rutgers (BigEast)
Seton Hall (BigEast) South Carolina (SEC) South Florida (BigEast) Southern Cal (Pac12)
St. John's (BigEast) Stanford (Pac12) Syracuse (BigEast) Tennessee (SEC)
Texas (Big12) Texas A&M (Big12) Texas Tech (Big12) UCLA (Pac12)
Vanderbilt (SEC) Villanova (BigEast) Virginia (ACC) Virginia Tech (ACC)
Wake Forest (ACC) Washington (Pac12) Washington St. (Pac12) West Virginia (BigEast)
Wisconsin (BigTen)