Of course, every model produces simultaneous reactions of “How could you have Team X so low” and “How could you have team Team Y so high.” The most fun version of this is when Team X beat Team Y. Two cases in point: Clemson still leads UGA in the model, and GT is well ahead of NIU.
What’s going on? A model like this one is not a power ranking based off of past results. It is meant to be forward-facing and predictive. In the case of GT and NIU, NIU won by one point in a game that the underlying statistics show that GT would win 75% of the time.