Beating good teams is uselessHaving more "ranked wins" is a useless metric because SEC teams will often be ranked higher in preseason polls...probably half the conference gets ranked.
They win their easy OOC games and then play each other. If everyone is ranked, doesn't play tough OOC and then loses to each other....no one falls far and then if they win, they get the boost.
The losses have to matter more than the wins. All ranked wins being in-conference is pointless when hardly anyone in the conference played a tough OOC.
How about this , SMu beat 1 team all year with 9 or more wins