Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Sept. 6, 2016, 12:47 a.m.

Overall Rationale: My early season model combines 3 polls, my 2 seeded early season poll s, and my personal poll.  My personal poll counts for triple each computer poll at this time.  My early season model will be faded out to a model that includes 3 computer polls and only counts my poll twice starting with the week 4 ballot.  I may eventually reduce my personal vote influence by adding a 4th poll or remove it entirely with a 5th but that remains to be seen.I have a firm rule in my personal polls, no team with a record under 0.667 can appear in the rankings in the first 6 weeks, after 6 weeks no team with a record under 0.750 can appear.Feel free to ask questions about any human poll results.  The computer polls will be understandably strange this early.The human poll always breaks ties.  If both teams are outside the top 25 in the human poll, but makes the top 25.  The MLE ranking breaks the tie.Note: Before Tennessee fans get mad, Tennessee was #24 in my personal poll due to struggles.  The two computer models really freaked out about the struggles though and dropped Tennessee out of the top 25 (28 and 32.)  Oklahoma State received no love from the computers either, and honestly I kind of forgot them in my personal poll, but it wasn't worth correcting as they were so low in the computer polls (sub 40s due preseason trend calculations dragging them down in the weightings. I am looking into it as it seems like a corner case).

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	Score: 125/125 Human Poll: #1
2	Florida State Seminoles	Score: 115/125 Human Poll: #3
3	Houston Cougars	Score: 114/125 Human Poll: #2
4	Ohio State Buckeyes	Score: 108/125 Human Poll: #6
5	Clemson Tigers	Score: 99/125 Human Poll: #5
6	Stanford Cardinal	Score: 95/125 Human Poll: #9
7	Wisconsin Badgers	Score: 84/125 Human Poll: #4
8	Georgia Bulldogs	Score: 78/125 Human Poll: 10
9	Washington Huskies	Score: 77/125 Human Poll #11
10	Baylor Bears	Score: 70/125 Human Poll: #14
11	Texas A&M Aggies	Score: 68/125 Human Poll: #12
12	Oregon Ducks	Score: 67/125 Human Poll: #17
13	Michigan Wolverines	Score: 62/125 Human Poll: #8
14	Texas Longhorns	Score: 61/125 Human Poll: #7
15	Michigan State Spartans	Score: 61/125 Human Poll: #15
16	West Virginia Mountaineers	Score: 59/125 Human Poll #19
17	Iowa Hawkeyes	Score: 45/125 Human Poll: #13
18	Louisville Cardinals	Score: 30/125 Human Poll #16
19	TCU Horned Frogs	Score: 28/125 Human Poll: #24
20	Toledo Rockets	Score: 24/125 Human Poll NR
21	Minnesota Golden Gophers	Score: 18/125 Human Poll #18
22	LSU Tigers	Score: 20/125 Human Poll: NR
23	Colorado Buffaloes	Score: 18/125 Human Poll: #20
24	Oklahoma Sooners	Score: 16/125 Human Poll NR
25	Florida Gators	Score: 15/125 Human Poll: #25

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.00
2	Florida State Seminoles	0.00
3	Houston Cougars	0.10
4	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
5	Clemson Tigers	0.00
6	Stanford Cardinal	0.00
7	Wisconsin Badgers	0.20
8	Georgia Bulldogs	0.00
9	Washington Huskies	0.00
10	Baylor Bears	1.84
11	Texas A&M Aggies	0.42
12	Oregon Ducks	1.26
13	Michigan Wolverines	-1.51
14	Texas Longhorns	0.00
15	Michigan State Spartans	0.00
16	West Virginia Mountaineers	3.97
17	Iowa Hawkeyes	0.00
18	Louisville Cardinals	-0.13
19	TCU Horned Frogs	0.00
20	Toledo Rockets	4.91
21	Minnesota Golden Gophers	3.86
22	LSU Tigers	0.00
23	Colorado Buffaloes	0.74
24	Oklahoma Sooners	-0.55
25	Florida Gators	0.00

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Oklahoma State Cowboys	0.91
Tennessee Volunteers	0.64
Ole Miss Rebels	0.53
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	0.71

Total Score: 22.29