Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Dec. 4, 2017, 4:47 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Essentially, this is a resume poll that heavily weights wins over 1-loss teams. Otherwise P5 wins are counted as tallies in a team's favor. Losses to undefeated teams are less detrimental than other losses. Based on these factors teams are graded out into a handful of tiers and then ranked within those tiers. Teams are also clumped into a sort of "poll-worthy" category based in these criteria. This clump of teams has no size limit and can certainly be more than 25. Wins over any of these teams will boost a team's ranking within their tier, but not into another tier. This poll is not meant to be predictive in any way.

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Oklahoma Sooners
2	Georgia Bulldogs
3	Clemson Tigers
4	Ohio State Buckeyes
5	UCF Knights
6	USC Trojans
7	Wisconsin Badgers
8	Auburn Tigers
9	Alabama Crimson Tide
10	Miami Hurricanes
11	Penn State Nittany Lions
12	Washington Huskies
13	Memphis Tigers
14	TCU Horned Frogs
15	Washington State Cougars
16	San Diego State Aztecs
17	Stanford Cardinal
18	Notre Dame Fighting Irish
19	Northwestern Wildcats
20	Michigan State Spartans
21	LSU Tigers
22	Boise State Broncos
23	Troy Trojans
24	Oklahoma State Cowboys
25	Virginia Tech Hokies

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Oklahoma Sooners	0.06
2	Georgia Bulldogs	0.00
3	Clemson Tigers	-0.58
4	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
5	UCF Knights	0.00
6	USC Trojans	0.01
7	Wisconsin Badgers	0.00
8	Auburn Tigers	0.00
9	Alabama Crimson Tide	-1.15
10	Miami Hurricanes	0.00
11	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.00
12	Washington Huskies	0.00
13	Memphis Tigers	0.78
14	TCU Horned Frogs	0.00
15	Washington State Cougars	1.03
16	San Diego State Aztecs	7.52
17	Stanford Cardinal	0.00
18	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	-0.24
19	Northwestern Wildcats	0.00
20	Michigan State Spartans	0.00
21	LSU Tigers	-0.09
22	Boise State Broncos	0.00
23	Troy Trojans	1.70
24	Oklahoma State Cowboys	-1.43
25	Virginia Tech Hokies	-0.84

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
USF Bulls	0.14

Total Score: 15.59