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wazoheat Ballot for 2018 Week 5

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 24, 2018, 12:19 p.m.

Overall Rationale: I have no idea who is good anymore. Except Bama. It's unfair how good they look right now.  For the record, I also considered ranking Miami, Washington, Michigan State, Texas Tech, and Oklahoma State. There are just too many potentially good teams to sort through in the 10-40 range right now to comfortably separate them.PS mods special character support pls! àéíóūñ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 🤷

Rank Team Reason
1 Alabama Crimson Tide Just beating down everyone at this point. Unfortunately it's another 6 weeks until their next big test.
2 Ohio State Buckeyes If they put a beatdown on Penn State next week I might consider bumping them to #1 based on resumé, which will be decidedly better than Bama's at that point.
3 Georgia Bulldogs South Carolina at Kentucky will actually decide for me whether Georgia stays this high or not. I'm not entirely convinced eastern USC is actually good.
4 LSU Tigers I'm honestly uncomfortable putting this many SEC teams this high, but it is what it is. LSU probably has the best resumé in the country. I would have them even higher if they hadn't struggled at home against a mediocre team this week (I don't like my rankings to stagnate). Might bump them back up if it proves to be a temporary hiccup.
5 UCF Knights I'll keep them up here as long as they remain undefeated, but if they struggle against Pitt I'm gonna have to start demoting them.
6 Penn State Nittany Lions It's starting to look like App State is actually a pretty good team, so these guys get a boost.
7 Clemson Tigers I'm still not convinced they're for real, but at least now they've blown out a P5 opponent.
8 Stanford Cardinal I really don't want to rank them this high, but I'm running low on top-10 candidates, and a win is a win (especially on the road against a rival).
9 Kentucky Wildcats The Florida win continues to look better and better, and I have no reason to think that Mississippi State isn't good. 
10 Duke Blue Devils weafootballschoolnow.meme
11 Oklahoma Sooners Army might be an okay team this year, but that doesn't excuse nearly shitting the bed against them. Duke had a much better win against them, so this order seems natural.
12 West Virginia Mountaineers Still haven't faced real tough competition, but they've blown out two P5 opponents now, so they've earned a ranking up here for now.
13 Syracuse Orange Barely getting any votes in the AP poll is straight-up disrespekt. To me they're in the same boat as the Mountaineers above.
14 North Texas Mean Green Don't @ me. These guys have blown everyone out so far so they're no less deserving than any of the other teams in this range.
15 Colorado Buffaloes I'm honestly not sure how good they are, since it is looking like Nebraska might be *really* bad this year. We'll see how UCLA treats them.
16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Invigorated with a new QB, they are finally starting to look like a top-25 team.
17 California Golden Bears Another team I'm not so sure about, but this week should clear things up.
18 USF Bulls They continue to struggle but they continue to win.
19 Oregon Ducks Finally I can start ranking 1-defeated teams. Oregon makes the top for now since they really *should* be undefeated were it not for the ridiculous chaos of CFB. Really I blame Old Dominion for all of this.
20 BYU Cougars They have one really good win on their resumé, let's see if they can make it 2 this week.
21 Auburn Tigers I'll be honest I haven't caught any of their games yet this year. But I have no reason to think that the Washington win wasn't a good one.
22 Michigan Wolverines Our computer overlords think these guys have a 10% chance to make the playoffs? Who am I to argue?
23 NC State Wolfpack These last three get on the list just by virtue of being undefeated, but I'm not convinced that they are actually top-25.
24 Buffalo Bulls Welcome to the big time, Bulls. Now go win your conference so I don't look like a fool.
25 Cincinnati Bearcats I honestly did not know Cincinnati was undefeated until I made a last-minute check of teams' records before making this poll. I get that they've played less than stellar competition but they did beat UCLA on the road, that's gotta count for something.

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