Ballot Type: Human
Submitted: Oct. 2, 2018, 6:58 a.m.
Overall Rationale: Originally I had planned on reviewing teams based on the scoreboard. Win's over everything and quality of the wins can dictate location on the top 25. It has been fun ranking all teams with undefeated records and analyzing what I believe to be the best wins of the week but now I have stumbled upon a curious question, "If I rank teams based on that week's wins and the quality of those wins will I end up with a final year end poll that determines the appropriate final four?" After the preparation of these polls I will work out a way to prepare an adjusted poll which includes the average team rankings from my week to week rankings. This should be a good indicator of who I truly believe has the hardest schedule and best overall season performance.
Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 | Ohio State Buckeyes | Undefeated, Beat top 10 opponent.  |
2 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | Undefeated. Beat top 10 opponent.  |
3 | LSU Tigers | Undefeated. Beat a really good Ole Miss offense, but also beat a really bad Ole Miss defense.  |
4 | Kentucky Wildcats | Undefeated. Beat a South Carolina team that we all thought would do well this year.  |
5 | Oklahoma Sooners | Undefeated. Destroyed a Baylor team that we expected them to destroy. Baylor is still building.  |
6 | Georgia Bulldogs | Undefeated. Throttled opponent, not an impressive scheduled school though.  |
7 | Alabama Crimson Tide | Undefeated. Throttled opponent, not an impressive scheduled school though.  |
8 | Cincinnati Bearcats | Undefeated. Smashed UCON, which others have done.  |
9 | Clemson Tigers | Undefeated... but just barely.  |
10 | West Virginia Mountaineers | Undefeated, beat a potentially good Tech team, but also allowed them to claw back and nearly win.  |
11 | NC State Wolfpack | Undefeated. Beat their in conference opponent.  |
12 | UCF Knights | Undefeated. Eat Shit Pitt.  |
13 | Colorado Buffaloes | Undefeated. Colorado is quietly an undefeated PAC-12 team. Man handled a very sad and bad UCLA.  |
14 | Washington Huskies | 4-1, defeated a Top 20 ranked BYU.  |
15 | Oregon Ducks | 4-1, defeated a top 25 ranked Cal.  |
16 | Florida Gators | 4-1 with a win against a top 25 ranked Miss. State that may be bad this year.  |
17 | Miami Hurricanes | 4-1, defeated in conference opponent.  |
18 | Texas Longhorns | 4-1. Beat their in conference opponent that may or may not be good this year. However, K-State was clawing back in the 3Q and 4Q.  |
19 | Washington State Cougars | 4-1, Beat in conference opponent.  |
20 | Michigan Wolverines | 4-1, Scoreboard appears to show them nearly losing to a pretty good Northwestern team.  |
21 | Boston College Eagles | |
22 | Indiana Hoosiers | |
23 | Syracuse Orange | |
24 | Auburn Tigers | 4-1, played Georgia Southern and looking at the score did not do too well against them but got the W.  |
25 | Penn State Nittany Lions | 4-1, Losses do not typically get ranked based on my methodology. However, after reviewing the remaining 4-1 games where they played poor opponents I am left with a 4-1 team that had the best loss out of any of the remaining teams. A loss against the top 5 team in the nation by 1 point.  |
Teams Ranked:
Rank | Team | Unusualness |
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1 | Ohio State Buckeyes | 0.55 |
2 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 0.59 |
3 | LSU Tigers | 0.14 |
4 | Kentucky Wildcats | 1.50 |
5 | Oklahoma Sooners | 0.00 |
6 | Georgia Bulldogs | -0.67 |
7 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -3.77 |
8 | Cincinnati Bearcats | 5.17 |
9 | Clemson Tigers | -0.87 |
10 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 0.00 |
11 | NC State Wolfpack | 1.48 |
12 | UCF Knights | 0.00 |
13 | Colorado Buffaloes | 1.24 |
14 | Washington Huskies | -0.11 |
15 | Oregon Ducks | 0.46 |
16 | Florida Gators | 1.33 |
17 | Miami Hurricanes | 0.00 |
18 | Texas Longhorns | 0.00 |
19 | Washington State Cougars | 5.87 |
20 | Michigan Wolverines | -0.53 |
21 | Boston College Eagles | 4.17 |
22 | Indiana Hoosiers | 3.03 |
23 | Syracuse Orange | 0.00 |
24 | Auburn Tigers | -3.09 |
25 | Penn State Nittany Lions | -3.22 |
Omissions:
Team | Unusualness |
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Stanford Cardinal | 2.96 |
Wisconsin Badgers | 1.55 |
Michigan State Spartans | 0.35 |
Oklahoma State Cowboys | 0.24 |
Total Score: 42.90