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vanburen1845 Ballot for 2018 Week 9

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Oct. 22, 2018, 9:34 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Usually by the time we get to playoff ranking times I start to transition to more resume based voting. All the arguing about UCF drove me to look for any other top 25 teams without wins over teams that are >.500. The closest one is South Florida whose best opponent record is Elon. There's no "power conference bias" in looking at the bare minimum strength of schedule in winning records.

Rank Team Reason
1 Alabama Crimson Tide
2 Notre Dame Fighting Irish better win than clemson right now. we'll see how things shake out.
3 Clemson Tigers
4 LSU Tigers
5 Michigan Wolverines
6 Texas Longhorns Red River Rematch??!??
7 Oklahoma Sooners
8 Florida Gators
9 Georgia Bulldogs
10 Washington State Cougars
11 Kentucky Wildcats
12 West Virginia Mountaineers
13 Ohio State Buckeyes
14 UCF Knights Only win over a team with a winning record is a 4-4 Memphis. 3 or 4 of their best wins are ahead of them so they have a chance to move up but I would have a hard time putting them in the playoff over any of the potential one loss teams.
15 Wisconsin Badgers
16 Iowa Hawkeyes
17 Stanford Cardinal
18 Oregon Ducks
19 NC State Wolfpack
20 Texas A&M Aggies
21 Washington Huskies
22 Penn State Nittany Lions
23 Appalachian State Mountaineers
24 Utah Utes
25 USF Bulls only winning team they beat is Elon

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