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Charlemagne42 Ballot for 2019 Week 4

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 15, 2019, 2:33 p.m.

Overall Rationale: 9Still human while the computer settles in. Should be good to go hybrid either next week or the week after, depending on how things shake out. There was still significant movement this week, and not all of it made sense from a human eye-test point of view. The SEC has resurged, especially with the B1G losing some weird games. The PAC is back... maybe? They didn't lose to Hawai'i this week, for the first time all season. Meanwhile the ACC is so bad it can't make even Clemson look that good. Without further ado: ----------------- Model Ranking ----------------->> [1] Auburn (84); [2] North Dakota State (77); [3] Ohio State (72.5); [4] Arizona State (71.7); [5] California (70.5); [6] Kansas State (69.8); [7] LSU (69.7); [8] Utah (68.9); [9] Alabama (68.8); [10] Oklahoma State (66); [11] Clemson (64); [12] Oregon (62.9); [13] Florida (62.6); [14] Mississippi State (62.5); [15] Ole Miss (60.9); [16] Wyoming (60.8); [17] Michigan State (60.3); [18] Iowa (60.0); [19] Wake Forest (59.4); [20] Washington (59.2); [21] Missouri (59.0); [22] Arizona (58.4); [23] Memphis (58.2); [24] Oklahoma (58.0); [25] Penn State (56.90) [[[Model has 25 as Central Arkansas (56.94); UCA is ineligible for votes.]]] <<--------------------------------------- Gib text editor plx

Rank Team Reason
1 Clemson Tigers This is gonna get real boring, real fast. (+0 from last week)
2 LSU Tigers The Tigers got caught looking ahead in the first quarter. Then they got better. (+0)
3 Ohio State Buckeyes Taking care of business against a typically-troublesome rival. (+1)
4 Alabama Crimson Tide South Carolina was in the game for waaaaay too long there, Nick. Consistency is key, and Alabama has been consistently inconsistent. (-1)
5 Georgia Bulldogs The Dawgs just need one more slip-up by Saban's squad to usurp their spot. (+0)
6 Oklahoma Sooners UCLA hasn't won an OOC game since 2017, but Oklahoma messed around way too much in the second half to make sure that remained true. (+0)
7 Michigan Wolverines Can't go to 2OT at home against an unranked team if you don't play anyone. (+0)
8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish The Irish very badly need someone around them to lose. Preferably someone above them. Fortunately, Michigan plays Wisconsin and Auburn plays A&M next week. Unfortunately, the Irish also play Georgia at the same time. Winning would be a good way to move up. (+0)
9 Penn State Nittany Lions That looked a little scary for a minute there. Luckily for the Nittany Lions, no one around them had a good win against a good team this week.
10 Wisconsin Badgers Three weeks into the regular season and the Badgers still haven't given up a single point. ...What's that? Oh. Right. It's hard to get scored on by Open Date U. Unless you're Virginia Tech. (+0)
11 Texas A&M Aggies Another top team, another flavorless cupcake, another (+0)
12 Boise State Broncos You know what, you get the point. (+0)
13 UCF Knights No need to keep -- oh, they beat Stanford you say? By a narrower margin than USC did last week? The same USC who just got de-ranked by a BYU team who needed 2OT to beat the 5th-best football team in the state of Tennessee? None of that has anything to do with UCF's ranking, I just felt it had to be mentioned. (+0)
14 Texas Longhorns One of these days I'll get to some changes. (+0)
15 Washington Huskies Oh hey, the first Pac-12 team Hawai'i couldn't beat this season! Still, it's Hawai'i. Beating them is expected when you're Washington. (+1)
16 Utah Utes So I may have unfairly slandered NIU. Their defense is Pretty Good. And now the MAC seems pretty wide open. That said, blanking anyone is Also Pretty Good, even if it is an FCS team. Moving up thanks to others moving down. (+2)
17 Memphis Tigers Take notes, Nebraska. This is what a real top 25 team does to South Alabama. (+2)
18 Auburn Tigers Okay, okay, so it may have been just a bit harsh to completely dismiss Oregon at the start of the season, and by extension an Auburn team that barely beat them. The Tigers are the only team I could find in a couple seconds of searching who are 3-0 against opponents who are 2-1. That counts for something, right? (+4)
19 Florida Gators You're not fooling anyone with a garbage-time TD there, Florida. You struggled mightily against a bad Kentucky team, *again*. (-2)
20 Oregon Ducks It's weird not seeing Oregon put up tons of points. Especially against FCS competition. (+3)
21 Kansas State Wildcats KSU is quietly 3-0, and has been in command in each of their three wins. I suppose it helps to have one of five active FBS coaches with an NCAA football championship. Also, the computer has been super duper high on them for a very long time. It seems weird to put them here, but it's only 21, and if they lose then the computer will stop loving them so much. This spot is partly in anticipation of going into hybrid mode, hopefully next week. (NEW)
22 Iowa Hawkeyes Three and a half hours of weather delays, and a wet ball to neutralize ISU's distinct passing advantage, AND AN ISU PLAYER TACKLING HIS OWN PUNT RETURNER, and you still only managed to eke out a 1-point victory over an ISU team that went to 3OT with UNI. (-1)
23 Army West Point The slow slide down the charts as the Black Knights play ever-increasingly irrelevant teams begins. (-3)
24 Arizona State Sun Devils You walked right into East Lansing and beat Michigan State at their own game. I respect that. (NEW)
25 California Golden Bears Since last week, Cal has been hanging out juuust outside the top 25. With some drops this week, they got the nod over OSU, WVU, UVA, MSU, and TCU. (NEW) Dropped: Michigan State (from 15), USC (24), Stanford (25)

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