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Charlemagne42 Ballot for 2019 Week 6

Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Sept. 29, 2019, 2:09 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Hybrid mode with decreasing human weight each week. Full computer mode coming in 2-3 weeks. Computer 80%, human 20%. FORMAT: (Original computer score +/- Human adjustment -> Final score; Original computer rank -> Hybrid rank). SELF-ASSESSMENT: 22 iterations (+12 from last week). 20% maximum human adjustment (-10%). 23 teams adjusted (-16). Human footprint size: 56.7 (-14.4)

Rank Team Reason
1 LSU Tigers (218 +33 -> 251; 8 -> 1) Clemson stumbles. The Tigers move in. Wait, I mean the purple tigers. No, the ones whose coach inflames strong opinions. The ones who play Alabama every year. You know what, you know which ones I mean. (+1 from last week)
2 Ohio State Buckeyes (292 - 42 -> 250; 1 -> 2) Look out Auburn, there's a new sheriff in computer-town. Ohio State barely edged the Tigers out for the top spot in silicon, but the human correction here says that the Buckeyes haven't played tough enough opponents to jump the Tigers too. No, the other -- oh, I give up. (+1)
3 Alabama Crimson Tide (235 + 0 -> 235; 4 -> 3) Tide's rising. (+1)
4 Clemson Tigers (195 + 39 -> 234; 16 -> 4) What a terrible showing last week. Clemson nearly reminded us what the word "Clemsoning" means, and only the misguided bronze balls of Mack Brown stood in the way of Clemson's first loss in nearly two calendar years. And boy, did those balls take a battering. (-3)
5 Georgia Bulldogs (257 - 24 -> 233; 3 -> 5) Terrible week to take off. Alabama allowed 30 points, Clemson nearly lost outright, and the Dawgs have only last week's closer-than-it-should-have-been win at home over a sketchy ND team to point at. Without a solid case, they can't jump the Tigers. And the Tigers aren't far behind them, either. (+0)
6 Auburn Tigers (289 - 57 -> 232; 2 -> 6) Four SEC teams in the top 6? This must be a computer-based model in early October, before the SEC Scheduling Committee allows two decent teams to play each other. Gotta have those victories fresh in the minds of the Playoff Committee. (+2)
7 Oklahoma Sooners (185 + 31 -> 216; 20 -> 7) This week's biggest change from starting to ending rank goes to Oklahoma, whose offensive dominance just isn't appropriately captured by the computer. This is where the computer starts to assert its authority; on a human ballot I'd have put OU above Auburn. But even with the maximum possible adjustments to both, the Tigers wound up above the Sooners. No, not those Tig -- actually, yes, those Tigers too. And also the other Tigers. NO! Not Memph -- oh forget it. (-1)
8 Penn State Nittany Lions (215 + 0 -> 215; 10 -> 8) Nothing to see here. Certainly not Ohio State's chief challenger for the conference championship. (+1)
9 Wisconsin Badgers (228 - 14 -> 214; 6 -> 9 (Nice)) Sp00ked down from 7. What happened to that defense? What happened to that offense? Is Jonathan Taylor hurt? (-2)
10 Texas Longhorns (227 - 14 - > 213; 7 -> 10) So I looked into why the computer is so high on Texas, to the point that it has them over LSU. Turns out, their romp over 4-1 Louisiana Tech looks so good, it more than cancels out the LSU loss. And LSU's only point to counter it is... the Texas game, just a 7-point win. (+0)
11 Boise State Broncos (232 - 20 -> 212; 5 -> 11) (+0)
12 Washington Huskies (199 + 0 -> 199; 14 -> 12) Washington did nothing remarkable, so I'm going to talk about their opponent instead. USC, for the love of Chaos, will you PLEASE decide once and for all whether you want to be ranked?? (+0)
13 Oregon Ducks (188 + 10 -> 198; 18 -> 13) Not doing anything while soaring so high is dangerous for an airborne object. It would be awful if the Ducks were to... *stall*. Come on, this section is so boring. It's teams that aren't good enough to be top 10 but aren't bad enough to lose and drop. We're all going to be ignoring them come December anyway. (+0)
14 Memphis Tigers (197 + 0 -> 197; 15 -> 14) The Tigers.... never mind. (+0)
15 Florida Gators (215 - 19 -> 196; 11 -> 15) Blanking Towson would have meant a lot more if they didn't just lose to Villanova last week. (+0)
16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish (204 - 9 -> 195; 13 -> 16) Look, struggling with Virginia puts you in the same category as Old Dominion and Virginia Tech. I award you no points, and may the Pope have mercy on your soul. But hey, at least you half-ended the farce of people ranking ACC teams. By the way, this week the computer has the ACC just behind the American, which is just behind the Mountain West. From there it's a long way up to the B1G, and a much longer way down to the Sun Belt. (+0)
17 Iowa Hawkeyes (184 + 0 -> 184; 21 -> 17) Well, this is it folks. The bottom of the rankings. Nowhere lower to go. ... ...What do you mean I've only gotten to 17? I'm out of teams! There's no one left! None! Not one worth ranking! (+1)
18 Colorado Buffaloes (152 + 30 -> 182; 28 -> 18) That's what the computer is for, I suppose. Rounding out from 16-40 or so, so that no one gets completely forgotten, and so that there's at least something to go in the empty space at the bottom half of these charts. (+1)
19 SMU Mustangs (216 - 35 -> 181; 9 -> 19) Although this is their first appearance on any ballot of mine, SMU is the biggest *drop* this week, in terms of where the computer had them vs where the 20% human kicked in and decided that they should end up. It's impossible to keep ignoring SMU. They knocked off TCU last week, then roared to a dominating win over UNT this week. They, along with Memphis and Tulane, are making the American West one of the sp00kiest divisions in FBS. (NEW)
20 UCF Knights (177 + 0 -> 177; 22 -> 20) After a brief absence, UCF is BACK, FOLKS! Well, not *that* back. I debated whether to give them any credit for that win, I mean it is UConn here, who may not have a football team next year. And then I said screw it, they have a team this year, and that team got demolished by the Knights. (NEW)
21 Arizona State Sun Devils (212 - 36 -> 176; 12 -> 21) See, this is why I'm glad I have a computer to tell me how to feel about the Pac-12. Now I don't have to worry about trying to decide who's better, I can just dump them all onto the bottom of the list and have the numbers sort it out for me. (NEW)
22 Appalachian State Mountaineers (188 - 13 -> 175; 19 -> 22) These are the Mountaineers we should have invited to the XII. It was obvious as soon as they blocked that FG to beat Michigan. Say, where is Michigan anyway? Didn't they just blank Rutgers? I had a look and found out that the computer has them at 48, which is far too low for them to have even a mathematical opportunity to appear here. This is the kind of lasting damage that only App State can apply. (NEW)
23 Oklahoma State Cowboys (165 + 0 -> 165; 24 -> 23) I don't even know what's going on in the rest of the XII this year. It seems that the middle 6 have some kind of Pac-12 fetish going on, while TTU and Kansas are doing their best FCS impressions. Either way, I had OSU and KSU ranked last week, and OSU proved the better team. In fact, I'd have put them even higher, but I like leaving the computer's numbers alone when I don't *need* to touch them. (+1)
24 Utah Utes (138 + 26 -> 164; 33 -> 24) The mad lads. They actually did it. They broke the curse of ranked Pac-12 teams losing to unranked teams. And they did it by pissing the computer off so badly, that it ranked Utah the lowest of any team that eventually made it to my ballot. Congrats? I think? (+1)
25 California Golden Bears (139 + 16 -> 155; 31 -> 25) I have a solution to the Pac-12 problem. Ranked teams can't lose to unranked teams if the entire Pac-12 is ranked! (-4) Dropped: Kansas State (from 17), USC (20), Michigan (22), Michigan State (23)

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