Ballot Type: Human
Submitted: Sept. 28, 2020, 12:11 p.m.
Overall Rationale: Human ballot while my computer model gathers data. While the computer gathers data, I try to vote in a way I would expect my computer to rank the teams, if it had a few more weeks of data including the likely outcomes of upcoming scheduled games. I might still decide to ignore the computer all season, depending on how it compares a (hypothetically) 5-0 Pac-12 team against a (hypothetically) 9-3 Sun Belt team. My computer gives teams who have not yet played a game AND have not scheduled any team who has already played a game, a score of 0. Since the B1G, Pac-12, Mountain West, and MAC are playing conference-only schedules starting in mid-October, this means B1G, PAC-12, MWC, AND MAC TEAMS ARE NOT IN MY BALLOT, DESPITE THEM SHOWING UP IN THE AP POLL. I have no reasonable way to rank them right now. I acknowledge that my ballot this week will likely look awful, because some voters will be including B1G, Pac-12, and even Mountain West teams. The vote on whether to include teams who are not yet playing, but have scheduled games, was extremely close, and I voted to exclude those teams explicitly because my computer scores them at 0. Because I joined this poll as a computer ballot, I will still try to approximate what I believe my computer would do when ranking teams myself.
Teams Ranked:
Rank | Team | Unusualness |
---|---|---|
1 | Clemson Tigers | 0.00 |
2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 0.00 |
3 | Georgia Bulldogs | 0.25 |
4 | Florida Gators | 0.00 |
5 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 0.00 |
6 | Auburn Tigers | 0.09 |
7 | Texas Longhorns | 0.34 |
8 | Mississippi State Bulldogs | 0.21 |
9 | North Carolina Tar Heels | 0.59 |
10 | Oklahoma State Cowboys | 0.65 |
11 | Texas A&M Aggies | 0.47 |
12 | Tennessee Volunteers | 1.36 |
13 | Cincinnati Bearcats | 0.00 |
14 | UCF Knights | 0.00 |
15 | LSU Tigers | 0.92 |
16 | Miami Hurricanes | -1.65 |
17 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 0.23 |
18 | Kansas State Wildcats | 2.78 |
19 | Oklahoma Sooners | 0.00 |
20 | Pittsburgh Panthers | 0.00 |
21 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 4.15 |
22 | West Virginia Mountaineers | 3.21 |
23 | Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns | 0.00 |
24 | BYU Cougars | -0.24 |
25 | Marshall Thundering Herd | 0.00 |
Omissions:
Team | Unusualness |
---|---|
Ohio State Buckeyes | 1.36 |
Penn State Nittany Lions | 1.02 |
Wisconsin Badgers | 0.55 |
Memphis Tigers | 0.30 |
Michigan Wolverines | 0.21 |
Total Score: 20.58