Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Nov. 9, 2020, 11:21 p.m.

Overall Rationale: This is my first ballot of the season; I'm still trying to get the hang of ranking teams with a wildly disparate number of games.

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Notre Dame Fighting Irish
2	Alabama Crimson Tide
3	Ohio State Buckeyes
4	Clemson Tigers
5	Cincinnati Bearcats
6	Florida Gators
7	Indiana Hoosiers
8	Georgia Bulldogs
9	BYU Cougars
10	Texas A&M Aggies
11	Oklahoma State Cowboys
12	Miami Hurricanes
13	Marshall Thundering Herd
14	Oregon Ducks
15	Oklahoma Sooners
16	Wisconsin Badgers
17	Auburn Tigers
18	Northwestern Wildcats
19	Texas Longhorns
20	Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
21	Iowa State Cyclones
22	North Carolina Tar Heels
23	SMU Mustangs
24	USC Trojans
25	North Dakota State Bison	They did play one game this fall, so I have to keep up my tradition of ranking NDSU. (Had I been a coward, my #25 would have been Purdue.)

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	0.46
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.00
3	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
4	Clemson Tigers	0.00
5	Cincinnati Bearcats	0.00
6	Florida Gators	0.00
7	Indiana Hoosiers	0.41
8	Georgia Bulldogs	0.89
9	BYU Cougars	0.00
10	Texas A&M Aggies	-0.18
11	Oklahoma State Cowboys	0.11
12	Miami Hurricanes	0.00
13	Marshall Thundering Herd	0.00
14	Oregon Ducks	0.00
15	Oklahoma Sooners	0.60
16	Wisconsin Badgers	0.00
17	Auburn Tigers	2.16
18	Northwestern Wildcats	0.00
19	Texas Longhorns	0.58
20	Coastal Carolina Chanticleers	-0.71
21	Iowa State Cyclones	0.00
22	North Carolina Tar Heels	0.00
23	SMU Mustangs	-0.59
24	USC Trojans	0.00
25	North Dakota State Bison	0.25

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Liberty Flames	0.33
Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns	0.19

Total Score: 7.45