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theb52 Ballot for 2021 Week 5

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Sept. 26, 2021, 1:44 p.m.

Overall Rationale: FIRST FIVE OUT: Boise St (28.000), Wake Forest (27.625), Baylor (27.375), Memphis (27.000), Purdue (25.750). There are two ideologies for polls: 1. Who would win in a theoretical matchup? and 2. Who has the best report card? This is a 100% computer poll following the latter idea. At the beginning of the season it is hard to know which losses are quality losses and which are bad losses because of everyone's short resume`, so teams will move a lot until week 6 where it will steady out. Because of this, teams who lose early are punished more harshly, but past weeks are recalculated every update. Alabama has a very poor strength of schedule up to this point, so Florida actually passed them back. As Alabama starts to play better teams, they will rise. The opposite is true of UTSA - their schedule started strong and gets weaker. They will drop as they play their weak conference schedule. Here's the Google Sheets link:  <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DJwt6zE8EMaj_Ik7Ggtnm-jZxUmaq7HKf2MwyEbIEIQ/edit?usp=sharing>

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