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Jakesnake42 Ballot for 2021 Week 15 & Bowls

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Dec. 5, 2021, 6:51 p.m.

Overall Rationale: More focused on the resume end of things than the "who would I bet on to win a game" poll. H2H, Conference Titles, and Common Opponents used as tiebreakers.

Rank Team Reason
1 Alabama Crimson Tide The Top 3 for me was so so tight. 2 12-1 Conference champs and a 13-0 conference champ. Alabama's two Top 10 wins over UGA and Ole Miss were enough to make up for the loss they had while Michigan only had the Top 10 win to Ohio State with their next best win being Wisconsin and just not doing enough to jump to #2 with unbeaten Cincinnati there.Last Week: 4
2 Cincinnati Bearcats G5 PLAYOFFSSSSSS FINALLYLast Week: 2
3 Michigan Wolverines Congrats Michigan. Go beat Georgia now.Last Week: 3
4 Georgia Bulldogs First things. What the hell was that against Bama.Secondly, UGA is in a tier of their own at #3 as they have tons of depth and are 12-1 but lack the signature win the teams above them do and the lack of a conference title.Last Week: 1
5 Baylor Bears Baylor slides in at #5 with their conference title and 3 Top 15 wins but the extra loss and losing to TCU keep them out the Top 4.Last Week: 7
6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Great Season. Only loss to Cincinnati, pair of solid wins over Purdue and Wisconsin. Lacked Top Baylor and worse depth than Georgia did making them close enough to be comparable and Baylor won the Big 12. 
7 Oklahoma State Cowboys Inches...heartbreak for the Cowboys again. Still very solid team with wins over OU and Baylor.Last Week: 5
8 Ohio State Buckeyes 3 really solid wins over Mich St, Minnesota, and Purdue. Very close to OkSt in terms of resume but OkSt had the extra win and the win over Baylor.Last Week: 9
9 Pittsburgh Panthers Pitt slides in at #9 as champions of the ACC with wins over Clemson and Wake Forest. Comparable to a lot of these teams below them and the conference title gave them the edge even with the horrific WMU loss.Last Week: 17
10 Ole Miss Rebels Pair of decent wins over Arkansas and TAMU are similar to Pitt's wins and an Auburn loss certainly isn't as bad as a WMU loss but Pitt has the conference title.Last Week: 10
11 Michigan State Spartans Michigan win is carrying this resume a pretty far way and unlike the teams behind them they don't have some random terrible loss but not enough depth to jump Ole Miss.Last Week: 11
12 BYU Cougars Speaking of bad losses...imagine if BYU hadn't lost to Boise State...now they play UAB which is just terrible for them. H2H over UtahLast Week: 13
13 Utah Utes Yeah it is weird for Utah to only move up one spot after demolishing Oregon again but they really don't have anywhere to move up having 3 losses and a loss to Oregon State and having lost the H2H to BYU.Last Week: 14
14 Oklahoma Sooners OU kinda just exist this year as a two loss team. Lost to 2 ranked teams they played, beat the rest of the conference.Last Week: 15
15 Oregon Ducks Oregon got smacked again by Utah in the PAC-12 title which leads to a decent drop for them. Stanford loss is still horrific but the OSU win still clears them from the rest of the Top 25. To me this is where a massive gap forms.Last Week: 8
16 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns ULL picks up their 2nd really solid win of the year as they beat App St again for a SBC title. Big move up for them as these teams get really jumbled very fast and they have only 1 loss (that isn't good but isn't UNT levels bad) and are a conference champ.Last Week: NR
17 Clemson Tigers Wake win keeps this team ranked as outside of that there is basically nothing to note.Last Week: 18
18 Iowa Hawkeyes Very ugly game against Michigan but still very respectable 10-3 with a win over Minnesota.Last Week: 16
19 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Really ugly game vs Pitt this week but still went 10-3 with win over NCSU...god this just sounds like Iowa lol.Last Week: 19
20 NC State Wolfpack Win over Clemson is the only thing getting NCSU ranked.Last Week: 21
21 Minnesota Golden Gophers Beat Wisconsin but lost to *Bowling Green*...still makes no sense.Last Week: 22
22 Wisconsin Badgers Beat Purdue and Iowa yet lost to Minnesota...I wonder if Wisconsin would've given Michigan a better game than *that*Last Week: 23
23 Purdue Boilermakers Beat Michigan State and Iowa yet lost to Wisconsin. Purdue going to Purdue.Last Week: 24
24 San Diego State Aztecs That was a horrible loss to USU this week but they still went 11-2 with a great win over Utah.Last Week: 13
25 UTSA Roadrunners Someone has to be #25 and it might as well be a 12-1 conference champ who played *nobody*Last Week: NRDropped: #20 Houston and #25 Arkansas

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