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T-Thugs Ballot for 2022 Week 3

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 12, 2022, 8:45 a.m.

Overall Rationale: I try my best to rank each team based on their accomplishments so far this year. That can be tricky to do early on and often results in my ballot looking funky in the first few polls. As we get more games in, my poll starts to look like everyone else. Also, there are teams that will deserve to be ranked and are good, but if they lose games early or haven't played a p5 team yet, you may not see them in my poll yet. They'll move up fast when their resume deserves it, though.

Rank Team Reason
1 Georgia Bulldogs Georgia is 2-0 and has a great win with their absolute domination of Oregon, who moved to 1-1 with a blowout win this week.
2 Kentucky Wildcats Kentucky jumps high in my poll, perhaps too high, with a road win at Florida, who I had ranked very highly after defeating Utah. It looks like maybe the second best win of the year so far.
3 Arkansas Razorbacks Arkansas is 2-0 with a win over South Carolina (1-1) and Cincinnati (1-1). Cincy isn't a p5 team but so far Arkansas has built a very nice resume.
4 North Carolina Tar Heels UNC is 3-0. Their best win is on the road at App State who is 1-1 with a bigtime win over Texas A&M. Due to the early season that may be one of the best wins of the year so far, so I've got UNC at 4.
5 BYU Cougars BYU is 2-0 with a nice win over Baylor (1-1)
6 Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama is 2-0 and has a win over Texas (1-1) on the road.
7 Indiana Hoosiers Indiana is 2-0. Their best win is over Illinois who is now 2-1
8 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Wake forest moved to 2-0 with a win over Vanderbilt who is now 2-1.
9 Tennessee Volunteers Tennessee is 2-0 and their best win is over Pitt on the road. Pitt's win lost a little luster with WVU's loss to kansas.
10 USC Trojans USC moved to 2-0 after defeating Stanford (1-1) on the road.
11 Florida State Seminoles Florida State remains 2-0 and has a nice win over LSU in New Orleans.
12 Washington State Cougars Washington State is 2-0 and they have a really nice win over Wisconsin as their best win.
13 Clemson Tigers Clemson is 2-0 and their best win is over Georgia Tech (1-1)
14 Texas Tech Red Raiders Texas Teach is 2-0 and has a nice win over Houston who was ranked by the AP.
15 Syracuse Orange Syracuse is 2-0 and their win over Louisville looks a little better after Louisville beat UCF.
16 Kansas State Wildcats Kansas State is 2-0 with a nice win over Missouri.
17 Duke Blue Devils Duke moved to 2-0 with a win over Northwestern. Northwestern's win over Nebraska isn't as impressive now though as Nebraska dropped a second game and fired their coach.
18 Penn State Nittany Lions Penn State is 2-0. Their road win over Purdue is a decent win.
19 Iowa State Cyclones Iowa state is 2-0 and their best win is over Iowa.
20 Oklahoma State Cowboys Oklahoma State is 2-0. Best win is over Arizona State.
21 Ohio State Buckeyes Ohio State is 2-0. Best win is over Notre Dame. I'm not counting that as highly as I did last week since ND lost to Marshall.
22 Marshall Thundering Herd Marshall is 2-0 with their best win coming from beating Notre Dame on the road.
23 Mississippi State Bulldogs Mississippi State is 2-0. Best win is over Arizona.
24 Air Force Falcons Air Force moved to 2-0 after blowing out Colorado.
25 Kansas Jayhawks Kansas is 2-0 and beat West Virginia.

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