Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Nov. 29, 2022, 2:53 a.m.

Overall Rationale: My poll is a resume based ranking of a team's quality of wins to date. It is not forward looking and individual rankings should not be interpreted as higher ranked teams will always beat lower ranked ones, but instead gives credit to a team's collection of wins in who they beat and how. This means that the start of the season will have a large amount of variability and teams have the ability to make large moves up and down the rankings, but this tends to normalize as the season goes on and more data points are collected. A few principles I believe in are that there is no such thing as a "quality loss" and all losses should hurt the resume of a team; head to head results matter; and small schools are just as deserving of access to a national title as name brands.

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Georgia Bulldogs
2	Michigan Wolverines
3	TCU Horned Frogs
4	USC Trojans
5	Ohio State Buckeyes
6	Tennessee Volunteers
7	Alabama Crimson Tide
8	Penn State Nittany Lions
9	Washington Huskies
10	Florida State Seminoles
11	LSU Tigers
12	Kansas State Wildcats
13	Tulane Green Wave
14	Clemson Tigers
15	Oregon Ducks
16	South Carolina Gamecocks
17	UCLA Bruins
18	Notre Dame Fighting Irish
19	Utah Utes
20	Oregon State Beavers
21	UCF Knights
22	Boise State Broncos
23	Troy Trojans
24	UTSA Roadrunners
25	Ohio Bobcats

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Georgia Bulldogs	0.00
2	Michigan Wolverines	0.00
3	TCU Horned Frogs	0.00
4	USC Trojans	0.00
5	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
6	Tennessee Volunteers	0.00
7	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.00
8	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.00
9	Washington Huskies	0.00
10	Florida State Seminoles	0.77
11	LSU Tigers	0.05
12	Kansas State Wildcats	0.00
13	Tulane Green Wave	0.32
14	Clemson Tigers	-0.32
15	Oregon Ducks	0.00
16	South Carolina Gamecocks	1.19
17	UCLA Bruins	0.00
18	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	0.15
19	Utah Utes	-1.54
20	Oregon State Beavers	-0.88
21	UCF Knights	0.43
22	Boise State Broncos	2.82
23	Troy Trojans	0.00
24	UTSA Roadrunners	0.00
25	Ohio Bobcats	0.14

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Texas Longhorns	0.52
North Carolina Tar Heels	0.13

Total Score: 9.26