Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Sept. 24, 2023, 8:34 p.m.

Overall Rationale: FIRST FIVE OUT: 26. Colorado (27.125), 27. Notre Dame (26.800), 28. ULM (26.667), 29. Ole Miss (26.000), 30. Kentucky (25.250). 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. It is driven only on record and strength of schedule, so no pre-season bias. However, that means 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. Here is the converted Google Sheets version. If you want to check out a certain team, you can select them on the Team Summary tab. <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XJJ8H4Xt0fYMHuBeNaav8czlZRLt618mXhb4KeSEiiI/edit?usp=sharing>

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Miami Hurricanes	81.000
2	Oklahoma Sooners	69.625
3	Michigan Wolverines	68.500
4	Washington State Cougars	67.250
5	Washington Huskies	64.750
6	Texas Longhorns	62.500
7	Penn State Nittany Lions	59.000
8	Utah Utes	58.000
9	North Carolina Tar Heels	54.125
10	Ohio State Buckeyes	53.750
11	Rutgers Scarlet Knights	53.500
12	Florida State Seminoles	48.000
13	Syracuse Orange	46.500
14	Kansas Jayhawks	46.000
15	Missouri Tigers	43.625
16	Texas A&M Aggies	43.250
17	TCU Horned Frogs	39.375
18	Liberty Flames	39.000
19	Oregon Ducks	37.500
20	Marshall Thundering Herd	35.333
21	UCLA Bruins	33.875 TIE with Alabama
22	Alabama Crimson Tide	33.875 TIE with UCLA
23	Maryland Terrapins	30.500
24	Georgia State Panthers	28.500
25	Duke Blue Devils	28.000

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Miami Hurricanes	2.42
2	Oklahoma Sooners	1.89
3	Michigan Wolverines	0.00
4	Washington State Cougars	1.65
5	Washington Huskies	0.00
6	Texas Longhorns	-0.09
7	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.00
8	Utah Utes	0.00
9	North Carolina Tar Heels	0.78
10	Ohio State Buckeyes	-1.57
11	Rutgers Scarlet Knights	14.06
12	Florida State Seminoles	-0.86
13	Syracuse Orange	4.98
14	Kansas Jayhawks	1.09
15	Missouri Tigers	0.42
16	Texas A&M Aggies	4.51
17	TCU Horned Frogs	8.02
18	Liberty Flames	6.86
19	Oregon Ducks	-3.44
20	Marshall Thundering Herd	5.18
21	UCLA Bruins	2.86
22	Alabama Crimson Tide	-0.85
23	Maryland Terrapins	0.00
24	Georgia State Panthers	1.00
25	Duke Blue Devils	-2.09

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Georgia Bulldogs	3.25
USC Trojans	2.92
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	1.73
LSU Tigers	1.11
Oregon State Beavers	0.67
Ole Miss Rebels	0.33
Fresno State Bulldogs	0.12
Louisville Cardinals	0.01

Total Score: 74.77