Ballot Type: human
Overall Rationale:
No P5 teams lost to any G5 teams. No ACC or PAC teams won a postseason game. No Big XII team lost a postseason game. Because there has been almost no out-of-conference play on which to judge the relative strength of conferences, and this ranking is intended to represent where teams stand *now* as opposed to the beginning of the season, bowl outcomes heavily affect this ranking, and provide a means to evaluate conference games. Again, this ranking is intended to reflect where teams stand *now*, so it considers later games more strongly.
Submitted: Wed 13 Jan 2021 05:22