Ballot Type: Computer
Submitted: Oct. 8, 2023, 11:13 a.m.
Overall Rationale: My computer ballot is designed in a way to attempt to predict how the committee may make their selections. It begins as a strict computer power ranking then over the course of the season weights resume more heavily. We are currently at a point in the season where resume is almost at equal weighting to power ranking but as always there are some outliers. My biggest outlier to point out this week is Miami falling from 14 on my ballot to unranked (28th). While Miami's power rating wasn't hit terribly by their loss to GT, their resume completely fell off. Somehow the one loss to GT took their resume from being inside the top 15 last week to outside the top 40 this week. I knew they would be hit but I wasn't expecting them to fall off this far especially considering that my rankings this year have felt somewhat "sticky." A few other rankings that stand out to me are in the PAC-12, for example the group of Oregon State, Washington State, Utah, and UCLA. All these schools have a transitive win over each other yet it is Utah coming out on top of the 4 despite having a loss to Oregon State only 2 spots below them. When measuring resume my ballot does not consider head-to-head and only looks at body of work so this is why this part of the ballot looks funky.
Teams Ranked:
Rank | Team | Unusualness |
---|---|---|
1 | Ohio State Buckeyes | 0.63 |
2 | Oklahoma Sooners | 0.36 |
3 | Texas Longhorns | 1.49 |
4 | Georgia Bulldogs | 0.00 |
5 | Florida State Seminoles | 0.00 |
6 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 1.37 |
7 | Michigan Wolverines | -0.84 |
8 | Oregon Ducks | 0.00 |
9 | Washington Huskies | -0.44 |
10 | Penn State Nittany Lions | -0.99 |
11 | Ole Miss Rebels | 0.75 |
12 | USC Trojans | 0.00 |
13 | Louisville Cardinals | 0.00 |
14 | North Carolina Tar Heels | -0.20 |
15 | Notre Dame Fighting Irish | 0.87 |
16 | LSU Tigers | 1.76 |
17 | Texas A&M Aggies | 7.86 |
18 | Utah Utes | 0.00 |
19 | Clemson Tigers | 5.85 |
20 | Oregon State Beavers | -0.97 |
21 | Maryland Terrapins | 2.07 |
22 | Tennessee Volunteers | 0.00 |
23 | Duke Blue Devils | -0.36 |
24 | Washington State Cougars | -0.73 |
25 | Missouri Tigers | 0.00 |
Omissions:
Team | Unusualness |
---|---|
UCLA Bruins | 1.38 |
Kansas Jayhawks | 0.45 |
Air Force Falcons | 0.04 |
Kentucky Wildcats | 0.12 |
Total Score: 29.51