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Overall Rationale: FIRST FIVE OUT: 26. James Madison (32.200), 27. LSU (30.667), 28. Notre Dame (30.571), 29. Rutgers (30.333), 30.Texas A&M (29.667). 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>

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Oklahoma Sooners	77.083
2	Michigan Wolverines	73.583
3	Penn State Nittany Lions	72.700
4	Texas Longhorns	69.000
5	Ohio State Buckeyes	66.700
6	Washington Huskies	64.900
7	North Carolina Tar Heels	64.400
8	Alabama Crimson Tide	62.500
9	Florida State Seminoles	58.400
10	Washington State Cougars	54.400
11	Wisconsin Badgers	52.000
12	Louisville Cardinals	47.667
13	Utah Utes	45.300
14	Wyoming Cowboys	44.083
15	Iowa Hawkeyes	43.500
16	UCLA Bruins	43.400
17	Oregon State Beavers	43.250
18	Georgia Bulldogs	41.917
19	Kansas Jayhawks	38.250
20	Ole Miss Rebels	37.833
21	Oregon Ducks	36.800
22	USC Trojans	36.167
23	Missouri Tigers	35.667
24	Miami Hurricanes	35.000
25	Duke Blue Devils	33.000

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Oklahoma Sooners	0.83
2	Michigan Wolverines	0.00
3	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.57
4	Texas Longhorns	1.15
5	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
6	Washington Huskies	0.00
7	North Carolina Tar Heels	0.95
8	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.60
9	Florida State Seminoles	-0.38
10	Washington State Cougars	1.78
11	Wisconsin Badgers	5.04
12	Louisville Cardinals	0.00
13	Utah Utes	0.77
14	Wyoming Cowboys	4.00
15	Iowa Hawkeyes	7.57
16	UCLA Bruins	0.29
17	Oregon State Beavers	0.00
18	Georgia Bulldogs	-4.73
19	Kansas Jayhawks	0.79
20	Ole Miss Rebels	-0.65
21	Oregon Ducks	-4.36
22	USC Trojans	-2.36
23	Missouri Tigers	0.27
24	Miami Hurricanes	0.00
25	Duke Blue Devils	-0.95

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Notre Dame Fighting Irish	0.47
Tennessee Volunteers	0.53
Air Force Falcons	0.04
LSU Tigers	0.19
Kentucky Wildcats	0.12

Total Score: 39.38

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