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JetoGrov Ballot for 2023 Week 10

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Oct. 30, 2023, 4:37 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Resume-based poll, doing my best to rank teams based exclusively on the results they've compiled on the field. Lean achieving G5 over middling P5. Only 8 unbeatens left, if you ain't ranking them all at this point then we don't evaluate this sport the same way.

Rank Team Reason
1 Ohio State Buckeyes Wins over Notre Dame, Penn State, and @Wisconsin remains the best collection that any unbeaten team has thus far. May not be a pretty team, but the Buckeyes boast the season's best resume so far.
2 Washington Huskies Feels weird moving the Huskies up after a lackluster showing vs Stanford, but the win against Oregon is better than any that the remaining unbeatens have.
3 Florida State Seminoles Similarly to how it feels weird moving the Huskies up, it feels weird moving the Noles down after a easy win over Wake. But unfortunately for FSU the win @Clemson basically means nothing now, Duke stock is dropping, and having a best win of LSU isn't on the same level as UW or OSU.
4 Georgia Bulldogs The college football world seems to be slowly accepting that this season may be a two-horse race between Michigan and Georgia; the whole year I've had the two flip-flopping in my rankings at the back of the undefeated P5 teams (cause neither have played anyone!!!) UGA passes Michigan this week simply because Auburn-Kentucky-Florida is better than UNLV-Rutgers-Nebraska...but not by as much as you would think.
5 Michigan Wolverines See UGA description.
6 Oklahoma Sooners Weird thing about resume rankings is that OU doesn't really move for me after a loss to Kansas. One, I think Kansas is extremely well-rounded so it's not really that terrible of a loss. Two, OU beat Texas...just cause they lost later on doesn't mean Texas gets to slide past them (looking at you, AP Poll). Still consider the win at the Texas State Fair as the best of any of the one-loss teams.
7 Texas Longhorns Until one of them drops another game, I'm pretty much going to have OU>Texas>Bama in my rankings every week behind the unbeaten P5 teams. Dominant win over the Mormon Cougars (Zach Wilson, no!!), everything still in play for the Horns this season.
8 Alabama Crimson Tide Wins over Ole Miss, Tennessee, and A&M....not much to add to that. Solid resume, best team in the SEC West. HUGE GAME WITH LSU THIS WEEK.
9 Oregon Ducks Oregon finally gets a big win, which moves them up to the 1-loss Really Good P5 Teams Tier. Still think their win over Utah isn't as impressive as what OU, TX, or even Bama have right now...but you could argue that Oregon has the best loss of the four...though that's my least favorite argument to have.
10 James Madison Dukes KINGS OF THE SUNBELT!!! RULERS OF THE G5!!! SHOULD I BUY THE HOMEFIELD JMU RINGER SHIRT???? FIGURE IT OUT VA STATE LEGISTRATION, GET THIS TEAM BOWLING!!!
11 Air Force Falcons RULERS OF THE MWC!!!! The lone bright side of JMU's Bowl-Ban is that we might actually get a service academy in a NY6/BCS bowl. NCAA Football always believed!!
12 Ole Miss Rebels Wins over LSU and Tulane (hey, thanks state of Louisiana!!) are doing some heavy lifting for Ole Miss...I still think they're frauds...but at this point there aren't many 1-loss teams so here they go!
13 Louisville Cardinals Solid wins over ND and Duke, ignore that weird game in Pittsburgh. Nothing really else to say.
14 Missouri Tigers Good wins: Kansas State and Memphis, Lone Loss: LSU; huge game in Athens this week. YOU CAN DO IT MIZZOU, WE ALL BELIEVE IN YOU, ELI DEFS LOOKS LIKE A GUY THAT WINS IN BIG MOMENTS
15 Penn State Nittany Lions Psst, Penn State, fooling around with Indiana isn't going to get people to stop mentioning how you don't really have that good of wins.
16 Liberty Flames Pfft must be embarrassing not even being the best G5 team in Virginia. No, I don't want to hear your vaccine theories; why are you like this?
17 Fresno State Bulldogs The biggest threat to Air Force's hopes of a NY6 bowl, Fresno is back on track in the MWC and with wins @Purdue and @ArizonaState they're deserving of being the highest ranked 1-loss G5 team.
18 Tulane Green Wave That Ole Miss game still hurts, don't it? In all my talk of Air Force going to a NY6 bowl, I've looked over the fact that Tulane is probably the most likely team to end up there.
19 Toledo Rockets Firmly the best team in the MAC, haven't lost since Week 1, 2 points away from being unbeaten, welcome to the Top 20 Toledo!
20 Oklahoma State Cowboys Welcome to the rankings Pokes!! Ngl really had you written off after losing to Iowa State, but wins over Kansas State and Kansas place OSU #2 firmly in the rankings.
21 Kansas Jayhawks I like how we're becoming a goal-post into body of water society. #LanceAppreciationWeek
22 Oregon State Beavers ALERT ALERT ALL THREE OSUs ARE RANKED ALL THREE OSUs ARE RANKED. Don't worry Beavs, I won't hold it against you that bad that you lost to AZ in the desert, that's a pesky place to play.
23 Utah Utes They are who we thought they were. Still though, wins over UCLA and USC...I just can't find it in me to unrank this team.
24 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Duke win (which probably should have been a loss) looks meh now....as does the USC win....still though, 7-2 is pretty good.
25 LSU Tigers You're lucky I like Mizzou or I wouldn't even consider you. You lost to Ole Miss...and I think they're frauds, what does that make you, LSU?

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