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big_thunder_man Ballot for 2023 Week 11

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Nov. 6, 2023, 5:12 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Priorities: Head to Head, Strength of Schedule, perceived eye test.

Rank Team Reason
1 Georgia Bulldogs 9-0. Beat a very good Missouri. Champion is #1 until defeated.
2 Florida State Seminoles 9-0. Dominated a bad Pitt team. LSU and Duke remain marquee wins. Luster on those fading.
3 Ohio State Buckeyes 9-0. Beat a good (6-3) Rutgers after a slow start and down by 2 at half. Best win is Penn State. Wisconsin win looks good.
4 Washington Huskies 9-0. Beat USC in a shootout. Defense looks severely lacking.
5 Michigan Wolverines 9-0. Beat Pitt, who is hapless. Needs a marquee win (gets a chance vs Penn State).
6 Texas Longhorns 8-1. Beat a VERY underrated K-State. Should have lost the game. Team is tough, and maybe more importantly, lucky. Win over Alabama looks great. Them and 'Bama jumping due to having better wins than Oregon and Penn State.
7 Alabama Crimson Tide 8-1. Tore apart a VERY good LSU. Maybe it's most impressive win, plus wins over Tennessee and Ole Miss. Them and Texas jumping due to having better wins than Oregon and Penn State.
8 Oregon Ducks 8-1. Dominated Cal. Washington loss, by 3, is aging well, so is the victory over Utah.
9 Penn State Nittany Lions 8-1. Ripped Maryland limb to limb. Still lost their only tough game of the season. Curious to see them vs Michigan.
10 Louisville Cardinals 8-1. Tore apart V-Tech. Loss to Pitt is going to hurt them all season long.
11 Ole Miss Rebels 8-1. Shouldn't brag about beating TAMU. They don't have a marquee win... except Tulane? Huh?
12 Oregon State Beavers 7-2. Beat a Colorado that's imploding. Still has wins over Utah and UCLA. Best two loss team in the country.
13 Utah Utes 7-2. Stomped ASU (which is hopeless). Wins over USC, Florida, and Baylor (eh).
14 Missouri Tigers 7-2. Lost to Georgia. Can't be faulted too much. Another close to LSU is a small blemish.
15 Tennessee Volunteers 7-2. Beat UConn.
16 Kansas Jayhawks 7-2. Beat a competitive ISU. Quietly a very good team? (Except for the week when they didn't show up vs Texas?)
17 Oklahoma State Cowboys 7-2. How the hell did they beat Oklahoma and lose to South Alabama?
18 Oklahoma Sooners 7-2. On paper, their losses are better than the OSU, and their wins are better... but OSU won the head to head, and that counts here.
19 North Carolina Tar Heels 7-2. Stopped their collapse by beating a terrible FCS team, sorry Campell Camels.
20 LSU Tigers 6-3, with losses to Florida State, Ole Miss, and now, Alabama. Was playing tough until a late collapse. Brutal schedule. The best of the 3 loss teams.
21 Kansas State Wildcats 6-3. Losses are to 3 ranked teams (Mizz by 3, OSU by 8, and UT by 3). Giving them the LSU calculation.
22 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 7-3. Lost to Clemson. Eh. About where the Irish always are: terrible in big games, better than the average P5 team, and unable to win what matters.
23 Tulane Green Wave 8-1, because they survived a nail biter against... ECU? Ugh. But who else?
24 James Madison Dukes 9-0. Being undefeated has to count for something.
25 Liberty Flames 9-0. Being undefeated has to count for something... but it's really hard when their competition is essentially high school teams.

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