Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Nov. 13, 2023, 11:52 a.m.

Overall Rationale: FIRST FIVE OUT: 26. Southern Cal (30.045), 27. NC State (28.400), 28. Duke (26.300), 29. Oklahoma St (25.050), 30. Rutgers (24.700). 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>

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Ohio State Buckeyes	77.450
2	Michigan Wolverines	75.800
3	Washington Huskies	74.200
4	Florida State Seminoles	71.400
5	Alabama Crimson Tide	65.900
6	Texas Longhorns	65.100
7	Georgia Bulldogs	62.100
8	Louisville Cardinals	58.400
9	Oregon Ducks	55.400
10	James Madison Dukes	53.600
11	Iowa Hawkeyes	53.400
12	Penn State Nittany Lions	52.900
13	Ole Miss Rebels	50.700
14	Oklahoma Sooners	48.500
15	Missouri Tigers	46.600
16	Oregon State Beavers	39.050
17	Utah Utes	38.200
18	LSU Tigers	37.700
19	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	37.100
20	North Carolina Tar Heels	36.600
21	Liberty Flames	34.900
22	Arizona Wildcats	33.100
23	Troy Trojans	32.550
24	Kansas State Wildcats	30.650
25	Kansas Jayhawks	30.600

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.78
2	Michigan Wolverines	0.00
3	Washington Huskies	0.00
4	Florida State Seminoles	0.00
5	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.82
6	Texas Longhorns	0.04
7	Georgia Bulldogs	-2.89
8	Louisville Cardinals	0.18
9	Oregon Ducks	-1.12
10	James Madison Dukes	0.55
11	Iowa Hawkeyes	2.70
12	Penn State Nittany Lions	0.00
13	Ole Miss Rebels	0.00
14	Oklahoma Sooners	0.00
15	Missouri Tigers	-0.51
16	Oregon State Beavers	-0.29
17	Utah Utes	0.00
18	LSU Tigers	0.00
19	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	0.00
20	North Carolina Tar Heels	0.00
21	Liberty Flames	0.00
22	Arizona Wildcats	0.00
23	Troy Trojans	1.62
24	Kansas State Wildcats	0.00
25	Kansas Jayhawks	0.00

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Tulane Green Wave	1.06
Tennessee Volunteers	0.38

Total Score: 12.93