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Rcfan0902 Ballot for 2024 Week 2

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Sept. 2, 2024, 11:35 p.m.

Overall Rationale: This poll has no preseason rankings, and every FBS team starts out on equal footing. The first few weeks get a little weird due to a teams record and strength not being accurately represented, as a few games need to be played to more accurately judge how a team is performing for the season. After the first six weeks or so, the poll should start to look more sensical minus a few G5 teams that might be doing very well. It is towards the back half of the season where this poll really starts to hone in and give a ranking that is more accurately reflective of the national media polls. Georgia Tech and SMU are the top teams because they both are already 2-0 due to playing in Week 0. UCLA is so high because they beat Hawaii, who also had a win in Week 0, which the poll takes a teams record before the game into account. The rest of the rankings for Week 1 mostly have to do with whether the team played an FBS or FCS opponent, and how greatly they won. As the season goes on, the poll will go back and re-evaluate each team's previous opponents to accurately reflect if a victory was actually impressive, or if it is something that turned out to be pretty easy to do.

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