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_TGT7 Ballot for 2024 Week 3

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 8, 2024, 1:33 a.m.

Overall Rationale: I try to base off resume, I punish teams for close games against bad teams, and I also emphasize away upsets over home upsets.

Rank Team Reason
1 Georgia Bulldogs
2 Texas Longhorns +1, Texas got a big win over Michigan @ Michigan, unsure how good Michigan actually is at this point, but it’s significant enough for me to bump Texas to #2. Texas should be a CFP contender.
3 Ohio State Buckeyes -1
4 Ole Miss Rebels +1
5 Alabama Crimson Tide -1, somewhat weak performance against South Florida, would punish Alabama more, but South Florida might be decent this year, and most T25 teams didn’t look great this week.
6 Missouri Tigers +3
7 Utah Utes +3
8 Tennessee Volunteers +4
9 USC Trojans +5
10 Miami Hurricanes +5
11 Penn State Nittany Lions -4, Moved Penn State out of the top ten because of a lackluster performance against Bowling Green. Penn State had a solid game against West Virginia, so I’m not sure why Bowling Green was such a struggle, although they do seem to play well against P5 teams in recent seasons despite being mid.
12 Oregon Ducks -4, Moved Oregon down due to needing a last second field goal to beat Boise State, Boise State is decent, but I’m not as high on them as most, and personally feel that Oregon hasn’t performed as a top 25 team yet this season. 2-0 is 2-0, and they weren’t as terrible as they were against Idaho, but improvement is still needed.
13 Boston College Eagles +7, This is probably my most insane ranking, but Boston College performed as expected, while teams ahead of them did not. On principle, I don’t like moving teams up the rankings who didn’t perform how I would’ve expected. Interested to see how they do against Mizzou next week.
14 Oklahoma Sooners -1, Oklahoma is lucky that everyone in this region of the poll played like crap, barely beating a Houston team that UNLV pulverized is not a good look. They did indeed win though, but they’ll need to improve if they want to look good in the SEC
15 Oklahoma State Cowboys +2
16 Kansas State Wildcats 0
17 Iowa State Cyclones NEW, Iowa State managed to beat the Hawkeyes, and because they did it on the road, I decided to put them in my rankings. Iowa State honestly has an easy schedule this year, and I think they have an outside shot of starting the season 8-0.
18 Louisville Cardinals NEW, Louisville hasn’t done anything fancy this season, but they haven’t tripped over themselves or had any stupid games, and a lot of teams this season have, so I’ll put them in my rankings.
19 UNLV Rebels +6, UNLV’s manhandling of Houston looks better after Oklahoma’s struggles. Could see them being a dark horse playoff pick. They move up because of other teams moving down my rankings this week those
20 Vanderbilt Commodores +4, Vanderbilt moves up because other teams move down, they did take care of business this week though.
21 LSU Tigers 0
22 Northern Illinois Huskies NEW, Northern Illinois has to be one of the last teams I would’ve expected to rank this season. They have one of the strongest wins in the country though, overcome a questionable call to do it, and beat a team that has their own signature win. Probably a fluke, but lets see if they can make it continue
23 Clemson Tigers 0
24 Washington Huskies NEW, Washington enters the rankings for the same reason Louisville did, they haven’t made any dumb mistakes.
25 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -19, This might be an overreaction, but what is going on with Notre Dame, only reason they stay ranked is the A&M win. They can claw their way back, but they had such an easy schedule to the CFP and blew it. Dropped teams and quick reasons are below: #11 Michigan - Looked bad against Texas and Fresno, lost to Texas, haven’t looked good all season, despite these all being home games. #18 Kansas - Lost to Illinois, who probably isn’t great this season #19 Iowa - Lost to Iowa State, should’ve not lost that game #22 Arizona - Defense looked bad against New Mexico, played lackluster against NAU, could be a decent team, but I haven’t seen it, so they wll be unranked.

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