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Muffinnnnnnn Ballot for 2024 Week 3

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 10, 2024, 12:37 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Wins and losses are the most important thing, like always. There's still some preseason baked in here of course, but I'm trying to be pretty reactive, as we only have 2 or 3 games to go off for each team. Tennessee has absolutely leaped in my rankings, not only for their demolition of NC State, but also for Chattanooga's near-victory at Georgia State this week making their win last week look even better. After seeing Alabama, Penn State, Oklahoma State, and several others struggle this week, I anticipated a large drop off for a lot of those teams. However, I ran into the issue of there being TOO MANY teams with big issues to warrant dropping them as much as I thought I would. There's a lot of things in here that wildly moved around in my process, and with so little to go off of, things are bound to be a bit wonky. Watching Oklahoma struggle to a win vs a Houston team that got demolished by UNLV the previous week made me drop them, and then drop them some more, and eventually they dropped so far that they went all the way out of my top 25. No Notre Dame in my top 25 but bringing Boise State into the rankings seems hypocritical, and maybe it is, considering where I have Oregon and Northern Illinois. However, both OU and ND are right outside these rankings and a slip up from someone else or a good win will bring them right back in the picture. Memphis drops out through no fault of their own, just other teams passing them up, but they would be in the ND and OU club. Oklahoma State takes a MASSIVE fall from #8 in a win, but that win being about as ugly of a game that you could possibly win in. Kansas goes from #13 to all the way out, but such is the nature of the beast when you have two data points. They'll have a chance at a big win vs UNLV this week. One team I didn't consider for even a second was LSU, and the fact that anyone is ranking them is crazy to me. They had a close loss (but still a loss) to a pretty good USC, but this week's struggle vs Nicholls left me fully unconvinced in this team. There's a lot more teams that I could go into, but the simple truth is that I'm making a bunch of kneejerk reactions based on what I've seen on the field, and only somewhat keeping preseason expectations in mind. I'll probably go into my more unusual picks in the reddit comment.

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