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STL_12 Ballot for 2024 Week 8

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 13, 2024, 11:36 a.m.

Overall Rationale: My own version of a SOS/SOR type ranking, is backwards-looking and only looks at the games played with no sort of poll inertia (think if the season ended today, these would be the teams with the best resume), slowly gets better over the season as more games are played and teams balance out (for example, a team with a frontloaded schedule will likely be over-ranked in early ballots and a team with a backloaded schedule will likely be under-ranked), unlike wins, a loss is a loss and there is no concept of a "quality loss" in these rankings, the way the score is calculated can sometimes cause shenanigans mid-season as teams that have simply played more games have a slight advantage (this will even out as teams take their BYE weeks and teams will most likely fall in an idle week), these rankings should be at their best before conference championship week, before bowl season, and post-season.

Rank Team Reason
1 Oregon Ducks Points: 17.042 LW: 2
2 Texas Longhorns Points: 15.750 LW: 7
3 Texas Tech Red Raiders Points: 15.625 LW: 1
4 BYU Cougars Points: 15.292 LW: 5
5 Iowa State Cyclones Points: 15.125 LW: 6
6 Syracuse Orange Points: 15.000 LW: 15
7 Alabama Crimson Tide Points: 14.375 LW: 17
8 Texas A&M Aggies Points: 14.083 LW: 3
9 Miami Hurricanes Points: 14.042 LW: 4 (Exact tie with Kansas State, Tiebreaker given to Miami)
10 Kansas State Wildcats Points: 14.042 LW: 14 (Exact tie with Miami, Tiebreaker given to Miami)
11 Pittsburgh Panthers Points: 13.750 LW: 11
12 Washington State Cougars Points: 13.583 LW: 12
13 Penn State Nittany Lions Points: 13.500 LW: 13
14 Indiana Hoosiers Points: 13.042 LW: 8
15 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Points: 12.412 LW: 28
16 Ohio State Buckeyes Points: 12.083 LW: 9 (Exact tie with Missouri, Tiebreaker given to Ohio State)
17 Missouri Tigers Points: 12.083 LW: 25 (Exact tie with Ohio State, Tiebreaker given to Ohio State)
18 SMU Mustangs Points: 12.036 LW: 16
19 Georgia Bulldogs Points: 11.792 LW: 21
20 Vanderbilt Commodores Points: 11.708 LW: 41
21 Tennessee Volunteers Points: 11.625 LW: 34 (Exact tie with LSU, Tiebreaker given to Tennessee, had to go all the way to Level 3 of tiebreakers, these are basically the same team this week)
22 LSU Tigers Points: 11.625 LW: 38 (Exact tie with Tennessee, Tiebreaker given to Tennessee, had to go all the way to Level 3 of tiebreakers, these are basically the same team this week)
23 James Madison Dukes Points: 11.333 LW: 42
24 Navy Midshipmen Points: 11.192 LW: 18
25 Army West Point Points: 11.161 LW: 26

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