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ColombianInIowa24 Ballot for 2024 Week 15

Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Dec. 3, 2024, 4:40 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Though I'm sure this ballot will be high on unusualness again, I am generally happy with it. This week I ran double SCF and did challenges as the end of season deserves it and more. The SEC can eat dirt after that performance and I will not apologize for ranking Duke high. Stop disrespecting my boys with your brand name bias and stigma. The ranking system I use is automated, but requires a lot of manual input of data, so I try to limit the iterations I let it run in. The ranking works by assigning each team both a score and a tier. The tier is simple, based simply on the number of losses. Within a tier, a team gets a score based on ranks and for losses, rank of opponents, Vegas, and W-L upsets. Estimates are also calculated for top performers of each tier to see if they may be better than team in the tier above. W-L takes priority over everything else and creates a phenomena I called adoption, where teams with a HTH in a tier may adopt a team if the opponent who lost has a higher within rank score, creating certain limits. Basically functions like classic inheritance in computer programming. All of this is then optimized through SCF for rank consistency with iteration, though this is rarely to cycle limits. Finally, I occasionally intervene through direct challenges between teams where extended HTH of minimal distance is considered to directly compare teams. Since this is tedious with my current build, I only do so if something appears truly egregious and have time.

Rank Team Reason
1 Oregon Ducks They are undefeated. No one else is. To the B1G championship game against #5 Pennsylvania State University!
2 Boise State Broncos They barely lost to that undefeated team. Nice! On to the MWC against #3 UNLV!
3 Texas Longhorns Nice win in rivalry. Challenged above Indiana and Penn State, not to limit. Up next #10 Georgia in the SECCG.
4 UNLV Rebels HUH? Well technically they haven't been challenged yet, which might explain this. Otherwise.... one of the best teams, with a barely loss to #25 Syracuse and their opponent in the MWCCG, #2 Boise State.
5 Penn State Nittany Lions With aOSU falling on it's head like that, they climb into the B1GCG against #1 Oregon. Hasn't challenged UNLV.
6 Indiana Hoosiers Failed to challenge Penn State. Resting for the playoff.
7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Failed to challenge Indiana, but did challenge Louisiana with ease. Conference lacking idiots.
8 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns Not this good, unchallenged from below. However, hasn't reached full potential either and did successfully challenge Army? On to the SBCCG versus #22 Marshall.
9 Army West Point Basically being dragged along with Notre Dame. Would probably collapse at a challenge from most below it. Up next AACCG against #20 Tulane.
10 Georgia Bulldogs Embarrassing game. Up next a rematch against #4 Texas in the SECCG. Challenged tOSU and and SMU successfully. Full potential unknown, limit unreached in challenge.
11 Ohio State Buckeyes Lol. Lmao even. Anyway, still in the playoff as they sit-out the B1GCG again. Challenged SMU successfully.
12 SMU Mustangs Defeats Cal with ease, going with momentum to the ACCCG.
13 Miami Hurricanes Successfully challenges BYU but no ACCCG for them. Instead #33 Clemson gets it. Huh.
14 Arizona State Sun Devils Destroys rival to go from last to first and onward to the Big XII CG.
15 Tennessee Volunteers Defeats Vandy... no SECCG for these sinners. Hasn't challenged to potential.
16 BYU Cougars By defeating Houston, they fail to make it in.
17 Duke Blue Devils Defeats rival to win the state. Underrated as heck, but this probably overrates them. Would probably fall a few if anyone underneath challenged. Still a great resume.
18 Iowa State Cyclones Fails a challenge Tennessee, but did get a good dub in Farmageddon. Up next #13 ASU in the Big XII CG. Hasn't challenged Duke.
19 Ole Miss Rebels Defeats a pile of s*** in the Egg Bowl. Hasn't challenged to potential.
20 Memphis Tigers Defeats Tulane with ease to climb back in to #19. Fails to challenge to Iowa State.
21 Tulane Green Wave Dies to Memphis, but climbs into the AACCG against #8 Army.
22 Illinois Fighting Illini Defeats Northwestern. Hasn't challenged to potential.
23 Colorado Buffaloes Get screwed by BYU's dub. Did challenge their way in and above Syracuse. Nice job Buffs!
24 Marshall Thundering Herd Defeats JMU in a thriller to secure a ranking and a SBCCG slot against #9 Louisiana.
25 Baylor Bears Hasn't challenged to potential. Climbed up after Syracuse emergency challenge failed. This is the limiter on Alabama, who failed to win challenge against Baylor. As of now, Alabama, SCar, Mizzou and Clemson are kept out, and I am too tired to initiate further challenges after being forced to move Louisiana up instead of down.

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