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ChBass Ballot for 2024 Week 15

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Dec. 1, 2024, 8:38 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Performance is compared against opponent's opponents' performance, with adjustment for quality of wins/losses.

Rank Team Reason
1 Oregon Ducks Elite performance, no Ls.
2 Penn State Nittany Lions Losing to Ohio State doesn't hurt, but their best win is USC (#58)
3 Ohio State Buckeyes Losing to Oregon hurts as much as beating Nebraska helps. Losing to Michigan? That cancels our the wins against Nebraska and Penn State. Despite Michigan, they've still outperformed and would be ranked #1 if losses didn't matter... but they do.
4 Texas Longhorns Losing to Georgia hurts slightly more than the horns' two biggest wins, A&M (#22) and Arkansas (#51).
5 Georgia Bulldogs Ugly wins are wins; the win against the longhorns is what's keeping Georgia in the top 5.
6 Indiana Hoosiers Blowout wins are also just wins; the Ohio State loss doesn't hurt, but Indiana's best win is still Washington.
7 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame's best win is Louisville, and it turns out the loss to Northern Illinois didn't matter after all.
8 Boise State Broncos Losing to Oregon hurt as much as beating UNLV (their best win; #25) helped.
9 SMU Mustangs Like ND, their best win is Louisville, and the BYU loss hurt about double what that win helped.
10 Arizona State Sun Devils The Sun Devils' best win might be Texas State (#48). But only two losses gets you here.
11 Tennessee Volunteers The win against Bama still looks good, but will it be enough to get in the playoff?
12 Army West Point The Notre Dame loss doesn't hurt much, but their best win is this week against UTSA (#73). We'll see how much losses matter.
13 BYU Cougars The loss to Kansas really hurts, and their best win (SMU, #9) makes up half of it.
14 Miami Hurricanes The Syracuse loss hurts slightly more than the Georgia Tech loss, and their best win still might be Louisville.
15 Iowa State Cyclones The Texas Tech loss hurts slightly more than the Kansas loss, and their best win was this week against Kansas State.
16 South Carolina Gamecocks Cocky got their best win of the season yesterday against Clemson (#27), but 3 losses hurt.
17 Alabama Crimson Tide Bama's best win might be South Carolina, the way they and Georgia have been playing as of late, but like South Carolina, three losses are hard to overcome.
18 Illinois Fighting Illini It's not just the Minnesota loss, but the fact that their best win is against Nebraska (#60) that has them here.
19 Michigan Wolverines Beating Ohio State cancelled out three Michigan losses. If we're playing with quality wins, we gotta respect the quality wins.
20 Ole Miss Rebels Ole Miss is in the Bama boat; beating South Carolina & Georgia may be good, but three losses are hard to overcome.
21 Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns It's a two-loss team. Sure, they lost to South Alabama (#84), and their best win is Texas State, but it's a two loss team in a league where losses matter.
22 Texas A&M Aggies The losses to the horns & ND don't hurt that much, and the LSU win looks better and better.
23 Missouri Tigers The Tigers got their best win this week against Arkansas in the snow, but the loss to A&M hurts them the most.
24 LSU Tigers Same story here; the Ole Miss win keeps the Tigers in the rankings, despite losses to Florida and A&M.
25 UNLV Rebels Like Louisiana; it's a two-loss team, with those losses against Boise State (#8) & Syracuse (#29). Next two out are Memphis & Clemson; ranked last is Southern Miss.

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