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tvjbowe571 Ballot for 2025 Week 2

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 2, 2025, 11:17 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Major bias towards what you have done this year, with a slight consideration of how you finished last season and some fair assumptions.

Rank Team Reason
1 Ohio State Buckeyes EVEN - Good work Buckeyes. Looked great, you're crazy to not have them #1
2 LSU Tigers +9 Regardless of how you felt about the TD call reversal, I am ranking them as if they won 24-10. Easily the second best win of the week.
3 Miami Hurricanes +10 Third best win of the week, Beck looked great against ND. Don't know if they are "better" than PSU Georgia or Oregon but I reward what you have DONE.
4 Penn State Nittany Lions -1 Looked good vs. a bad team. Only went down because Miami's big win
5 Georgia Bulldogs +1 - Good job beating a bad team by a lot.
6 Oregon Ducks +1 Again, good work beating a bad team the way you should.
7 Texas Longhorns -5 This stops the drop for Texas. Going to rank them above the other great teams that lost becuase of the defense vs. Ohio State
8 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -3 Looked good against Miami, but have to punish for a loss. O-line needs to improve.
9 South Carolina Gamecocks EVEN Good job getting a win against a quality opponent. Not ready to say you're better than ND or Texas.
10 Clemson Tigers -6 Still believe in this team, but don't think they're elite. Looked the worst out of Clem TX and ND
11 Arizona State Sun Devils -3 Only fell because others rose above them. Will have chances to rise later.
12 Florida State Seminoles NEW: This is such a hard team to rank, but this is where I landed. Such a good win, and look improved. Tommy looks awesome and should be the Heisman frontrunner.
13 Auburn Tigers NEW: I had Baylor ranked 20 preseason, and Auburn looked really good against them. Have to reward good wins, especially on the road.
14 Michigan Wolverines +1 Hate to do it, but Underwood looked good against bad competition. Feel good putting them here.
15 Iowa State Cyclones NEW: Oops, sorry for not ranking you preseason. Good win in Ireland and beat a bad team by a lot.
16 SMU Mustangs -4 Another victim of just falling because others had great wins.
17 Oklahoma Sooners -3 Another victim of just falling because others had great wins.
18 Illinois Fighting Illini -2 Another victim of just falling because others had great wins.
19 Texas Tech Red Raiders +2 Scored a million points. Nice.
20 Texas A&M Aggies -2 Another victim of just falling because others had great wins.
21 Tennessee Volunteers NEW: Didn't believe them at all, but takes down a P4 opponent easily.
22 Indiana Hoosiers -5 Didn't look as good as you should playing ODU. Gotta look good if you are playing crap competition the first three weeks.
23 Ole Miss Rebels EVEN - Not much to say. You stay right where you are.
24 Utah Utes NEW: Welcome back Utes. You looked really good, proud of you.
25 USF Bulls NEW: Always have at least one G5, they look awesome, excited to see if they can become the new G5 CFP rep. DROPPED OUT: 10 Alabama 19 Kansas State 20 Baylor 22 Georgia Tech 24 Boise State 25 Louisville NEXT: Louisville, Georgia Tech, Alabama, Tulane

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