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xX_GIGA_MAN_Xx Ballot for 2025 Week 3

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 8, 2025, 5:13 a.m.

Overall Rationale: i have lost my soul. thanks ohio. heres a ranking

Rank Team Reason
1 Ohio State Buckeyes won the battle of the bands, and therefore are the #1 team. Nothing else happened
2 Miami Hurricanes Easy win. I switched them and PSU because I realized that I can't really justify having other teams below Miami (FL) and LSU and not Penn State when as of now they're all essentially the same. Preseason polls are kinda stupid like that. Also above LSU because I value their win over Notre Dame rather then the win over Clemson.
3 LSU Tigers Below #2 Miami (FL) because I value their win over Notre Dame more then LSU's win over Clemson. Easy win this week.
4 Penn State Nittany Lions Dropped because I can't really justify having teams like Oregon and Georgia below Miami (FL) and LSU and not PSU. Above Georgia and Oregon cause I think they're better. Essentially 4-6 is a tie I cant really decide anything about right now.
5 Georgia Bulldogs Easy win, First real game of the season next week. College Gameday WAS going to be in Morgantown (100% real btw, ask me) instead of Knoxville, but Rich Rod forgot how to play offense. Oh well
6 Oregon Ducks OK-State is essentially an FCS team now. thanks gundy
7 Texas Longhorns It would be really funny if Manning turned out to be nothing special, but i'm not saying thats all he is yet. Good win over SDSU, another easy win over UTEP next week.
8 Texas Tech Red Raiders IMO the best of the (somehow only) 3 good teams in the B12. Easy wins so far, Oregon State next week will be a little harder, but even then it only gets harder from here.
9 Tennessee Volunteers Easy wins so far this season, looked comfortable in every game, now here's Georgia. good luck
10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Bye week in week 2? is that normal? Anyways you lost to Miami (FL), now here's Texas A&M. Who said Notre Dame always has an easy schedule?
11 Iowa State Cyclones #2/3 of the good B12 teams, good win over an Iowa team thats gonna somehow knock off a top 10 team this year. Nothing especially difficult until BYU in late October, so might start to go up even higher then this.
12 Clemson Tigers Really ugly win over Troy. Reminded me of when they were coached by a young upstart back in 2016, and almost lost to Troy at home too... wonder what ever happened to coach...
13 Ole Miss Rebels I really can't say that I know that much about Kentucky so i'm just gonna say bad win over a bad team. Maybe they end up being good this year, who knows?
14 Texas A&M Aggies Easy wins so far. Nothing special. Really only this high rather then the 20-25 range because I like Elko.
15 Florida State Seminoles Easy win, nothing going on. Not putting them in the top 10 yet because I still think that they're just gonna suddenly collapse and revert to last year's form.
16 USF Bulls I WAS THE FIRST TO SAY THAT USF WAS A GOOD TEAM (I didn't have them ranked last week (I had them at 26)). In a good position to actually snag a first round bye in the playoff, somehow? Committee probably won't allow it and give them #5 below a 2 loss SEC team but its a nice scenario to think about.
17 South Carolina Gamecocks Suspicious win over an FCS school. Maybe its like last year with the ODU game and it really just means nothing. Who knows.
18 Illinois Fighting Illini Good win over an underrated Duke team. Don't really know much else about them. I don't think that they should be in the top 10 like the AP poll says, but give it a few weeks and I'll probably change my mind
19 Alabama Crimson Tide I still have faith in them (crazy thing to say about Bama) cause they obviously have the talent, and I think that DeBoer is a good coach. Easy win over ULM, preventing the funniest possible scenario.
20 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Easy win over FCS school. Clemson next week. People will probably just say that the loser isn't that good, but I say that is a top 20 match up. I am a free thinker
21 Louisville Cardinals Keeping them in my top 25 cause I still believe that JMU is one of the best G5 teams and that was actually a good win, but should probably play better next week if you want to keep your playoff dreams alive
22 Auburn Tigers Gonna be real funny when Auburn manages to get to the Iron bowl with only 1 loss and then loses to 4-win Bama. Reverse the script
23 Missouri Tigers The last 4 people in was between Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, and BYU (I don't have Michigan or Oklahoma in this because I don't think either are good, fight me). Missouri got above all 4 because their win over Kansas is the most impressive.
24 Nebraska Cornhuskers Matt Rhule's signature 3rd year 10+ win season, saw it coming from a mile away. Can we get a new script, please?
25 Utah Utes In over BYU because I like their win over UCLA better then BYU's win over Stanford. I remember Dampier was a good QB at New Mexico, so Utah might be back

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