Ballot Type: Human
Submitted: Sept. 14, 2025, 9:57 a.m.
Overall Rationale: Through exploring the inner workings of my mind through lucid dreaming and meditation, I have devised the perfect ratings for the week. That’s right, perfect. I know, it is remarkable, I am remarkable and incredibly, incredibly humble.
Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 |
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Wins over Notre Dame and USF, particularly convincing in the USF win. It’s hard to make a case that they shouldn’t have this spot. Ohio State’s win over texas looks less impressive, and LSU’s over Clemson similarly is less impressive. |
2 |
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Surprising how close the game was for so long, particularly given how much Ohio struggled. I think this is more a bad showing of Ohio State’s offense than anything. I am a bit unclear how I feel about this team at this stage because of questions in the ability of the offense to perform at the level needed. Washington and Minnesota should be good barometers in the upcoming games that Ohio State should win. |
3 |
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Honestly the Florida game is shocking in that UF threw five interceptions but still held LSU to only 20 points. The Clemson win looks less impressive. |
4 |
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Huge win over Tennessee where they proved they can score big vs power conference opponents. Alabama and Auburn games coming up will be good tests to see how this team will fair all season. |
5 |
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It’s Northwestern but I’ve grown more confident in this squad than Penn State. |
6 |
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Slow starts seem to be the MO of this squad. I don’t think Villanova is a bad team either, they’re a solid FCS team. Slow starts don’t mean that I think teams are bad, I just worry how they’ll do against top teams. We’ll get good clarification soon against Oregon. |
7 |
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A close game but this Iowa State squad is in a league of their own in the Big XII. In fairness the Utah schools are closing in, and I’m toying with ranking the Arizona schools or Houston too so it may get busy up top in the Big XII. |
8 |
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Huge win. Haynes King. That is all. |
9 |
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A bye week, and not a ton of additional info, besides Alabama demolishing a shitty Wisconsin. Unless they drop a game we won’t get a feel for this squad until they play Miami in a few weeks. |
10 |
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Continues looking good. Auburn should be an interesting matchup. Michigan didnt crumble so their win is still looking solid. |
11 |
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The Duke win is looking less impressive, but I’m buying into the hype for now. Indiana and USC the coming weeks will be good barometers. |
12 |
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Huge win for the program. Not convinced Notre Dame is cooked for the season, close losses to Miami and A&M may be decent down the stretch and the ND looks good. A&M should be quite happy with one of their biggest wins in recent memory. |
13 |
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It’s Purdue, but a power win is a power win. Mostly up here off vibes which is extremely dangerous with USC. |
14 |
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Largely being carried off the Kansas win. And in fairness my opinion of Kansas is largely built off of Fresno State. It’s turtles all the way down. |
15 |
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They proved it vs South Carolina. Cue the pimp music! |
16 |
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Man I like this year’s Wyoming. That’s a beat down of what I expect to be a solid G6 school. |
17 |
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Big win over Minnesota, a squad I had been high on. |
18 |
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At this point teams are ranked by vibes. I am not particularly confident in any of them. |
19 |
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Next couple of games vs Utah and Houston should be very interesting matchups. |
20 |
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They just keep winning. Let’s see how they do vs Illinois, Iowa, Oregon… |
21 |
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I’m less high on this team than other Big XII teams and we really won’t know how they are for a few weeks yet with that soft schedule. |
22 |
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They keep pulling wins out of their asses vs bad SEC teams. Is Ole Mid playing down to their opponents or is this just the level they’re at this year? |
23 |
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I am having a very hard time judging this team so I will keep them down here. |
24 |
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Probably going to be an on and off scary team this year that pulls upsets. Or they’re way better than I think and run the table, who knows it’s odd year Auburn. |
25 |
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I don’t want to drop them totally out yet. UNT in October will be their first real test of how they’ll perform in the AAC. |
Teams Ranked:
Rank | Team | Unusualness |
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1 |
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0.19 |
2 |
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0.00 |
3 |
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0.13 |
4 |
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0.00 |
5 |
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0.00 |
6 |
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0.00 |
7 |
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0.42 |
8 |
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0.90 |
9 |
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0.00 |
10 |
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0.00 |
11 |
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0.00 |
12 |
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0.00 |
13 |
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0.56 |
14 |
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0.21 |
15 |
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0.00 |
16 |
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0.00 |
17 |
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5.50 |
18 |
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3.60 |
19 |
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0.00 |
20 |
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0.00 |
21 |
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0.01 |
22 |
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-0.92 |
23 |
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0.00 |
24 |
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-0.05 |
25 |
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0.00 |
Omissions:
Team | Unusualness |
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0.88 |
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0.68 |
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0.47 |
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0.11 |
Total Score: 14.64