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Tornadohunter24 Ballot for 2025 Week 4

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 16, 2025, 10:58 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Apologies for not getting to all the teams in the individual reasons this week - had a long work weekend and am unfortunately still feeling sluggish as a result. We'll be back to our normal way-too-much-info-given-for-this standard next week. In the meantime, lemme restate why my ballot is the way that it is, and the changes upcoming as we move deeper into the season. And yes, I apologize for a lot of the repeated information as well. REMINDER: In my top 25, I'm including at least 5 spots for the G5 (at least until conference play begins in earnest), as an indicator of who I think is favored to make a run at the Playoffs out of those conferences. I also love pre-conference play variance, so you'll see a lot of that too. In addition, this poll, by nature, is meant to be overreactive. I'm not here to try to be predictive - I want this to be strictly resume, even if that resume consists of a single game. I'm not here trying to justify every single one of my top 25 staying in the top 25 week-to-week; that's just lame. And it's not the point of what I want to accomplish when doing these rankings. || FURTHER INSIGHT: Three weeks ago, I submitted a ballot that was a *preseason poll*. It was submitted with 0 actual game analysis or even games played beyond a spring game. Why should it still dictate the rankings after the games begin to be played? Inevitably, it will still hold some amount of weight because it's not as if those rankings were entirely made out of the blue - we still have star ranking composites, camp reports, returning production, last year's records, and so forth. Hence why a team like Ohio State is #2 even though Texas, their opponent, is now unranked. Similar stories exist for pretty much everyone, really. THAT BEING SAID, next week will likely feature the first ranking where teams with losses begin to earn their way back in, and the 5-spot G5 hold begins to get whittled down further. This is because conference play is finally starting, and plenty of teams will have their seasons saved and ruined. May the odds be ever in your favor... || * All FBS Ranks are given by this poll, unless stated otherwise. All FCS Ranks comes from the weekly STATS poll. * | HONORABLE MENTIONS/NEXT 10 OUT: Penn State Nittany Lions [3-0], Texas Tech Red Raiders [3-0], Utah Utes [3-0], Tennessee Volunteers [2-1, 0-1 in SEC conference play], South Florida Bulls [2-1], USC Trojans [3-0, 1-0 B1G], Alabama Crimson Tide [2-1], Michigan Wolverines [2-1], Nebraska Cornhuskers [3-0], Michigan State Spartans [3-0] | DROPPING OUT: #1 South Florida [2-1], #11 Tennessee Volunteers [2-1, 0-1], #12 South Carolina Gamecocks [2-1, 0-1], #16 Utah Utes [3-0], #18 Michigan State Spartans [3-0], #24 Texas State Bobcats [2-1] | PRESEASON POLL: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/65801/ | WEEK 1: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/66202/ | WEEK 2/LAST WEEK: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/66437/

Rank Team Reason
1 Miami Hurricanes [3-0] (+2)
2 Oregon Ducks [3-0, 1-0 B1G] (+2)
3 Ohio State Buckeyes [3-0] (-1)
4 Iowa State Cyclones [4-0, 1-0 Big 12] (+1)
5 Vanderbilt Commodores [3-0, 1-0 SEC] (+16)
6 Florida State Seminoles [2-0] (+1)
7 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets [3-0, 1-0 ACC] (+8)
8 Oklahoma Sooners [3-0] (+2)
9 Illinois Fighting Illini [3-0] (-1)
10 Georgia Bulldogs [3-0, 1-0 SEC] (NEW)
11 Tulane Green Wave [3-0] (+6)
12 Auburn Tigers [3-0] (-3)
13 LSU Tigers [3-0, 1-0 SEC] (-7)
14 Ole Miss Rebels [3-0, 2-0 SEC] (+8)
15 TCU Horned Frogs [2-0] (-2)
16 Texas A&M Aggies [3-0] (NEW)
17 Missouri Tigers [3-0] (-3)
18 California Golden Bears [3-0] (NEW)
19 NC State Wolfpack [3-0, 2-0 ACC] (NEW)
20 BYU Cougars [2-0] (-1)
21 Mississippi State Bulldogs [3-0] (-1)
22 Memphis Tigers [3-0] (+1)
23 North Texas Mean Green [3-0] (NEW)
24 UNLV Rebels [3-0] (+1)
25 Navy Midshipmen [3-0, 2-0 American] (NEW)

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