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Tornadohunter24 Ballot for 2025 Week 5

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 23, 2025, 9:48 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Apologies for (again) not getting to all the teams in the individual reasons this week - had another 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. Feel free to look at last week if you need further insight, but essentially this is strictly-resume (hence the omission of a certain B1G team, and several teams lower than in the AP or Coaches' Polls) with some boost given to G5 schools overperforming. | HONORABLE MENTIONS/NEXT 10 OUT: Penn State Nittany Lions [3-0], Alabama Crimson Tide [2-1], USC Trojans [4-0, 2-0 B1G], BYU Cougars [3-0], Auburn Tigers [3-1, 0-1 SEC], Illinois Fighting Illini [3-1, 0-1 B1G], Maryland Terrapins [4-0, 1-0 B1G], Old Dominion [2-1], Syracuse Orange [3-1, 1-0 ACC], Houston Cougars [3-0, 1-0 Big 12] | DROPPING OUT: #9 Illinois Fighting Illini [3-1, 0-1 B1G], #11 Tulane Green Wave [3-1], #12 Auburn Tigers [3-1, 0-1 SEC] #18 California Golden Bears [3-1], #19 NC State Wolfpack [3-1, 1-1 ACC], #20 BYU Cougars [3-0] || PRESEASON POLL: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/65801/ | WEEK 2: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/66202/ | WEEK 3: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/66437/ | WEEK 4/LAST WEEK: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/67064/

Rank Team Reason
1 Miami Hurricanes [4-0] (-)
2 Oregon Ducks [4-0, 1-0 B1G] (-)
3 Ohio State Buckeyes [3-0] (-)
4 Indiana Hoosiers [4-0, 1-0 B1G] (NEW)
5 Oklahoma Sooners [4-0, 1-0 SEC] (+3)
6 Florida State Seminoles [3-0] (-)
7 Ole Miss Rebels [4-0, 2-0 SEC] (+6)
8 Vanderbilt Commodores [4-0, 1-0 SEC] (-3)
9 Iowa State Cyclones [4-0, 1-0 Big 12] (-5)
10 Texas Tech Red Raiders [4-0, 1-0 Big 12] (NEW)
11 Georgia Bulldogs [3-0, 1-0 SEC] (-1)
12 Missouri Tigers [4-0, 1-0 SEC] (+5)
13 TCU Horned Frogs [3-0] (+2)
14 LSU Tigers [4-0] (-1)
15 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets [4-0, 1-0 ACC] (-8)
16 Mississippi State Bulldogs [4-0] (+5)
17 Texas A&M Aggies [3-0] (-1)
18 Memphis Tigers [4-0] (+4)
19 Tennessee Volunteers [3-1, 0-1 SEC] (NEW)
20 Michigan Wolverines [3-1, 1-0 B1G] (NEW)
21 Texas Longhorns [3-1] (NEW)
22 Navy Midshipmen [3-0, 2-0 American] (+3)
23 UNLV Rebels [4-0] (+1)
24 North Texas Mean Green [4-0, 1-0 American] (-1)
25 USF Bulls [3-1] (NEW)

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