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Tornadohunter24 Ballot for 2025 Week 6

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 30, 2025, 10:53 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Apologies for (again) not getting to all the teams in the individual reasons this week - had another long work weekend (but I'm finally off for a few weeks!) and am unfortunately still feeling sluggish as a result. I would say that we'll be back to our normal way-too-much-info-given-for-this standard next week, but I've been unable to do that so far. 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. ALL UNDEFEATED G5s WILL BE RANKED. 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 [3-1, 0-1 B1G], Texas Longhorns [3-1], Houston Cougars [4-0, 1-0 Big 12], TCU Horned Frogs [3-1, 0-1 Big 12], LSU Tigers [4-1, 0-1 SEC], Louisville Cardinals [4-0, 1-0 ACC], Utah Utes [4-1, 1-1 Big 12], Illinois Fighting Illini [4-1, 1-1 B1G], Fresno State Bulldogs [4-1, 1-0 MWC], Old Dominion Monarchs [3-1] | DROPPING OUT: #13 TCU Horned Frogs [3-1, 0-1 Big 12], #14 LSU Tigers [4-1, 0-1 SEC], #21 Texas Longhorns [3-1] || 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: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/67064/ | WEEK 5/LAST WEEK: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/67721/

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

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