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Maladroit44 Ballot for 2025 Week 8

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Oct. 12, 2025, 12:42 p.m.

Overall Rationale: INDIANA REIGNS SUPREME (please ignore that I still have Miami #1 over them). The back half of the top ten is a mess this week: Oregon, Georgia, Texas A&M, Alabama, and Ole Miss all either lost or looked kinda rough, and I *want* to drop all of them, but I'm also concerned I will get death threats if I put Notre Dame in the top five this week. I think it may be time to consider that Florida, while obviously unrankable and mostly lifeless, is actually not that bad if there are four different top-25 teams whose worst resume point is a UF game, and all those resumes might actually be better than we thought (most notably, USF's). I am moving Mizzou from unranked to top 15 this week and you can't stop me; that's the most impressive game they've had in ages. I am also begrudgingly willing to rank USC, under the condition that I get to drop Michigan out for losing bad and having their OU loss mostly lose its "quality" adjective. Deal? Deal. Thank you to BYU for winning and saving me from having to seriously contemplate ranking the 3-3 Auburn Tigers. God help us all.

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