Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 19, 2025, 10:25 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Each game, the winning team "steals" a portion of their opponents points. This starts with a base 40% of opponent's points, plus up to 10% bonus based on margin of victory and home/away status. This 40% base decreases as the weeks go on (down to 17.5% by postseason), this is done to limit large swings as the season progresses. The season is ran both forwards and backwards (For example on week 10, the poll calculates weeks 1->10 and then weeks 10->1) and then averages results. This limits being destroyed by a week 1 loss, and give some hindsight to early winners. Starting points are assigned as follows: P5: 500, G5: 400, FCS: 200. This is ranking the most "deserving" teams and not an attempt to rank the "best" teams or to be predictive. For example, being ranked above another team does not imply you are the better team or should beat a lower team, just that you had better performance in your season. I also try to keep parity between P4 and G6 to be pretty tight. While this is not a particularly statistical method, as the season develops the top 10 especially usually shake out pretty decently. In the 5 years I've ran this poll, I have often had similar top end of the poll to the CFB, with few exceptions.

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Indiana Hoosiers	1705
2	Ohio State Buckeyes	1623
3	Alabama Crimson Tide	1508 - I fixed the bug that made me rank them first last week lol. preseason calculations had a bug that made them look really good. I fixed that and made the poll look at only this year as we are on week 9 already.
4	Texas A&M Aggies	1360
5	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	1347
6	BYU Cougars	1234
7	Georgia Bulldogs	983
8	Louisville Cardinals	967
9	Ole Miss Rebels	953
10	Cincinnati Bearcats	886
11	Texas Tech Red Raiders	871
12	Navy Midshipmen	853
13	Virginia Cavaliers	852
14	USF Bulls	823
15	Arizona State Sun Devils	818
16	Miami Hurricanes	812
17	Oklahoma Sooners	800
18	Tulane Green Wave	800
19	Oregon Ducks	766
20	UNLV Rebels	713
21	Memphis Tigers	704
22	Vanderbilt Commodores	689
23	Michigan Wolverines	662
24	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	657
25	North Texas Mean Green	656. Next 5: Illinois, TCU, James Madison, LSU, USC

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Indiana Hoosiers	0.09
2	Ohio State Buckeyes	0.00
3	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.17
4	Texas A&M Aggies	0.00
5	Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets	0.00
6	BYU Cougars	0.03
7	Georgia Bulldogs	0.00
8	Louisville Cardinals	1.14
9	Ole Miss Rebels	0.00
10	Cincinnati Bearcats	2.07
11	Texas Tech Red Raiders	0.00
12	Navy Midshipmen	1.64
13	Virginia Cavaliers	0.14
14	USF Bulls	0.45
15	Arizona State Sun Devils	2.59
16	Miami Hurricanes	-0.83
17	Oklahoma Sooners	-0.16
18	Tulane Green Wave	1.84
19	Oregon Ducks	-2.45
20	UNLV Rebels	5.07
21	Memphis Tigers	3.95
22	Vanderbilt Commodores	-2.21
23	Michigan Wolverines	0.00
24	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	-1.19
25	North Texas Mean Green	0.00

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Missouri Tigers	2.20
Tennessee Volunteers	0.67
LSU Tigers	0.42
Illinois Fighting Illini	0.23
Texas Longhorns	0.12

Total Score: 29.68