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budget_um Ballot for 2025 Week 11

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Nov. 2, 2025, 7:36 a.m.

Overall Rationale: On-field results

Rank Team Reason
1 Indiana Hoosiers 9-windiana
2 Ohio State Buckeyes Closer than it should've been, but bucks took care of an ailing Penn State team
3 Texas A&M Aggies Bye, no movement
4 Oregon Ducks Bye, no movement
5 Alabama Crimson Tide Bye, no movement
6 Georgia Bulldogs Beat Florida, but more importantly, GT lost
7 BYU Cougars Bye, jump Vandy and GT
8 Ole Miss Rebels Ditto after beating SC
9 Oklahoma Sooners Pull it out over Tennessee in a close one; welcome back to the top 10
10 Notre Dame Fighting Irish BC's nothing special, stay put but make the top 10 after other losses
11 Texas Tech Red Raiders Whooped K-State, benefit from other top-10 losses
12 Tennessee Volunteers Would've moved down further, but losing to now-#9 while the top-10 all lost shakes this up.
13 Texas Longhorns Beat a top 10 team! I still don't trust them, but if the 'horns keep looking like that, watch out
14 Virginia Cavaliers Beat Cal by 10; almost certainly overrated, but gotta give credit to the likely ACC regular-season winners for getting it done
15 Utah Utes Stomped out a previously ranked Cincy team. Utes look like the second-best 2-loss in the country
16 USC Trojans Trojans jump a bit after Nebraska win
17 Louisville Cardinals UVA looks a little better, and Miami looks imminently beatable
18 Miami Hurricanes Losing to unranked SMU, even by a little, kills the good feelings that kept this team highly ranked after Louisville. Down they go to where H2H demands (with ND looking closer to an FSU-esque fluke than a signature win at this point)
19 Vanderbilt Commodores Got unlucky with the Texas they faced, but it wasn't nearly as close as the final suggested
20 Iowa Hawkeyes Needed to replace now-unranked GT and Cincinnati, and a team whose two losses are Cy-Hawk and the closest game IU's played get the nod in my book
21 Missouri Tigers Bye, Vandy loss looks worse
22 Memphis Tigers Michigan looked bad
23 USF Bulls Bye, look neck and neck with Memphis (and didn't lose to UAB)
24 Michigan Wolverines Michigan took care of Purdue, but the team didn't look good. Injuries still haunt them, so there may be hope, but it looked ugly
25 Washington Huskies Michigan loss looks worse but not enough to move them out of the rankings

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