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MyAngelMiraidon Ballot for 2025 Week 14

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Nov. 24, 2025, 3:24 p.m.

Overall Rationale: just see week 13 and extrapolate based on this week's games. Quiet week at the top of the list but there is some movement from 12 onwards.

Rank Team Reason
1 Ohio State Buckeyes EVEN. You get the idea. Now if Michigan does the 2nd funniest thing ever... (because the funniest thing was last year)
2 Indiana Hoosiers EVEN. On bye.
3 Texas A&M Aggies EVEN. Played an 1-9 Samford, so basically on bye.
4 Texas Tech Red Raiders EVEN. On bye.
5 Georgia Bulldogs EVEN. Played 1-10 Charlotte, so not really on bye, but you get the idea.
6 Ole Miss Rebels EVEN. On bye. Yeah the top 6 was boring this week.
7 Oregon Ducks +4. This is me finally acknowledging that this is a playoff team that more importantly, has actual quality wins to prove it.
8 BYU Cougars -1. This is more due to Oregon finally quelling any doubts I had left about them.
9 Oklahoma Sooners -1. Sameish reason for dropping as BYU. Both BYU and Oklahoma picked up good wins which is why the order remains this way.
10 Alabama Crimson Tide -1. Played 3-9 Eastern Illinois, so basically on bye.
11 Notre Dame Fighting Irish -1. This isn't really through any fault of their own that they're now out of my playoff projections, but as much as I want to bump them up for beating Syracuse 70-7 (a score that somehow makes the game closer than it was), Syracuse is not good and Bama's resume is still better.
12 Miami Hurricanes +3. It's here where we acknowledge that Miami has to at least be similar in position to Notre Dame even if their SOS is a ways back.
13 Utah Utes -1. I don't like doing this because I still believe this team is legit, probably more than Miami and Notre Dame. But by rule, that WACball game against Kansas State should not have been a near escape, so this bump is for consistency in penalizing some teams earlier for barely winning against teams they'd be expected to crush.
14 Vanderbilt Commodores +3. Ran over Kentucky. Placed just behind Utah based on SOS being actually rather weak. Still having a great season that somehow has outside chances at the playoffs.
15 Michigan Wolverines +5. I mean, it is November Maryland, but they did win convincingly, thus I stick to last week's words and move them up in front of the G5 teams. Now if they do the 2nd funniest thing ever...
16 North Texas Mean Green +2. This is pretty much an indication of how strong I think the AAC is: I am more confident in this team than whatever most of the ACC is.
17 Virginia Cavaliers -1. On bye, but drops a bit due to Louisville win being unranked.
18 James Madison Dukes +1. I still think in all cases JMU needs North Texas to screw up to take the G5 playoff spot, but they are definitely next in line.
19 USC Trojans -6. This team is somehow #17 on Colley matrix with 3 losses, and that's due to none of their 3 losses being that bad in hindsight (okay Illinois is questionable now but a lot of the following teams have worse losses) and the Michigan win really carrying their resume.
20 Arizona State Sun Devils (+6). The Texas Tech win only looks better each week. Utah blowout and Miss State loss is what keeps them just behind USC.
21 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets -7. I take it back about the ACC Championship statement. I now have confidence in basically no one to make it there. Duke is going to win the ACC aren't they.
22 Texas Longhorns +1. They would not go up this week if Arkansas kept it within one score, but this win by 15 indicates something? I think?
23 Tennessee Volunteers (+7). Quite literally no quality wins to speak of. That said, their losses are Alabama, Georgia, and Oklahoma. It's a simple case really, if they win next week, then this placing is justified. Otherwise they're 8-4 and I can easily drop them off like Missouri.
24 Houston Cougars -3. The TCU loss was close and they have 2 ranked wins. It feels like they should drop out but the remaining teams don't have enough of an argument and Arizona is one of their ranked wins so they should be in front by H2H.
25 Arizona Wildcats (+2). Partially attrition based entry to the top 25, but in fairness, even if their best win is Cincinnati and the rest of the wins are middling, there isn't a really bad loss? Next 11: SMU, Tulane, Wake Forest, Navy, Pittsburgh, Washington, San Diego State, UNLV, TCU, Missouri, Iowa (if we really get to this point of considering 4 loss teams then something above has probably gone very wrong)

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