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Jakesnake42 Ballot for 2026 Week 3

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 13, 2026, 4:20 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Early season polls are always a tough balancing act between preseason expectations, rewarding beating supposedly good teams, blowing out bad teams, and how much to punish "quality losses". I am a much bigger fan of later in the year when we can go entirely by the resume.

Rank Team Reason
1 Indiana Hoosiers In Cingetti we trust until proven otherwise. Last Week: #1
2 Texas Longhorns INSANE comeback win. Easily best win in the county. Last Week: #4
3 LSU Tigers That Clemson win may not age well BUT it won't matter cause Kiffin gets a date with his ex this week. Last Week: #3
4 Ohio State Buckeyes Refuse to punish a team for narrowly losing a road game by one against a National Title Contender. Last Week: #2
5 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Feels like we aren't going to learn much about this team till they play BYU. Last Week: #5
6 Georgia Bulldogs Doing what you need to do early in the season. Last Week: #6
7 Miami Hurricanes Read above. Last Week: #7
8 Alabama Crimson Tide Had a bit of a first half scare ve Kentucky but great bounceback 2nd half. Last Week: #11
9 Texas A&M Aggies That game vs ASU was WAY closer than that score indicates. Last Week: #13
10 USC Trojans Don't particularly love giving up 30 points against Louisiana. Last Week: #10
11 Texas Tech Red Raiders Texas Tech hasn't shown themselves as the runaway B12 favorite so far. Last Week: #9
12 BYU Cougars Nice conference win against an Arizona team I'm decently high on. Last Week: #16
13 Ole Miss Rebels HUGE change to shoot way up these rankings against LSU next week. Last Week: #14
14 Tennessee Volunteers Nice P4 win over Georgia Tech this week. Last Week: #15
15 Penn State Nittany Lions Slow start vs Temple but got going in the 2nd half for a comfortable win. Last Week: #17
16 Utah Utes Nice blowout win vs a P4 opponent. Last Week: #19
17 Iowa Hawkeyes I feel like I've seen this El Assico like 10 times now but a rivalry game win is a win nevertheless.
18 Virginia Cavaliers I liked it better when UVA was a 2-10 team yearly. Last Week: #20
19 SMU Mustangs Big game @ Louisville this upcoming week. Also huh 2 conference games in first 3 weeks that's odd. Last Week: #21
20 Houston Cougars MASSIVE game @ Texas Tech coming up this week. Last Week: #23
21 Tulsa Golden Hurricane This is where the poll gets weird....is Tulsa a Top 25 team? Probably not? Did they beat OkSt who beat Oregon? yes. So here they are. Last Week: NR
22 Oklahoma State Cowboys what in the world........sure that's an all time way to end a losing streak. Last Week: NR
23 Oregon Ducks Wow y'all look bad so far. I won't drop you out ENTIRELY for playing actual competent teams both the first two weeks but the ice is THIN. Last Week: #8
24 Boise State Broncos Solid bounceback win vs a fellow G6 contender in Memphis. Last Week: #24
25 Western Michigan Broncos Hey look at that you beat a Michigan team who beat a *in theory* good OU team. Last Week: #25

Dropped: #12 Oklahoma, #23 Arizona

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