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Versigot Ballot for 2026 Week 5

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Sept. 27, 2026, 1:55 p.m.

Rank Team Reason
1 Texas Longhorns Went into Rocky Top and won, finally an impressive enough win to move them from my #2 spot to #1 over Indiana.
2 Indiana Hoosiers A little tight against a Northwestern team who is much better than any of us originally thought.
3 Georgia Bulldogs Beating John Mateer isn't impressive but the way they did it was impressive.
4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Will be in the CFP barring catastrophe.
5 Miami Hurricanes I'm not sold on Mensah like everyone else seems to be but they look solidly like a Top 10 team and no reason to put them any lower.
6 Alabama Crimson Tide Wiping Beamer off the map is not particularly impressive but fine.
7 Virginia Tech Hokies I don't care how ugly the win was a James Franklin team is 4-0 and I don't hear a single person talking about them.
8 Florida Gators Buster Faulkner is a god amongst men, Brad White has schemed up a wet paper towel.
9 Iowa Hawkeyes Would have won even with an extra second in the big house.
10 Texas Tech Red Raiders Will probably go 11-1 then win the Big 12 before losing in the first round of the CFP.
11 Ohio State Buckeyes Not too convinced by this Buckeye team yet, beating the bottom of the barrel in the Big 10 is not impressive.
12 BYU Cougars Bear Bachmeier has some great family traditions.
13 Utah Utes Resume isn't great but getting better.
14 Oregon Ducks In the light of what's happened this might be terrible to say but I think Raiola is better than Moore, either way Ducks roll the Trojans, Lanning is turning Oklahoma State into a memory.
15 Ole Miss Rebels Have to execute better against bad defenses.
16 LSU Tigers That Texas A&M team is not good and that Ole Miss team is not as good as we thought.
17 Mississippi State Bulldogs I don't really believe in the Mizzou team they beat but so many other teams shit the bed this week Kamario is #17. I think Bama will embarrass them though.
18 UCLA Bruins 4-0 is 4-0 and it was a good win over Maryland.
19 James Madison Dukes Sun Belt Billy is going to run the Sun Belt.
20 Northwestern Wildcats Quality loss against Indiana and a big win over Colorado, the nerds in Evanston are doing better than we thought.
21 Oklahoma State Cowboys Inexplicable loss to Tulsa still on the resume. The win against Oregon is less impressive when you know Oregon were tipping plays (fair play on OKST for catching it though). Still an objectively good football team.
22 USC Trojans Maiava is still great, but the rest of the USC team is ugly.
23 Wisconsin Badgers Happy Valley is not an easy place to go into and win.
24 FAU Owls Besides an early-season embarrassment in The Swamp, the Owls finally seem to have their air raid mildly figured out and I really do think they could win The American.
25 Tennessee Volunteers Floppy Top completely bungling it, what else is new?

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