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tbraptors Ballot for 2026 Week 6

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Oct. 5, 2026, 2:30 p.m.

Overall Rationale: General focus is to reward resume over predictive measures, though an element of prediction is still required at this point in the season, with it still being unclear how good each team is exactly.

Rank Team Reason
1 Texas Longhorns
2 Alabama Crimson Tide Alabama jumps Georgia and Ohio St after their dominant win against Mississippi St, giving them 2 big wins against top 25 teams
3 Miami Hurricanes
4 Ohio State Buckeyes
5 Georgia Bulldogs Georgia falls despite blowing everyone out because they haven't played anyone good
6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Notre Dame drops with Alabama's rise. In my mind, there is nothing separating UGA and ND, at least until next week
7 Indiana Hoosiers
8 BYU Cougars BYU, Texas Tech, and Utah are all roughly the same level in my eyes so far this season. No team has looked especially strong, and they may be over-ranked, but their record is clearer than the SEC teams below them.
9 Texas Tech Red Raiders
10 Utah Utes
11 Mississippi State Bulldogs The fact Mississippi St rose 4 places after a crushing defeat against Alabama kills me, but their win against Missouri looks much better, and they benefit from the SEC reshuffling it caused
12 Missouri Tigers Missouri jumps massively after a dominant performance against Florida, who was my #6 going into this week. They, alongside these SEC schools, will fall if any of them start losing, with how interconnected they are at this point
13 Florida Gators
14 Ole Miss Rebels Ole Miss drops because their loss to Florida looks worse after the Gators were stomped by Mizzou
15 Tennessee Volunteers
16 LSU Tigers LSU is the biggest victim of UF losing to Missouri, as head to head would show Mississippi St > Missouri > Florida > Ole Miss > LSU. This is overly simplistic and LSU is better than #17, but they haven't played enough good teams to demonstrate it
17 Iowa Hawkeyes
18 UCLA Bruins
19 Oklahoma State Cowboys
20 Oregon Ducks
21 Pittsburgh Panthers
22 Boise State Broncos
23 Wisconsin Badgers Wisconsin falls after Northwestern made their PSU win lose value
24 Kentucky Wildcats Kentucky's shaky performance against South Carolina drops them a few spots
25 USC Trojans USC jumps Houston and Duke with their win against Washington, though Duke's performance against Illinois losing value and Houston's sluggish win over UCF played a part.

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