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Tarmacked Ballot for 2026 Week 6

Ballot Type: Hybrid

Submitted: Oct. 5, 2026, 11:30 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Mix of eye test, Sagarin, and other metrics (+/-, etc.).
Note: This is an early iteration and is much more fluid given lack of samples. This should shift significantly until week 5-6.

Rank Team Reason
1 Texas Longhorns No change
2 Georgia Bulldogs No change
3 Ohio State Buckeyes No change
4 Alabama Crimson Tide Aggressive, but the scoring offense has been ridiculous on all facets.
5 Miami Hurricanes Clemson played them incredibly well, but Miami overcame it.
6 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Blegh win against Belichick but I can't really argue anyone below over them
7 Indiana Hoosiers No change
8 Oregon Ducks No change
9 Ole Miss Rebels This SEC groups is irrational, it's hard to rank them. I'm leaning on returning talent/computer metrics here. I will note Ole Miss' resume has looked far worse with Louisville falling out, so i'm very very likely to move them down harder if they drop another. Right now Chambliss gets the benefit.
10 LSU Tigers No change from last weeks thought process. Mcneese is an easy team
11 Northwestern Wildcats This team just continues to impress in all facets.
12 Utah Utes I'm leaning hard here, but computers are giving me a similar Florida swing. This can absolutely blow up again.
13 UCLA Bruins More aggressive here, but the slots below this just aren't doing it for me.
14 Texas Tech Red Raiders The Big 12 pack just continues to be unimpressive to me. Tech struggles, BYU struggles, Houston struggles.
15 Kentucky Wildcats Didn't do anything to move me so much as those around me.
16 BYU Cougars 60 yards through the air from Bear is.... sigh....
17 Tennessee Volunteers QB issue is annoying. Looking forward to more samples to solidify.
18 Nebraska Cornhuskers Lets see what happens with Indiana, Rhule may have a decent squad here.
19 Mississippi State Bulldogs This group is painful to rank, alongside Ole Miss/LSU. We're going Head to Head here for now and i'm hoping in-season play rallies this together.
20 Missouri Tigers Man do I hate ranking this group of SEC teams.
21 Florida Gators "Why isn't Ole Miss down here?"

Chambliss. That's really it, I think Ole Miss has the stronger ceiling and it was a matchup play. Prove me wrong.
22 Houston Cougars See: Tech
23 Iowa Hawkeyes Ohio State loss wasn't great but there's not many more options here that make sense.
24 Boise State Broncos Dropped from last week at #20 but it's more that Nebraska/UCLA/Utah continue to have favorable metrics.
25 USC Trojans This defense continues to be unimpressive

So why isn't Pitt ranked at the end here? Losing QB1 drops my expectation for that team. That's why they've dropped out.

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