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bladefencer Ballot for 2026 Week 7

Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 11, 2026, 2:29 a.m.

Overall Rationale: Using only results from this year, I compute 1) a power rating, 2) an offensive rating, 3) a defensive rating and 4) a rating from the difference of the offensive and defensive ratings. I use the power rating to compute 5) a strength of record (SOR)/resume rating and 6) a rating that gives very small merits and demerits for particular results (e.g merits for postseason wins or beating a top 15 power rating team; demerits for getting blown out by a team with a similar power rating).

I normalize the six ratings and combine them in a weighted average to determine the final rating which increasingly values the SOR component the further into the season. The weights for the other ratings are static during the season. The result is not normalized, so the best possible final rating is 1.000 if a team is #1 in all six ratings.

Dropped: Florida (17 -> 32), Pittsburgh (21 -> 30), LSU (22 -> 26), Oregon (23 -> 27), Duke (25 -> 43)

Next 10: LSU (0.787), Oregon (0.778), Arizona (0.776), Oklahoma (0.766), Pittsburgh (0.763), UTSA (0.763), Florida (0.761), Oklahoma State (0.757), Memphis (0.747), Oregon State (0.745)

Ranking violation % (% of played games with winner ranked below loser): 13.07%
Top 25 ranking violation %: 4.42%

Large increase in ranking violations this week, from 8.49% to 13.07%. Top 25 violations also increased.

Rank Team Reason
1 Notre Dame Fighting Irish 0.972, +2, Pow: 2, Off: 3, Def: 3, SOR: 4
2 Alabama Crimson Tide 0.969, -1, Pow: 1, Off: 1, Def: 4, SOR: 7
3 Georgia Bulldogs 0.955, +7, Pow: 4, Off: 2, Def: 16, SOR: 2
4 Indiana Hoosiers 0.936, +2, Pow: 11, Off: 36, Def: 2, SOR: 1
5 Miami Hurricanes 0.922, +0, Pow: 5, Off: 4, Def: 12, SOR: 9
6 UCLA Bruins 0.920, +6, Pow: 8, Off: 16, Def: 10, SOR: 5
7 Texas Tech Red Raiders 0.917, -3, Pow: 12, Off: 25, Def: 26, SOR: 3
8 Kentucky Wildcats 0.907, +3, Pow: 16, Off: 15, Def: 22, SOR: 6
9 Mississippi State Bulldogs 0.896, -1, Pow: 18, Off: 8, Def: 45, SOR: 10
10 Texas Longhorns 0.893, -8, Pow: 6, Off: 22, Def: 1, SOR: 11
11 BYU Cougars 0.880, +3, Pow: 21, Off: 56, Def: 9, SOR: 8
12 Utah Utes 0.874, -3, Pow: 15, Off: 9, Def: 17, SOR: 12
13 Ohio State Buckeyes 0.870, -6, Pow: 3, Off: 6, Def: 7, SOR: 16
14 Houston Cougars 0.851, +4, Pow: 17, Off: 14, Def: 24, SOR: 14
15 Missouri Tigers 0.848, +4, Pow: 10, Off: 35, Def: 6, SOR: 17
16 Wake Forest Demon Deacons 0.829, +14, Pow: 24, Off: 33, Def: 19, SOR: 15
17 Northwestern Wildcats 0.828, -1, Pow: 9, Off: 11, Def: 27, SOR: 23
18 Boise State Broncos 0.824, +9, Pow: 14, Off: 26, Def: 52, SOR: 19
19 Nebraska Cornhuskers 0.819, -6, Pow: 7, Off: 13, Def: 30, SOR: 26
20 Wisconsin Badgers 0.817, -5, Pow: 26, Off: 32, Def: 23, SOR: 20
21 Ole Miss Rebels 0.817, +7, Pow: 28, Off: 18, Def: 50, SOR: 18
22 James Madison Dukes 0.813, +2, Pow: 37, Off: 42, Def: 61, SOR: 13
23 Iowa Hawkeyes 0.808, +3, Pow: 30, Off: 39, Def: 11, SOR: 21
24 Tennessee Volunteers 0.806, -4, Pow: 20, Off: 17, Def: 35, SOR: 25
25 USC Trojans 0.795, +7, Pow: 33, Off: 23, Def: 60, SOR: 24

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