Ballot Type: Computer

Submitted: Oct. 11, 2026, 8:05 a.m.

Overall Rationale: TERR-Q (Transitive Extrapolated Round Robin Quicksort):

1) Construct a simulated round robin amongst all FBS teams

2) For each simulated "game", if Team A has beaten Team B more times than Team B has beaten Team A, Team A records a simulated "win" and Team B records a simulated "loss". If Team A has not played Team B or they have played twice and split their games, we look at first-layer transitive wins: i.e. we look at the number of teams x such that Team A has beaten x where x has beaten Team B and we look at the number of teams y such that Team B has beaten y where y has beaten Team A. The simulated "win" goes to Team A if |x| > |y| and Team B if |x| < |y|. If |x| = |y|, we look at second-layer transitive wins: i.e. we look at the number of chains x,x' and y,y' such that Team A > x > x' > Team B and Team B > y > y' > Team A. If |(x,x')| > |(y,y')|, Team A records the simulated "win". If |(x,x')| < |(y,y')|, Team B records the simulated "win". If |(x,x')| = |(y,y')|, we move onto third-layer transitive wins. We continue this process until either Team A or Team B has recorded a simulated "win" or until we've looked up to eighth-layer transitive wins.

3) We split the ranked teams at the largest adjacent gap between simulated round robin records, preferring the gap whose midpoint is closest to .500 when multiple gaps are equally large. We run steps (1), (2), and (3) within each subset until subsets contain only one team, using the entire season's results at each layer of recursion.

[Early-season tiebreakers are last season's final TERR-Q standings]
(Transitive round-robin W-L-T record provided)

• Ballot
• Analysis

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Georgia Bulldogs	118-0-19
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	116-1-20
3	Mississippi State Bulldogs	115-2-20
4	Miami Hurricanes	100-0-37
5	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	105-0-32
6	UCLA Bruins	103-0-34
7	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	103-1-33
8	Purdue Boilermakers	100-4-33
9	Kentucky Wildcats	102-2-33
10	Missouri Tigers	100-3-34
11	Indiana Hoosiers	89-0-48
12	Texas Tech Red Raiders	86-0-51
13	Minnesota Golden Gophers	101-8-28
14	South Carolina Gamecocks	98-4-35
15	Texas Longhorns	101-11-25
16	Ohio State Buckeyes	100-11-26
17	Oklahoma Sooners	101-11-25
18	Iowa Hawkeyes	98-11-28
19	Florida Gators	100-6-31
20	Michigan Wolverines	101-11-25
21	Tennessee Volunteers	93-14-30
22	Ole Miss Rebels	87-7-43
23	Auburn Tigers	80-19-38
24	BYU Cougars	62-0-75
25	LSU Tigers	87-8-42

Teams Ranked:

Rank	Team	Unusualness
1	Georgia Bulldogs	0.00
2	Alabama Crimson Tide	0.64
3	Mississippi State Bulldogs	2.34
4	Miami Hurricanes	0.00
5	Notre Dame Fighting Irish	-0.38
6	UCLA Bruins	0.47
7	Wake Forest Demon Deacons	2.65
8	Purdue Boilermakers	17.17
9	Kentucky Wildcats	0.99
10	Missouri Tigers	0.61
11	Indiana Hoosiers	-2.03
12	Texas Tech Red Raiders	-0.16
13	Minnesota Golden Gophers	12.20
14	South Carolina Gamecocks	11.10
15	Texas Longhorns	-0.94
16	Ohio State Buckeyes	-1.79
17	Oklahoma Sooners	7.74
18	Iowa Hawkeyes	0.00
19	Florida Gators	5.92
20	Michigan Wolverines	5.23
21	Tennessee Volunteers	0.00
22	Ole Miss Rebels	-0.74
23	Auburn Tigers	2.23
24	BYU Cougars	-4.34
25	LSU Tigers	0.00

Omissions:

Team	Unusualness
Utah Utes	4.16
Houston Cougars	1.09
USC Trojans	0.67
Oklahoma State Cowboys	0.81
Northwestern Wildcats	0.41
Boise State Broncos	0.33
Nebraska Cornhuskers	0.15

Total Score: 87.26