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AJ_CC Ballot for 2026 Week 11

Ballot Type: Human

Submitted: Nov. 8, 2026, 1:24 p.m.

Overall Rationale: Utah: Big win over BYU, undefeated, another nice win over Houston, feels like a pretty easy number 1.

Notre Dame, Georgia, UCLA. Not much separating these in my mind, Ultimaltey Notre Dame has the best win of the bunch but I could honestly talk myself into ordering them in any way.

Miami, BYU, Indiana. Was pretty tough ranking these 3, BYU still has the best win in the country, and hard to get too mad at them for a loss on the road to the number 1 team in the county. But that UCF loss is rough, so Miami takes the top spot here. Indiana might have but with Northwestern losing Iowa they kind of still need that signature win.

Wake Forrest, Tennessee, Texas, Alabama, Texas Tech. This was a tough group to order, they've all had strong seasons, but have all also had some real sizable blemishes. Ultimately h2h between Texas, Tenneseee and Alabama made their order clear but figuring out where Wake Forrest and Tech figured into that was a challenge. Another group I could put in a different order very easily.

Houston, USC, Iowa, Arizona. Huge win for Iowa this week, but out of this group Houston still has the biggest win, and best loss, especially after Ohio State bombed against Oregon making USC's victory look a little less impressive.

Boise, New Mexico: Kind of surprised these guys are this high, but I just couldn't anyone below them who I could justify higher.

Kentucky, SMU, Duke, Ok St, Oregon, OSU, South Carolina-so 6 of my teams ranked 15-25 lost this weekend, most of them in blowout fashion, so kind of made it a little hard figuring out the bottom of these rankings. Kentucky doesn't really have that big signature win, and the two best teams they played beat them like a drum with no difficulty. SMU's coming off a bad week to Syracuse, but man was that a big response against Virginia tech. Duke's quielety been having a stellar season. OK State, Oregon, Ohio State is pretty stragight forward head to head. Could've thrown Illinois in there, though the circle of suck between them, Oregon and Ohio State kind of left them the odd man out. Probably my 26th team, but just barely gave South Carolina the edge.

HM in no particular order: Ole Miss, LSU, Missouri, Illinois, Northwestern, Louisville, Wisconsin, Memphis.

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