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took care of business" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "0; woke up in the second half" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "+1; took care of business" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "+1; Toney vs Smith Heisman race will be cinema" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "+2; made Texas State's good offense from last year look... not good" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "0; let up too many yards to a non-Mestemaker UNT" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "+8; ho lee sheet" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "-5; surely not the only Big Ten team to struggle with a horse-themed G6 school at home, right???" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "0; nothing to complain about" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "+1; started slow but turned it on" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "-1; still want to see more consistent passing" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "0; what a game, secondary needs serious work" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "-5; not a fan of how close they played ACU" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "-1; nothing to complain about, just a result of shifting teams around" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "-1; that backup defense is terrible but starters are nasty" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "+3; I know it's just Marshall but they looked good" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "+1; nothing to complain about" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "-1; SMU and FSU vs SMU and SMU pulls it out" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "+2; honestly don't like raising them but it's a rivalry so MOV can be excused" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "NR; BTA" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "+1; maybe the new PAC12 is just feisty\r\n\r\nBiggest riser: LSU (15->7)" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "+1; not a fan of rising them but don't feel comfortable putting anyone below them higher\r\n\r\nBiggest faller: Michigan (16->NR)" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "+2; still my G6 rep for now but Boise/NDSU/Western Michigan can make things interesting\r\n\r\nDropped out: 16 Michigan (that was essentially a loss), 24 Clemson" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "NR; offense???\r\n\r\nNew to poll: 20 Virginia, 24 Iowa" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "-5; didn't drop them out because it was a great game, Kienholz figured it out quick\r\n\r\nNext 5: Tennessee, Missouri, UCLA, Michigan, Florida/Virginia Tech" } ] }, { "id": 74219, "username": "arbadak", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T16:18:14.007612+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Modified Colley Matrix with a win-weighted sigmoid margin transform and a fixed 2.8-point home-field advantage adjustment. Winning is the primary factor; margin of victory provides diminishing secondary differentiation, effectively soft-capping around three scores. 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All undefeated teams ranked ahead of all teams with losses. 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"2026-09-08T20:29:58.586899+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Who really knows", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" 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"pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74372, "username": "Bank_Gothic", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T12:53:35.630754+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I don't take the polls too seriously until after week 6 or so. My rankings will generally fluctuate wildly from week to week, depending on game outcomes. If the No. 5 team loses to the No. 2 team, the No. 5 team may drop out of the poll just due to having a loss when other teams don't. Win and you get back in. By the time week 6 rolls around, it's all gotten pretty well sorted. 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"id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": 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"handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 29, "handle": "michigan", "name": "Michigan Wolverines" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74255, "username": "BosskOnASegway", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T18:08:30.605125+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Before we get started a couple notes. First, I am not a Louisiana judge and as such am not going to be making arbitrary rulings or changes. My model is a computer model that exactly reflects the official outcomes. LSUs nonsense and arguments over 1 second don't come into play.\r\n\r\nSecond, You can find a bit of details behind my preseason and general model methodology in my week 0 rationale, https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/73775/. This preseason model makes up 5/6th of the rating this week and will continue to decline. The MLE model requires well connected groups to get meaningful results. Some things will look strange especially if you look solely at the in-season ratings. For example this model currently has FSU as #5 despite a loss. This is because FSU is one of the few schools on with connected chain that allow it to confidently place it.\r\n\r\nPre-season Florida State was rated 1278 or #77. In Season they are currently rated 1856.2 or #5. This gives them a final rating of 1374.4 moving them UP to #60. This can be explained by looking at the implied ratings.\r\n\r\nFSU beat New Mexico State with a win share of 0.919 our cap. New Mexico State ended week one with an rating of 1493.4 giving an implied rating of 1856.0 for FSU. Similar FSU lost to SMU with a win share of 0.361. SMU ended with a rating 2015.6 giving FSU an implied rating of 1856.2. The model leverages the chain of SMU > FSU > NMSU > NON_FBS to generate a most likely chain of ratings in this case 2015.6 -> 1856.2 -> 1493.4 -> 1130.6. As more games play these numbers for all teams will become more connected and get more \"natural\"\r\n\r\nSimilar note on LSU, their in-season rating is 1681 (tied with many other teams who blew out an opponent without a week 0 game); however, LSU only had a 1386 preseason rating (#55). This gave LSU a composite 1435 good for around 48. I would expect them to appear in the top 25 next week if the blow out LA Tech similar to Clemson.\r\n\r\nThird and most important despite the weird results for now though the model is working. Running an accuracy report and retrograde analysis, we find our preseason model correctly predicted 72.7% of games with a Brier of 0.1612. Our blended model has a look back accuracy of 78.8% with a Brier of 0.1226. Our in-season only due to small sample leading to no circular reasoning yet has an accuracy of 100% on look back with a Brier of 0.0228. This means the model is performing as intended and over time will refine to be more natural.\r\n\r\nOne other important minor note, many people assume making a model is just throwing an arbitrary formula at a computer and using the results. This is not accurate nor how this model works. While it will look strange at the start, the model is designed from first principles around maximum likelihood estimators with numerous statistical tests and best fits to make sure the choices around clipping, constants, and the presence of home field advantage reflect data over the last decade. While the model is not perfect, especially early, and could certainly be improved, I will not arbitrarily tweak it or make adjustments to get \"better looking\" results short term as it would undermine the goal of minimizing the retrograde Brier.\r\n\r\nHere is the full table for post week 1.\r\n| # | Team | Blended | In-Season | Preseason | \u0394Rank | \u0394Elo |\r\n|---|------|---------|-----------|-----------|-------|------|\r\n| 1 | Notre Dame | 1988 | #32 (1681) | #1 (2050) | \u2013 | -61 |\r\n| 2 | Ohio St. | 1927 | #15 (1681) | #2 (1976) | \u2013 | -49 |\r\n| 3 | Southern California | 1898 | #1 (2311) | #7 (1816) | \u25b24 | +83 |\r\n| 4 | Georgia | 1876 | #60 (1493) | #3 (1953) | \u25bc1 | -76 |\r\n| 5 | Oregon | 1843 | #44 (1560) | #5 (1899) | \u2013 | -57 |\r\n| 6 | BYU | 1834 | #57 (1493) | #4 (1902) | \u25bc2 | -68 |\r\n| 7 | Texas Tech | 1815 | #84 (1493) | #6 (1880) | \u25bc1 | -64 |\r\n| 8 | Miami (FL) | 1741 | #7 (1791) | #11 (1731) | \u25b23 | +10 |\r\n| 9 | Texas | 1738 | #34 (1681) | #8 (1749) | \u25bc1 | -11 |\r\n| 10 | Indiana | 1736 | #27 (1681) | #9 (1747) | \u25bc1 | -11 |\r\n| 11 | Oklahoma | 1735 | #33 (1681) | #10 (1746) | \u25bc1 | -11 |\r\n| 12 | Texas A&M | 1687 | #19 (1681) | #12 (1688) | \u2013 | -1 |\r\n| 13 | Washington | 1680 | #35 (1681) | #13 (1680) | \u2013 | +0 |\r\n| 14 | SMU | 1648 | #2 (2016) | #22 (1575) | \u25b28 | +74 |\r\n| 15 | Michigan | 1642 | #47 (1520) | #14 (1666) | \u25bc1 | -24 |\r\n| 16 | Ole Miss | 1639 | #48 (1520) | #16 (1663) | \u2013 | -24 |\r\n| 17 | Tennessee | 1635 | #83 (1493) | #15 (1663) | \u25bc2 | -28 |\r\n| 18 | Vanderbilt | 1625 | #89 (1493) | #17 (1651) | \u25bc1 | -26 |\r\n| 19 | Alabama | 1624 | #23 (1681) | #18 (1612) | \u25bc1 | +12 |\r\n| 20 | Pittsburgh | 1610 | #17 (1681) | #20 (1596) | \u2013 | +14 |\r\n| 21 | Maryland | 1592 | #69 (1493) | #19 (1612) | \u25bc2 | -20 |\r\n| 22 | Nebraska | 1590 | #30 (1681) | #23 (1572) | \u25b21 | +18 |\r\n| 23 | New Mexico | 1589 | #14 (1681) | #24 (1570) | \u25b21 | +18 |\r\n| 24 | Houston | 1583 | #37 (1660) | #26 (1568) | \u25b22 | +15 |\r\n| 25 | Utah | 1567 | #88 (1493) | #21 (1581) | \u25bc4 | -15 |\r\n| 26 | Iowa | 1562 | #28 (1681) | #30 (1539) | \u25b24 | +24 |\r\n| 27 | Minnesota | 1555 | #71 (1493) | #25 (1568) | \u25bc2 | -12 |\r\n| 28 | Florida | 1548 | #12 (1681) | #34 (1522) | \u25b26 | +27 |\r\n| 29 | Navy | 1546 | #73 (1493) | #27 (1557) | \u25bc2 | -11 |\r\n| 30 | Arizona | 1542 | #53 (1493) | #28 (1551) | \u25bc2 | -10 |\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": " 2049.7 -> 1988.3 [-61.4] (#1 -> #1)" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "1975.8 -> 1926.7 [-49.1] (#2 -> #2)" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "1815.5 -> 1898.1 [+82.6] (#7 -> #3)" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "1952.6 -> 1876.0 [-76.5] (#3 -> #4)" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "1899.2 -> 1842.6 [-56.6] (#5 -> #5)" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "1902.1 -> 1833.9 [-68.1] (#4 -> #6)" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "1879.7 -> 1815.3 [-64.4] (#6 -> #7)" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "1730.7 -> 1740.7 [+10.0] (#11 -> #8)" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": " 1748.9 -> 1737.6 [-11.2] (#8 -> #9)" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "1747.4 -> 1736.4 [-11.0] (#9 -> #10)" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "1745.9 -> 1735.2 [-10.8] (#10 -> #11)" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": " 1688.5 -> 1687.3 [-1.2] (#12 -> #12)" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "1679.9 -> 1680.1 [+0.3] (#13 -> #13)" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "1574.6 -> 1648.1 [+73.5] (#22 -> #14)\r\n" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 29, "handle": "michigan", "name": "Michigan Wolverines" }, "rationale": "1666.3 -> 1641.8 [-24.4] (#14 -> #15)" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": " 1663.0 -> 1639.1 [-23.9] (#16 -> #16)" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "1663.1 -> 1634.8 [-28.3] (#15 -> #17)" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 64, "handle": "vanderbilt", "name": "Vanderbilt Commodores" }, "rationale": "1651.2 -> 1624.9 [-26.3] (#17 -> #18)" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "1612.2 -> 1623.7 [+11.5] (#18 -> #19)" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": " 1595.9 -> 1610.1 [+14.3] (#20 -> #20)\r\n" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 28, "handle": "maryland", "name": "Maryland Terrapins" }, "rationale": "1611.9 -> 1592.2 [-19.8] (#19 -> #21)" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "1572.2 -> 1590.4 [+18.2] (#23 -> #22)" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 114, "handle": "newmexico", "name": "New Mexico Lobos" }, "rationale": "1570.2 -> 1588.7 [+18.5] (#24 -> #23)" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "1567.6 -> 1583.0 [+15.4] (#26 -> #24)" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "1581.4 -> 1566.7 [-14.7] (#21 -> #25)\r\n" } ] }, { "id": 74169, "username": "BoukenGreen", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T14:34:02.655758+00:00", "overall_rationale": "being week 1 and not enough to really do a good poll, I just went by margin of victory this week.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 85, "handle": "louisianatech", "name": "Louisiana Tech Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 18, "handle": "kansasstate", "name": "Kansas State Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 80, "handle": "ucf", "name": "UCF Knights" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": "arizonastate", "name": "Arizona State Sun Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 11, "handle": "syracuse", "name": "Syracuse Orange" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 28, "handle": "maryland", "name": "Maryland Terrapins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 61, "handle": "southcarolina", "name": "South Carolina Gamecocks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 65, "handle": "army", "name": "Army West Point" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 120, "handle": "appalachianstate", "name": "Appalachian State Mountaineers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 140, "handle": "sacramentostate", "name": "Sacramento State Hornets" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 123, "handle": "georgiastate", "name": "Georgia State Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 71, "handle": "connecticut", "name": "Connecticut Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 146, "handle": "kennesawstate", "name": "Kennesaw State Owls" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 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"id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" 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Expect wild swings until about halfway into the season.\r\n\r\nYou get rewarded for beating good opponents and for doing so convincingly. Given that this is only week 1 we're still guessing who actually counts as good opponents, so we rely on a bit of the eye test for that.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Clemson might be dreadful, but until we know that for certain LSU gets all the credit for annihilating what was supposed to be at least a decent opponent" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "By far the least convincing win of the top handful of teams, but history and the eye test say that Louisville was a very strong opponent and that this was a very impressive win" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "NC State should be an upper half ACC team and Virginia throttled them start to finish" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Back and forth first half lead into a dominant second half. Wisconsin is *probably* a decent opponent but time will tell" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Dominating win over a probably really bad Stanford team" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "San Jose State is terrible but shutting out Fresno is quality work" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Went toe to toe with Ole Miss, chalk one up for the Quality Loss column" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "Solid win over the Mountain West preseason favorites" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "I'm giving the Ducks the benefit of the doubt that Boise is going to be pretty good again this year, and by the eye test Oregon was the much better team. But my goodness guys, that was far too sloppy" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 68, "handle": "umass", "name": "UMass Minutemen" }, "rationale": "Rutger isn't good but they went bowling in 2023 and 2024, and just missed last year. The Minutemen controlled this game from start to finish" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Nice win over a middle-third ACC opponent" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "Credit for squeaking out a win over a middling Baylor but improvement better come soon" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "Jeckyll and Hyde team, SMU was dominant down-to-down but absolutely could not stop shooting themselves in the foot. If they clean it up they're going to be a problem. If not they're going to find themselves unranked quickly" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "Like any gracious recipient, Colorado steadfastly refused to accept GT's gift for 58 minutes before finally caving" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 8, "handle": "northcarolina", "name": "North Carolina Tar Heels" }, "rationale": "Tried their damnedest to lose but TCU \"won\" that battle" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "Statement win over a good Jacksonville State opponent" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Every team from here on beat the brakes off of overmatched competition. There was nothing to learn from these games so I just kept them in the same order as my preseason ballot" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74217, "username": "ch1l1_ch33s3", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T15:56:49.978281+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Making slight adjustments on my preseason rankings until enough games are played to get a full picture", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 18, "handle": 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computer gathers data.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "No major mistakes yet." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Good teams recruit, elite teams reload." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "A 45-point FBS shutout is nothing to sneeze at." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "A 51-point FBS shutout is, though." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "And a 41-point A4 blowout makes you sneeze like you just snorted cold gumbo." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Kept the lights on over the summer." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "You can't fool us, the annual contractual Boise \"scare\" won't make us overlook you or overrate them." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Very nice. Now let's see the conference games." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "Posted a 50-point FBS shutout, technically." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Conference blowouts early get you a top 10 ranking." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Little brother Q4 escapes do not." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 61, "handle": "southcarolina", "name": "South Carolina Gamecocks" }, "rationale": "Remember all those impressive FBS blowouts? South Carolina owns the largest, a 57-point shellacking of nominally-FBS Kent State." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Yeah, but did you see that punt though?" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Tech's first and only victory over a ranked team comes against FCS Abilene Christian." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "The good news, FSU looks very bad. The bad news, Miami looks very good." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Thrilling finish in Nashville to complete the SEC's week 1 sweep." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Thrilling finish in Nashville to make 4 of Louisville's last 5 losses by 3 points or less." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "No, the American is not a power conference. Schedule Virginia or something instead." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Arizona's first and only victory over a ranked team comes against FCS Northern Arizona." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "You know what, it's time to put some respect on Mississippi State's name. Not Jeff Lebby's though, he's still a coverup collaborator and shouldn't be allowed around children or young adults." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 64, "handle": "vanderbilt", "name": "Vanderbilt Commodores" }, "rationale": "Vanderbilt's first and only victory over a ranked team comes against FCS Austin Peay." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": "arizonastate", "name": "Arizona State Sun Devils" }, "rationale": "Arizona State's first and only 70-point spree comes against FCS Morgan State." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Kentucky's first and only victory over a ranked team comes against FCS Youngstown State." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 24, "handle": "westvirginia", "name": "West Virginia Mountaineers" }, "rationale": "West Virginia escapes a late comeback attempt by... Coastal Carolina??" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "No, the Pac-12 is not a power conference. Schedule Indiana or something instead." } ] }, { "id": 74192, "username": "ChaseTheFalcon", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T18:16:03.904310+00:00", "overall_rationale": "HM: Boise State, Arizona, and Virginia", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { 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"rank": 18, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74065, "username": "chillmagic420", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T04:37:28.842087+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ 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Biggest moves are Michigan dropped out after a terrible game vs Western Michigan. LSU has moved up to the legit category, we\u2019ll see if that\u2019s overreaction, as last season I thought LSU- Clemson was a playoff caliber game. Virginia also took a big leap after impressing me week 0. A little bit of shifting here and there otherwise, but nothing drastic.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Miami impressed me the most. I don\u2019t expect Stanford to be as bad this year, so beating them as strongly as they did is impressive. Mensah-Toney looks legit. " }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "A bit slow out of the gates but it\u2019s week one. Sayin and Smith look the part and the Buckeyes should be the class of the field in the B1G at this point. Huge game next week." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Manning does not look like he\u2019s taken any steps back in the offseason. Passing game looks good. The only reason I didn\u2019t put them above Ohio State is I was surprised how much Texas State moved the ball especially in the first half. Luckily Ohio State and texas play next week. I\u2019ll certainly be rooting for the Buckeyes." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Good dominant second half and a big win for a weak schedule. The Fighting Irish look to be the contenders we all thought they would be." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Always hard to judge vs FCS opponents, but the Bulldogs certainly handled business as needed. Unfortunately not much else to say." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "I was a bit surprised how much a raided UNT was able to do vs the Hoosiers, but it\u2019s also pretty much a brand new team from last year\u2019s squad and its week one. I\u2019ll give them the benefit of the doubt for now." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "I have mixed feelings about the Ducks\u2019 performance. I think Boise is likely one of the G6 contenders, it\u2019s week one. But you\u2019re also Oregon playing at home. I expect they\u2019ll move back up as the season progresses, but I was disappointed by the Ducks." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Yeesh. For all my hatred of the NFL rejects saga I have to admit Lane Kiffin has the Tigers purring along. Last year I saw the Clemson - LSU game as a potential playoff preview. What a doofus I was! But it\u2019s hard to see this year as anything but a death knock for Dabo and a major validation away from the distractions that Kiffin and co brought to Baton Rouge. We\u2019ll see if this holds, but I was extremely impressed by the team at the top of my shit list rn." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Big and expected win vs an FCS opponent. After the past couple of years I\u2019m willing to give BYU a bit more credit going into this season. Can\u2019t say much else though as their opponent wasn\u2019t even a good FCS squad." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Thoroughly unimpressed by their outing vs ACU. This offense is going to be a weakness for the red raiders this season and the defense didn\u2019t impress me much. I didn\u2019t drop them further as it\u2019s week one but they\u2019ll need to show up and show out the next two weeks." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "Simple dominant win over UTEP. Hard to judge much off of this. Michigan will be interesting, but after Michigans showing this past week OU needs to be demolishing the Wolverines." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "They seemed fine, performed about as expected vs ECU. Russell did well and I quite like the kid and want to see him do well, regardless of my dislike for Alabama." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "I was very impressed by Virginia week 0. I had ranked them preseason off of hope, but a strong showing vs NC St who I think will be solid upper mid ACC was better than most other squads who played cupcakes." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Apple cup early is just weird. It was sloppy and not great, but it\u2019s week one and a highly charged rivalry game that makes it hard to judge. I\u2019m giving them the benefit of the doubt but they\u2019ll need to show me that I don\u2019t have them too high by dominating inferior competition the next two weeks." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "I may be under ranking the Trojans here, their wins look good and the defense shutting down Fresno who I expect to be a contender for the PAC is a nice change of pace for a Riley squad." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "I may be too high on Utah but I don\u2019t have much reason to move anyone above them. Took care of an outmatched FCS squad." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "I\u2019m high on Louisville, so I don\u2019t see a close win as too bad for Ole Miss. My biggest concern is their defense, but I still think they\u2019re one of the better teams in this tier." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "People may think I\u2019m too high on the wildcats but they lived to to preseason expectations beating an always dangerous Northern Arizona. If there\u2019s anything I know about the state of Arizona football, is how dangerous Northern Arizona is to the big two every year, so I\u2019m not going to discount a rather large victory against them." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Fine win over a squad in NIU that I expect will be back end of the MW. With the collapse of Iowa State and potential pants shitting of Michigan, Iowa may not face a real threat until Ohio State." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "I was quite unimpressed by the offensive showing by the Ags vs one of the worst teams in the FBS. That OLine needs to mesh considerably over the next couple of weeks and games before facing a real challenge in LSU." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "Big win over a Marshall squad I expect will be pretty descent. That said it\u2019s still wait and see to get if Campbell has this squad rolling again." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "Big win over a middling FCS squad. Hard to say much more, they\u2019ll need to dominate the next couple of games as well." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "I was unimpressed by the Coogs vs the Beavers. They\u2019ll have to impress before facing Tech to prove they belong." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "I was impressed by the Bruins win over Cal and JKS who I think is really quite good. I also think Chesney is a great coach, so I\u2019m high on this squad to make some noise throughout this season and couldn\u2019t really find another team that impressed me for this spot. Iamaleava still has some issues and that\u2019ll likely be one of the limiting factors for UCLA this year, but the kid still has big upside." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "The defense leaves much to be desired, but the offense looks like it has a new life now in the Sumrall era. FAU should be an upper mid team in the AAC this year so not a bad squad, but the defense really looks to be the limiting factor for this squad. RB Baugh is legit and may be one of the best in the country." } ] }, { "id": 74379, "username": "douchebagjack", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T14:34:16.126331+00:00", "overall_rationale": "i wish they\u2019d throw my poll out until like week 6 tbh. i try to only use this years results. using general conference strength as to which wins are good vs bad. P4 win >> PAC, MWC, American > Sun Belt > MAC, CUSA. 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They win next week and they're number 1" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Cold start even if BSU isn't awful" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "I had this team lower than most, but I also had Louisville higher than most. They earned the top spot of tier 2 SEC teams for now" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "I like Maivia a lot, they could pass the SEC hump ahead of them if I can buy in fully to their defense" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "First season coaches are a blessing in the transfer portal era, and their amount of experience is worth respecting" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Arbitrarily flipped them and TTU because it's neck and neck" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Still like em" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "We are probably not this good, but the \"Iowa has no offense\" jokes are going to be from people who haven't paid attention. There are some red flags in both QBs, and our special teams will be weirdly bad, but we should be solid" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "No strong opinion tbh" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Ditto" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Liked the QB" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Not the start you wanted" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "Too many turnovers" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Quality loss, that's more interesting to me than beating up some bums" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": "arizonastate", "name": "Arizona State Sun Devils" }, "rationale": "Beat up some bums but it's hard to say they didn't look phenomenal. This could be the new ISU that shuffles from good to mediocre to good on a yearly basis. I liked this performance more than Houston's, who I had arbitrarily high before" } ] }, { "id": 74079, "username": "HieloLuz", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T00:46:31.667508+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I use a computer ranking which is a pure resume based points system. Teams are assigned a tier based on their rating (1-7). Points are gained for wins, subtracted for losses, based on the opponents tier. Small modifiers for game closeness and SOS based on Opponent's record.\t | \r\nI use this to sort teams into buckets, then give ranks based primarily on quality wins (top 50 teams), worst losses, and head to head.\t | \r\n | \t | \r\n | \t | \t | \r\n| Note for early weeks: They are extremely volatile, teams that played week 0 get a big early season boost but it stabilizes around week 5. Early weeks any team with a loss will struggle to get ranked at all.\t\t\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "2-0, \r\nboth FBS wins" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "2-0, \r\nboth FBS wins" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "2-0, \r\n1 FBS win" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win \r\nv Wisconsin" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Clemson" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win \r\nv Stanford" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv NC State" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Boston College" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 68, "handle": "umass", "name": "UMass Minutemen" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Rutgers" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Louisville " }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "1 G6 win\r\nv Boise State" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 107, "handle": "westernmichigan", "name": "Western Michigan Broncos" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Michigan" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv California" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Florida State" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "1 G6 win\r\nv Washington State" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 8, "handle": "northcarolina", "name": "North Carolina Tar Heels" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv TCU" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Georgia Tech" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 79, "handle": "tulsa", "name": "Tulsa Golden Hurricane" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Oklahoma State" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "1 G6 Win\r\nv North Texas" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "1 P4 win\r\nv Baylor" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "1 G6 Win\r\nv ECU" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "1 G6 win\r\nv Oregon State" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "1 G6 win\r\nv Tulane" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "1 G6 Win\r\nv Ohio" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 113, "handle": "nevada", "name": "Nevada Wolf Pack" }, "rationale": "1 G6 Win\r\nv Western Kentucky" } ] }, { "id": 74157, "username": "IceColdDrPepper_Here", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T14:08:50.346901+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Largely same teams as pre-season; order changed based on my own personal assessments of each team's week 1. Top 8 are the teams I consider legit national title contenders. Michigan is out because even without the controversy around their \"win\" over Western Michigan, they did not look like anything close to a top 25 team. Other comments below.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "It was only Tennessee State but even the national championship teams didn't dominate FCS teams* like this (*TCU not withstanding). The o-line looks like one of the best in the country and I'd expect that to translate to the SEC slate" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "If Sam Leavitt can stay healthy this team has the talent (NFL or otherwise) to be a championship contender. Beating Clemson like that has made me a believer that Lane could deliver something special in year 1" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State also looked great against lesser competition, I just have Georgia and LSU slightly higher" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Rounding out my definitive top 4 is Miami, who took the Stanford tree out to the chipper in Palo Alto. They should run away with ACC but it's a long season" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Texas, ND, and Indiana didn't necessarily do anything to make me move them down, it's just that the teams ahead of them did more to move up" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Close wins against Boise State aren't necessarily omens of bad things for the Ducks (see 2024 13-1 B1G champs), but it is enough for me to put them behind the other natty contenders for now" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "If Western Michigan could put Michigan's offense and specifically Bryce Underwood in a box like that I dread to imagine what Brent Venables and Oklahoma will do" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss escapes with a win but that defense will need to improve if they hope to make it back to the playoff and beat the harder teams on their schedule (3 opponents in this week's top 5)" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Tough loss to Ole Miss but not enough to drop them out and saw some positives to take forward into the rest of the schedule" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74146, "username": "ikindalikelemons", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T13:27:55.511254+00:00", "overall_rationale": "It's still early, so a lot of erratic movement should be expected. Poll inertia is impossible to avoid mentally, I think, but I'll do my best. I value returning talent, especially QB and the trenches, a lot this early in the season. Given that very few teams played meaningful games in Week 1, there won't be much shuffling outside of those few teams. I do, however, regret not ranking Michigan in my initial preseason poll because it has robbed me of the wonderful feeling I would have had in dropping them out. Oh well.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 75, "handle": "navy", "name": "Navy Midshipmen" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 68, "handle": "umass", "name": "UMass Minutemen" }, "rationale": "Throwing them a bone because what else am I gonna do? Rank Mizzou or Iowa? Let them Minutemen have their 15 minutes. Congrats on the W." } ] }, { "id": 74320, "username": "Jakesnake42", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T22:46:31.241317+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Tried to reward teams who tested themselves W1. Not tons of movement to go around ", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "#1 till I see Cignetti lose with my own two eyes. Last Week: #1" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Most talented team in the nation. HUGE test vs Texas this week. Last Week: #2" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Most impressive performance of W1 dismantling Clemson. Last Week: #9" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Time to see Arch in the bright lights again. Last Week: #3" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "First half had me concerned but hey you played someone. Last Week: #5" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Yawn. Last Week: #6" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "At least you played a P4 team on the road...even its a terrible one. Last Week: #7" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "THAT was scary. Too scary. Boise St is good but let's not do that again Oregon. Last Week: #4" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Not the most inspiring performance of all time ngl. Last Week: #8\r\n" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Doing what you need to early in the campaign. Last Week: #10" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above. Last Week: #11" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above.. Last Week: #12" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above... Last Week: #13" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Solid win over Louisville. Was not super high on the Cardinals going into the year so this doesn't move me as much as others. Last Week: #17" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Cupcake szn. Last Week: #15" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above. Last Week: #16" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above.. Last Week: #18" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above... Last Week: #20" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Copy and paste above.... Last Week: #22" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Very impressive win over NCSU to start the year gets UVA ranked....ew. Last Week: NR" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "They did not deserve to beat FSU but it is a road conference win those don't come free. Last Week: #19" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "A win is a win. Last Week: #22" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Struggled more than I'd hoped against Oregon St. Last Week: #24" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "You know what...nearly beating Oregon is worth some credit. Last Week: NR" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 107, "handle": "westernmichigan", "name": "Western Michigan Broncos" }, "rationale": " THEY BEAT MICHIGAN DON'T LET THE \"\"\"BIG TEN\"\"\" TELL YOU OTHERWISE. Last Week: NR\r\n\r\nDropped: #14 Michigan, #21 Clemson, #25 Tulane" } ] }, { "id": 74126, "username": "jalexjsmithj", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T12:11:34.525422+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I am mixing most impressive performances (against actual opponents) vs continued pre-season expectations for a fun mish-mash.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 79, "handle": "tulsa", "name": "Tulsa Golden Hurricane" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74071, "username": "JamoRedhead", 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"id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": 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I then sort the teams by conference, ranking each team from best to worst within their own conference. The best of the G6 are all grouped into the same set for determining who the best among them are. The independents are also sorted into their own group as well. Finally, I use the six groups made (four P4 conference top 8's, one group of six for the best of the G6, one group for the independents) to create the top 25. Any teams that are absent that I think need explanation will be talked about in the [Notable Omissions] section below.\r\n\r\nI try to prioritize the resume of a team as much as possible. Unfortunately, a decent amount of teams played East Walmart this week so their rankings are still mostly vibes based. As such, teams who played a cupcake will be marked with a (!!!).\r\n\r\nNotable Omissions:\r\n\r\n[Western Michigan] has perhaps the most impressive resume out of the G6 on paper with a road win against Michigan, but actually looking at how the Broncos played in that game I think that their offense was one dimensional and their secondary might have some issues against tougher competition. However, that O-Line play and run game is the stuff of legends. They\u2019ll get on this list once I see them get some more wins.\r\n\r\n[Texas A&M] (!!!) I think that this team is taking a step back this year. Huge gut feeling more than anything, but they\u2019ll move into the list if they beat ASU.\r\n\r\n[Penn State] (!!!) This team just doesn\u2019t have the resume to crack into the top 25 just yet.\r\n(Of course Campbell decides to move to the four man front AFTER leaving Ames...)\r\n\r\n[Cal] Looked pretty good in their opener, but an over-reliance on hero ball and some sketchy defense killed them down the stretch. They're still a great team, but without any wins I can't rank them.\r\n\r\nRegarding the G6:\r\n\r\nThe tricky thing about the G6 is that there are three different teams that you could argue are the \u201cbest\u201d team. One has the best resume, one has the best on field performance, and one has the best team via eye-test. All three of these teams are listed in my top 25, prioritized in that order, and you could honestly order them however you please.\r\n\r\nThank you for reading!\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "(!!!) My pick to win the national title, Not a whole lot to report here." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Hoover looks like a perfect fit for Cignetti\u2019s system, and the defense looks to have remained stalwart. We\u2019ll know more about this team when conference play hits, but for now they look to be the favorite to win the B1G." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "(!!!) They covered the spread against their cupcake? Not something you see every week (still my favorite to win the SEC)." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "(!!!) No notes here, best wide receiver paired with a competent QB will be enough to keep them in games." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "(!!!) No notes. We\u2019ll see what they\u2019re made of next week." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "I debated not ranking these guys at all because of the whole ordeal with the NFL players, but since the players in question aren\u2019t officially on the gameday rosters (sitting out the games), until things are settled in court I wont punish them. As for how good the team is I still think that they fall apart whenever Leavitt does but for now they have the statement win over Clemson to kickstart their resume." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Trinidad is the truth, and will be enough to keep them in the drivers seat of their games this year. Their secondary might be a bit of a concern but it should be offset by their scary passing game." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Still a speculative ranking here, but I remain high on the Cougars." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "An incredibly sloppy showing against Boise State. Depth eventually took over but that same kind of penalty chicanery against competition of equal talent will start to cost the Ducks. That being said there\u2019s still some insane talent here (those 4th quarter offensive drives by Oregon are gonna be replayed on draft day), so I\u2019ll keep them in my top 10.\r\n" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Defense is good, but is there offense?" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "It looks like the Cavaliers are picking up where they left off from last year. If their pass game can even come close to their run game then they\u2019re gonna be unstoppable on offense." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Look, I was pretty high on Cal going into this year and I still think they are gonna be a threat in the ACC. I say that because the performance that UCLA put on against the Bears late on Saturday was beyond impressive, and was the second best showing that a P4 team put up this weekend (behind LSU of course). Is 12 way too high? Maybe, but this UCLA team is gonna be fun to watch this year, and now they\u2019re a dark horse candidate of mine to maybe make the trip to Indianapolis." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Defense is still there, but the offense? Jury is still out on this one until conference play." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Some penalty-heavy play out of the Huskies in their game against Washington State, but their QB will be both fun to watch and a headache for any opposing edge rushers." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "(!!!) The jury is out on this team until I see them play one of their big boy opponents. Until then they\u2019ll be in the mid tens range." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "(!!!) The East Carolina game was fun to watch for all of one quarter, but then the Pirates ran out of steam. We\u2019ll see how the Tide does against Kentucky." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "(!!!) While they\u2019ve got some depth problems on defense, it seems that Lincoln Riley has finally put together a competent unit. Now whether that defense holds against B1G competition is still unknown." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Speculative, I expect these guys to stay the course up to the Texas Tech showdown." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "(!!!) The Utes still look competent through the coaching change, not much else to report." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "Memphis has the best resume in the G6 at the moment. They\u2019ve got a scary good defense, a competent offense, and a strong enough team to weather most whatever gets thrown at them. They\u2019re my pick so far to make the playoffs out of the G6." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "(!!!) Nothing new to report, still need to see some serious games played for the Wildcats before I move them further up." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "I know that Louisville doesn\u2019t have any wins, but these guys took a really good Ole Miss team down to the wire with one of the more exciting offenses that I\u2019ve seen play this weekend. However, they need to work to offset this loss." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "SMU looked the part for a top 25 team for a decent chunk of their opener. However, the turnovers, redzone offense, and secondary are very concerning for a team that has ACC title hopes. I\u2019ll chalk this up to first week jitters though, the rest of the team still looks to be solid.\r\n\r\n(also how did FSU manage to lose with a +4 turnover differential?)" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "(!!!) NDSU looks like the best team out of the G6 in terms of just watching them play. Their O-Line bullies defenses, their offense is a well oiled machine, and their defense is competent. Their weaker schedule is gonna burden them a bit in these rankings, but if they run the table I have no doubt that the Bison will make the playoffs." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Boise State had the best on-field performance in the G6 this last Saturday with their outing against the Ducks. I will say that this game wasn\u2019t like the heavyweight battle that the 2024 match was, and it instead looked like a game where Boise could only keep a lid on the Ducks as long as both the Bronco\u2019s starters didn\u2019t get gassed and Oregon stayed asleep, and they couldn\u2019t surge back when that no longer was the case. That all being said, the Broncos are a big threat for the G6 spot in the playoffs this year if Madsen continues this kind of performance.\r\n\r\nThe next three G6 teams were Western Michigan, UNLV, and SDSU." } ] }, { "id": 74239, "username": "KansasEF5Tornado", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T17:13:08.762798+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": "arizonastate", "name": "Arizona State Sun Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 18, "handle": "kansasstate", "name": "Kansas State Wildcats" }, "rationale": "T-25: Washington" } ] }, { "id": 74267, "username": "kflinderman", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T18:22:11.986466+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Combo of 2 parts CPU, 2 parts personal, 1 part AP Poll to help tame outliers. CPU is a combo of Win/Loss weight based on FBS/FCS/D2, the number of wins of your opponents, score difference. This lets the early season (when all you can really count on is how bad you beat someone) have something while evening out the more games are played.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" 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Everything looked elite for LSU, they hit on their DB transfers (Benefield is a stud and could play on any defense in the country) their young defensive linemen look absolutely ready for the moment. Sam Leavitt looked like he was in 2024 form and could go out and win LSU games with his mobility and arm. The only minor concern for LSU coming out of this weekend was some pass protection issues, but given that Clemson does still have some talent on their defensive line and most of the issues came late in the game and didn't lead to any sacks or tfls I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt they can improve from game one." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "While I was not overly impressed with the run game for Ohio State, only 0.14 EPA/rush against Ball State is thoroughly disappointing, Ohio State did dominate their game from basically start to finish. If Ohio State's offensive line can hold up, Sayin will be able to dissect teams throwing to some of the best WR's in college football. Although Ohio State's offensive line was not amazing, its game one, and the talent on this team is at such a high level that they can potentially play around those issues. " }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "None of my concerns with Texas were validated this weekend, Texas was overly reliant on explosive plays, their offensive line generated a near negative EPA/rush(Texas State ran the ball better against Texas's front than Texas did against Texas State) in addition to some sloppy pass protection. However, the talent on this team is undeniable, Arch looks like an NFL veteran with some(not all it happens) with his decision making and his mobility gives Texas a huge edge. While Texas was reliant on explosive plays, they did generate them, and early to put the game away, mitigating some of my concerns as potentially just being from guys packing it in on offense. Texas needs to be more consistent on offense and be better in the redzone to win a national title, but the talent on the defense and offensive skill positions could mitigate poor game management from Sark. " }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Josh Hoover looked amazing this weekend, and Indiana's offensive line looks like yet another elite unit. I did have concerns about the defense, which struggled to stop the run and looked sloppy against a projected bad North Texas team. Given that its week one and Indiana put the game away rather early, I'll give them some slack, but its something to keep an eye on going forward for a team that won the national title with an intelligent and disciplined defense. 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However for a team that was preseason top three in most polls winning via talent inertia against a g5 school at home is cause for concern. Especially because the strength of this team, their D-line, did not dominate the game in anyway until Boise State was in obvious passing downs. I do believe in this defensive line though, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt they can improve as the season goes along. " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Miami's offense was everything preseason projections hoped for, but I found the performance of their defensive line a somewhat large red flag. Miami invested heavily in portal transfers to shore up the pass rush after the loss two top 15 picks at that position to the NFL draft. I was deeply unimpressed by the play of Damon Wilson in particular. The unit as a whole only generated a pedestrian 11% havoc rate against a Stanford o-line down three starters. Its week one, and Miami did what they were supposed to do against a p4 team, so things can improve to where preseason projections hoped that unit would be. Given the offensive performance, if the defense can step up to preseason hopes Miami could easily be a top 3-4 team. " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Notre Dame ended the game looking like a top ten team, but that first half was a major disappointment for the Irish as their vaunted lines of scrimmage failed to do much of anything against a mediocre Wisconsin team. CJ Carr might be talented enough to make it a moot point, but Notre Dame desperately lacks real difference makers at their offensive skill positions. Incredibly accurate QBs with good arms can make decent college WR's look elite, but the teams Notre Dame hopes to compete with have elite QBs and elite WRs. Notre Dame also needs a game wrecker to emerge on the defensive line, they have plenty of good players, but no one seemed up to the challenge to shut down Wisconsin outside of that DB room. Notre Dame won this game despite running the ball horrifically poorly in the first half because Wisconsin wasn't good enough and gave them a chance to adjust, but they are not going to have that luxury against the teams competing with them for a national title. " }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "Oklahoma did what they had to do against a hopelessly outmatched UTEP team. I though Mateer did a good job keeping the ball out of harms way and sustaining drives, which given how obscenely dominant this OU defense projects to be could be enough to let OU win every game on their schedule. My only real concerns coming out of the game was OU struggling to effectively run the ball, it wasn't terrible but not overly impressive against UTEP. Given that Oklahoma is running out a lot of new pieces on the offensive line, they get a pass for this game though." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Georgia did everything they needed to do to win this game, which was over pretty early. Some of the issues with Georgia over the past two years, lack of explosiveness on the offense, reliance on screens/short passes rather than a consistent rushing attack, and a lack of pass rush, showed themselves again this game. Given how quickly Tennessee State was put away however its hard to say those will be issues later on in the season, and Kirby certainly gets the benefit of the doubt to find ways to win even if those are issues." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Faizon Brandon looks ready to play at an elite level right now, frankly with the way he preformed I almost could justify to myself jumping Tennessee into the top 10. Given that they pasted Furman in week one some restraint needs be shown though. Everything about Tennessee looked positive, I was very impressed by this rebuilt offensive line down their starting center, Xavier Gilliam looks like he could potentially be one of the best defensive tackles in the SEC and allowed the rest of that D-line to take over the game, and Tennessee's LB room dominated even missing starting captain Arion Carter. If Tennessee can match an elite Knowles defense with a Huepel offense lead by a potentially elite QB, there is no reason Tennessee can't compete for an SEC or national title this year. " }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Coming into the season, the main concern towards USC has been whether or not their young players would be ready to step up and be elite at this level. In a two game sample size, the answer is pointing towards the affirmative. USC dominated one of the projected best teams in the G5 in Fresno State, shutting them out with an overwhelming defense. However I do have concerns with their line of scrimmage play, which in two games now has failed to effectively run the ball (USC had a negative EPA/rush against Fresno) and generate an elite pass rush. While the pass rush concerns are less of an issue to me because of the amount of new starters and rotation pieces on the USC d-line, the offensive line is veteran-laden and should be dominating G5 teams. " }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Texas Tech won a really ugly game against Abilene Christian. Essentially nothing looked impressive by the Red Raiders outside of the pass rush. Texas Tech looked anemic on offense, essentially only gaining yards by abusing hopelessly outmatched Abilene DBs in space but even then Tech failed to generate much in the way of explosive plays. Realistically however if Tech hits on their pass rush and can run the ball with Hammond(who looked mediocre this Saturday) it may not matter for their chances to win the Big 12. " }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "BYU eviscerated Utah Tech this weekend in basically every facet of the game. They did everything they needed to do, but didn't really answer any questions on if this suspect passing game is going to take a step forward although I did think Legend Glasker looked decent. I wasn't overly impressed by the pass rush either. Nothing overly concerning to take away from what was otherwise a high level performance for BYU." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Alabama dominated a game that was on paper rather sloppy because Keelon Russell looks ready to be a high level college QB. Outside of his play, none of my concerns about Alabama were really mitigated by their performance. I still thought the running game was inconsistent, the o-line showed its warts, and the red zone efficiency which has plagued DeBoer at Alabama still showed up in this game, but Russell might be talented enough to cover all of that up for Alabama. " }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "It took a while for A&M to put Missouri State away but they eventually did, still the inability for their lines of scrimmage to dominate the game from start to finish was somewhat concerning. A&M's offensive line allowed multiple sacks, pressures, and TFLs in the first half, although the defensive line dominated Missouri State. A&M has time to fix some of the issues they displayed, but if their offensive line isn't ready they will struggle to beat many of the teams on their schedule given the unproven running game and mediocre QB play. " }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "I was not overly impressed by the performance of Florida's defensive line against FAU this weekend, but if Aaron Philo can get some of the first game jitters out of the way Florida could have such a talented offense that they compete for an SEC title. Jadan Baugh was outstanding, in my opinion he was the best player in the country this weekend. If their wide receiver room can hold up health wise, this offense should be enough to keep Florida in every game. While the defense did have some question marks, I have an exceptionally high opinion of Kittley as an offensive play caller and he called a great game against Florida even if FAU didn't have the talent to win. " }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Bob Chensey thoroughly out-coached Cal on Friday, putting together a dominate offensive performance on the road led by their high-ceiling QB Nico Iamaleava and RB Wayne Knight. While I wasn't amazed by the performance of the offensive line which at times struggled in pass protection and had a few costly penalties, the run blocking was effective and allowed UCLA to drop 45 points in their first game of the season on the road against a sell out Cal crowd. The UCLA defensive line played well too, shutting down any run game and generating a consistent pass rush although it failed to make a sack. I was also very impressed by the play of their linebackers. If UCLA can have a good defense paired with a Chensey-led offense UCLA could be a very dangerous team. " }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Coming into the season the main concern with Louisville was if Kienholz could legitimately play the quarterback position, while he struggled in the first half missing a few explosive plays, he really came into his own in the second half delivering a great performance to keep Louisville in a shootout with a QB as good as Chambliss. Its hard to see this team winning out with some of their discipline issues, but the talent is there for Louisville to make the ACC title game. " }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Arizona did what they needed to do against NAU. While not lighting up the scoreboard, they dominated the lines of scrimmage on both sides to keep NAU from ever having a chance of victory. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Virginia looked dominant on both sides of the lines of scrimmage against NC State, and effectively used Pribula's legs to run away with the game. I was also surprised by the effectiveness of UVA's pass game and their WR play although their o-line did a lot of that work for them. Given how depleted NC State's roster is, its hard to tell just how good UVA is, but those lines of scrimmage looked very good in the one game game they played. " }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "SMU won an exceptionally ugly game that they tried to lose. For every play that SMU made to make it clear they should be up by multiple scores against Florida State, they would make another exceptionally dumb decision that kept FSU in the game. The defensive issues on this team looked acute even going up against a QB who effectively couldn't throw the ball, and could get them burned. SMU needs Jennings to play up to a level to overcome those defensive issues, and he did everything to both win and almost lose SMU the game on Monday. " }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74069, "username": "Luigiatl", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T04:41:03.582787+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74059, "username": "MahjongDaily", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T03:08:12.385331+00:00", "overall_rationale": "little data to go off of, which means any team with a half-decent win is probably gonna move up. There are gonna be some wild over-reactions here. I'm ranking mostly based on resumes, and when every team has a sample size of 1, it means some teams that are probably bad are gonna get ranked off the back of their 1 win (see UNC, Auburn, Colorado). It's Week 1, don't worry about it too much.\r\n\r\nI don't feel like typing out all my thoughts, but: I consider Michigan's victory to be legit, but due to them barely scraping by against WMU, I am keeping them off the ballot.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "I hope I remember to come back and remove SMU if they lose to FSU. If I forget, I can just say I had a power outage and couldn't fix it in time." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 8, "handle": "northcarolina", "name": "North Carolina Tar Heels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74076, "username": "MainPeanut25", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T04:41:40.589743+00:00", "overall_rationale": "This will be a bit reactionary for the first week", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Cool uni matchup" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Oh Clemson\u2019s BAD bad" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Don\u2019t almost lose to Boise State" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Gary Patterson masterclass?" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Fisch seems really unlikable" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "Quality Loss\u2122\ufe0f" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 61, "handle": "southcarolina", "name": "South Carolina Gamecocks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Western Michigan will be ranked because Reddit" } ] }, { "id": 74251, "username": "Maladroit44", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T17:56:34.378638+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I'm treating WMU like they won btw, I just don't think beating Michigan is impressive enough to be worth a ranking", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 75, "handle": "navy", "name": "Navy Midshipmen" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74052, "username": "malowry0124", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T10:10:43.395909+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Teams were ranked after Weeks 0 and 1 based on the following factors: preseason data, win-loss record, strength of schedule, margin of victory, the eye test, head-to-head results, performances against common opponents.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, 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"manbeardawg", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T19:47:25.091093+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 68, "handle": 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Michigan, Illinois, Utah, and Tulane all fall out after losses by Michigan and Tulane, a lackluster performance by Illinois, and Utah was just the unlucky team passed up by high risers. They were replaced by Boise State, Western Michigan, LSU, and Memphis, all entering this week's rankings. The top 7 seem to be universally agreed-upon, and this week just saw a bit of shuffling of them. Notre Dame stays #1 after a blowout win, and perhaps controversially, Oregon remains #2. Watching that game, I came away thinking that Boise is a top 15 team, not that Oregon isn't elite. Ohio State and Texas looked good vs weak opponents, but I couldn't justify moving either one ahead of Oregon for now. That will shortly change, as Ohio State and Texas will be playing this week. Georgia is last among the top group because they played an FCS team that would lose 50-0 to half the FCS. A 63-3 win is basically the same as not playing a game. Coming into this week, I had Louisville #14 and Ole Miss #15. Truthfully, watching the game, I felt like Louisville looked like the better team. But I respect results that are fair and square, so Ole Miss is slightly ahead, and I couldn't justify Boise State's ranked loss as better than Ole Miss's ranked win. Virginia was already ranked #21 for me preseason (cmon guys, get with the program!) and still impressed me a lot, so they leap up. LSU, who was unranked for me preseason, did get an impressive win vs Clemson, but I do not think Clemson is a good team, so I did not raise them to top 10 or anything crazy. #16 seems like enough. I didn't ding Washington much for their close win over Wazzu due to the rivalry aspect and the thought that maybe Wazzu is improved (they certainly looked like it). Congrats to Western Michigan, Memphis, and JMU on three big wins that will help all of their quests to make the CFP. Texas Tech I only bumped down one spot for their performance this time, as I think Abilene Christian is pretty good, but don't make a habit of it or you will drop quickly. 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Two years ago the teams were biased by FPI. This was probably good as far as accuracy goes, if you consider accuracy \"closer to human polls.\" But in practice it was pretty much the Colley matrix with G5 teams down a lot of spots and P5 (especially SEC) teams up a lot of spots. Last year, I biased the teams by PFF rating. Specifically their \"Overall\" rating. This wasn't too bad, it boosted a few teams and dropped others. But the black box of PFF made it a little uninteresting to me.\r\n\r\nThis year the bias is going to come from excess score. I will run a regression where I use the rating of the teams facing each other to predict the scoreline, so:\r\n\r\nHome Team Score - Away Team Score = a+b(Home Team Rating - Away Team Rating)\r\n\r\nThen I will take the residuals from this regression, and average by team. The averages will be converted to numbers between 0-1. And this number will be the bias number. \r\n\r\nAt this point there's mostly 1 observation per team so the results will be very funky. But as the season progresses, teams will get punished for winning close games that had no business being close, and rewarded for big wins in games that should have been competitive. This also applies on the other side too, teams will get rewarded for making games close they should have been blown out in, and so on. I guess in a way, you can consider this a \"beat the spread bias\" but the spread comes from me, not Vegas.\r\n\r\nA couple of issues and questions to be ironed out in the early season:\r\n\r\nSince this was the first week, actually starting this was a little difficult, as the question of should the ratings used be the ratings of the current week or the prior week?\r\n-This week I used the current week ratings, but with no bias. This means essentially this first week the normal Colley Matrix was used to predict the scores. \r\n\r\nWhich leads the the next question: Should the following weeks use the normal Colley matrix to predict scores, or my ratings?\r\n-I suspect the former will be used here, just because especially early on, my ratings will be stranger than even Colley's.\r\n\r\nIs the min/max normalization of the residuals between 0-1 going to have too much of an effect on the ratings? \r\n-A team with 1 vs a team at .75 could move 10 or more places. 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Rewarding P4 wins more than cupcake wins. Will be extremely volatile week-to-week until about halfway through the season when we can get a feel for how consistently good teams are.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Banished Clemson to the Shadow Realm. 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Offense looked great." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Typical Oregon early year hiccup game against what seems to be a solid Boise St. team." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Handled a G6 team, but may have some injury issues at corner moving forward." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Took care of business against a bad G6 team." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "See #11." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "See #11." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Beat a decent ECU team." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "\"P4\" 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Some recency bias still from last year. Tough to determine exact seeding and the lower end of the poll this early in the year.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "TN State is a nobody, but I had Georgia high last week and they delivered. Still not as high on Ohio State as Georgia at this point (which could change soon) and Oregon (the team I had in first) did themselves no favors." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Still has an argument for the best team out there. Julian Sayin was amazing in game 1. If this team beats Texas in their next game, they likely move up to number 1 in my poll." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Higher on this team, even with the loss Carson Beck at QB. Darian Mensah is a beast and a huge addition from Duke. With this team's schedule, and the way they looked in their first matchup, they should be locked in to a Playoff spot and potential top-5 finish by regular season's end." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Easy win over a nobody. Arch looked good. The team's got really good wide receivers. Tough one next week against Ohio State." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Despite the loss of number 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza, new QB Josh Hoover looked great and extremely efficient. A Curt Cignetti team will always be competitive no matter the resources. Defense needs to clean a few things up but definitely a great team." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Had them at number 1 in my preseason poll. VEEEEEERY unconvincing win over Boise State. My poll will be unforgiving in some aspects, especially when factoring in stats and analytics." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Was high on this team in preseason, and they performed extremely well against Clemson. Have some tests in their third and fourth games against fellow ranked teams Ole Miss and Texas A&M. That stretch will likely define their season prospects." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "Very good team, just like last year. Playing a nobody but the team looked great, with both offense and defense clicking." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "A bit lower on Notre Dame than the national consensus. They did move up a spot for a strong win over Wisconsin, though it was close in the first half. They will have to gradually make their way up my poll, especially with the schedule they have as a non-conference team." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "Matt Campbell's new Penn State team looked every part the role of a contender. Defense was rolling. New starting QB and Iowa State transfer Rocco Becht was extremely efficient and got almost half the game off with the early lead the Nittany Lions were able to build. With their schedule and the way the team looked in Week 1, they are a darkhorse Playoff team at season's end." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "A little lower on Texas Tech than the consensus though they did move up 5 spots this week for me because of how low they were last week. I think this spot is right, especially after an unconvincing performance against a bad team." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "Defense was absolutely dominant, shutting out UTEP and forcing two fumbles. Team will be very good this year. Their offensive ability to mix pass and big rush plays will keep defenses guessing all year." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Team has looked better than expected and go from unranked to 13th for me. Two strong wins to start the season in Weeks 0 and 1 have gotten this team out to a great start. if only their fans would care -- this team is going to be very good this year." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Unconvinced by Kalen DeBoer's Alabama team. They played well in Week 1, though the first half of their schedule is much easier than the second half, when they face all of Georgia, Tennessee, Texas A&M, LSU, and Auburn." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Was pretty high on this team, but their win over Louisville last night kept the Cardinals in the game longer than they should have been. Still a win over a then-ranked opponent so a win is a win. Just not sure if they're top-10 yet. Lost the turnover battle and did a bad job converting 3rd downs." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "BYU looked great over a nobody Utah Tech team, with both sides of the ball rolling, especially the offense. Kalani Sitake will always keep a team like this competitive, especially when the schedule provides for a some really good results this year." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "A bit higher on Tennessee than the consensus, the team looked great against a bad Furman squad. They want to stack up wins in the early season as the 2nd half schedule becomes tougher." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "A team whose offense doesn't always look very pretty, Iowa put up 40 points on an NIU team that recently in the past few years beat Notre Dame (though this year's NIU is SO MUCH worse). We'll have to see how Iowa looks once B1G play starts -- things could get very ugly (not necessarily record-wise but just the style of football being played). For now, the team look like they will win some games to start the year." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Unconvincing win over Washington State. I kept this team out last week from my poll, but they still win and I used my own personal reasoning to put them in line with the consensus, albeit a bit lower than others." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 29, "handle": "michigan", "name": "Michigan Wolverines" }, "rationale": "Undeserving \"win.\" Still shows up 1-0 in the record book and standings. Still dropping 3 spots after a terrible performance. Any loss here in the early season and this team is getting dropped completely, with a tough time to claw back up." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Higher on Mississippi State than others. Dropped 62 over LA-Monroe in their first game. Tough schedule will eventually get to them, but they looked really good early on. My second straight week with the Bulldogs in the Poll." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Had Houston 19th. The team struggled a bit against Oregon State but stay ranked for now. An early loss drops them completely and they will have to fight a bit and look great to move back up." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Left Utah out altogether last week, and still have them a bit lower than others do. I think BYU is the alpha of the in-state rivalry, Texas Tech is the best Big 12 team for now. Utah can definitely make some noise with their schedule though." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Recency bias from last year. Had them ranked at the end of last year, especially after winning the ACC title. Many will not have them ranked, but I will keep them here until they give reason not to be here. Manny Diaz is a great coach, and his defense looked stellar in Week 1. Beating a team that was in the Playoffs last year in Week 1 is a major accomplishment (even with Tulane's changes into this season). With Duke's schedule, look out for potentially 9 wins." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Team was firing on all cylinders with new QB Beau Pribula at the helm. After barely missing out on the Playoffs last season due to losing in the ACC title game, Virginia has an even better QB and overall team to make things happen this year." } ] }, { "id": 74074, "username": "Rakarei", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T04:46:00.394377+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 75, "handle": "navy", "name": "Navy Midshipmen" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 65, "handle": "army", "name": "Army West Point" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74107, "username": "Rcfan0902", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T08:00:44.286041+00:00", "overall_rationale": "There are no preseason rankings. Every team in the FBS starts the season with 0 points. After a game is played, the following points are calculated: - The winner gets +100 points, while the loser will get -100 points - If the opponent is an FCS team, the margin of victory is halved and added to the team's total points - If the opponent is an FBS team, take the opponent's record and multiply it by 100. Add this to the team's total points - Take the opponent's record again and multiply it by the margin of victory. Add this to the team's total points - Go back and recheck on all past opponents for each team that season If a past opponent was an FCS team, skip them If your past opponent was an FBS team, check their record up to the current week, minus the game against the current team. Multiply that record by 50 Multiply the record again by the MOV of that game again, then multiply that by 0.25. Add the two numbers together, multiply it by 0.1, and add it to the team's total points. 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Darian Mensah got off to a good start on a potential Heisman campaign with this one. The manner of this victory raised them on my list a couple of spots." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "While Oregon did eventually secure the victory, they did underperformed expectations against Boise St and therefore fall down my list a few spots." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Indiana defeated North Texas as expected. A good start for the Hoosiers as they look to repeat as champions." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss is the only team in the nation with a ranked win so they jump up a few spots " }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Bama dominated an ECU team that is considered a potential contender in the AAC. A strong start for a Crimson tide team trying to reach the top again." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Tech comfortably won against FCS Abilene Christian but not quite as strongly as one might expect so they dropped a couple spots on my list." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "The Aggies had perhaps the most dominant victory in an FBS vs FBS match up this weekend as they begin their season." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "BYU had a comfortable victory against a weak FCS Utah Tech program. Nothing unexpected for the Cougars." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "The Tigers embarrassed Clemson in their first week of the season and move up a few spots on my list as a result." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "Oklahoma had a comfortable and expected shut out win against UTEP on Friday night." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Not much interesting to say here as Tennessee defeats FCS Furman." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Utah scored 66 against FCS Idaho last Thursday night to start their season" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "USC looked very strong so far shutting out Fresno St this past week amid the social media conversations about their home crowds." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Not much to say as Missouri defeats their FCS opponent Arkansas Pine Bluff" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Houston defeated Oregon St which was expected but the score was a bit closer than what was predicted. Tough to predict what this means for the rest of the Cougars season." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "SMU looked great at times and weak at times in their unusual match up against Florida St yesterday night. Through the adversity of the power outage they were able to come up clutch and win." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "A 45 nothing win against a respectable Sun Belt team is a great way to begin a new era at Penn State." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Washington took down in state rival Wazzu in the Apple cup in a low scoring affair. I'd expect their offense to improve as the season goes on." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Iowa's defense was great as it historically is. 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I tried to reward teams who competed well against strong(er) opponents, which is why I have LSU at 1 as I view their win (and thus season at this point) as the best in the country and have Louisville and Boise St ranked despite their losses. To separate between spots, I weighted performance in high-leverage situations (Ole Miss, Louisville, SMU). The goal is to rank who I believe are the best teams right now, not who started the season highest or who has the best record. First team out for me is Texas Tech.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Best performance in the country. LSU annihilated a P4 team that was supposed to be good." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Dominant win against a conference opponent. 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Maybe they turn it around the next few weeks to climb back into it\r\n#25 Georgia Tech: This was just pure bias on my part; probably shouldn't have been close to being in, so this is just an obvious drop-out\r\n\r\nTeams new to the poll: \r\n#15 Virginia\r\n#21 Missouri\r\n#22 Tennessee\r\n#23 Boise State\r\n\r\n\r\nAlso, my apologies for not having much analysis. I mean, I did this to myself, trying to write more, but I'm not going to lie and say I watched even more than 5 minutes of BYU or Texas Tech or whatever team faced an FCS opponent unless I say it. So if you were really looking forward to this, I don't know why, but sorry. 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Again, not rational since I'm about to gush about all the teams under them, but oh well, I've made my bed, and I'm going to lie in it." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 59-7 Texas State\r\n\r\nDidn't watch back half of this game, and it will be the same for other cupcake games. From what I did see, Raleek Brown and Hollywood Smothers look like they'll be one of the best RB duos in the country, and the defense took care of business. " }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 41-13 Wisconsin\r\n\r\nA bit of a struggle to start the game, but the defense is great; offense was able to score 28 in the second half. Would like to see the run game and how it improves throughout the year because it is impossible to try and replace two first-round running backs, but I think if they can just have an okay run game, the defense has so much talent they can " }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 56-3 Ball State\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 63-3 Tennessee State\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 52-16 North Texas\r\n\r\nHonestly, a little disappointed, which is funny to say after a 36-point win, but felt that the defense wasn't as good as you would hope, and the run game was a bit inconsistent. Josh Hoover played great, though he's a Heisman candidate for sure." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 45-6 Stanford\r\n\r\nDarian Mensah to Malachi Toney is peak; that is all." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "\u21913\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 51-10 Clemson\r\n\r\nI knew this team was good; they had the talent everywhere but needed to just see it once on the field, and yeah, I think they made a statement. I think you can say a lot about Lane Kiffin as a person and, well, even as a coach, but he has shown that in the portal era he can accumulate talent and put together a good team." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "\u21931\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 39-0 Fresno State & 42-26 San Jose State\r\n\r\nPlayed two games and looked way better in Week 1 than in Week 0. Now, is it because SJSU is a dominant offensive force that could only be stopped for so long? Some are saying that. But in all seriousness, Fresno State was going to see a more prepared defense that wasn't going to slow down in the second half, and it also didn't help that the QB, Jayden Mandal, sucks. USC is just working on themselves and improving until the Oregon game in Week 4." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "\u21931\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 33-10 Abilene Christian\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "\u21931\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 41-38 (25)Louisville\r\n\r\nAlways going to be entertained watching this team, but how will this defense look the rest of the year, and will it have to be a shootout for most of their games?" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 50-0 Missouri State\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 51-0 UTEP\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "\u21911\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 48-10 East Carolina\r\n\r\nThe run game looked better than at any point it did last year, so that's a positive, and then Keelon Russell just adds another dimension to this offense; he is superbly talented." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "NEW\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 34-8 NC State\r\n\r\nI am 100% overreacting to a Week 0 game, but damnit better late than never to be all in on them. I didn't even watch this game live; I went back and watched a replay of it, and my goodness, it was amazing. I just love a team that can run the ball; it's just my blind spot in rankings. If you have multiple running backs that I like, or just a good run game in general like this Virginia team, I'll like you more than consensus. It's been my theme in these rankings, or at least partially. Virginia also has a light schedule; I see them being really good again, and who knows, they can easily find their way back into the ACC championship game." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 27-24 Florida State\r\n\r\nI'm going to be honest, I probably would have dropped them a spot or two if this game was played on a Saturday and I had more time to digest it, but I also think that they still played well. That is a loose interpretation of \"well\", since they committed so many self-inflicted errors and still were able to pull out the win. That's mainly due in part to playing a Florida State team that would fire their coach in a heartbeat if it were even a smidge more affordable. SMU is still good, though just got to play cleaner football, and I think they are easily a top contender in the ACC and can challenge the likes of Miami, Louisville, and Virginia (Yes, I am high on Virginia)." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 33-20 Oregon State\r\n\r\nThought it was a good game, but concerned about this pass defense. I know Oregon State had a talented FCS transfer come in, and he's phenomenal, but still would like for Houston to not be struggling this much." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "\u21914\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 45-0 Marshall\r\n\r\nI don't think this win warranted a 4-spot jump, but I don't know; this game just eased a lot of my worries I had with this team, and maybe it's because it's a G6 school and not like an FCS school. Who knows, but I liked what I saw, and everyone knows Penn State has an easy schedule, so if they can just roll with momentum, they are lined up for a very successful season." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 63-7 Utah Tech\r\n\r\nDid not watch this game." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 66-14 Idaho\r\n\r\nA lot of depth on the offensive side of the ball, although the defense left some things to be desired." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "NEW\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 54-14 Arkansas-Pine Bluff\r\n\r\nI'm excited to see this offense add Ahmad Hardy because I already like what I see from Austin Simmons." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "NEW\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 56-9 Furman\r\n\r\nFaizon Brandon looked good, and I like Mike Matthews." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "NEW\r\n\r\nResult: (L) 27-34 Oregon\r\n\r\nI have to rank them if I am going to keep Oregon at number one, or I just look like an idiot. I think Boise is clearly the best team in G6, and it does feel weird to rank a team after a loss, but they deserve it." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "\u2014\r\n\r\nResult: (W) 35-7 Northern Arizona\r\n\r\nThe final score is closer than I wish it was, cause all these other teams blew out their FCS teams by more than 28, but it's okay because I'll just be wrong about Arizona and it'll be alright. This is actually one of the few cupcake games I watched, so I think I can say more about it, but really it was just Arizona going up 21 in the first half and then doing nothing else." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "\u21932\r\n\r\nResult: (L) 38-41 Ole Miss\r\n\r\nOnly team in my top 25 with a loss, and I kind of knew that they were going to lose Week 1 against Ole Miss, so I didn't want to just drop them immediately, and I think they gave me more of a reason not to with how well they played and it coming down to the wire. Kienholz really improved as the game went on, and I think that they will improve as the season goes on and he gets more experience." } ] }, { "id": 74323, "username": "SwissArmyScythe", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T23:00:31.433696+00:00", "overall_rationale": "9 SEC, 8 B1G, 4 B12, 3 ACC, 1 Indy", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "-- (Change from my ranking last week)" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "-2" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "+3" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "-1" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "-3" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "+3" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "--" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 61, "handle": "southcarolina", "name": "South Carolina Gamecocks" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 25, "handle": "illinois", "name": "Illinois Fighting Illini" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "NR (Dropped: 17 Michigan)" } ] }, { "id": 74189, "username": "T-nawtical", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T15:09:57.555119+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 25, "handle": "illinois", "name": "Illinois Fighting Illini" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 107, "handle": "westernmichigan", "name": "Western Michigan Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "Honorable Mentions: Virginia, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Florida, South Carolina, Kentucky, Kansas St., Vanderbilt, Louisville" } ] }, { "id": 74175, "username": "T-Thugs", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T20:18:49.089734+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Each week I rerank teams based on their resumes so far. This causes some funkiness early in the year and I usually end up on most unusual ballots. It starts to look more like everybody else as the year goes on and teams have played real games. I also tend to put more weight early in the season into beating P4 teams, so that's why you'll see teams like UMass ranked for me. A p4 win I think means more than a blowout over a nobody. I basically count Boise as a p4 so Oregon is high as well. \r\n\r\nSince the Big Ten violated replay protocol and the MAC has submitted a formal protest and requested that polls count the Western Michigan vs Michigan game as a win for Western Michigan, I have counted the game as a win for Western Michigan.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss is 1-0 with a win over Louisville. They're the only school with a win over an AP ranked team. Hard to know if those rankings will hold, but for now that probably gives them the top resume in the sport. " }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "LSU totally dominated Clemson, dropping 50 points on them. I debated putting them number 1 but think beating a ranked team probably trumps blowing out a Clemson team that may not be good anymore." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Notre Dame started 1-0 with a 41-13 win over Wisconsin." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Miami started 1-0 with an absolutely dominant win over Stanford (1-1, defeated Hawaii). " }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 107, "handle": "westernmichigan", "name": "Western Michigan Broncos" }, "rationale": "Western Michigan starts the season 1-0 with a win at Michigan.*" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Oregon got a tough win over Boise State at home, starting 1-0. Boise looks like they've got a good chance to be the g5 playoff team." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 42, "handle": "colorado", "name": "Colorado Buffaloes" }, "rationale": "Colorado I think I have rated way too highly for how good they actually are but they went on the road and defeated Georgia Tech who has been pretty solid the past couple years. For now that puts them here." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "Auburn got a nice win with a totally awesome goal line tackle to defeat Baylor and start the season 1-0." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "Virginia dominated NC State. That may end up being a pretty nice win for them." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "SMU started the season 1-0 after defeated Florida State (1-1) on the road." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "UCLA started the season 1-0 with a win over Cal." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 8, "handle": "northcarolina", "name": "North Carolina Tar Heels" }, "rationale": "UNC started the season 1-0 with a nice win over TCU. " }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "Cincinnati defeated Boston College to start the season 1-0." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 68, "handle": "umass", "name": "UMass Minutemen" }, "rationale": "Umass looked dominant in a win over Rutgers, starting the season 1-0. This ranking won't hold as I expect Rutgers to stink, but a win over a p4 team means they've got a better resume so far than most other teams who haven't played a real game yet." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 79, "handle": "tulsa", "name": "Tulsa Golden Hurricane" }, "rationale": "Tulsa started the season 1-0 with a win over Oklahoma State. Like UMass, this ranking won't hold, but right now they've got a p4 win so I put them here." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "Memphis looks like a contender for the g5 playoff bid. They got a really nice win over UNLV (1-1) to start the season and followed that up with a second win over Arkansas State. I'm putting them here for now because I thought UNLV had a good chance to be a g5 contender, too, and I think that's a pretty decent win." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Washington started the season 1-0 with a win over Washington State. Wassu isn't p4 but I think it probably means a little more so I am ranking them here for now." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Houston started the season 1-0 with a win over Oregon State. Like washington, I think this win is maybe one of the better g5s. We'll see if that holds, but for now I'm ranking them here." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Here marks the start of my rankings for teams that are probably really good and blew out nobodies. The reigning champs get to start that list. 1-0 with a dominating win over North Texas." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State is 1-0 with a win over Ball State. Can jump to the top of my poll next week if they beat Texas." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Georgia is 1-0 with a dominant win over a nobody." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "1-0. Can jump to #1 if they beat Ohio State" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "2-0, defeated nobodies. " }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "1-0 blew out a nobody" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "1-0, defeated a nobody" } ] }, { "id": 74174, "username": "Tarmacked", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T15:17:44.298459+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Mix of eye test, Sagarin, and other metrics (+/-, etc.).\r\nNote: This is an early iteration and is much more fluid given lack of samples. This should shift significantly until week 5-6. ", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Say what you will, this is a well oiled machine and it's got talent across the board. If this wasn't year one, I would move them to #1 overall after last night. I still want to see how they fare against Ole Miss before making that move." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Appear to have upgraded at QB, still seems pretty refined across the board and loaded with talent." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "It's a Venables defense and Mateer with another year." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "The turnover at coordinator concerns me and Boise put up far more of a fight than they should've given home advantage and talent disparity. I'm tagging them as more flawed, but I need more data to really hammer where they are. I'm hoping this is the year Lanning can get over the hump, but it's getting awfully close to Penn State and Franklin where the big boys just keep knocking them down and they're always one step behind." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "Similar to Venables, strong defense and experienced QB. Albeit more error prone. They were more of a paper tiger with the schedule last year but i'll give benefit of the doubt for a few weeks of results." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Defense looked great, offense has talent but the quarterback is still pretty unknown against better defensive coordinators. Run game appears to be back, so will give some stability to the offense but this is a big question mark for me. Similar to Indiana I think this has real potential to swing up or down." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Similar to Alabama, but the defense did not look hot against a turned over UNT team. Multiple sustained drives should not be happening but roster turnover is a real thing. I'm leaning more towards a 2024 season than I am 2025 in terms of performance but more results will show this." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "The Love loss is real and we can't ignore it. The QB situation still looks good and the defense looks sound, but I think i'll keep them stable for now where they ended last season." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "I went back and forth on this, Again similar to 8-12 we just need more information. This is pretty fluid with all the way through 14/15 here." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Simmons looks great, floor may be raised a bit compared to prior years. " }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Big question marks for me on the coaching staff side and Lousville felt much closer than it should have been. You've got blown coverages left and right and the offense was stagnating for far too long. Again, more samples will resolve this. At the end of the day Kiffin isn't there anymore and their peak with him was #11, so it's hard for me to project them at that point like most of the larger polls." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "This is pretty strong, but I feel more secure over the team than those below." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "QB friendly system, but there is a new QB. Still, years of experience and tenure across the coaching staff." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "It's Iowa State with more experience. This may be more lofty than it should." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Sitake + Returning second year QB? That's a chance for a big jump. I have them circled as the Big 12 favorite but need to see more." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "I am entirely unethusiastic about their offense. 33-10 to ACU is just \"HUH\" territory for me" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Played Oregon close, I think it's still clear they're the cream of the G5 crop." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Sound team. Still need some more insight at this level." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "The offense has a high ceiling if Jennings gets his way, but FSU was entirely too close for comfort. I read this more as a Nick Marshall style Auburn team from the 2010's, without the elite defense. 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This game should not have been close at all, but the Washington Offense struggled for major portions of this game and made it a lot closer than it really should have been. If you expected a step forward from Williams, we didn't really get to see that. I am thoroughly whelmed by this performance." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Calm down, Nebraska fans. You know how to catastrophize with the best of them, but there was a lot of good in the game vs Ohio on Saturday. 1) Anthony Colandrea looked really good. A combination of arm talent and elusiveness that Nebraska hasn't had in over a decade. 2) The run game was dominant. True Freshman Jamal Rule had a debut to remember and they don't look like they are going to lose a step missing Emmett Johnson. 3) The offensive line played really well, and you all know how much that was an issue last season. 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It was submitted with 0 actual game analysis or even games played beyond a spring game. Why should it still dictate the rankings after the games begin to be played? Inevitably, it will still hold some amount of weight because it's not as if those rankings were entirely made out of the blue - we still have star ranking composites, camp reports, returning production, last year's records, and so forth. Hence why teams that blew out weaker opponents like Ohio State are still ranked. Similar stories exist for pretty much everyone, really.\r\n\r\nSo, a better question: why is the top 25 the way that they are? Well, I'm glad you asked, random stranger I made up in my head to dictate this interaction! Essentially, every team in said top 25 played a Power 4 opponent (or a high-ranked G5, such as Oregon who beat Boise State) in either Week 0 or Week 1 and emerged victorious. In honor of that scheduling quirk, I've ranked all of the winners and organized them by most impressive to least impressive win based upon margin of victory, perceived opponent strength, location of the game, and any other important or relevant factors. Does this make the poll have unreasonable amounts of instability? Probably! Do I care? Not really. It's Week 1 - everyone who deserves to be ranked will become ranked again soon enough. I'm not the committee; just keep winning, and things will fall into place.\r\n\r\nThat said, let's get on to the necessary business at the end of this. 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74, "handle": "memphis", "name": "Memphis Tigers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74282, "username": "Xy13", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-08T20:59:33.477987+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Week 0+1 Overreactions. Poll inertia from the preseason polls should be resisted at all costs. | Combination of Strength of Record, Eye Test, Statlines (Emphasis on QB play), and expected record based on remaining schedule.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "{+6} [1-0] (51-10 W vs Clemson)\r\n---\r\nLots of teams put up impressive scorelines against their week 1 cupcakes, but LSU absolutely dominated a top 15 talent composite Clemson so hard most people think it's over for Dabo now. Sam Leavitt didn't even have a remarkable game. They played harder and faster than pretty much every other team I saw. Their defense was suffocating and their run game was exercising it's will freely. " }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "{+3} [1-0] (45-6 W @ Stanford)\r\n---\r\nAs above, this wasn't against southeastern middle chattenouga polytechnical a&m, but an ACC conference game. Mensah was immaculate with 401 passing yards, 90% completions, 5 TDs/0 INTs. An Early Heisman Leader. " }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "{+13} [2-0] (42-26 W vs San Jose St, 39-0 W vs Frenso St) \r\n---\r\nDon't let the final fool you vs San Jose St. It was basically all garbage time points allowed vs their 3rd string defense. Maiava is another Early Heisman Leader, thru 2 games he is at 635 yds passing, 5 TDs / 0 INTs, 89% completion." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "{+5} [1-0] (59-7 W vs Texas St) \r\n---\r\nManning seemed good in a low pressure environment, let's see how they do hosting OSU next week. I give them the edge for homefield advantage. Should be hot for Ohio State players too. Winner will prob go to #1." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "{+1) [1-0] (56-3 W vs Ball St)\r\n---\r\nWell, it's OSU. Getting players drafted in the 1st round, and coordinators poached, seems to not matter, as usual. Big road game @ TX where it should be hot. Winner will prob go to #1." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "{-1} [1-0] (63-3 W vs Tennessee St)\r\n---\r\nStockton only had 202 yards, but did so with 93.8% completion, 3 TDs / 0 INTs. " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "{-6} [1-0] (52-16 W vs North Texas)\r\n---\r\nHoover seems to have stepped into the Cignetti system well. I expected a little better rushing and defensive performance, but UNT was one of the potential G6 CFP bids last year. " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "{+6} [1-0] (51-0 W vs UTEP) \r\n---\r\nEveryone wants to see them pound Michigan this weekend after the officials gave them an extra second of clock, and the Bail Mary saves them from a 12-7 loss to Western Michigan." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "{+5} [1-0] (50-0 W vs Missouri St) \r\n--- \r\nA&M had a balanced offense with 269 passing yards to 236 rushing yards. Fans complained about lack of pocket protection, which lead to 2 sacks. " }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "{-8} [1-0] (34-27 W vs Boise St) \r\n---\r\nBoise St seems to be Oregon kryptonite. That's a couple years of close games. Let's hope this was a blip and gave them a wake up call. Moore still played a great game at QB. " }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "{-8} [1-0] (41-13 W vs Wisconsin - Neutral Field) \r\n--- \r\nBoy, ND STRUGGLED against Wisconsin (Who went '26 4-8, '25 5-7 in the last 2 years). They were on upset alert with a nearly tied game at halftime. Made the final look better than the game went in the 4th quarter though. " }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "{-2} [1-0] (45-0 vs Marshall)\r\n---\r\nI think I heard this was Rocco Becht's best game ever. Good sign, also one of their only 2 hard games looks like it got a lot easier. Bump to their CCG odds. " }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "{-2} [1-0] (48-10 W vs East Carolina) \r\n---\r\n0 passing TDs is wild. Russell is a good dual threat it would seem though. " }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "{-2} [1-0] (63-7 W vs Utah Tech)\r\n---\r\nBachmeier featured an 80% completion rate. 4 forced turnovers is great, let's see if they can keep that momentum up." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "{-} [1-0] (40-0)\r\n---\r\nDoes Iowa have an offense now?" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "{+1} [1-0] (56-9)\r\n---\r\n3 QBs with an average of 78% completion rating, 11.4 yd average, and 4 TDs / 0 INTs cumulative. It's nice to have backups, though the started accounted for 5 total TDs. They also managed to rush more than they passed. " }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "{+3} [1-0] (27-24 W @ Florida St)\r\n---\r\nPower Outages aside, SMU imposed their will on FSU with 430 passing yards, the only one stopping them, was themselves. 2 INTs, 2 lost fumbles." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "{+1} [1-0] (66-21 W vs FAU)\r\n---\r\nThe offense is rolling, would like to see the defense improve some as they prepare for SEC play in a few weeks. " }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 40, "handle": "arizonastate", "name": "Arizona State Sun Devils" }, "rationale": "{+4} [1-0] (70-7 W vs Morgan St)\r\n---\r\nI had no idea the coaches could agree to shorten the 4th quarter. Harris and Miller might be the best WR Duo in all of CFB. We gotta keep Hines Ward as our WR coach. Hard to tell how the QB did, he had some bum throws, and INT that got ruled incomplete inexplicably, and a lot of his passes were just screens. Still, 6 passing TDs leads CFB." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "{NR} [1-0] (66-14 W vs Idaho)\r\n---\r\nUtah's first game without Whittingham in 21 years seems to have gone off without a hitch." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "{+4} [1-0] (24-10 vs Washington St - Rivalry Game)\r\n---\r\nNot the Offense we were expecting to see from UDub. I don't like Rivalry Games Week 1. F Conference Realignment." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "{NR} [1-0] (33-20 W vs Oregon St)\r\n---\r\nI had Houston just outside my preseason top 25, and they beat more than a cupcake in this opponent. " }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "{-15} [1-0] (33-10 W vs Abilene Chrstn)\r\n---\r\nSolid W, but didn't quite live up to the hype they were having about running the conference. They will play a common opponent of Houston, Oregon St, this week, which will provide better comparisons. " }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "{-2} [1-0] (41-38 W vs Louisville)\r\n---\r\nA win is a win, but frankly Louisville should've won this game, not Ole Miss. It wasn't a scandal like Michigan's game, but they lost a lot of stock in my view. Time expiring field goal saves an OT battle." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "{NR} [0-1] (27-34 L @ #2 Oregon)\r\n---\r\nMy 1 honorary losing record ranking, solely for how will they played against #2 Oregon, in Oregon's house. The game was on upset alert until the end. " } ] }, { "id": 74359, "username": "ya111101", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T14:23:45.213981+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa 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"alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 6, "handle": "louisville", "name": "Louisville Cardinals" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 74361, "username": "Zloggt", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-09-09T15:21:00.519449+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Every five teams make up one tier, for a total of five tiers overall. Also, now that things are a bit clearer than in the preseason, I fixed up a few things (but not TOO much...I'd save the big reshuffling for later down the line).", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Maybe Texas is indeed better...but at the same time, I'd slightly put a dominant conference road victory against a team that has already won over, you know, typical cupcake stuff..." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "But hey, Longhorns! Just win on Saturday and you'll be back on top!" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Maybe punishing a bit too hard? Eh...when you struggle like that, you can't really expect to do better..." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Maybe should drop a bit? Idk...a ranked win is a ranked win I guess, even if not super convincingly..." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "I don't have to rank LSU high. I probably do not even WANT to rank LSU this high. But I'm a sucker for on-field results, and when you wallop a team like that..." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "A slightly meatier resume compared to other teams...but it don't mean THAT much so far..." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 35, "handle": "pennstate", "name": "Penn State Nittany Lions" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 49, "handle": "washington", "name": "Washington Huskies" }, "rationale": "Maybe struggled more than they should've (and thus shouldn't be bumped up that high)...but whatever..." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "Ditto for SMU...took care of business of course, but rather sloppier than you'd expect (and maybe I'm being too harsh here, but you can't really be doing that)..." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 12, "handle": "virginia", "name": "Virginia Cavaliers" }, "rationale": "If the Hoos weren't off this Labor Day weekend (even if just for a cupcake game), they'd probably be even higher!" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "tbh, Louisville probably deserves it more...but I need G5/G6 representation here, and ALMOST beating a Top 5 team on the road is the tiebreaker over \"merely\" just ALMOST beating a Top 15 team in a neutral-site venue." } ] } ] }