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20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76160, "username": "Bank_Gothic", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T16:32:03.958442+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Notable teams I've left off my ballot this week:\r\n\r\n- Kentucky: Unranked based on loss to Bama + win over A&M losing some shine + barely beating a bad USCar team.\r\n\r\n- BYU: undefeated but completely untested and the game against TCU did not impress. I'm getting to the point where I have enough data to look past the record and make some determinations about teams like BYU.\r\n\r\n- NDSU: I love a plucky underdog and the Bison are undefeated, but at this point I don't think they're better than JMU or BSU, my two favorites from the G6. \r\n\r\n- Nebraska: Dropped from my rankings despite the win this weekend. It's a bit unfair, but Nebraska allowed Maryland to hang around too long for me not to notice. Frankly, Nebraska probably deserves to be ranked but there's too many teams that \"deserve\" to be ranked. I'm happy to move them back in as the season progresses. \r\n\r\n- Minnesota: I am THIS CLOSE to ranking Minnesota. The early season loss to MSU doesn't seem nearly as bad anymore, and they've shown a lot of grit. But gutty wins over bad teams (which is what I now think Michigan and Washington are) doesn't compel me to put the Gophers in my top 25. Not yet, anyway. \r\n\r\n- USCal: Unranked because all their wins against bad teams + letting Rutgers and Washington be competitive + losing to Oregon at home with the backup QB and displaying poor culture. \r\n\r\n- LSU: Unranked because the loss to Ole Miss puts them at the bottom of the Bama / MSU / Missouri / Florida / Ole Miss / LSU pecking order. Much like Nebraska, I think LSU probably deserves to be ranked, but there are too many teams ahead of them. \r\n\r\n- Virginia Tech: It pains me to have Virginia Tech unranked. They all but won the game against Pitt, a team I hold in high esteem, and I struggle with holding that against them. But the close wins over BC and Maryland raise some concerns and there are too many good teams that I think deserve to be in the top 25 more than the Hokies. I'm still monitoring them and will gladly put them in my top 25 if they continue to play well. ", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Still undefeated with the best wins in the country. Offense is off to a sluggish start but defense is elite and defense, proverbially, travels and wins championships." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Haven't played the toughest schedule but have looked amazing. The win over Wake Forest is aging well. I think the Pitt game will be the first real measuring stick, which is disappointing, but Miami has looked the part in its other performances. Absolutely dominating Clemson tells me that Miami is who I think they are. " }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Could almost copy and paste the same note that I made above for Miami (swapping Vandy for Clemson). Haven't played a truly dangerous opponent yet, but have looked good in their games. A win over Alabama will cause UGA will move up. Even up to No. 1 if Texas continues to flounder on offense." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "The wins over Illinois and especially Iowa are impressive. The loss to Texas (by 1 point and on the road) doesn't really ding the Buckeyes for me. They deserve to be No. 4 and my top ranked 1-loss team. " }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Demolished a good MSU team, after another slow start. I was worried that the slow starts were a sign of something negative, but now I just think that's Bama's style this season. They're throwing jabs in the first half to figure opponents out, then delivering the knockout blows in the second. " }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "The win over NW continues to age well and Indiana treated Rutgers like a good tea should. Indiana moving up in my poll is mostly about other teams moving down, but I like where I have the Hoosiers. " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "The Wisconsin win continues to age well, but the weak schedule is catching up to ND. The UNC game was a bit disconcerting - it was raining and UNC has a solid defense, so ND's offense scoring 37 is a good sign. But I just don't understand how ND's defense gave up 26 to a bad UNC team (both in terms of offense and special teams). ND is still a top-10 team, but they looked sluggish and flawed against UNC this weekend. " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "I don't know what to make of Tech. The win over UH was a coin flip at home, and that game against CU was ugly. I'm not fooled by the final score. They still have a great roster, but I will need to see more or they are going to slip in my poll. " }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "I'm still too high on Pitt, and their undefeated record is more about a lucky win over Virginia Tech, but I'm just really enjoying this team's brand of football. I won't apologize for having them where I do because I think they're the second best team in the ACC and the late October game against Miami is going to be great. " }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Utah is quietly great this year, and might be the best team in the Big 12. The win over ISU looks better and better. " }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "MSU falls back to earth after a tough loss to Bama. I didn't expect MSU to win, but I didn't expect them to get absolutely thrashed in the second half. I still think MSU is the best team in the \"middle class\" of the SEC, but they aren't in my top tier. I'm using head-to-heads in order to rank MSU, Missouri, Florida, Ole Miss, and LSU (who is currently unranked) in that middle tier. " }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "If MSU is the best in the SEC middle class, then Missouri must be just below them. The win over Florida was impressive, but the jury is still out on how good Florida actually is. MSU has the head-to-head, so they're at the top, but Missouri is close behind. " }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Bruins win with gawdy numbers against bad teams. Part of me wants to put them higher, but the wins just age badly as the season goes on. Which sucks for UCLA, because 3 of their 4 wins are against P4 teams, they just happen to be some of the worst P4 teams. I'm looking forward to UCLA's major tests against Oregon and Wisconsin." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Duke is the reigning ACC champ with two P4 wins. The games against Illinois and Tulane were closer than I want to see from a top-15 team, but I will respect the Blue Devils until they give me a reason not to." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Florida lost to Missouri but they beat Ole Miss. That puts them third in my SEC middle tier. I'll give them the nod over Tennessee for now, based on performance against common opponent Auburn, but I just hate that these two don't play each other this season. " }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "I'm probably a bit low on Tennessee, given how good they looked against Texas and the nice win over Auburn. But they were ranked No. 22 in my poll last week, so sitting at No. 16 is a solid step up. Are they better than the \"middle tier\" of the SEC, or are they firmly in the middle tier? And if so, where do they sit? Need to see more, but I think the Vols are a dangerous team this year and will continue to move them up in poll if they continue to win. " }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss was off this week, but they dropped in my poll due to how the other middle tier games shook out. The loss to Florida puts them below Florida, Missouri, and MSU. " }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Can't fault the Hawkeyes for losing to OSU. The offense actually looked pretty solid and it's not like any other team has a Jeremiah Smith. But Iowa still slips a couple of spots due to a big loss at home. " }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "OSU was off this week, but have moved down a bit due to where other teams have moved. I still think they're a good team, we just need to see more. The head-to-head over Oregon continues to prop OSU up in my poll and I've more or less forgiven the Pokes for their week 1 loss to Tulsa (who might actually be decent). " }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "The Ducks were off this week, so they sit just below OSU for the same reasons discussed last week. The upcoming game against my No. 13 UCLA will tell me a lot about both teams. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "Wake is great! I've wanted to rank them since the close loss to Miami and the wins over Louisville (close, but Louisville's not bad) and Stanford (murdered 'em) give me confidence that Wake Forest is a top-25 team. " }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "The close loss to Indiana is actually doing more for NW in my opinion than the win over PSU. Nonetheless, I don't think PSU is a terrible team and NW looked dominant. Colorado is a terrible team, and NW dominated them in week 2. " }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "The Coogs are an enigma wrapped in a mystery. They looked great in a close loss on the road to my No. 8 Texas Tech, but then struggled at home against a UCF team of uncertain quality (though maybe the Citronauts aren't as bad as I thought). The talent and coaching is there, but UH's defense may be worse than I had hoped and that will make it hard for them to crack the top-15 in my poll. " }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "The Dukes are still undefeated after thrashing Marshall, and the win over Liberty has aged well. They are my top ranked G6. " }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "BSU could be higher. The loss to Oregon will age better as time goes on. I still think the wins over Memphis and WMU are good wins, although I don't like how close SDSU kept things. I want to move BSU up in my poll, but I don't know how many tests are left on their schedule. Oregon State is a strong teams, but BSU will need to win convincingly if it wants to move up head of the quality P4 teams. Teams like Utah State don't move the needle, and the CSU and TXST games don't look like real tests anymore. If both JMU and BSU win out, then I think I will end up ranking BSU ahead of JMU due to differences in competition, but I doubt BSU will be able to crack the top-10 of my poll this year." } ] }, { "id": 75932, "username": "bannista7", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T12:46:51.476273+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Eye test, previous rank, common opponents, injuries and overall collective performance.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76079, "username": "BearsAreGreat1", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T21:33:30.506272+00:00", "overall_rationale": "My human logic ", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75915, "username": "BendrickLamar19", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T19:08:22.889803+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Trying to lean 50/25/25 on who I think has the best resume, with who I think would win on a neutral site, and in general how it looks like they\u2019ll project in the back half of the season. Obviously bias comes in, no poll is ever 100% consistent, but I\u2019m doing my best to keep hopium, inertia, and bias to a minimum.\r\n\r\nAlso considered (in alphabetical order) - Baylor, Boise State (Honorary #26) James Madison, Kentucky, New Mexico, Northwestern, SMU, USC, Wisconsin", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "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": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76044, "username": "Bereft13", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T19:57:47.778566+00:00", "overall_rationale": "First a power ranking of teams is created, then it is used to algorithmically determine a strength of record ranking of teams. These are combined to rank the teams, with power weighted higher early in the season and SoR weighted higher late in the season. Power rankings are a mixture of human and computer inputs. Current weight: 74/26 in favor of Power.\r\n\r\nSince I overslept and am therefore submitting after the AP Poll is out, I'll go ahead and comment on the teams we disagree most on. Alabama surges to #1 for me. Their performance this weekend was extremely impressive, naturally moving them up heavily in the power ranking. It also moves them to #1 in SoR, as Texas takes a bye week while Alabama nabs their best win yet. I have Alabama with wins over the #14, #32, #34, and #54 teams (by power ranking), while Texas' only top 60 wins are #3 and #15. Ultimately, though, these resumes end up close enough that if Texas had played and beaten a generic FCS team this week instead of having a bye, they would have stayed above Alabama. It's really that close between them. Where Texas falls short, of course, is in the power component. I'm a bit higher than the computers (5th vs 7th), but we are both not convinced. Because it's still so early, the power ranking is still very important, and so they find themselves in 6th overall.\r\n\r\nNorthwestern and Nebraska are once again ranked this week, though Nebraska falls back to a more reasonable spot following a shaky start to what should have been a trivial home win over Maryland (and Northwestern predictably rises following their decimation of Penn State). I think Northwestern should obviously be ranked, and the only reason they aren't is clout. Their big wins over South Dakota State & Colorado didn't prove anything by themselves, but they made the correct response to how much trouble they gave Indiana \"oh, so Northwestern is good this year\" rather than \"yikes, Indiana\" - and that was only made more clear by Friday's game. Nebraska is a team that still hasn't been tested, so I'm less annoyed by the polls' disrespect for them. As they take on Indiana and Oregon in the next two weeks, we'll get a clearer picture of what this team really is.\r\n\r\nLSU and Ole Miss, unsurprisingly, are in the top 10 in the AP Poll despite every reason for their presence there no longer being true. The flat refusal to reevaluate anything from the voters remains pathetic. Louisville just lost their third game, this time to a very shaky NC State, and we still don't care. Aside from the game against each other, neither team has a win over a top 30 team (by my power ranking OR the polls). Meanwhile, the Florida team that Ole Miss made look unstoppable came out flat against Mizzou. The good news is, Ole Miss will either prove me wrong or get exposed by Mizzou in two weeks, and LSU gets a shot at Mississippi State the same day. So we only have another guaranteed week of these two teams having rankings based in a weeks-old fantasy. Hooray!\r\n\r\nThe polls' refusal to \"punish\" USC for barely escaping Rutgers with a win has lead to them still being overranked weeks later, not a ton to say about that. Likewise, the refusal to knock SMU for Louisville's struggles, or for having way too much trouble at home versus two straight below average FBS teams, leads to them being ranked in both the AP and Coaches polls while I wouldn't include them even if we ranked 50 teams. Finally, the AP's Oklahoma State ranking is just flat out confusing to me. As an experiment though, if the Tulsa game had simply not been played, I would rank them 9th in SoR (and likely better than their current 24th in power), certainly putting them in the top 20. So maybe the voters have decided to pretend that never happened?", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Power: 2, SoR: 1; LW: 6" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Power: 1, SoR: 5; LW: 1" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Power: 4, SoR: 6; LW: 3" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Power: 6, SoR: 4; LW: 5" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Power: 5, SoR: 7; LW: 2" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Power: 7, SoR: 2; LW: 4" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Power: 3, SoR: 16; LW: 8" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { 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Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Don't get owned by Bama this time" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Where are my 20 targets to Malachi Toney" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Ehhh mmmm uhhh idk jim" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Okay so Northwestern is pretty good this year" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Another win for the Ohio State Jeremiah Smiths" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Couldn't let lil ol Mississippi State be a cinderella a bit longer huh" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Yikes...at least you aren't Colorado" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Get your act together or this second half schedule will tear you apart" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Wayshawn Parker is pretty cool!" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Thought the schedule after USC would be a cake walk until Ohio State, any maybe some time for Dante Moore to recover. Now, it's looking a bit tougher" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Post LSU fatigue gets ya" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "The thick of the schedule coming up" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "A curse upon the cfb world: Pitt will never experience extended periods of happiness. I'll rank you up here for your efforts, we know it won't be long. Feels bad" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "You very well could win the rest of your games, none of them will have a Jeremiah Smith on their team" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Outside of the upcoming Oregon matchup, the schedule isn't looking too bad! Maybe, just maybe..." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "A bye week to rest, now go sweep your schedule and make everyone scratch their heads more at the Tulsa game" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "I still think you're alright!" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "So what are you guys?" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "So what are you guys?" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "I still think you're alright! (but you got some stuff to cleanup)" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Does anyone remember Duke? ...anyone?" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "hell yeah x2" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Oregon State has some pieces, but Boise should be the Pac winner" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Neat team you got there!" } ] }, { "id": 75955, "username": "ch1l1_ch33s3", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T14:31:02.840240+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Performance so far this season along with head to head records but everything gets confusing with what\u2019s going on in the SEC", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "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": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75980, "username": "Charlemagne42", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T16:07:00.824350+00:00", "overall_rationale": "The maximum human input this week was 50%. The average human input this week was 19.4%.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 13.8%" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 13.5%" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 0%" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 0%" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 28.7%" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 23.4%" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 36.9%" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 49.5%" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 3.1%" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 21.4%" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 25.1%" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 0%" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 34.8%" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 49.2%" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 37.7%" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 23.7%" 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"team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "Adjustment: 11.2%" } ] }, { "id": 75886, "username": "CharlemagneOfTheUSA", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T06:40:12.062642+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": 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"2026-10-04T20:38:20.171375+00:00", "overall_rationale": "HM: Kentucky, Wake Forest, Houston, North Dakota State, and James Madison", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { 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19, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75924, "username": "ChBass", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T13:16:05.003941+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Each team's performance is compared to their opponent's opponents' performances, with bonuses for wins & losses depending on the quality of the opponent. FCS games are not taken into consideration.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Bama just went into Starkvegas and shut down what is still, overall, the highest performing offense in college football. They are one of two teams with both a top-10 offense and defense, and they will be a force to be reckoned with." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "The longhorns still have the top defense in college football, and move up as everyone else came down to earth this week." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Last week, it was ND and everyone else; this week, they performed like a normal team against a North Carolina team that's power rated #70. Still a top-10 defense, but they just didn't play like the #1 team this week." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Indiana has a top-5 defense and the win against Northwestern is looking better and better as they prove themselves." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "The Alabama loss doesn't hurt that much; despite their awful performance, cowbell is still averaging nearly 200 yds/game on the ground, over 300 yds/game through the air, and 39 points/game, which is why the model has them as a top-5 team." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Undefeated Utah is the only other team besides Bama that boasts both a top-10 offense and defense. Their (Monster) Big XII schedule is a blessing and a curse; when are they going to get tested and get a quality win? " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "Ok; my poll keeps getting listed among the outliers because Wisconsin is ranked in the top-10. I dug into the wiring of the model to make the case: They passed for 362 on Eastern Michigan, 50 more than any other opponnet, and scored 54 on them, 20 more than any other opponent; they passed for 235 against Penn State, more than double any other opponent, & only allowed 114 passing from the nittany lions, more than half as any other opponent of theirs allowed. Then, they rushed 228 on Michigan State this week, 60 more yards than Notre Dame. Don't get hung up on the \"-1\" in the record; Wisconsin might just be a good team. " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State has a top-10 offense, and the win against Iowa was their toughest test of the year (that they passed)." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Undefeated BYU has the second-best defense in college football, but their biggest test has been Arizona." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Georgia flexed the second-best offense against Vandy. Next week will be strength on strength against Bama," }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Is it 1997? Nebraska is undefeated and has a top-5... offense? Their toughest opponent so far has been Michigan State, so we'll see how this plays out." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Oh, they called us an outlier because we ranked you before the Indiana game... but we can't quit you, Northwestern... They are going to surprise people with their top-10 offense, and be underranked because it's Northwestern, but the numbers see you." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Miami also has a top-10 offense, but their strongest competition to date has been Wake Forest, so they have to keep steamrolling until Pitt comes to town." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "An ugly win is a win... after stacking up wins against the most chokey teams of the SEC, Kentucky still sits as a top-15 team, despite their mid-level offense." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Same story here, but a mid-level defense, and undefeated UCLA finds themselves in the rankings. 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Barely below the Blue Devils." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "24.13 - Undefeated, but not pretty." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "25.94 - Texas Tech but worse." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "26.19 - Finally overcome poor starting position and poor schedule to get ranked. Nothing too impressive won over, but alright. " }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "26.24 - See NDSU. 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The MSU > Mizzou > Florida > Ole Miss > LSU chain is too strong." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "And Tennessee's comeback over Auburn might be the only thing keeping MSU from being even higher, because Baylor continues to not lose again." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Way too close a call, but they get a boost by sheer virtue of their loss being directly to an unbeaten team instead of buried under a chain of 1-loss teams." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "With UMass and USF both losing, it's officially a two-team race for the G6 spot. 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They'll probably give Georgia a scare next week before losing, then upset LSU (again, only by a few points) and I'll have them on my ballot again at 4-3." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "The ACC just doesn't move the needle at all. Wake, Pitt, and Duke (who didn't even make it!) would definitely be higher up if they came from another conference." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Nebraska, on the other hand, just hasn't played anyone yet. 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Texas Tech \u2014 Score: 0.219 | Results: 1.588, SOS Rank: #38, Quality: 0.143, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #19, Def Rk: #9" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "6. Indiana \u2014 Score: 0.213 | Results: 1.499, SOS Rank: #90, Quality: 0.115, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #23, Def Rk: #2" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "7. Georgia \u2014 Score: 0.199 | Results: 1.556, SOS Rank: #111, Quality: 0.060, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 0, Off Rk: #2, Def Rk: #48" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "8. Ohio State \u2014 Score: 0.195 | Results: 1.182, SOS Rank: #44, Quality: 0.071, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #5, Def Rk: #22" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "9. Utah \u2014 Score: 0.188 | Results: 1.549, SOS Rank: #104, Quality: 0.051, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 0, Off Rk: #21, Def Rk: #3" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "10. Oregon \u2014 Score: 0.182 | Results: 0.886, SOS Rank: #30, Quality: 0.153, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #10, Def Rk: #73" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "11. LSU \u2014 Score: 0.182 | Results: 0.996, SOS Rank: #58, Quality: 0.073, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #9, Def Rk: #25" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "12. Nebraska \u2014 Score: 0.179 | Results: 1.547, SOS Rank: #82, Quality: 0.019, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 0, Off Rk: #8, Def Rk: #24" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "13. Pittsburgh \u2014 Score: 0.177 | Results: 1.433, SOS Rank: #66, Quality: 0.103, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #38, Def Rk: #30" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "14. Missouri \u2014 Score: 0.172 | Results: 1.019, SOS Rank: #16, Quality: 0.102, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #24, Def Rk: #10" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "15. BYU \u2014 Score: 0.171 | Results: 1.525, SOS Rank: #95, Quality: 0.094, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #54, Def Rk: #8" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "16. Houston \u2014 Score: 0.171 | Results: 1.031, SOS Rank: #22, Quality: 0.125, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #13, Def Rk: #42" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "17. UCLA \u2014 Score: 0.165 | Results: 1.626, SOS Rank: #97, Quality: 0.010, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 0, Off Rk: #12, Def Rk: #50" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "18. James Madison \u2014 Score: 0.159 | Results: 1.437, SOS Rank: #123, Quality: 0.047, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #16, Def Rk: #52" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "19. Northwestern \u2014 Score: 0.146 | Results: 0.894, SOS Rank: #3, Quality: 0.060, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #18, Def Rk: #11" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "20. Wisconsin \u2014 Score: 0.141 | Results: 1.125, SOS Rank: #24, Quality: 0.044, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #33, Def Rk: #12" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "21. Boise State \u2014 Score: 0.139 | Results: 1.150, SOS Rank: #26, Quality: 0.058, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #29, Def Rk: #28" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "22. Florida \u2014 Score: 0.136 | Results: 0.911, SOS Rank: #7, Quality: 0.132, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 0, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #3, Def Rk: #97" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "23. Mississippi State \u2014 Score: 0.127 | Results: 0.901, SOS Rank: #12, Quality: 0.153, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 0, T25W: 1, T50W: 2, Off Rk: #15, Def Rk: #69" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "24. Oklahoma State \u2014 Score: 0.127 | Results: 0.908, SOS Rank: #77, Quality: 0.087, Recency: 0.000 | T10W: 1, T25W: 1, T50W: 1, Off Rk: #52, Def Rk: #44" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "25. 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position similar to that of a rolly polly. My tough outer shell will keep me protected. While curled up I thought to myself, \u201chuh I could watch college football in here\u201d and I haven\u2019t stopped since. Here\u2019s what conclusions that has led me to:", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "I\u2019m not ready to move them out of first place, but I nearly pushed Alabama all the way up. That\u2019ll get sorted next week with Alabama-Georgia. I think texas can retain this spot if Georgia wins a tight one and texas makes OU look like an FCS squad. If the offense continues looking good but suspect I may need to reevaluate t.u. and OSU next week." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Very important win over Iowa is helping to buoy both texas and Ohio. Maryland shouldn\u2019t be a challenge next week though I do suspect I\u2019ll have the winner of Alabama-Georgia ahead of them off of resume. The Indiana matchup the following week will give them a chance to fight back though. So we\u2019ll see a lot of fluidity up top the next couple weeks I think." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Huge win over a MS St team that still has a strong resume with wins over Mizzou and Minnesota. In a couple weeks when I have a bit more time I\u2019ll have to do a deeper dive on these many blowouts to help me figure out how much of it is a mismatch vs luck vs actual skill differences. I\u2019ll happily admit I\u2019m not sure at this point and don\u2019t have the time until the weekend of the 24th to figure that out though. " }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Beating up Clemson before a bye week that leads to the (probable) beating up of FSU must feel great for Hurricane fans. Hopefully Pitt\u2019s backup is good and that matchup gives them a good rest in a few weeks because it\u2019s still very hard to tell how good this squad is atm." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "A typical Smart style win over an outmatched opponent. Not much to say, still very tough to judge this squad as well. Huge game vs Alabama next week will really inform how this squad is. They\u2019ll likely move a lot either way." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Game was closer than I thought it should be many times, though ND did a good job at maintaining control when UNC got close in the second half. Still hard to judge and Stanford next week won\u2019t tell us too much unless ND struggles. BYU in a few weeks will give ND their first real test." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Arguably the biggest news for Indiana wasn\u2019t them beating Rutgers. But Northwestern beating Penn State by a lot. I still don\u2019t think it screams contender at this point to have played NW so close, but it certainly doesn\u2019t look as bad. Nebraska will actually be a decent test, I think they\u2019re a good squad though quite flawed, I\u2019ll be looking for Indiana to take advantage of that or if they keep them close like NW." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "\ud83d\ude34" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "I don\u2019t like having them here, as they haven\u2019t beaten anyone I find compelling, and I have them one ahead of Ole Miss despite the H2H. My logic is that it does seem, at least rn, that Ole Miss was playing their superbowl in that game and barely won. I don\u2019t think Leavitt is elite. I\u2019m not particularly a believer in this squad, but I think they have a higher ceiling than most other squads, and is really one of the few that could challenge the big dogs. I\u2019ll be happy if I\u2019m wrong, it would be very funny to watch them flounder, but at the moment I get the impression they\u2019re actually a good squad." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Man it\u2019s a few things with yall. That Florida loss looks worse, the Louisville win looks worse. The LSU win looks less compelling to be the ground state and not the peak, but maybe I\u2019m overreacting? I\u2019m only keeping yall this high because I\u2019m not really sure and want to see more from yall. I also don\u2019t quite know what to make of Louisville. I think they\u2019re a high chaos team though so it makes this whole thing tough. I do know that the Ole Miss runs defense needs to stiffen up considerably for me to take them seriously." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "You know I didn\u2019t watch this game, but good lord. TCU isn\u2019t good, you only won by 7. Seems like a very ground heavy game in the wet so I don\u2019t want to overinterpret too much but I haven\u2019t been particularly impressed with BYU yet this season." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Probably one of my more controversial spots, but I like this UCLA squad. They have a huge matchup vs Oregon so we\u2019ll know next week if I\u2019m delusional." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "I really don\u2019t change my opinion of Iowa all that much after that loss. They\u2019re roughly the squad I think they are, which is a potential playoff squad when things go well. Friday night at Washington will be a challenge though, even if Washington isn\u2019t a world beater this year. On the road, multiple time zones away, on a short week, in a loud stadium. Yeah the Hawkeyes will have to prove it." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "\ud83d\ude34" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "\ud83d\ude34" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "TTU, what is you doing. I\u2019m not a huge fan of dropping squads when they win but that was bad yall. I\u2019ve been unimpressed by this squad all season and this is a continuation. They need to shape up or I\u2019ll move them further down around where Houston is." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Hate that they lost their qb, hopefully the backup will keep the train moving along. That was a huge win over VT though, but I\u2019m a bit cautious until we see this new (veteran) qb slot in with this squad as the starter when teams are expecting him. UNC may be a challenge but BC should be easy. All before going to Miami. No pressure" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "This squad is flawed, but still good. The question is where in the 15-45 range they\u2019ll fall. Rn I\u2019m high on them, but their performance vs Indiana will tell us a lot. Following that up at Oregon is less than ideal though so they\u2019ve got an uphill climb for sure." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Bad loss, I can\u2019t say I know enough about this squad to quantify it beyond that though. The bit I watched they looked confused on offense and that they couldn\u2019t make any stops on defense. So is Alabama that good or is the middle tier of the SEC that bad?" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "More confusion. Great run defense put a stop to my Gators\u2019 hopes and dreams. That does not bode well for my Aggies next week. Really tough judging the SEC and B1G rn. The Mizzou - Ole Miss game in a few weeks will likely be the other half of connecting the pieces." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "I mean losing a game by a hair sucks. Literally barely out wide to the point there\u2019s conspiracies. But I think this VT squad still shows some good fight. I like where they are. At Cal will likely be hard, though after Cal\u2019s loss to UNLV that\u2019s a bit more odd to say. I think Cal is high chaos though so I\u2019d keep an eye on this one. Though with all the injuries maybe Cal won\u2019t even be high chaos anymore." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "I\u2019m a Bizon believer. I don\u2019t care that it\u2019s Wyoming, they shutout their first mano a mano FBS opponent. UNLV this coming week and UNM in a couple are going to be huge for whether NDSU is a playoff contender." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Big big win over Cincinnati who I was pretty high on. Wildcats dominated the bearcats and reminded me why I was high on AZ to start the season. Now they need to not get complacent when they matchup with WVU this week." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "A sick Conner Weigman pulls a great comeback vs Space game rival UCF. I still think highly of this squad but need them to prove it. KState, OKSt, and Utah back to back to back gives them a chance to do so and move a ton in my rankings." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "Sun Belt Billy is doing well back in his natural environment. The Dukes are building a nice resume despite their losses last year. If they perform vs GaSt and App St, they\u2019ll be the favorites for the G5 spot in the playoffs." } ] }, { "id": 76003, "username": "douchebagjack", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T21:37:17.287099+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, American > Sun Belt, MWC > MAC, CUSA. FCS wins are worthless to me. i restart each week so this will change 100% next week. \r\n\r\nWhy should they be ranked? Have they beat a P4 team? Have they lost one game or less? \r\n\r\nThis poll feels factious because it\u2019s 100% results driven. Not a predictor or a talent indicator, purely the most deserving teams. \r\n\r\nHM (no order): Tulsa > Oklahoma State > Oregon > USC\r\nKentucky, Tennessee, Wake Forest, Arizona, Houston also in here", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: OHIO STATE,TENNESSEE,Texas State. Best win in the country with the ohio state win" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: MISSISSIPPI STATE,KENTUCKY,Florida State. two SEC wins vs good* teams, but 4 P4 wins in total is notable, and leads the nation" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: WISCONSIN,NORTH CAROLINA,Michigan State. unc and wisconsin are not great wins, but 4 P4 wins in total is notable, and leads the nation" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: VANDERBILT,OKLAHOMA,Arkansas. vandy, oklahoma, and/or arkansas may not be good, but they are 3 SEC wins nonetheless" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: WAKE FOREST,CLEMSON,Stanford. Wake is better than you think, Clemson is worse, Stanford is even worse, ywt they've looked legit" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: NORTHWESTERN,Rutgers,North Texas . 5-9 are very similar. 2 p4 wins, one decent, one less so. northwestern looks decent and getting better" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: ARIZONA,TCU,Colorado State. 5-9 are very similar. 2 p4 wins, one decent, one less so. arizona looks fine for 4th win by season end" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: HOUSTON,Colorado,Oregon State. 5-9 are very similar. 2 p4 wins, one decent, one less so. houston is a decent win at the moment" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: IOWA STATE,Arkansas,Utah State. 5-9 are very similar. 2 p4 wins, one decent, one less so. iowa state is a decent win at the moment" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: IOWA,Illinois,Kent State. Loss: TEXAS. just got into the top 10. 1 loss, but it is texas, 2 p4 wins only, and quality loss + illinois + decent iowa carrying a lot more weight for ohio state" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: MISSOURI,MINNESOTA,South Carolina. Loss: ALABAMA. just out of the top 10. 1 loss, but it is alabama, 3 p4 wins already woth missouri & minnesota carrying a lot more weight now" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: FLORIDA,KANSAS,Troy. Loss: MISSISSIPPI STATE. the sec teams all seem similar, but MSST did beat Mizzou" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: OLE MISS,AUBURN,FAU. Loss: MISSOURI. the sec teams all seem similar, but Mizzou did beat Florida" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: LSU,Louisville,Charlotte. Loss: FLORIDA. the sec teams all seem similar, but Florida did beat Ole Miss" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: TEXAS A&M,CLEMSON,Louisiana Tech. Loss: OLE MISS. the sec teams all seem similar, but Ole MIss did beat LSU" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: VIRGINIA TECH,UCF,SYRACUSE. 3 p4 wins vs teams with decent records, but sloppy." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: California,Maryland,Purdue. cal, purdue, maryland are not great p4 wins, but 3 wins, and they are undefeated still" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: Illinois,Stanford,Tulane. illinois, stanford are not great p4 wins, but wins, and they are undefeated still" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: Michigan State,Maryland,Ohio. michigan state and maryland are not the best wins, but undefeated and 2 p4 wins" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: MICHIGAN,IOWA STATE,Northern Illinois. Loss: OHIO STATE. both iowa and minnesota have beat michigan + another p4 win. lost to two of the better teams at this point. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: MICHIGAN,WASHINGTON,Akron. Loss: MISSISSIPPI STATE. both iowa and minnesota have beat michigan + another p4 win. lost to two of the better teams at this point. " }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: PENN STATE,Colorado,South Dakota State. Loss: INDIANA. Wake lost to Miami, Kentucky lost to Alabama, Wisconsin lost to Notre Dame, Tennessee lost to Texas, Northwestern lost to Indiana, Wisconsin lost to Notre Dame. Northwestern gets it for the memes" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: PENN STATE,Michigan State,Eastern Michigan. Loss: NOTRE DAME. Wake lost to Miami, Kentucky lost to Alabama, Wisconsin lost to Notre Dame, Tennessee lost to Texas, Northwestern lost to Indiana, Wisconsin lost to Notre Dame. Wisconsin gets it for the memes" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: San Diego State,Liberty,Marshall. undefeated g6 teams!" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "Best 3 Wins: Air Force,Jax State,Wyoming. undefeated g6 teams!" } ] }, { "id": 76020, "username": "Drexlore", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T16:57:48.999242+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "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, 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Minnesota\r\n27. Wisconsin\r\n28. USC\r\n29. New Mexico\r\n30. Northwestern\r\n\r\nWe now have teams that are 5-0. I feel that going 5-0 is hard enough that you should be ranked. This year, there aren't many teams with that record, so they all fit easily. There isn't really a big stealer. The only movement because of it was Minnesota (24 ->26), Duke (25-> 24) and Nebraska (26->25). \r\n\r\nThis is also the halfway through the prediction into resume shift. I put 5 games as the halfway point, and by 8 it will be all resume. Each should have at least 3 conference level games now, and after another 3, I call it good enough to focus on resume exclusively. There will be a gradual shift of course, but we aren't there yet.\r\n\r\nBelow is my normal copy/paste.\r\n\r\nI guess I should share my methodology since I am part of the poll now. Here is my current methodology. It will change as I mature, gain more experience, etc. For now though, this is my methodology.\r\n\r\nMy method changes as the season progresses, but it is all a human poll. Preseason is purely speculative, as in, who would be favored on a neutral field. The team that I think is hypothetically better will get the better ranking. Early on this is recruiting ranking, talent retained, etc.\r\n\r\nSlowly through the season, I add in more weight to the resume. When teams have played 5 games, is when I weigh expectations and resume equally. I also view 9 games played as the marker when resume will have 100% weight, and expectations have none. \r\n\r\nBy resume, I try to look purely at how difficult I think providing that resume would be. This takes into account strength of schedule and margin of victory. I tend to favor consistent teams over streaky ones. In practice, that means I punish teams with bad losses more than teams that don't have good wins. I also do not take head-to-head into consideration. I look hard at the resume if the team's name was missing.\r\n\r\nI also try to \"overreact\" a bit when it comes to rankings. While I try to be fair, if a team gets a bad loss, if I struggle where to put them between 2 spots, I will end up putting them lower. The reason is, I am scared of poll momentum being a crutch, where teams just stay where they are. Moving them forces me to get out of the rut, and actually analyze them.\r\n\r\nOne other quirk I have is, I believe winning is hard. Any team that is 5-0 or better will be ranked. It causes some silly rankings that first week, but I think it is important. Mainly because if forces me to pay attention to smaller schools. \r\n\r\nI'm also leaving notes on games I watched, or have significant opinions. I won't try to guess on explanations where I have no real opinion.\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "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": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Great win on Friday night. I am debating how to treat them when their QB is now out for the season with an ACL tear. A win over a 4-0 Virginia Tech team is a good win though. I am giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt, but I can change later. If they keep winning, they will stay here." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "This might be the most impressive win of the season. The game was close until right at the end of the second quarter. I still don't love this team, but putting that performance on a team I thought was good (Florida) is impossible to ignore. They proved me wrong." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "I feel like I may be over-rating them a bit, but their wins should put them here. Their secondary still relies on pass interference to save them. The bigger concern is that Dylan Riley got injured in the game. With Sire Gaines still questionable, they are now looking at their bench for running. The program seems to develop running backs well, so they might be OK, but it just puts more pressure on Maddux Madsen to make throws, which I don't have a lot of faith in. 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This computer poll is calculated based on what each team has accomplished so far this season. Losses are not heavily punished besides the missed opportunity of adding a win. Teams that have played more games than others will be inflated because they've had more chances to win and build their resume.\r\n\r\nDropped Off: Duke, Ole Miss, Cincinnati, UCLA, Michigan, Aurburn, Boise State\r\n\r\nNext 10: Boise State, Duke, Northwestern, SMU, UCLA, Cincinnati, Ole Miss, BYU, North Dakota State, Baylor\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "100.00 | +2" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "97.37 | -1" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "92.48 | +3" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "92.11 | +10" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "91.42 | +4" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "91.32 | +5" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "89.84 | +1" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "87.26 | +13" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "86.84 | +8" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "86.76 | +5" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "86.53 | -9" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "85.11 | -5" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "83.88 | +9" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "83.88 | -10" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "83.11 | +8" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "81.43 | -11" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "78.52 | NEW +9" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "77.67 | NEW +11" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "77.31 | NEW +8" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "76.73 | NEW +12" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "75.84 | -8" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "75.22 | NEW +33" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "74.65 | NEW +14" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "74.56 | NEW +17" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "74.37 | -7" } ] }, { "id": 75922, "username": "elnino550", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T13:14:12.668956+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Resume-based\r\n\r\nRemoval of Michigan, VA Tech and Cincinnati\r\nMissouri, Kentucky and Nebraska join the rankings.\r\n\r\nBig movement upward for Alabama into 2nd who I debated moving into the 1st spot.\r\nJust missing out: Wake Forest, Duke, Arizona, Boise State, North Dakota State", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Bye week, in a power ranking I could well have 4-5 teams above them right now but wins at Tennessee and Ohio State is still unmatchable. " }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Wins against Mississippi State and Kentucky in largely dominant fashion is enough for the 2nd best overall resume.\r\nI would have them power ranked number one at this moment in time, the team is improving every game.\r\n" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Another dominant win, but they perhaps have only played the 3 worst teams in the SEC for this year so far. Huge game at Tuscaloosa next week." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "I switched Miami and Notre Dame as Miami looked more dominant in potentially a harder match at Clemson." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Only loss is at #1 Texas by a point in a game they should have won. They now a win at Iowa on their resume, the team to beat in their conference IMO and I would have them power ranked up there with Alabama. " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Not going to put any stock in the Rutgers game, The meat of their schedule is in the next 3 games but they rise as they keep winning and Florida and Mississippi State suffer defeats." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Their offense looked extremely suspect against a weak Colorado side. And I would have them power-ranked below 3 B12 teams currently. But they're unbeaten with a win over Houston enough to have the top resume." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "They got blown out but their only loss is to the #2 Alabama and they have significant wins over Missouri / Minnesota. " }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Big fall for Florida after being dominated on the road by Missouri, this team still has huge up-side." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Easy addition to the polls for this week with a dominant performance over Florida. I have them away from the above SEC cluster because that was really only their first win of note, whereas the other 1-loss SEC teams have 2 significant wins." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Unbeaten and now with a good win against VA Tech. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Very impressive performance against the first team with a pulse on their schedule, we get to see how good they are when they play Indiana next week so this could be a short stint in the rankings." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Needed overtime to win in SC but their only loss is at #2 Alabama. This is a good Kentucky team this year and interested how they will play against LSU next up." } ] }, { "id": 76027, "username": "EpicSchwinn", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T17:30:47.869562+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "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": "" }, { 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I'm still not all that sold on them or Missouri, and I'm not sure where to draw the lines here." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Predicted Record: 11-1\r\n\r\nLosses: Ohio State (14-31)\r\n\r\nComment: Expected Loss doesn't really hurt them, more just causes them to stall a bit while other teams take advantage" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Predicted Record: 10-2\r\n\r\nLosses: @Oregon, USC" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Predicted Record: 8-4\r\n\r\nLosses: @Mississippi State (24-31), @Ole Miss, Texas, @Georgia\r\n\r\nComment: Great win against Florida combined with the loss to Mississippi State has me unsure of these guys as well. 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}, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76216, "username": "HideNZeke", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T19:51:14.525652+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Still an unsteady #1 but I can't really say anything has changed since last between them and Georgia. The spot most likely gets snatched this week though" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "One of the concerns of this team for me was how they traveled. The went to the land of cowbells and did very well. There might be few to no teams that can effectively slow them down. I had them jump the next two teams that I really do respect mostly because of how the cluster of 1 loss SEC teams shake out" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Still a natty contender" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "You throw the ball to Smith and then you win the game. " }, { "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": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Not a great showing for Bear or the team. For the sake of consistency and my respect for the Arizona win I kind of just let it slide. We have a 3-way tie for Big 12 frontrunners. I'm not entirely sure they deserve to be put over the SEC lump but I'll defer on having a bunch of teams jump them until next week. 8-30 is genuinely a tossup" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Might be my favorite big 12 team but the other two have a better win as of right now" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Did they do well enough to deserve such a jump in a home loss? No. But Alabama does look really good, and they don't look bad enough to justify ignoring the head to head against missouri with the head to head on Florida and so on. That will have to change, but for now I'm letting it rest as played. Their ceiling feels lower than teams like Ole Miss though, so I think it would be justified if you did override it" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Not a bad program" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Higher ceiling than than most. " }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Also has a higher ceiling even if I don't full trust them" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "I said they were overrated last week but I guess I actually do like them. A piss pounding of a bad Stanford helps" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "I might as well be consistent if I'm going to defer all judgement to the head to head this week. I guess we'll pretend Tulsa is a fluke" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "There's a flock of good 1-loss Big Ten teams. Oregon really hasn't looked that good but they have an okay win against USC. Their ceiling is higher and you can see a scenario where they turn the corner, even without Moore" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "If all the injuries we had this week last then we're boned. Our offense did string a couple okay drives against OSU, so I guess I won't freefall them as much as I thought. The schedule is not as downhill after Washington as we thought preseason. We might fade" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "I had them ranked a little high last week and I'll let it happen again" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Both them and Wisconsin might be riding on a less respectable Penn State win than would have thought, but they also played damn tough against a true Natty caliber team." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Undefeated respect start to come into play. Sorry Duke for not quite making it" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Almost forgot about them tbh but sure. let's put Riley on fraud warch" } ] }, { "id": 76124, "username": "HieloLuz", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T22:26:19.849228+00:00", "overall_rationale": "See previous weeks for description, for the teams not ranked that you would except based on the AP poll, my previous polls, and drops (I rank the top 30 manually, after that its just computer rankings: \r\n| | |\r\nNext 5: Auburn, Cincinnati, UCF, Duke, UCLA\r\n| | |\r\nCincinnati (7>drop; computer-40): Blowout loss to Arizona |3| sends them tumbling down and out of the rankings. Still has one quality win over Kansas State |4|. |\r\nIowa (9>drop; computer-47): Blowout loss to Ohio State |2| sends them tumbling. Also lost only quality win that was maybe Michigan |5| after they drop another.|\r\nDuke (14>drop/29; computer-21): Heavy drop despite the bye. No quality wins, and 2 close games against Tulane |5| and Illinois |5|. Their resume didn't change much at all, but other teams around them picked up tons of quality wins they don't have. |\r\nVirginia tech (15> drop; computer-30): Last second loss to Pitt |2| isn't a bad one, but their best wins are Maryland |6| and Boston College |6|.|\r\nUSF (21>drop; computer-51): Very weak schedule, and the loss to Temple |6| sends them plummeting. |\r\nUCLA (22>drop; computer-19): Another team that lost the bye week badly. No quality wins, and 3 close games against bad teams hurts.|\r\n| | |\r\nAuburn (computer-31): Has a quality win over Baylor |3|, but the 2 losses are too much right now. Best win of any unranked team. |\r\nUCF (computer-36): Has a quality win over Georgia State |4|, but not going to overcome the 2 losses, even if they are both close losses to good teams.|\r\n| | |\r\nLSU (computer-24): Lacks a quality win, and Ole Miss falling hurts a lot.|\r\nSMU (computer-53): Louisville |6| loss looks really bad, and no quality wins at all. Throw in 3 close games against bad teams and it will take them some time to ever get ranked. No clue why the AP has them ranked at all.|\r\nKentucky (computer-32): Sketchy win against South Carolina |6|, and no quality wins at all. Blowout loss to Alabama hurts. |\r\nWake Forest (computer-35): No quality wins, and the loss the Miami (FL) isn't the best. Also had close games against Purdue |5| and Louisville |6|.|\r\nNorthwestern (computer-26): No quality wins, close loss against Indiana |2| is good, but nothing to get ranked on. \r\n\r\n", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Texas regains the top spot after a bye thanks to Florida |tier 2| getting thrashed and Ohio State|2| finally beating a real team. Ohio State and Tennessee |3| are the best wins anyone has right now." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Alabama, Pitt, and Texas Tech all have very similar resumes. They all have 2 quality wins against a tier 3 and 4 team, Mississippi State |3| and Kentucky |4| for Alabama. Alabama goes ahead since they have blown out both of those teams." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Pitt has wins over Virginia Tech |3| and UCF |4|, but the UCF game was close." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Texas Tech has wins over Houston |3| and Oregon State |4|, but had close games against Oregon State and Colorado |5|." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Oregon rises 8 spots on a bye, largely thanks to their opponents all doing well. Wins against Boise State |3| and USC |2| are looking good, and their loss to Oklahoma State |3| continues to look better by the week. They are tied with Texas for the best wins so far, but the loss will keep them down for a bit." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Quality win over Northwestern |3| is the best of anyone else right now without a loss." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Basically identical resume to Indiana right now, with a quality win over Arizona |3|, but they had a close game against TCU |5|, while Indiana has taken care of business against all their lower tier teams." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Blowout of Wake Forest |4| looks good, and they don't have any other close games. " }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Similar Resume to Miami (FL), with a blowout win over Wisconsin |4|. Only lower because they've had a slightly easier schedule" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "USC is a hard team to place. They have 2 quality wins over Louisiana |4| and Fresno State |4|, and lost to Oregon |2| in a game that wasn't as close as the box score indicates. They also struggled to put away Rutgers |7| and had to come back against Washington |5|. But for now the 2 quality wins keep them in the top 10." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State is finally ranked for the first time all year by me. They finally beat a quality opponent in Iowa |4| and did so handily. And the Texas |1| loss really isn't holding them back at all besides having a 1 in the L column. They will have plenty of chances to prove themselves with 5 teams currently in the top 30 on the schedule." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "The middle group of SEC teams is fun to figure out, and is going by head to head at the moment. Mississippi State has wins over Missouri |2| and Minnesota |4|. But the blowout loss to Alabama |2| is hard to overlook and keeps them lower for now." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Missouri shoots into the rankings after trouncing Florida |2|, who I had as the #1 team last week. It's a great win but I can't move them ahead of Mississippi State due to the loss." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Florida may have the best wins of the mid SEC group with FAU |4|, Auburn |4|, and Ole Miss|4|, two of which were blowouts. But the blowout at the hands of Missouri makes them fall 13 spots and to the back of the head to head group of low teen SEC teams." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Houston has two quality wins over Oregon State |4| and UCF |4|, however both games were close, setting them firmly behind the other teams with decent wins that weren't as close. Close loss to Texas Tech |2| is a good loss that won't hold them back long term." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "A very weird team to rank. Last week they were 32 in the computer model, but ended up 12th, the highest ranked 1 loss team, largely because I felt that they and Oregon |2| were in the same bucket of teams, and head to head mattered. Oregon was 23 in the computer last week.\r\n\r\nThis week both teams were on a bye, but the Tulsa |5| loss continues to look worse and worse, while Oregon's opponents have looked better and better. Its going to be a very weird team all year. This week Oklahoma State is ranked 29 in the computer, while Oregon is all the way up to 7, separating them into different tiers entirely. " }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "Liberty |4| is currently a quality win, but Liberty themself has been very suspect. Another loss by Liberty will send them tumbling, and JMU will go with them. But they have otherwise taken care of business" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "Very similar resume to James Madison, with a single quality win over Air Force |4|. Outside of that their opponents have been slightly worse, giving JMU the nod for now." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "The loss to Oregon |2| continues to look better, and they have a quality win and blowout over Memphis |4|. But the close game against South Dakota is going to hold them back a bit" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "They have a close quality win over Auburn |4|, and much like Boise State played their top team loss close." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "The Louisville |6| win that helped get them ranked #1 2 weeks ago is worthless now. LSU |3| is a quality win still, but getting the brakes blown off by Florida |2| is a bad look." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Picks up a quality win and blowout over Cincinnati |4|, and the loss to BYU |2| was a close one." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Georgia, Nebraska, and Utah have near identical resumes at this point. No quality wins yet. And no close games outside of 1 by Utah. But the options were undefeated P4 teams with no quality wins, or teams with quality wins but multiple losses, and I'm leaving these 3 here for now. Georgia has a big prove it game against Alabama this week." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Exact same thing as Georgia, ultimately Georgia is higher because their fbs opp win% is 42% while Nebraska's is 40%" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Shares the same 40% FBS opp win% with Nebraska, but one close game against Iowa State |5| will put them at the bottom of this group." } ] }, { "id": 76291, "username": "Hobbes_121", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T01:22:40.708702+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, 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"Power 8 / Resume 22" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Power 20 / Resume 10" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Power 10 / Resume 21" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Power 25 / Resume 8" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Power 24 / Resume 11" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Power 14 / Resume 23" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Power 21 / Resume 16" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Power 19 / Resume 28" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Power 13 / Resume 34" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Power 43 / Resume 5" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Power 12 / Resume 37" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "Power 30 / Resume 20" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Power 22 / Resume 29" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "Power 42 / Resume 9" } ] }, { "id": 76068, "username": "IceColdDrPepper_Here", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T16:26:20.147209+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Out: SMU, Kentucky\r\n\r\nIn: Missouri, Nebraska\r\n\r\nTurns our there\u2019s still levels to the SEC as Miss St\u2019s Cinderella run crashes face first into the brick wall that is Alabama. Given Mizzou's domination over Florida, the entire mid-pack of the SEC has been dropped down out of the playoff for now. There will be opportunities to move back up, but with 5 teams at 4-1 with losses all mainly to each other, I can't comfortably put them any higher. Kentucky also struggles against a bad South Carolina team that blew yet another 17 point lead. SMU unfortunately drops to make room for others.\r\n\r\nMissouri adds a whole new wrench into the middle of the SEC race, leaving 3 clear cut contenders and 4 teams who all have beaten each other with Mizzou being the latest to win.\r\n\r\nI wish I could add Northwestern and Pitt, but there just isn\u2019t enough space for everyone. This year there are about 7 clear cut contenders, another 7 or 8 probable playoff teams, and then a complete crapshoot behind them", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Not the prettiest win over Vandy, particularly on defense, but they got it done on the arm of Gunner Stockton and a much cleaner defensive 2nd half. First real test comes this Saturday in Tuscaloosa" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Texas had better dominate this Oklahoma game, otherwise I'm going to start having some real doubts about how far this team can actually go" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Remember those Saban teams where you went in thinking maybe they could get upset and then Bama\u2019s up 40 before the old SEC on CBS music is over? Yeah that\u2019s how this game felt. DeBoer\u2019s got an absolute contender this year and a colossal matchup against Georgia on deck" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "ND didn\u2019t play great against UNC and I am dropping them behind Bama and Miami for now as they played better this weekend" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State is always going to be good, but I do wonder what happens when Jeremiah Smith isn\u2019t getting 200 yards a game. We saw a glimpse of it in the 2nd half against Texas where they went straight man and brought consistent pressure against Sayin, and we saw their offense sputter hard. If a team can stop, or at least limit, #4 they can beat the Buckeyes. But that\u2019s obviously easier said than done." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "I mentioned in my overall rationale that Mizzou now holds the upper middle class of the SEC belt. Are any of these next 5 teams playoff worthy? Guess we\u2019ll find out" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Talk about snapping back to reality and saying ope there goes gravity. I\u2019m curious whether this or the Ole Miss game will prove to be a bigger outlier" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss\u2019s resume has taken probably the biggest hit of any team in the country. Louisville sucks, LSU\u2019s one decent win over Clemson carries as much weight now as their other buy game results, and now Florida just got demolished by Ole Miss\u2019s ex QB in Austin Simmons" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "As I mentioned in the Ole Miss comments, the bad news is that LSU\u2019s win over Clemson now looks as impressive as their win over McNeese. The good news is that not everyone else in the conference is going to be treating their games as their season's Super Bowl like Ole Miss was so they will have some chances to clearly establish themselves as on the same level as the top 3 SEC teams" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Well that sucked. Miss St had a magical run to start the year and even if they had lost close, I think people would feel better. But instead they got buzzsawed by Bama. I do try to take head to head into account, but that would mean I have to move Miss St up for getting blown out to stay ahead of Mizzou, who just turned in a very impressive performance" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Tennessee seems to be the most obviously weak of the mid-tier SEC teams. 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"rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "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": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss 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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, 1 group for the best of the G6, 1 group for the independents) to create the top 25. Any teams absent that I think need explanation will be talked about in the [Notable Omissions] category below.\r\n\r\nThis is a resume first ballot. While the general vibes of a team are somewhat considered. What a team has accomplished matters more than their talent profile or their coaching staff (not to say that a team\u2019s other stats or intangibles are irrelevant).\r\n\r\n{CONFERENCE SWEEPS}\r\nThe SEC gets the full eight teams onto this ballot!\r\n\r\nNotable Omissions:\r\n\r\n[Iowa]'s best win at the moment is either against their rebuilding in state rivals or quite possibly the worst Michigan team this century. If they get another win, they'll probably be back\r\n\r\n[Nebraska] Has done this song and dance before with being undefeated against mediocre to bad teams. Snap the ranked opponent loss streak and I'll reconsider\r\n\r\n[James Madison] is undefeated, but I have to give the edge to North Dakota State when both teams have comparable difficulties of schedules.\r\n\r\n[Duke] Is undefeated, but I still need to see more.\r\n\r\nThank you for reading!", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Ohio State win is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. unless the Alabama Georgia game ends up being a CyHawk style sicko fest, the winner of that game likely replaces the Longhorns at the top." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Blowout wins over most of their opponents along with a throttling of Mississippi state is enough to propel the Tide up my list." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Blowout win over Iowa gets the Buckeyes back up my ranking, though the back half of their schedule is looking brutal." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Dominant wins, yes, but over middling SEC teams. Also, the Vandy game was messy." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Dominant enough in their Big XII slate to convince me that they've got what it takes to be a genuine factor the playoffs." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "The unexpected quality win over Wake Forest is saving the canes' ranking." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Aside from the win over Northwestern, Indiana's resume isn't much to write home about when compared with those ahead of them." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "If it weren't for Houston blowing the 2 point conversion I'd have this team either mid 20's or unranked. While that ranked win is doing a ton of work here, Tech looks like one of the sloppiest teams in the Big XII, but consistently gets bailed out by their competition being worse (seriously, Colorado looked like one of the worst teams in the FBS Saturday)" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "TCU..." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "SEC Louisville if they had a marginally better defense and a win over LSU. Without that LSU win they'd probably be unranked." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Did they beat UCF? sure. did they look good doing it? absolutely not." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Massive win over Penn State gets the Wildcats further up the ballot." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Weak schedule so far? sure, but they're undefeated and looking dominant while doing so." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "I struggled to determine how much stock I should be putting in Mizzou's win over Florida. On one hand, it was a blowout, but on the other, Florida might genuinely have the second worst defense in the SEC (there is still Arkansas to consider) and it was masked by Ole Miss' star running back being out of the game. I'll give them credit in the win, but when their second best win is bum ass Kansas I can only put them up so far." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "Currently the most likely team to meet Miami in Charlotte. Given how Miami has done historically there I half expect Wake Forest to win the rematch should it happen." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "This team is a Tulsa win away from being in my top 5." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Still 4-1, but wow I really had these guys in my top 5 last week dear lord." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Is this too low? probably, but right now LSU's best win is against an A&M team that is more likely to go 4-8 than 8-4 and a Clemson team that'll be lucky to make a bowl. This is a resume first poll, so despite the talent profile of this team I need to see them beat teams with a pulse." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Once again I say, I will rank the Irish in the top 10 if they beat a team that can play a full four quarters of football (no, Wisconsin doesn't count as a quality win just because they beat a Penn State team that may unironically finish with a worse record than Iowa State). Right now it's looking like their chance to prove me wrong is coming in the next few weeks. The ball is in their court." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Blowout loss to Alabama, but since the Tide are my #2 team, I can't punish too hard for that. 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General Notes: Methodology: FIRST layer (computer portion): SP+, opponents\u2019 SP+, opponents\u2019 opponents\u2019 SP+, opponents\u2019 win %, opponents\u2019 opponents\u2019 win %. SECOND layer (human portion): home/field/away, key injuries, P4/G6 status, watched game factors (ex: offensive/defensive line domination, rush yards after contact, average point of first contact, defensive penetration on non-inside screens, missed tackles, quarterback throwing release speed, overall turnovers, average starting field position, etc). THIRD layer (human portion): wins/losses vs higher-/lower-/non-ranked teams, recency of those results. FOURTH layer (computer portion): Deservedness = Team A cannot be ranked over Team B that has 2+ fewer losses (ex: 9-3 LSU can be ranked over 10-2 Missouri, but 9-3 LSU cannot be ranked over 11-1 Tulane even if LSU beat Tulane heads up, rankings have LSU over Tulane, and/or I think LSU is better than Tulane) unless Team B is giving a X loss allowance to Team A due to significantly fewer P4 games played. Loss allowances come into play when: P4 teams play 2 fewer P4 games than another P4 team (ex: 9-3 Arizona plays 10 P4 games, 11-1 Syracuse plays 8 P4 games, 10-8=2, 9-3 Arizona can be ranked over 11-1 Syracuse); P4 teams play 6 fewer P4 games than a G6 team (11-1 Syracuse plays 8 P4 teams, 9-3 Charlotte plays 2 P4 teams, 8-2=6, 9-3 Charlotte can be ranked over 11-1 Syracuse) unless the P4 team plays 0 P4 games then it is 7; G6 teams play 9 fewer P4 teams than a P4 team (ex: 9-3 South Carolina plays 10 P4 games, 11-1 Boise State plays 1 P4 games, 10-0=0, 9-3 South Carolina can be ranked over 11-1 Boise State); or G6 teams play 2 fewer P4 games than another G6 team (ex: 9-3 Charlotte plays 2 P4 games, 11-1 Liberty plays 0 P4 games, 2-0=2, 9-3 Charlotte can be ranked over 11-1 Liberty). If the game differential exceeds more than 2/6/9/2 in those scenarios, add another loss allowance for each additional P4 game played difference in that scenario. Further allowances given when a P4 team plays 8-9 P4 games and when a G6 team plays 0 P4 games (no P4 non-cons).", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "+0. Would be the #1 playoff seed in this scenario, playing the winner of #8 UCLA/#9 Duke in the Orange Bowl" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "+0. Would be the #2 playoff seed in this scenario, playing the winner of #7 Indiana/#10 Utah in the Peach Bowl" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "+0. Would be the #3 playoff seed in this scenario, playing the winner of #6 Notre Dame/#11 Texas Tech in the Rose Bowl" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "+1. Would be the #4 playoff seed in this scenario, playing the winner of #5 Miami/#12 Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "-1. Would be the #5 playoff seed in this scenario, hosting #12 Boise State in the first round" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "+0. Would be the #6 playoff seed in this scenario, hosting #11 Texas Tech in the first round" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "+1. Would be the #7 playoff seed in this scenario, hosting #10 Utah in the first round" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "+4. Would be the #8 playoff seed in this scenario, hosting #9 Duke in the first round" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "+4. Would be the #9 playoff seed in this scenario, playing at #8 UCLA in the first round" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "+4. Would be the #10 playoff seed in this scenario, playing at #7 Indiana in the first round" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "+4. Would be the #11 playoff seed in this scenario, playing at #6 Notre Dame in the first round" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "+5" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "-2" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "+4" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "NEW" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "-9" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "-8" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "-8" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "+2" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "+4" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "+1" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "NEW" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "-1. Boise State would be the #12 playoff seed in this scenario, playing at #5 Miami in the first round" } ] }, { "id": 76101, "username": "MahjongDaily", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T15:26:13.206828+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" 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9, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Chip Kelly is the Einstein of offensive coordinators" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "Time to respect them" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Not mid-ssouri anymore" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Weird time to bench Faizon Brandon but it worked" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Life comes at you fast" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "^ditto" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "Pat Narduzzi HATES this ballot" } ] }, { "id": 75904, "username": "Maladroit44", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T14:00:51.105630+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I take back everything bad I've ever said about Mizzou, they've done the Lord's work this week.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "We're about to learn a lot more about both this team and Alabama; I'm sticking to my guns on UGA being #1 heading into that game. Surely they find a way past DeBoer this time, right?" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "A lot of how you feel about this team depends on how you feel about Northwestern, and vice versa. I'm growing more confident that NW is actually just pretty damn good, and Indiana is still great. A trip to Nebraska this week, followed by a home date with Ohio State the week after, will tell us a whole lot more about the Hoosiers, though." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "This week provided one of the biggest data points we'll have on Miami until they go to Notre Dame in November...and it was a 28-point win against a lifeless Clemson. I don't love having them this high but nobody else looks good enough for #3, so..." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "The Iowa win is probably a little less impressive than it looks, considering PGWE says the Hawkeyes should've lost last week to a deeply unfortunate Michigan team. Still, it's a 17-point blowout on the road against a previously-undefeated opponent; hard not to see some value in that." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "DNP this week, but of course, r\u00e9sum\u00e9s continue to evolve nonetheless. Mainly, the somewhat competitive (but still ultimately safe) win at ISU last week immediately looks a bit more impressive after the Cyclones' victory over WVU this week." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Like Miami, the Irish won't give us a lot of data points until their big games (though at least they also have @ BYU coming up, a couple weeks sooner than their showdown with the Canes). Unlike Miami, they found themselves struggling with a mediocre ACC team this week\u2014in the rain, admittedly\u2014which tanks confidence in them a bit when they haven't had a chance to prove much yet." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "DeBoer's Tide have been really tough to rank, at least if you don't let the name on the jersey convince you they're a top-ten team in perpetuity. Every year it seems like their peak is an utterly unstoppable force, but it's rare they ever hit that high for a full 60 minutes. This week was about as locked-in as they've been all year...but they also went four-and-out, then two-and-fumble, then four-and-out during the second quarter. Can't have that kinda lapse against a team like Georgia next week." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "DNP this week. The Ohio State win looks better, the Tennessee win maybe looks a little worse (though I already didn't make much of it). It's a wash, more or less." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "I said last week I was keeping an eye out for moments of inconsistency from BYU, and they sure showed this week, dropping the Cougars a tier. Asterisk that their star RB left the game in the first quarter with an injury, and their defense showed up to stifle TCU on the road, but it's rarely a great sign when your quarterback has more yards rushing than passing. Bear Bachmeier is, uh, probably off the Heisman watchlist now." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "All of a sudden, Northwestern's got a better r\u00e9sum\u00e9 than practically any other non-undefeated. Dominant, controlling blowout wins over Colorado and Penn State, plus a highly competitive, questionably-officiated road loss to the defending national champs? Their worst performance is a somewhat competitive win over South Dakota State, but even there, it's hard to fault them much for a win over what'll surely be the new FCS #1 this week. I'm all the way in on this team; gimme David Braun in the playoff." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "DNP this week, and only holds steady despite a couple teams directly ahead of them falling. That'll happen when your best win bewilderingly loses at home to Purdue, but dropping or unranking Duke over it seems like a bit of an overreaction to me. The Blue Devils shouldn't be treated as a surprise upstart\u2014they're a reliably good team that should be here until proven otherwise, firmly." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "DNP this week. Both the Pokes and Ducks jump a good bit this week, mainly as a consequence of (a) the second-tier SEC collective settling a little lower in the rankings and (b) head-to-head putting Oregon over Boise State. As someone who doesn't often believe in my team much, I do believe in what I've seen of them lately, but I'd be lying if I said I was confident heading into a home matchup against an unimpressive UCF. It's our game to lose, so obviously we're going to lose it." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "DNP this week. I'm skeptical that USC was a real test, and I'm equally skeptical that a home date with UCLA this week will be one; vs Nebraska and especially vs Northwestern a couple weeks later will be more telling, but we won't really know for sure what the Ducks are until their trip to Columbus in early November. We're all just waiting for Week 10 to know anything, aren't we?" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Between Northwestern and Boise State, I'm beginning to wonder if I need to rethink the implications of a close or close-ish FCS win, at least against a good team (in these cases, South Dakota State and South Dakota, respectively). Maybe the gap between divisions has narrowed enough that we should expect to see the FCS's best giving top-25 FBS teams a real fight, because both NW and BSU have definitely looked deserving of a ranking outside those games." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Well, shit. My feelings about the whole Mizzou\u2013Florida\u2013Ole Miss\u2013LSU chain are obviously complicated, but they've grown even more complicated because of how the supporting cast performed this week: terribly, to say the least. LSU's big win over Clemson looks irrelevant, Ole Miss's over Louisville looks shockingly unimpressive, and Mizzou's loss to Mississippi State immediately got worse even as they obliterated the Gators. For now, I'm just throwing them all in the mid-to-low 10s and waiting to see if any of them prove it against one of the SEC's real, undeniable elites." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "See above. Of course, part of the takeaway with these results is simply that most of these teams have seen substantial coaching and roster turnover lately, so naturally they're going to be inconsistent." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "See above. Still, though, how do you make sense of a team going from a spectacular win over one opponent in its approximate bracket to a massive blowout loss to another? Let alone the team that handed out *that* blowout then doing exactly the same thing a week later?" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "...see above. I really don't know, and I'm aware ranking them all in order like this is a bit of a copout, but I'd be lying if I pretended to have a better idea of what these teams are after 4-5 games apiece. Nobody else they've beaten is ranked in my poll, and I'm unsure where to rank any of them, which means I'm also unsure of where to rank them for their wins over each other. Head-to-head it is, at least for the time being." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Iowa is still Iowa, to the surprise of nobody. I mentioned above that the stats suggest they were very lucky to pull off a win at Michigan, and that factors into this ranking...but so does the fact that Michigan is just not a good win. The Hawkeyes haven't beaten a ranked team, and that might remain true for the rest of the season even if they go 10-2 or 11-1. Surely they can't get a playoff spot just for that, right...?" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "On the one hand, Wake Forest's best win got substantially worse this week, as Louisville turned around and dropped to 2-3 against NC State. On the other hand, the Deacons' only loss to Miami is increasingly \"good\" (insofar as a loss can be), their close win over Purdue looks a little less embarrassing, and most importantly, they dismantled Stanford 57-3 behind a stellar day from Gio Lopez (265 passing yards and 2 passing TDs, 88 rushing yards and 3 rushing TDs). I'm still in on them." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Nothing Texas Tech has shown so far gives me the utmost confidence. Sure, they're undefeated and they have a couple maybe-solid wins, but it's hard to look at a team trailing Colorado 7-3 at halftime and respond with anything more than tepid praise for their eventual 29-7 victory. I don't know how anyone still has them in the top ten; they never belonged there to begin with, and they haven't proven otherwise." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "The winner of the unranked, undefeated ACC jamboree was always going to earn a spot, but Pitt's appearance here also has to do with UCF looking like a marginally more impressive win after the Knights almost took down Houston. (They didn't...but they could've!) I'm skeptical of the Panthers for a number of reasons, but they deserve the benefit of the doubt until they probably lose by 20+ at Miami in a few weeks." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "As much as what I see of my first team (Oklahoma State) convinces me they're playing well, what I see of my second team (Tennessee)...uh, does not. I've been beating the drum that the Vols were never gonna get far without an answer at QB, and while George MacIntyre rescued them this week after Faizon Brandon's benching, I need a lot more than a second-half comeback against 3-2 Auburn to believe that issue is resolved." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "One big trend with CFB polling recently has been that some ACC/B12 teams (and occasionally even B1G teams!) simply get overlooked. Logically, there's no reason an Arizona team coming off a 9-4 season and a #17 finish shouldn't be in the top 25 conversation for a 4-1 start, with a loss to top-ten BYU and a crushing win this week over previously-undefeated Cincinnati. So, uh...where are they? I'm convinced a lot of people just haven't really thought about the Wildcats whatsoever; it's hard to explain why teams like Wisconsin and Kentucky, for example, get so much more love." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "NDSU bubbled up to the outskirts of my ballot last week, and this week they climb a spot to finally make it in. I'm far from certain whether the Bison are merely good or top-25 good, and this week's trip to UNLV (which just took down Cal) should tell us a bit, but the game to wait on is really NDSU @ UNM two weeks later." } ] }, { "id": 76303, "username": "malowry0124", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T02:55:49.020581+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Teams were ranked after Week 5 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": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76347, "username": "manbeardawg", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T14:10:23.737814+00:00", "overall_rationale": "For the first few weeks of the season (until there's a solid sample size of games against good opponents), my poll is prioritizing undefeated teams with victories over P4 opponents. This week there were 13 such teams. That tier of the poll is divided into by number of P4 wins. The second tier is undefeated teams without a win over P4 teams; there are two such teams. The final 10 spots are for one-loss teams that I think have a decent resume and tests coming up soon that will determine if they are posers or real ones.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "4" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "4" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "3" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "3" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "3" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "2" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 18, "handle": "kansasstate", "name": "Kansas State Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75893, "username": "ManiacalBlazer", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T06:27:45.473317+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75981, "username": "mcdsmaster8824", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T15:45:27.370435+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "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": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76099, "username": "MemeLovingLoser", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T23:36:09.728941+00:00", "overall_rationale": "This model was not designed to be taken seriously until week 7 or 8. Consume this ballot with caution.\r\n\r\nPoll uses stats earned on the field, not pageantry, not the \"eye-test\".\r\n\r\nBased on team statistics with each statistic being weighted differently. Teams must have played 3 games as an FBS school to qualify for a ranking (prior year games against an FBS while still in FCS count). Stats earned against FCS teams are weighted less. Overtime losses count as a \"partial win\" with the value being n/(n+1) where \"n\" is the number of OTs (whereas wins are worth 1).", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Score 93.66 (\u25b2 2.25) | Place Change: \u25b2 1 | Previous Rank: 2nd | Wins Composite Rank: 1st | SoS Composite Rank: 2nd | Margin of Victory Rank: 8th | Penalties Composite Rank: 57th | Yardage Composite Rank: 14th | Turnover Composite Rank: 12th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 3rd | Other Stats Rank: 9th" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Score 92.30 (\u25bc 0.87) | Place Change: \u25bc 1 | Previous Rank: 1st | Wins Composite Rank: 1st | SoS Composite Rank: 6th | Margin of Victory Rank: 7th | Penalties Composite Rank: 1st | Yardage Composite Rank: 6th | Turnover Composite Rank: 2nd | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 55th | Other Stats Rank: 1st" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Score 90.96 (\u25b2 0.05) | Place Change: None | Previous Rank: 3rd | Wins Composite Rank: 1st | SoS Composite Rank: 1st | Margin of Victory Rank: 17th | Penalties Composite Rank: 74th | Yardage Composite Rank: 34th | Turnover Composite Rank: 69th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 21st | Other Stats Rank: 69th" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "Score 85.03 (\u25bc 0.11) | Place Change: \u25b2 1 | Previous Rank: 5th | Wins Composite Rank: 1st | SoS Composite Rank: 10th | Margin of Victory Rank: 11th | Penalties Composite Rank: 137th | Yardage Composite Rank: 12th | Turnover Composite Rank: 3rd | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 52nd | Other Stats Rank: 3rd" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Score 81.49 (\u25b2 2.43) | Place Change: \u25b2 2 | Previous Rank: 7th | Wins Composite Rank: 5th | SoS Composite Rank: 30th | Margin of Victory Rank: 1st | Penalties Composite Rank: 66th | Yardage Composite Rank: 2nd | Turnover Composite Rank: 34th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 18th | Other Stats Rank: 36th" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Score 81.07 (\u25b2 2.35) | Place Change: \u25b2 2 | Previous Rank: 8th | Wins Composite Rank: 5th | SoS Composite Rank: 39th | Margin of Victory Rank: 2nd | Penalties Composite Rank: 29th | Yardage Composite Rank: 7th | Turnover Composite Rank: 13th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 4th | Other Stats Rank: 5th" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Score 80.11 (\u25b2 2.86) | Place Change: \u25b2 4 | Previous Rank: 11th | Wins Composite Rank: 5th | SoS Composite Rank: 59th | Margin of Victory Rank: 3rd | Penalties Composite Rank: 2nd | Yardage Composite Rank: 4th | Turnover Composite Rank: 36th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 12th | Other Stats Rank: 16th" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Score 79.31 (\u25b2 2.68) | Place Change: \u25b2 5 | Previous Rank: 13th | Wins Composite Rank: 16th | SoS Composite Rank: 5th | Margin of Victory Rank: 42nd | Penalties Composite Rank: 86th | Yardage Composite Rank: 25th | Turnover Composite Rank: 74th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 9th | Other Stats Rank: 11th" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Score 78.84 (\u25b2 3.24) | Place Change: \u25b2 9 | Previous Rank: 18th | Wins Composite Rank: 17th | SoS Composite Rank: 7th | Margin of Victory Rank: 6th | Penalties Composite Rank: 51st | Yardage Composite Rank: 3rd | Turnover Composite Rank: 29th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 27th | Other Stats Rank: 51st" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Score 78.03 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Rank: 21st | SoS Composite Rank: 17th | Margin of Victory Rank: 26th | Penalties Composite Rank: 133rd | Yardage Composite Rank: 48th | Turnover Composite Rank: 32nd | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 26th | Other Stats Rank: 27th" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Score 67.55 (\u25b2 4.25) | Place Change: \u25b2 14 | Previous Rank: 39th | Wins Composite Rank: 21st | SoS Composite Rank: 45th | Margin of Victory Rank: 39th | Penalties Composite Rank: 23rd | Yardage Composite Rank: 61st | Turnover Composite Rank: 37th | 3rd/4th Down Conversion Rank: 17th | Other Stats Rank: 8th" } ] }, { "id": 76111, "username": "MemeofMemeJTG999999", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T01:51:41.424908+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I use a methodology similar to that used by the voter polls that bases teams based primarily on wins/losses, but with other factors such as how those teams looked in their wins and 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vs Kansas (2-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Playoff R1 @ Texas Tech" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "(4-0) (no change)\r\nW: 17-10 @ TCU (2-3)\r\nNext Week: vs Iowa State (3-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Playoff R1 @ Indiana" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "(3-1) (up 5)\r\nBye\r\nNext Week: vs #15 UCLA (4-0)\r\nProjected Bowl: Playoff R1 @ Miami" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "(3-1) (down 1)\r\nBye\r\nNext Week: @ Vanderbilt (3-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: ReliaQuest Bowl vs Nebraska" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (down 1)\r\nW: 63-14 vs McNeese (2-4)\r\nNext Week: @ #25 Kentucky (4-1)\r\nProjected Bowl: Citrus Bowl vs Iowa" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (up 3)\r\nW: 24-14 vs Auburn (3-2)\r\nNext Week: @ Arkansas (2-3)\r\nProjected Bowl: Gator Bowl vs Pittsburgh" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "(4-0) (up 3)\r\nBye\r\nNext Week: @ #11 Oregon (3-1)\r\nProjected Bowl: Alamo Bowl vs Oklahoma State" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "(5-0) (up 3)\r\nW: 48-23 vs Maryland (2-3)\r\nNext Week: vs #7 Indiana (5-0) (JTGOTW)\r\nProjected Bowl: ReliaQuest Bowl vs Ole Miss" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (was unranked)\r\nW: 45-17 vs #8 Florida (4-1)\r\nNext Week: vs Texas A&M (3-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Texas Bowl vs Baylor" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (down 10)\r\nL: 17-45 @ Missouri (4-1)\r\nNext Week: vs South Carolina (2-3)\r\nProjected Bowl: Music City Bowl vs Wisconsin" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "(3-1) (up 1)\r\nBye\r\nNext Week: vs UCF (3-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Alamo Bowl vs UCLA" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "(4-0) (up 1)\r\nBye\r\nNext Week: @ Georgia Tech (1-3)\r\nProjected Bowl: Pop-Tarts Bowl vs Houston" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (down 7)\r\nL: 23-56 vs #7 Alabama (5-0) (JTGOTW)\r\nNext Week: Bye\r\nProjected Bowl: Liberty Bowl vs Kansas State" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "(5-0) (was unranked)\r\nW: 35-33 @ #30 Virginia Tech (4-1)\r\nNext Week: vs North Carolina (2-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Gator Bowl vs Tennessee" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (no change)\r\nW: 37-18 vs Utah State (1-4)\r\nNext Week: @ Fresno State (4-1)\r\nProjected Bowl: Playoff R1 @ Ohio State" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (down 11)\r\nL: 14-31 vs #5 Ohio State (4-1)\r\nNext Week: @ Washington (3-2)\r\nProjected Bowl: Citrus Bowl vs LSU" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "(4-1) (down 3)\r\nW: 35-34 @ South Carolina (2-3)\r\nNext Week: vs #13 LSU (4-1)\r\nProjected Bowl: Duke's Mayo Bowl vs Virginia Tech\r\n\r\nNext 5:\r\n#26: USC (5-1) (no change)\r\n#27: Wisconsin (4-1) (up 1)\r\n#28: Minnesota (4-1) (was unranked)\r\n#29: Houston (4-1) (down 2)\r\n#30: Wake Forest (4-1) (was unranked)\r\n\r\nFell out of T30: Cincinnati (4-1) (was #24); Michigan (3-2) (was #25); Penn State (3-2) (was #29); Virginia Tech (4-1) (was #30)\r\n\r\nBiggest Riser: Missouri (UR -> #17)\r\nBiggest Faller: Iowa (#13 -> #24)\r\n" } ] 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You never totally know what will happen with ACC Chaos, but a look ahead on their schedule really seems to indicate that an 8-1 Wake going on the road to SMU is a distinct possibility. Very slight reshuffling at the top gives Alabama a 2 spot boost after blowing out Miss State, and Ohio State doesn't move since they have nowhere to go, stuck behind Texas, after their big win over Iowa. Finally, I'll address one refball game. It doesn't make me happy to have a section of games like this every year, but the state of reffing in this sport has made it sadly necessary. Western Michigan's win over Michigan is clear, and I have no need to even litigate that because neither team is very good. That's simply a win for WMU and a loss for Michigan, full stop. What I've typically done for games where the refs had such an outsized impact on the game that I believe they altered the result, is basically assign half-losses and wins to teams. 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"rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76064, "username": "Noelthemexican", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T19:38:47.391505+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Every year I've done some variation of the Colley Matrix (introducing bias to the famously \"bias-free computer poll\"), and this year is no different. 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(1) 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\n(1) The rating used in this calculation is the rating with the previous weeks bias, but the current weeks results. \r\n\r\nNote: Well the top 5 looks normal, but kind of gets wild after that. My actual ratings are really low right now for some reason. For comparison, the Colley currently has two teams with ratings .9-1, 10 teams from .8-.9, and 19 teams from .7-.8. My ratings have 1, 1, and 4. I do not really have a concrete reason why this is happening, maybe over the course of this week I'll come up with something.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" 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"handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 75971, "username": "NotSoSuperNerd", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T15:34:08.027944+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Bradley-Terry rankings for the expected end-of-season win totals; Pr[A beats B] = 0.5+0.5*tanh(rA-rB). Prediction model is a hybrid Kalman filter, driven by the win margin of each game.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "2.701 [10.64-1.36]" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "2.476 [10.33-1.67]" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "2.459 [10.08-1.92]" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "2.389 [11.21-0.79]" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "2.235 [10.90-1.10]" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "2.046 [8.26-3.74]" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "2.035 [10.87-1.13]" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "1.959 [10.86-1.14]" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "1.925 [9.54-2.46]" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "1.858 [8.01-3.99]" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "1.849 [7.40-4.60]" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "1.789 [7.34-4.66]" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "1.773 [7.45-4.55]" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "1.733 [7.41-4.59]" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "1.715 [7.19-4.81]" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "1.604 [10.45-1.55]" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "1.579 [6.17-5.83]" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "1.578 [6.73-5.27]" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "1.525 [8.80-3.20]" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "1.445 [9.09-2.91]" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 64, "handle": "vanderbilt", "name": "Vanderbilt Commodores" }, "rationale": "1.431 [5.77-6.23]" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 19, "handle": "oklahoma", "name": "Oklahoma Sooners" }, "rationale": "1.414 [5.63-6.37]" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "1.340 [8.72-3.28]" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "1.292 [9.49-2.51]" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "1.241 [8.10-3.90]" } ] }, { "id": 75872, "username": "Noy_Telinu", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T04:38:43.867454+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Still too early to rank teams, all vibes for now.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Still has the best win" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Oh great. this team is back." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "You two face each other. Good." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Turns out NW is good actually." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Rain = scary game" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Catholics vs Convicts is back on the menu" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "Fine, BYU good, happy, Mormons? " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Still in control of the BIG. Well, besides Indiana. For now." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Winner of Oregon v UCLA gets the inside track to be the 3rd BIG team in the CFB playoff" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "It is POSSIBLE to win @ Oregon for the first time in forever " }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Nebraska is 5-0?! HOW?!" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "I miss the Pac 12" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "has not eaten shit YET" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Wait this isn't basketball" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "Big 12 4some was now down to 4" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Cannot out controversy anyone huh?" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "SEC cannibalizing itself now it seems." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Actually deserved to be ranked after all." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Well, on the bright side, Washington looks bad?" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 31, "handle": "minnesota", "name": "Minnesota Golden Gophers" }, "rationale": "JUG SECURED" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "Easy part of the schedule is over." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Actually good, nerds." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "Undefeated, this FBS thing looks easy huh?" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "Thanks for the coach!" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "most likely still the best team in the G6." } ] }, { "id": 76335, "username": "nw____", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T12:49:48.841352+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "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": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": 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With spot adjustments \u2013 if a team beats a higher-tier team, the winning team will move up and/or the losing team will move down until they're on the same tier \u2013 this will serve as a basis until tiers can be properly evaluated based entirely on actual results.\r\n\r\nSo, I went through each team \u2013 without looking where I had them last week \u2013 and placed them into six tiers. Then I went through the list and looked for teams I had judged too leniently or too harshly until the list stabilized. My goal is for the top three tiers to be roughly the first quartile, then the next three to be each of the next quartiles.\r\n\r\nTier 2 is currently the hardest to populate \u2013 aside from the top contenders, everybody's got issues. My first pass had the top teams from the Big 12 in the group, with only Iowa (who got beat soundly), Pitt (undefeated against a fairly soft early schedule), and the SEC one-loss group (where every team added pushed another to the top of the tier, and I ended up with 7 SEC teams in my top 11) really convincing that they deserve to be there.\r\n\r\nDropped out: 12 Michigan, 17 Louisville, 18 Duke, 19 Auburn, 20 Virginia Tech, 23 Clemson, 24 Kentucky, 25 Southern Methodist\r\n\r\nFirst five out: Nebraska, James Madison, Duke, Kentucky, North Dakota State", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "LW: 1 | Tier 1 | bye" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "LW: 9 | Tier 1 (up) | W Mississippi State" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "LW: 5 | Tier 1 | W Iowa" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "LW: 3 | Tier 1 | W North Carolina" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "LW: 11 | Tier 1 (up) | W Clemson\r\n\r\nI had Miami in tier 2 up to this point because preseason I expected them to lose to Notre Dame and the rest of the schedule wasn't good enough to justify putting them in tier 1. But for now, their resume isn't much different from Notre Dame's. If Pitt keeps winning the matchup in a few weeks will be interesting." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "LW: 2 | Tier 1 | W Vanderbilt\r\n\r\nOklahoma dropped from tier 3 to tier 4, and that dragged down Georgia's resume. The good news, they've got a potential replacement best win coming." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "LW: 7 | Tier 1 | W Rutgers\r\n\r\nIndiana is honestly tier 1 based on being defending national champions and undefeated. 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No change from last week." }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Once again no change from last week. Solid and lopsided win against a good but not great Clemson" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "I moved Ohio State up one here partially because of the lopsided win over what I still think is a pretty good Iowa team and partially because Notre Dame didn't really impress me as much this week." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Notre Dame did it's job on the road and in the rain against UNC however, the defense did not look elite like it has in the past. The final score makes the game seem closer than it really was as ND had control of this game solidly throughout. Wisconsin notches another win making that early season win for ND look like it has a bit more quality." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "I moved the Cougars up one here as I felt as though Texas Tech played rather poorly against Colorado despite the lopsided victory. I still feel as though the Big 12 has the biggest log jam of teams and the conference is still anyone's to win or lose. " }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "I moved Alabama up two here partially on the back of the impressive win over Mississippi State as well as Texas Tech looking pedestrian against Colorado. Alabama plays Georgia next which should be a fun one and should really tell us a lot about who are the power players in the SEC." }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Don't let the final score fool you this game was far too close for far too long for me to believe that Texas Tech is a legit playoff team. Texas Tech moves down two despite the win." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Utah had a bye week but I still moved them down one here based off of the strength of Alabama's win." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss was on a bye but they move up two because of two teams in front of them. This is where I am going to state that sometimes it would be nice to have a computer poll that I could just feed data into as the middle of the SEC seems intent on creating a nice little circle of suck and it's hard to tell who deserves the highest ranking of this group. The win over Louisville is looking worse all of the time and now the loss to Florida also looks worse. So I'm just guessing here that by seasons end Ole Miss will be a bubble playoff team just ahead of the other SEC bubble playoff teams. " }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Once again Oregon was on a bye but moves up two because of losses in front of them. Doesn't hurt that both USC and Boise State had wins this weekend." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "LSU moves up three due to teams in front of them losing. Cupcake win this week. Win against Clemson really doesn't look as impressive as it might have at the beginning of the season. " }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "The Dukes move up three do to teams in front of the losing. This is the highest ranked G6 school for me however I have to admit there are other G6 schools that might be deserving of that title including Boise State. And redditors may not like to hear it but the win against Liberty looks better and better as Liberty keeps finding ways to win games. " }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "USC moves up three due to losses in front of them. The win at home against Washington did not feel very impressive but a win is a win." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Tennessee was one of the biggest movers up for me this week moving from 24 to 16. Several teams above them lost, They had a solid win against Auburn where the game never felt in doubt, and their only loss was a close loss to a highly ranked Texas. As other SEC teams fall in lopsided losses to worse ranked teams the close loss to Texas helps buoy Tennessee. " }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Nebraska may have one of the weakest schedules of any undefeated team but they are undefeated. I doubt Nebraska belongs here but we'll see next week when Nebraska plays Indiana at home." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Again I'll say it I have no idea exactly how to rank the middle tier of SEC schools as they have formed a bit of a circle of suck. I think Florida is a talented team and that will prove itself as the year goes along. 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Also with other teams winning big this weekend I moved the Cougars down two spots despite the win." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Duke losses the Bye week. Moving down two spots on the strength of big wins for other teams. 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Top-25 probability: 94%." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 14.1. Central 80% interval: 4\u201327. Top-25 probability: 88%." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 14.4. Central 80% interval: 4\u201329. Top-25 probability: 87%." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 14.8. Central 80% interval: 3\u201330. Top-25 probability: 85%." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 14.9. Central 80% interval: 5\u201329. Top-25 probability: 86%." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 15.3. Central 80% interval: 4\u201331. Top-25 probability: 85%." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 16.6. Central 80% interval: 6\u201332. Top-25 probability: 84%." }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 17.7. Central 80% interval: 6\u201333. Top-25 probability: 81%." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 63, "handle": "texasam", "name": "Texas A&M Aggies" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 17.9. Central 80% interval: 6\u201333. Top-25 probability: 79%." }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 21.3. Central 80% interval: 8\u201340. Top-25 probability: 71%." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 53, "handle": "auburn", "name": "Auburn Tigers" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 21.4. Central 80% interval: 8\u201339. Top-25 probability: 70%." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "GippyRank expected rank: 21.8. Central 80% interval: 8\u201340. 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Missouri, 27. Ole Miss, 28. Fresno State, 29. Cincinnati, 30. Northwestern" } ] }, { "id": 75923, "username": "SlaminSammons", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-04T12:19:12.726491+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "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": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 13, "handle": "virginiatech", "name": "Virginia Tech Hokies" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76346, "username": "smartkeg", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T14:19:47.735210+00:00", "overall_rationale": "I heavily weight current-season performance, opponent quality, game control, efficiency, margin, and the eye test, while using prior-season performance, returning talent, and preseason expectations only as supporting evidence of underlying team strength. 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However, there was one other result that really screwed up the resume comparisons: Missouri over Florida. One week after Mississippi State knocked off Mizzou and Florida humbled Ole Miss, Alabama and Missouri decide to humble Miss. State and Florida in return. So first I had to re rank just the SEC teams by themselves to make sense of things, then I fit everyone else in after that.\r\n\r\nFurthermore, there were a lot of teams on BYE this week and some unranked teams that had very impressive wins. I could have dropped more teams to promote teams like Arizona and Northwestern, but I opted for consistency from last week until proven wrong. \r\n\r\nThe only team to drop out is Cincinatti, who was replaced with Missouri.", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "There is quite an impressive transitive chain in the SEC right now of Bama > MSU > Mizzou > Florida > Ole Miss > LSU. All of those teams have 1 loss at most and are undefeated against all teams outside of this group, including 5-0 vs p4 ooc.\r\n\r\nAll of this, combined with just how increasingly dominant UA looks every week, tells me that they're just that damn good. 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It's just really hard to drop these 1 loss SEC teams too far when the teams beneath them just don't have the ooc p4 wins to compare.\r\n\r\nAlso, of the SEC teams that lost on the road, Mizzou's loss to MSU was the most competitive, so they get to jump up the transitive win ladder." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Missouri and Minnesota wins look good, and Alabama looks like a demon, so I can't really fault them too much." }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "They are the one team in the Great Transitive Chain that actually doesn't have a good ooc win to anchor them. They're reputation right now depends entirely on they're beatdown of Ole Miss, which I'm already giving ameliorating circumstances for, but I'm not gonna take it away from them.\r\n\r\nLong story short, they need to show some consistency." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "OSU is really good, and they have other good wins. Carry on then." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "They have serious issues on offense that need to be solved. Maybe Macintire will be the solution, but it remains to be seen. Defense looks good enough for them to still be formidible if they get a qb who can bare minimum manage the game. 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We'll see if they can hold they're spot over the upcoming weeks." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 14, "handle": "wakeforest", "name": "Wake Forest Demon Deacons" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Maybe Arizona or Northwestern should be in this spot instead, but the Huskers were here last week and didn't do anything wrong, so I'm gonna sit with it.\r\n\r\n#26 Arizona\r\n#27 Northwestern" } ] }, { "id": 75912, "username": "Stoneador", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T21:40:23.458194+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Ranking system built based on the transitive property. Teams are ranked based on the following tiebreakers:\r\n\r\n1. 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"rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Wake Forest, Iowa, Wisconsin, USC, Nebraska, Duke, James Madison, Virginia Tech, Cincinnati, Auburn" } ] }, { "id": 76188, "username": "T-Thugs", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T17:07:07.082936+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Each week I re-rank all teams based on their resumes so far. ", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "Texas is undefeated with nice wins over Ohio State (4-1, beat Iowa) and Tennessee (4-1, beat Auburn)" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Alabama is undefeated with nice wins over Mississippi State (4-1, beat Missouri and Minnesota), Kentucky (4-1, beat Texas A&M), Florida State (3-2, beat Virginia) and South Carolina (2-3). Would be obvious #1 if they beat Georgia this week" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Notre Dame is 5-0 with wins over Wisconsin (4-1, beat Penn State), North Carolina (2-2), Michigan State (2-3) and Purdue (2-3)" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Miami is 5-0 with wins over Wake Forest (4-1), Clemson (3-2), and Stanford (2-3)" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "BYU is 4-0 with a nice win over Arizona (4-1, beat Cincinnati). Also has a win over TCU (2-3)" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Pitt is 5-0 with a nice win over Virginia Tech (4-1), Also has wins over UCF (3-2) and Syracuse (2-2)" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Georgia is 5-0 with wins over Vanderbilt (3-2), Oklahoma (2-2) and Arkansas (2-3). Huge game this week vs Alabama could bump them way up in my poll." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Indiana is 5-0 and anchored by a win over what appears to be a pretty decent Northwestern team (3-1). Also beat Rutgers 1-4" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Texas tech is 5-0 and has a win over Houston (4-1) as well as over colorado (2-3)" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Mississippi State is my top 1 loss team with nice wins over Missouri (4-1, beat Florida) and Minnesota (4-1, beat Washington). Only loss is to Alabama. I debated having them below Ohio State, who is 1 point away from being in the top 2, but I like Miss State's wins better than Ohio State's for now. Even with the blowout loss to Alabama." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State is 4-1 and has a nice win over Iowa (4-1, beat Iowa State). Also beat Illinois 2-3. Only loss is to Texas" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "Utah is 4-0 with a win over Iowa state (3-2, beat West Virginia). Also has a win over Arkansas (2-3)" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Nebraska is 5-0 but its best wins are over Maryland (2-3) and Michigan State (2-3)" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "UCLA is 4-0 with wins over Cal (2-3), Purdue (2-3) and Maryland (2-3)" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 3, "handle": "duke", "name": "Duke Blue Devils" }, "rationale": "Duke is 4-0 with wins over Stanford (2-3) and Illinois (2-3)" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "Oklahoma state is 3-1 with an awesome win over Oregon (4-1, beat USC). Also has a win over West Virginia (3-2, beat Virginia)" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "Oregon is 4-1 with a win over USC (5-1, beat Washington). Lost to Oklahoma State" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Missouri is 4-1 with a nice win over Florida (4-1, beat Ole Miss). Also beat Kansas (2-2). Lost to Miss State. " }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "Florida is 4-1 with wins over Ole Miss (4-1, beat LSU) and Auburn (3-2). Lost to Missouri big." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "Ole Miss is 4-1 with a win over LSU (4-1, beat Texas AM). Also beat Louisville (2-3), but that win has lost its luster. Lost to Florida. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Arizona is 4-1 with a nice win over Cincinnati (4-1). Lost to BYU." }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "LSU is 4-1 with wins over Clemson (3-2) and Texas A&M (3-2). Lost to Ole Miss" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "Wisconsin is 4-1 with wins over Penn State (3-2) and Michigan State (2-3). Lost to Notre Dame" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "Tennessee is 4-1 with a win over Auburn (3-2). Lost to Texas" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 70, "handle": "cincinnati", "name": "Cincinnati Bearcats" }, "rationale": "Cincinnati is 4-1 with a win over Kansas State (3-1). Also beat Boston College (2-3). Lost to Arizona\r\n\r\nAlso considered: Wake Forest, Iowa, USC, Northwestern, Minnesota, Kentucky" } ] }, { "id": 76329, "username": "TadKosciuszko", "ballot_type": "Computer", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T12:08:11.181229+00:00", "overall_rationale": "", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 125, "handle": "louisiana", "name": "Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76309, "username": "Tarmacked", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T04:30:03.573621+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": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "No change" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "No change" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "No change" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Aggressive, but the scoring offense has been ridiculous on all facets." }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Clemson played them incredibly well, but Miami overcame it." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Blegh win against Belichick but I can't really argue anyone below over them" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "No change" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "No change" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "This SEC groups is irrational, it's hard to rank them. I'm leaning on returning talent/computer metrics here. I will note Ole Miss' resume has looked far worse with Louisville falling out, so i'm very very likely to move them down harder if they drop another. Right now Chambliss gets the benefit." }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "No change from last weeks thought process. Mcneese is an easy team" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "This team just continues to impress in all facets." }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "I'm leaning hard here, but computers are giving me a similar Florida swing. This can absolutely blow up again." }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "More aggressive here, but the slots below this just aren't doing it for me." }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "The Big 12 pack just continues to be unimpressive to me. Tech struggles, BYU struggles, Houston struggles. " }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "Didn't do anything to move me so much as those around me." }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "60 yards through the air from Bear is.... sigh...." }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "QB issue is annoying. Looking forward to more samples to solidify." }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Lets see what happens with Indiana, Rhule may have a decent squad here." }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "This group is painful to rank, alongside Ole Miss/LSU. We're going Head to Head here for now and i'm hoping in-season play rallies this together." }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Man do I hate ranking this group of SEC teams. " }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "\"Why isn't Ole Miss down here?\"\r\n\r\nChambliss. That's really it, I think Ole Miss has the stronger ceiling and it was a matchup play. Prove me wrong.\r\n" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "See: Tech" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Ohio State loss wasn't great but there's not many more options here that make sense." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "Dropped from last week at #20 but it's more that Nebraska/UCLA/Utah continue to have favorable metrics." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "This defense continues to be unimpressive\r\n\r\nSo why isn't Pitt ranked at the end here? Losing QB1 drops my expectation for that team. 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I'm half certain that somehow my Yellow Jackets lost the bye week, which is impressive because I figured nothing could have me feeling worse than watching us lose to Stanford. Then Stanford got demolished, Colorado got whacked, Tennessee struggled, and I'm pretty sure uGA sleptwalk to another dominant win. At least Mercer is top 25 in FCS and Clemson lost? Ah well, moving on.\r\n\r\nBefore we get started, I just wanted to remind you of a few caveats to my top 25: I'm including at least a few spots for the G5, as an indicator of who I think is favored to make a run at the Playoffs out of those conferences. I also love pre-conference play variance, so you'll see a lot of that too. In addition, this poll, by nature, is meant to be overreactive. I'm not here to try to be predictive - I want this to be strictly resume, even if that resume consists of a single game. I'm not here trying to justify every single one of my top 25 staying in the top 25 week-to-week; that's just lame. And it's not the point of what I want to accomplish when doing these rankings. Even still, before you crucify me for this poll ballot... allow me to explain further.\r\n\r\nWhile preseason rankings, perceived team strength, recruiting rankings, and all of those other factors will still play a role in the value I grant to certain teams, I ultimately want this ranking to be a resume-based one as stated earlier, not a power ranking. I'm always searching for ways to best optimize this and to best balance the two, especially early on, so am open to opinions. That said, this does mean that certain teams that have scheduled a weak opening slate/non-conference schedule will not be ranked until they play someone, and will be held in honorable mentions until proven otherwise. Teams that have gone out of their way to schedule difficult and perform well will also be granted grace, even if it resulted in a loss.\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! There are a few key things that I will always do once everyone enters in-conference play. First, I basically disregard, to the best of my ability, not only last week's rankings but preseason expectations in general, and then rank from that. In addition, I like to include multiple G5 (now G6) frontrunners, even if their resumes lack slightly compared to a P4 team. ALL UNDEFEATED G6 TEAMS WILL BE RANKED. Does this make the poll have unreasonable amounts of instability and deviation from the norm? Probably! Do I care? Not really. It's still early on - 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. A lot of movement necessitates a lot of accounting. SOR is taken from ESPN for ease of access. And yes, I know it still looks silly early on in the year (even after 5+ weeks of games played), but considering how much I converge with it by the end of the year, I find it prudent to include. It is not the only metric I consider but it's the easiest to compare with my rankings.\r\n\r\nHopefully this ages better than my #2 Florida rank from last week...\r\n\r\nNOTE: I'm going to be honest, it is a goddamn *mess* sorting out the 1-loss SEC teams, along with the various weak-resume undefeated and strong-resume 1-loss teams from other conferences. For now, I'm going to lean heavily on SEC's quite favorable OoC performance to date and include them over most other serious contenders, but this can and will change with further data. Still not certain about everything below the top 10 (hell, maybe even beyond Ohio State).\r\n\r\nAlso, apologies for not getting everything super-detailed, I unfortunately needed to catch up on rest and missed the majority of my window to do so. Will hopefully have time next week, but no promises. See last week for what I intend to do if time permits :)\r\n\r\n| TEAMS DROPPING OUT (DO): #11 UCLA Bruins [4-0, 2-0 B1G], #15 Duke Blue Devils [4-0, 1-0 ACC], #22 UMass Minutemen [4-1, 1-1 MAC], #25 South Florida Bulls [4-1, 1-1 American]\r\n\r\n| HONORABLE MENTIONS (HM): UCLA Bruins [4-0, 2-0 B1G], Duke Blue Devils [4-0, 1-0 ACC], Nebraska Cornhuskers [5-0, 2-0 B1G], Houston Cougars [4-1, 1-1 Big 12], Northwestern Wildcats [3-1, 1-1 B1G], Arizona Wildcats [4-1, 1-1 Big 12], USC Trojans [5-1, 2-1 B1G], Wisconsin Badgers [4-1, 2-0 B1G], Minnesota Golden Gophers [4-1, 2-0 B1G], New Mexico Lobos [4-1, 1-0 MWC]\r\n\r\n| ESPN SOR, FPI, and other useful metrics: https://www.espn.com/college-football/fpi/_/view/resume\r\n\r\nPRESEASON BALLOT: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/73954 | WEEK 2 BALLOT: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/74364/ | WEEK 3 BALLOT: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/74836/ | WEEK 4 BALLOT: https://poll.redditcfb.com/ballot/75247/ | WEEK 5 BALLOT: 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Big 12] (NEW) | SOR: #14 | Notable Results: W 28-17 vs HM Arizona [4-1] |" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "[4-1, 1-1 B1G] (-2) | SOR: #16 | Notable Results: W 16-13 vs Iowa State [3-2], W 20-19 @ Michigan [3-2*], L 14-31 vs #8 Ohio State [4-1] |" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "[4-1, 1-1 SEC] (NEW) | SOR: #6 | Notable Results: W 38-13 @ HM Minnesota [4-1], W 31-24 vs #13 Missouri [4-1], L 23-56 vs #2 Alabama [5-0] |" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "[4-1, 1-1 SEC] (NEW) | SOR: #25 | Notable Results: L 24-31 @ #12 Mississippi State [4-1], W 45-17 vs #16 Florida [4-1] |" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "[3-1, 1-0 Big 12] (+2) | SOR: #35 | Notable Results: L 10-24 @ Tulsa [3-2], W 39-31 vs 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Winner of UGA Bama will take their place this week because Oklahoma looks awful and that win won't be as valuable. Best wins OSU, Tennessee." }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Look dominant against some surprisingly good teams but I'd believe you if you told me that Kentucky and Miss St (both who should be ranked right now) end the year unranked with 4-5 losses. Best offense in the country currently in terms of weapons at each position. Best wins Miss St. Kentucky. Currently have the second best record but could change greatly over the next few weeks." }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "have yet to be challenged but look really good. They've played three of the 4 worst SEC teams and certainly the three worst offenses. No doubt the UGA defense is good but likely will come down to Earth soon. Have played Oklahoma's defense which is good but statistically had their worst outing and looked pedestrian at times despite the scoreline. Best wins Oklahoma, Vandy?" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "Slowed down some with some pseudo competition but still dominated. Miami has to excuse to not win the ACC. Best wins Clemson, wake forest" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "Surprising dog fight through some of this game with UNC. I walked away from that guy with higher respect to UNC than lost respect to ND though. Wisconsin win still looks pretty good. Best wins are Wisconsin and UNC" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Passing the eye test and Jeremiah Smith is the best football player on the field this year. Best win Iowa. " }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "Like the past 2 years, it's impossible to know how good Indiana is because they just haven't played anyone notable. I considered putting them lower but letting their natty cloud my judgment. First real test is in two weeks." }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "still very high on Ole Miss with Trinidad. I don't think they have anything to worry about. Best win over LSU and Louisville" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "Can tech make it through the Big 12 undefeated? Also haven't really played anyone outside of Houston" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Will also be fine, still a good offense with surprisingly strong defense but their wins are deteriorating. Best wins are Texas AM and Clemson. Need to keep winning big or get to the meat of their schedule." }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 56, "handle": "kentucky", "name": "Kentucky Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 76, "handle": "smu", "name": "SMU Mustangs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 38, "handle": "wisconsin", "name": "Wisconsin Badgers" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76158, "username": "zenverak", "ballot_type": "Hybrid", "submission_date": "2026-10-05T14:40:30.780833+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Hybrid, mostly computer but will use hybrid", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 2, "team": { "id": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 3, "team": { "id": 67, "handle": "notredame", "name": "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 4, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 55, "handle": "georgia", "name": "Georgia Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 153, "handle": "jamesmadison", "name": "James Madison Dukes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 184, "handle": "northdakotastate", "name": "North Dakota State Bison" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 39, "handle": "arizona", "name": "Arizona Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 33, "handle": "northwestern", "name": "Northwestern Wildcats" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "" } ] }, { "id": 76237, "username": "Zloggt", "ballot_type": "Human", "submission_date": "2026-10-06T14:31:00.945846+00:00", "overall_rationale": "Every five teams make up one tier, for a total of five tiers overall. Unfortunately, having to work on Saturdays makes me unable to keep as keen of an eye on the results as I was before...but still, I can work with what I got, you know?", "entries": [ { "rank": 1, "team": { "id": 22, "handle": "texas", "name": "Texas Longhorns" }, "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": 7, "handle": "miami", "name": "Miami Hurricanes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 5, "team": { "id": 34, "handle": "ohiostate", "name": "Ohio State Buckeyes" }, "rationale": "Recovering more and more from that choke against Texas...must applaud that, I say..." }, { "rank": 6, "team": { "id": 51, "handle": "alabama", "name": "Alabama Crimson Tide" }, "rationale": "Fine...Bama has earned the ranked win tiebreaker over Indiana at the moment..." }, { "rank": 7, "team": { "id": 26, "handle": "indiana", "name": "Indiana Hoosiers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 8, "team": { "id": 66, "handle": "byu", "name": "BYU Cougars" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 9, "team": { "id": 60, "handle": "olemiss", "name": "Ole Miss Rebels" }, "rationale": "...if Ole Miss gets smacked around by Florida, who then gets smacked around by Missouri the next week after...then maybe the Tigers would deliver an all-time beatdown of the Rebs in two weeks' time (or maybe Mizzou is the one to get smacked around idk lol)! " }, { "rank": 10, "team": { "id": 23, "handle": "texastech", "name": "Texas Tech Red Raiders" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 11, "team": { "id": 57, "handle": "lsu", "name": "LSU Tigers" }, "rationale": "Alas, losing to a team that got beat up by another team the week after, before THAT team also gets beat up the week after that...it kind of makes the Magnolia Bowl loss sting even more than it does!" }, { "rank": 12, "team": { "id": 48, "handle": "utah", "name": "Utah Utes" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 13, "team": { "id": 43, "handle": "oregon", "name": "Oregon Ducks" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 14, "team": { "id": 59, "handle": "missouri", "name": "Missouri Tigers" }, "rationale": "Whew, the one time I overrode my homerism and knocked Mizzou out of my poll, they go and pull off that stunt...can't say I'm upset though lol!" }, { "rank": 15, "team": { "id": 54, "handle": "florida", "name": "Florida Gators" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 16, "team": { "id": 62, "handle": "tennessee", "name": "Tennessee Volunteers" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 17, "team": { "id": 20, "handle": "oklahomastate", "name": "Oklahoma State Cowboys" }, "rationale": "The Pokes are in a bit of a weird flux where the Oregon win ages better...and the Tulsa loss starts to age a bit worse too...guess it all cancels out in the end?" }, { "rank": 18, "team": { "id": 27, "handle": "iowa", "name": "Iowa Hawkeyes" }, "rationale": "Ouch!!!" }, { "rank": 19, "team": { "id": 58, "handle": "mississippistate", "name": "Mississippi State Bulldogs" }, "rationale": "Even more ouch!!!" }, { "rank": 20, "team": { "id": 109, "handle": "boisestate", "name": "Boise State Broncos" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 21, "team": { "id": 46, "handle": "ucla", "name": "UCLA Bruins" }, "rationale": "" }, { "rank": 22, "team": { "id": 73, "handle": "houston", "name": "Houston Cougars" }, "rationale": "Maybe I need to show more respect to the Coogs...am I not doing it enough?" }, { "rank": 23, "team": { "id": 47, "handle": "usc", "name": "USC Trojans" }, "rationale": "Would MUCH rather keep SMU on than USC...but alas, the Oregon loss is \"less\" bad than how the Louisville one looks..." }, { "rank": 24, "team": { "id": 32, "handle": "nebraska", "name": "Nebraska Cornhuskers" }, "rationale": "Maybe (if not probably) not as good as Wisconsin, but the 5-0 record gives them the nod for now..." }, { "rank": 25, "team": { "id": 10, "handle": "pittsburgh", "name": "Pittsburgh Panthers" }, "rationale": "Same situation applies to Pitt vs. SMU as well..." } ] } ] }