2025
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Main Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| _fastball | 1 | |
| BallSoHerd | 1 | |
| Blazeth | 1 | |
| CambodianDrywall | 1 | |
| Cassiyus | 1 | Finally, a chance to rank them #1 without the stench of homer bias. #WeAre, baby. |
| ch1l1_ch33s3 | 1 | |
| COLU_BUS | 1 | |
| Corgi_Koala | 1 | |
| DarkLegend64 | 1 | |
| deadtofall12 | 1 | |
| DrKennethJNoisewater | 1 | |
| eclectic_tastes | 1 | I ranked Penn State #1 because they finally have legitimate receivers, arguably the best coordinator duo in the country, and a ridiculous amount of returning production on both sides of the ball. Hard to find a more complete roster heading into the season. |
| Hackasizlak | 1 | |
| Helifino | 1 | |
| ikindalikelemons | 1 | |
| nbingham196 | 1 | |
| NyquillusDillwad20 | 1 | |
| OldCoaly | 1 | Fewest amount of questions that needed to be answered. 30 seconds away from potentially making the championship last year and basically everyone returned. |
| Rakarei | 1 | |
| RegulatorRWF | 1 | |
| retnuh101 | 1 | |
| RiffRamBahZoo | 1 | |
| RollWarTideEagle | 1 | |
| studio_sally | 1 | (11-1), BIG TEN CHAMPION |
| tdoger | 1 | |
| titansfan174 | 1 | |
| 12panther | 2 | |
| Acm0028 | 2 | |
| ALStark69 | 2 | +1 |
| BananaBouquet | 2 | |
| BearsAreGreat1 | 2 | |
| Blooblod | 2 | |
| ChaseTheFalcon | 2 | |
| colton_97 | 2 | |
| cornholesurfer | 2 | |
| CptCheese | 2 | |
| cvsprinter1 | 2 | |
| D1N2Y | 2 | |
| EpicSchwinn | 2 | |
| fredmerc111 | 2 | |
| frone | 2 | |
| hascogrande | 2 | |
| Klaassy23 | 2 | |
| Lex_Ludorum | 2 | |
| LiptonCB | 2 | |
| Megalomanizac | 2 | |
| Muffinnnnnnn | 2 | |
| nemoran | 2 | |
| noahthearc | 2 | |
| Noelthemexican | 2 | |
| owlalwaysloveyew | 2 | |
| PHubbs | 2 | |
| Pollaski | 2 | |
| practicallybert | 2 | |
| Pure_Protein_Machine | 2 | |
| RheagarTargaryen | 2 | |
| sasmith2015 | 2 | |
| Sometimeswelose | 2 | |
| Striker743 | 2 | |
| TheZachster | 2 | |
| ToeInDigDeep | 2 | |
| UNC_Samurai | 2 | |
| VerySeriousBanana | 2 | |
| arrowfan624 | 3 | |
| Bank_Gothic | 3 | |
| bannista7 | 3 | |
| BosskOnASegway | 3 | |
| BRNXB0MBERS | 3 | |
| Charlemagne42 | 3 | Penn State is allergic to winning big games. Lucky for Penn State, they won't have any of those on their schedule until elimination season. Penn State will lose the conference championship (their first big game), but will white out a home playoff game against a sorely overrated SEC team, then fizzle in the quarters. Somehow they'll still be ranked #3. |
| CockADoodleBOOM | 3 | |
| CommodoreN7 | 3 | |
| cyberchaox | 3 | |
| Doogitywoogity | 3 | Solid team that could very well take the step forward and win it all this year, or flounder in the big games. Not that Penn State has ever had issues with big games, right? Right? |
| Drexlore | 3 | |
| GeauxTri | 3 | |
| GoBlueScrewOSU7 | 3 | |
| halldaylong | 3 | |
| HelioOne | 3 | |
| Hey_Its_Roomie | 3 | |
| Hugefootballfan44 | 3 | |
| HUSKEROYAL | 3 | |
| JBonkies | 3 | |
| JeromesNiece | 3 | |
| JustinMSU21 | 3 | |
| Longvols | 3 | |
| MahjongDaily | 3 | |
| malowry0124 | 3 | |
| manbeardawg | 3 | |
| MemeofMemeJTG999999 | 3 | End of Last Season: #4 (13-3) | Next Week: vs Nevada | Projected Bowl: Orange Bowl vs Alabama/Arizona State |
| MoneyManeVick | 3 | |
| Mr_Brews | 3 | |
| placid_salad | 3 | |
| plannedsickdays | 3 | |
| seaotter2 | 3 | |
| skuhlke | 3 | |
| SteemieRayVaughn | 3 | |
| TDenverFan | 3 | |
| the_neverdoctor | 3 | |
| w8w8 | 3 | |
| WarEagle9 | 3 | |
| woakley | 3 | Recruiting Rank #12 Poll Rank #5 Production Rank #7 Overall Weighted Number 7.95 |
| Xtremeloco | 3 | |
| Zloggt | 3 | Shall this be the year the Happy Valley Lions FINALLY become the B1G champions after years of playing second fiddle? |
| bwburke94 | 4 | |
| Casaiir | 4 | |
| Ch-i-ef | 4 | Time and time again, I overrate you and never learn my leason |
| Dropbackandpunt | 4 | |
| grtgbln | 4 | |
| HarbingerOfFun | 4 | |
| IceColdDrPepper_Here | 4 | |
| JamoRedhead | 4 | |
| kamiller2020 | 4 | |
| olmsted | 4 | |
| one98d | 4 | |
| Pikachu1989 | 4 | |
| Player_1_has_Joined | 4 | |
| Red261 | 4 | |
| shadowwingnut | 4 | |
| Staind075 | 4 | |
| TadKosciuszko | 4 | |
| TheNSAAgent777 | 4 | |
| vanburen1845 | 4 | |
| wameron | 4 | |
| bakonydraco | 5 | 75.352 |
| galacticdude7 | 5 | |
| Jakesnake42 | 5 | |
| jalexjsmithj | 5 | |
| Joester09 | 5 | |
| NotSoSuperNerd | 5 | 1.171 (9.5-2.5) |
| RegionalBias | 5 | James Franklin |
| RJEP22 | 5 | |
| SpadeRyker | 5 | |
| spmartin1993 | 5 | |
| T-Thugs | 5 | Penn State brings back a whole bunch of players from last year's final 4 team. They probably won't be ranked anywhere near the top of my rankings once the games start because they schedule like wimps and don't play a real game til week 4. A win over Oregon would probably shoot them back up though. |
| Terminal_BAS | 5 | |
| ya111101 | 5 | |
| kflinderman | 6 | |
| TaylorLeprechaun | 6 | |
| aggiebruin27 | 7 | |
| CFBHurts | 7 | |
| jthomas694 | 7 | |
| monkeymatt1836 | 7 | |
| djowen68 | 8 | |
| A_Rolling_Baneling | 10 |
Provisional Poll Voters
| User | Rank | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 70277027 | 1 | |
| AccessPhysical7252 | 1 | |
| AJ_CC | 1 | |
| atbrw | 1 | |
| bolts_win_again | 1 | |
| Buckeye_CFB | 1 | |
| Crelc3 | 1 | |
| Different-Salary2899 | 1 | |
| DownshiftGD | 1 | |
| dukemetoo | 1 | |
| FloridaBoy317 | 1 | |
| GoxxoG | 1 | |
| hbh110 | 1 | |
| hoovereatscowpoop | 1 | |
| ianmcmoney | 1 | |
| isrealball | 1 | |
| jcdehoff | 1 | |
| JJones927 | 1 | |
| jtchr33 | 1 | |
| kevinsdomain | 1 | |
| Kirkwood641 | 1 | |
| luciusetrur | 1 | |
| Luigiatl | 1 | |
| MainPeanut25 | 1 | Franklin’s best team ever |
| mccainjames11 | 1 | |
| mcdsmaster8824 | 1 | |
| Mission_Big_2145 | 1 | |
| mr_longfellow_deeds | 1 | |
| ndbfsu22 | 1 | |
| Noahsince2002 | 1 | |
| PeteyNice | 1 | |
| Piptit | 1 | |
| Protoco2 | 1 | |
| PSUMediaPA | 1 | |
| redwave2505 | 1 | |
| Rishik01 | 1 | Convicing a bunch of dudes to not go to NFL is proven to work |
| saquad69 | 1 | |
| slatibartifast3 | 1 | |
| soonertiger | 1 | |
| TheReformedBadger | 1 | |
| WebfootTroll | 1 | |
| _Junk_Rat_ | 2 | |
| AdministrativeAnt683 | 2 | |
| BertGallagher | 2 | |
| CardInternational753 | 2 | |
| cfbpeoplespoll | 2 | |
| Coteup | 2 | |
| energydan | 2 | |
| FrontRunner51 | 2 | |
| GoStateBeatEveryone | 2 | |
| headyhawk | 2 | |
| hurricaneatx | 2 | |
| Jay_Dubbbs | 2 | |
| Lefunnymaymays4lief | 2 | They’d be #1 if I knew Drew Allar will 100% make the big leap in year 3 (year 2 of Kotelnicki offense as well, who I’m very high on) and the new WR room are all hits. Best 1-2 RB punch in CFB, replacing Tom Allen and JaJuan Seider with Jim Knowles and Stan Drayton is A++ work from Franklin and admin |
| manbeqrpig | 2 | |
| MPotato23 | 2 | |
| OCD3ds | 2 | |
| Phoenix0114 | 2 | |
| quantum_jedi | 2 | Can any wide receivers step for the Nittany Lions up this year? If so, Penn State might finally breakthrough when it matters most. |
| Resolve-Opening | 2 | |
| sammyt21 | 2 | |
| Sflabuckeye13 | 2 | |
| The_Good_General | 2 | |
| thealbinotitan1 | 2 | Returning QB + success from last year |
| thehornedlamb | 2 | |
| thereaname | 2 | |
| True_Ad5324 | 2 | |
| twr96 | 2 | |
| Windoge_Master | 2 | |
| Aidanj927 | 3 | |
| Bereft13 | 3 | Power: 3, SoR: 5; LW: |
| brucewaynewins | 3 | |
| bruhstevenson | 3 | |
| chillmagic420 | 3 | |
| Dan20698 | 3 | |
| Dawg-Bite | 3 | |
| dawgfan24348 | 3 | |
| DodgerOfZion | 3 | |
| ETHTrillionaire | 3 | |
| Euphoric_Relative_13 | 3 | |
| Fhaksfha794 | 3 | |
| fm22fnam | 3 | |
| g_trechel | 3 | |
| gavinw24 | 3 | |
| GenuineBoss | 3 | |
| HouseShowTights | 3 | |
| JackWK_Gaming | 3 | |
| jbowen1 | 3 | |
| jonstark19 | 3 | |
| josh55134 | 3 | |
| journey1986 | 3 | |
| KansasChaser2021 | 3 | |
| KansasEF5Tornado | 3 | |
| Logamer1012 | 3 | |
| ManiacalBlazer | 3 | |
| Mascorn | 3 | |
| Menktenk | 3 | |
| NastyWideOuts | 3 | |
| Real_TSwany | 3 | With the most returning talent of anyone, and Jim Knowles now at DC, why not #2? Several reasons. While the vast majority of last year's team is returning, the Nittany Lions will definitely still feel the losses of their two departed superstars, Abdul Carter and Tyler Warren, in those early weeks. Furthermore, I still don't have too much confidence in Drew Allar's ability. From both of his seasons so far, he's struck me as "Sean Clifford 2: Electric Boogaloo." He's not particularly impressive, and has a history of critical mistakes in the clutchmost of moments. That's one of the worst things you can say about any quarterback. Will they feel these weaknesses more than Ohio State will feel their defensive losses? Only time will say, but I'm far more confident in the Buckeyes' offense, and until James Franklin proves that he can win on the big stages, especially against Ohio State, I'm not going to buy them being better as long as they're roughly equal in the metrics I prioritize during the season. |
| Redbogey98 | 3 | |
| Repulsive_Rub6443 | 3 | |
| scrambolambo | 3 | |
| scsd4222 | 3 | |
| sirvalkyerie | 3 | |
| slashbopzing | 3 | |
| thatoneguyD13 | 3 | Tier 1. All the pieces are there. Can they overcome the final hurdle? |
| TheBeekman8 | 3 | |
| throwaway_6786 | 3 | |
| tms42206 | 3 | |
| TolkienFan71 | 3 | |
| TommyWiseau22 | 3 | |
| Tornadohunter24 | 3 | |
| tvjbowe571 | 3 | Basically just chose Sark over Franklin, great roster |
| willbill182 | 3 | |
| Yelich04 | 3 | |
| ArlyntheAwesome | 4 | |
| ConstantPause1239 | 4 | B1G: 2 |
| DillyDillySzn | 4 | |
| Esb5415 | 4 | |
| Fantastic-Calendar-9 | 4 | |
| GeyWeyner12 | 4 | |
| GingerLeprechaun1 | 4 | |
| gonshpreds1 | 4 | |
| Holyachilles04 | 4 | |
| HopefulReb76 | 4 | |
| Kareem89086 | 4 | |
| kcspot | 4 | |
| laprasrules | 4 | |
| mauliknshah | 4 | |
| Middle_Wheel_5959 | 4 | |
| Mossed26 | 4 | |
| mthompson2320 | 4 | |
| pvadali | 4 | |
| samspopguy | 4 | |
| SortaDecent | 4 | |
| spencej98 | 4 | |
| SufferingfOrLife | 4 | |
| supercon21 | 4 | |
| xX_GIGA_MAN_Xx | 4 | Good talent, plus returning Allar with hopefully a bump in production. People say that this should be the year they finally make it over the hump like they didn't just make the CFP semifinals last year. The narratives around Penn State are just really weird. |
| Xy13 | 4 | |
| ALToidzz | 5 | |
| buzzingoffthetuffy | 5 | |
| Chipsahoy523 | 5 | |
| daredassdude | 5 | |
| geordieColt88 | 5 | |
| HideNZeke | 5 | |
| kcvtdc | 5 | |
| LoCh0_xX | 5 | |
| logace444444444 | 5 | |
| mill1634 | 5 | |
| nebsA1 | 5 | |
| PsychologicalFox8660 | 5 | |
| quadnips | 5 | |
| requiemsux | 5 | |
| samtaylor92 | 5 | |
| silfarion10 | 5 | |
| sroach91 | 5 | |
| wittingtarsier | 5 | |
| bigred91224 | 6 | |
| ckubi | 6 | |
| dubscurry30 | 6 | |
| EL-YEO | 6 | |
| ElyxUW | 6 | |
| Greyson04 | 6 | |
| Laschoni | 6 | |
| loganisfresh | 6 | |
| TheSleaze22 | 6 | |
| twitter_paulbd | 6 | |
| Underground_Bread | 6 | |
| usernamegoeshere763 | 6 | |
| Versigot | 6 | The Nittany Lion scares me |
| buccaneerboy22 | 7 | |
| carsonivey72 | 7 | |
| charmingcharles2896 | 7 | |
| Great_Huckleberry709 | 7 | |
| jibberishdhyukl | 7 | |
| msonar623 | 7 | |
| Quick-Newt-5651 | 7 | |
| RedBarracuda25 | 7 | I believe in Drew Allar's downfall |
| zmp1924 | 7 | |
| Prof_Pie | 8 | |
| Scruggerboy | 8 | |
| SomerandomIDFBfan | 11 | |
| grahamca | 12 | T1ˢᵗ W/L, T14ᵗʰ Predicted Wins, 8ᵗʰ Team Strength, T1ˢᵗ Quality of Wins |
| CakeEaters | 23 |
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