Place Team Points #1 Votes Movement Noisy 1 Texas 172 4 - West Virginia (325) 2 Michigan 160 1 - Texas 3 Penn State 141 0 +3 Michigan 4 Ohio State 137 1 - Penn State 5 Florida State 136 0 -2 Ohio State 6 Washington 134 0 -1 Florida State 7 Georgia 127 1 - Washington 8 Oregon 122 0 - Georgia 9 Oklahoma 122 0 +1 Oregon 10 USC 121 0 -1 Oklahoma 11 Alabama 101 0 +1 USC 12 Notre Dame 99 0 +2 Alabama 13 Washington State 89 0 +3 Notre Dame 14 Ole Miss 75 0 +5 Washington State 15 North Carolina 71 0 -2 North Carolina 16 Miami (FL) 66 0 +1 North Carolina 17 Oregon State 62 0 +6 Miami (FL) 18 Kentucky 61 0 NR Oregon State 19 Tennessee 41 0 +2 Kentucky 20 Duke 39 0 -5 Tennessee 21 Missouri 34 0 +3 Duke 22 Louisville 31 0 +2 Missouri 23 Texas A&M 27 0 -1 Louisville 24 Utah 25 0 -13 Texas A&M 25 Fresno State 21 0 NR Utah
Others receiving votes: Maryland (19), Iowa (14), LSU (9), Air Force (5), Kansas State (5), Wisconsin (4), James Madison (2), Rutgers (2), Kansas (1)
Link to check out the spreadsheet of responses here
I want to thank whoever game Kansas the 1 vote. I was the only one giving them any votes the first 3 weeks so it means a lot to see them get respect even after I dropped them from my ballot.
If Kansas can win the next two to get bowl eligible, they will be back in my ballot too.
I dropped them to 25 from 15 after their L (I didn’t vote prior to week 5). It’s their first loss and I still think they’re pretty good. Well, at least on one side of the ball.
This many first place votes (proportionally speaking; doesn’t look like we got a ton of ballots this week) makes me nervous. Especially before the biggest game left on the schedule.
Yeah it looks like we’re settling on a #1 here, good luck holding onto that!
I only care about that natty trophy. Can I get a natty after rooting for a punching bag and going to school during the Charlie Strong years?
As always some notes:
- Biggest winner was Oregon State, advancing 6 spots by beating Utah
- This ignores kentucky, who essentially moved up 8 spots by beating an unranked florida at home to go from unranked to 18th
- Biggest loser was Utah, dropping 13 spots by losing to Oregon State
- Penn State was only ranked 3rd or higher in 1 poll
- c/cfb votes in fresno state over LSU, once again showing those cowards at the ap and coaches what’s up
- #15 UNC, #18 kentucky, and #20 Duke, and Kansas only getting a single point. It’s a weird year for cbb
- WVU gets a single win and all the sudden the mountaineer bandwagon is unstoppable
I’m curious, who were your top 5, if you filled out the ballot.
My ballot this week:
- Michigan
- Texas
- Penn State
- Oregon
- Ohio State
- Georgia
- Washington
- Tennessee
- Florida State
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Kentucky
- Ole Miss
- Notre Dame
- Miami (FL)
- LSU
- North Carolina
- Washington State
- Iowa
- Texas A&M
- Oregon State
- Utah
- Louisville
- Duke
My rankings are totally subjective, based on my feel for the vibe of a program. Tennessee is fairly ranked here and I will die on that hill with no air support. I’m really high on Michigan even though they ain’t played no one Pawwwwllll. I’m not very high on USC because they ain’t played no one Pawwwwllll. FSU I’m also relatively low on. Sure they beat an ok LSU team week 0, but they haven’t raised my eyebrow that much since. I’ve had georgia about this low for the past few weeks, but I’ve also had kentucky about this high the past few weeks. I’ve kept LSU this high because it felt like they handled that loss pretty well, but the longer this week has gone on the more I’ve doubted that. I also just really like the brand of Iowa football, so I’ll be quick to vote for them.
FSU feels like they’re waiting on the epic loss that’ll send them nose diving out of the rankings. They’ve had too many stupid close calls.
In my mind FSU, Texas, and Penn State are all waiting on that meltdown loss. But until then, I think top-10 rankings for them are justifiable.
With respect to Texas, you shut your whore mouth :)
Honestly, I don’t think we’ve really come nearly as close as FSU. The indicator to me is the multiple single score wins over teams that are just atrocious.
Edit: Wording wasn’t quite what I wanted.
Yeah Texas (and Penn State) does look to be on more solid footing than FSU.
Also I have Georgia half-included in that mental list. I forget the exact stat, but something like “in 5 of their 6 games, they’ve been down by 10 or more in the first half”. Wouldn’t be too surprised if they lost one of their games—they have 4 now-ranked teams remaining on their schedule
I think Georgia losing at this point is basically a coin flip. Question is…who gets into the CFP between a one-loss SEC team and an undefeated Pac champ?
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Kind of a bummer that Fresno State and Air Force aren’t getting much love. And Kentucky shooting all the way up to 19? It JuSt MeAnS mOre (pay no mind to the fact that my ballot had them at 14 - it’s just a dumb computer and doesn’t know better)
Fresno State is occupying the same part of my brain cuse was last week, and a loss from say Louisville would likely see them make my ballot.
