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Here's my ballot from my computer poll. Big movers include Washington, Kansas, Florida, Iowa State, and Syracuse moving up 20+ spots. There were several big losers this week including my Mountaineers, who I got to see lose to Baylor at home. But at least the tailgate was fun, right?? But the biggest loser is.... Western Kentucky losing to then 3-6 LA Tech.

1. Oregon
2. Indiana
3. Notre Dame
4. Ohio State
5. Texas
6. SMU
7. Ole Miss
8. Penn State
9. Alabama
10. Tulane
11. Georgia
12. South Carolina
13. Colorado
14. Clemson
15. Boise State
16. Miami (FL)
17. Army
18. Texas A&M
19. Arizona State
20. Tennessee
21. BYU
22. Baylor
23. Syracuse
24. Iowa State
25. James Madison

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Great breakdown! Utah lost so many ways on that drive. And the AD made such an ass of himself.

My poll really doesn't like Georgia either! It has been begrudgingly moving them up with each win. But they drop 10 spots after losing to the #11 team (according to my poll), behind five 2-loss teams and one 3-loss team.

My poll must not be impressed by their margin of victory (vs expectations) or something, even though that is a pretty small portion of the equation. Most of the rating comes from a modified ELO that only cares about win/loss.

Unsurprisingly, there was a lot of movement in my poll. Miami, Georgia, LSU, 💩sburgh, and Minnesota drop 10 or more places, with the last three dropping out of the Top 25. But this biggest loser is... Cincinnati (-27) after losing to WVU (more on that later).

The biggest winners will be no surprise: GT, UCLA, WVU, Rutgers, Kansas, and Duke all jumping 20+ spots. My home team of WVU makes an surprisingly large leap of 23 spots to 41st place with their win over then #38 Cincinnati (5-3). I'm torn about this win, because I don't want to give our AD any excuses to keep Neal Brown any longer than we need to...

1. Oregon
2. Indiana
3. Notre Dame
4. Ohio State
5. Texas
6. SMU
7. Ole Miss
8. Penn State
9. Alabama
10. BYU
11. Tennessee
12. Colorado
13. Miami
14. South Carolina
15. Clemson
16. Tulane
17. Army
18. Georgia
19. Boise State
20. Texas A&M
21. Louisville
22. Louisiana
23. Washington State
24. Kansas State
25. Arizona State

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Haha, yeah. That's really impressive that you did that well with single guesses. And a unicorn!

Yeah especially when you get down below 0.1

It may be flawed, but apparently it works pretty well of that's the only one that stood out to me.

But that begs the question, how do you determine the first top 25 teams if there's no top 25 team to beat? 😋

Houston?

Lots of upsets means there is a lot of movement in my computer poll. Pitt 💩, A&M, Penn State, VT, Kansas State, and Iowa State plummet. Meanwhile Georgia is climbing the rankings, whether my computer likes it or not!

1. Oregon
2. Indiana
3. Miami (FL)
4. Notre Dame
5. Ohio State
6. SMU
7. Texas
8. Georgia
9. Tennessee
10. BYU
11. Ole Miss
12. Penn State
13. LSU
14. Alabama
15. Boise State
16. Pittsburgh
17. Texas A&M
18. Colorado
19. Army
20. Louisville
21. Tulane
22. Minnesota
23. Clemson
24. South Carolina
25. Washington State

I use https://collegefootballdata.com/ which has an API, though I don't actually use it (yet). I just navigate to "Data" > "Games and Results" and export the 2024 FBS games to a csv file and use that.

It looks like one of the ballots double voted Notre Dame (9 & 10), Kansas State (19 & 21), and SMU (18 & 24), giving them an extra 16, 5, and 2 points respectively (if you remove the lower ranked).