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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • Was traveling last week and forgot to submit, but I’m back with another bad poll

    1. Oregon
    2. Indiana
    3. Miami
    4. BYU
    5. Army
    6. SMU
    7. Ohio State
    8. Penn State
    9. Boise State
    10. Tennessee
    11. Iowa State
    12. Notre Dame
    13. Washington State
    14. Pittsburgh
    15. Georgia
    16. Texas
    17. Lousiana
    18. Kansas State
    19. Ole Miss
    20. Texas A&M
    21. Tulane
    22. Sam Houston
    23. Memphis
    24. Navy
    25. Clemson

    Alabama down at #30 because they’ve played a game less than many other ranking two loss teams. Notably Ohio State up at #7 after dropping out of my top 25 two weeks ago.




  • My computer really doesn’t like Ohio State (#27) and Alabama (#34) after their respective losses. I spent too much time trying to over-fit the data and get them ranked higher before realizing that my computer must not be what is wrong and instead it’s everyone who thinks that Ohio State and Alabama should be ranked in the top 25.

    Anyways, why worry about anything when you have #1ndiana?

    1. Indiana
    2. BYU
    3. Miami (FL)
    4. Oregon
    5. Iowa State
    6. Army
    7. Pittsburgh
    8. Penn State
    9. Navy
    10. Texas
    11. Tennessee
    12. Notre Dame
    13. UNLV
    14. SMU
    15. LSU
    16. Memphis
    17. Kansas State
    18. Louisiana
    19. Georgia
    20. Illinois
    21. Clemson
    22. Liberty
    23. Washington State
    24. Texas A&M
    25. Duke





  • Guess what - I’m back and this week I’m just going to submit my awful computer poll in its completeness because where is the fun in being rational.

    I’ve modified the methodology slightly, but it’s still incredibly rudimentary and it hates two loss teams which is good because I hate them too. It still really favors teams that haven’t lost, but I’ve added some SOS and Conference Strength weight, so it kind of keeps teams in check but not really.

    1. Oregon
    2. Texas
    3. BYU
    4. Pittsburgh
    5. Miami (FL)
    6. Indiana
    7. Penn State
    8. Iowa State
    9. Army
    10. Texas Tech
    11. Navy
    12. Liberty
    13. Kansas State
    14. Texas A&M
    15. Clemson
    16. LSU
    17. Nebraska
    18. Boise State
    19. Notre Dame
    20. SMU
    21. Syracuse
    22. Alabama
    23. James Madison
    24. Ohio State
    25. UL Monroe

    Some fun facts: -It rates the SEC highest of all conferences (I have each conference start out level and it adjusts their strength based on out-of-conference performance; I haven’t actually looked at these records so I can’t speak to the validity of it). Followed by: Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 (congrats OSU and WSU for keeping it above the Group of 5 conferences). -It thinks that Florida State has had the more difficult schedule up to this point and that Army has had the softest.



  • Alright, you guys win, I’ll take the time to actually put something together. Ended up playing it pretty safe:

    Top 25
    1. Ohio State
    2. Texas
    3. Oregon
    4. Penn State
    5. Miami (FL)
    6. Alabama
    7. Georgia
    8. Tennessee
    9. Ole Miss
    10. Iowa State
    11. Clemson
    12. LSU
    13. BYU
    14. Oklahoma
    15. Texas A&M
    16. Boise State
    17. Kansas State
    18. Missouri
    19. Notre Dame
    20. Utah
    21. Indiana
    22. Pittsburgh
    23. Illinois
    24. SMU
    25. Texas Tech

    I tried throwing together a computer poll, but it’s pretty rudimentary and over-favors teams that have played more games (and won those extra grames):

    Bad Computer Top 25
    1. Indiana
    2. Miami (FL)
    3. Ohio State
    4. Texas
    5. Oregon
    6. Penn State
    7. Pittsburgh
    8. BYU
    9. Iowa State
    10. Texas A&M
    11. Navy
    12. Texas Tech
    13. Ole Miss
    14. Army
    15. Nebraska
    16. SMU
    17. Duke
    18. Syracuse
    19. LSU
    20. Virginia
    21. Colorado
    22. Clemson
    23. Arizona State
    24. Alabama
    25. Missouri
    26. Illinois
    27. Washington
    28. North Texas
    29. Rutgers
    30. Georgia
    31. Utah
    32. Kansas State
    33. Memphis
    34. Tennessee
    35. Oklahoma