Texas takes back the #1 spot after the Vandyset. Vandy back in the rankings. Rutgers takes #24

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

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

A quick overview of my methodology. I’m sure you can find contradictions, but I do try to stick to this.

At this point in the season, I try to make the ranking 25% how good I think the team actually is, and 75% what the resume says. As we go on, the resume gets more bias.

A few principles that I try to apply.

1. If you are 5-0 or better, I’ll put you in. It is hard enough to get there, that even with an easier schedule, it should get you ranked. I do this for 2 reasons. First, I want to reward winning. Second, if greater 6 teams never get ranked despite what they do on the field, why bother to say they are apart of the league? Even if all these greater 6 drop a game, I’ll still try to put one or two of them up there, if I can justify it.
2. I try to use a blind resume, where you consider the resume’s content regardless of the name. The biggest effect that this has is that I effectively ignore head to head. You can look at my poll, and complain that I ranked Georgia above Alabama, and cry afoul that Alabama beat Georgia, and should be ahead. I don’t care, because Georgia has a better resume than Alabama. You can make the same complaint against my Texas A&M/Notre Dame ranking. It doesn’t change my results.
3. I value bad losses more than I do good wins. Again, going with Alabama and Georgia, I put more weight on the fact that Alabama lost to Vanderbilt, then I do that Alabama beat Georgia. I value reliability. If you can’t show up for the “easy wins”, then I will punish you much more than I will reward you for showing up for the big games.

My poll this week, I will take questions on everything except Tennessee’s ranking:

1. Texas
2. Ohio State
3. Oregon
4. Penn State
5. Georgia
6. Kentucky
7. LSU
8. Tennessee
9. Miami (FL)
10. Clemson
11. Ole Miss
12. Notre Dame
13. Iowa State
14. alabama
15. Michigan
16. Oklahoma
17. Nebraska
18. UNLV
19. Army
20. Indiana
21. Boise State
22. BYU
23. Navy
24. Illinois
25. SMU

My ballot (computer poll). It no longer thinks of Texas as a league of their own, as an Ohio State University is closing the gap due to Texas being on bye last week (thank goodness for that). Everyone’s darling Vanderbilt doesn’t crack the top 25 but it does have the biggest movement, rising 42 places.

Also, when I was ranking Sam Houston (never thought I’d say that) it made me think of other newcomers to FBS. Looks like Kennesaw State is not listed in the dropdowns for this poll.

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

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):

Taking all bets on how high Vandy gets ranked.

1:1000 1st

1:100 2 to 9th

1:50 10 to 15th

1:25 16 to 20th

1:5 21st to 25th

1:2 Not ranked but receives Votes.

Note: the bank and casino of Milkisklim will only pay out only in Beamer Bucks which is valued at nothing because that’s how much preparation SC did for this week.