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.

Notre Dame hates America.

You mean 1%?

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

At this point in the season the only thing that I want is for Navy-Army to be an undefeated match-up.

Seeing Michigan fans at the bar watching this game is 👌

I haven’t watched any of their games, but how in the world is FSU so bad? This must be the worst that a pre-season ranked team (at least up as high as 10(!)) has ever performed, right?

I might just be blind but I think ULM is missing from the Others receiving votes.

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.

They’re the one opening the door.

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):

MSU got this and you can’t convince me otherwise

I completely overlooked the ballots. That’s spicy!

Michigan State receiving votes 👀 (2, so that might mean that someone had them at 24?)

Someone better start counting to confirm that OP isn’t hiding a file from us.

Edit: Editing this 3 months later because this is my most recent comment and the typo is haunting me.

How cool! I had the manga when I was a kid and absolutely adored it. Totally forgot that it existed.

I imagine they mean M. Night’s 2010 movie, The Last Airbender. I thought this was pretty obvious, but upon Googling learned that his film was not called Avatar: The Last Airbender like the show is.

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, although as many have mentioned it gets pretty wild towards the end. I have no nostalgia for the original, but watched it a few months before this one and the two contrast really well. For one, Thom Yorke’s soundtrack is absolutely stunning and such an interesting choice considering Goblin’s music in the original.

Apple Music is more in-line with Spotify. You can’t buy music through it; it’s for streaming only.

I'm not really a JRPG person at all, but I picked up a SteamDeck with hopes of getting myself back into gaming and kicked up Final Fantasy X on a whim. I'm probably about half way through and having a great time so far. I grew up watching my brother play a lot of FF games (although I can't say that I remember any of them ever being beaten), so I have a soft spot for them.

I'm not really sure what I'm going to play next. I have a list of other JRPGs that I'd like to play, but I also started playing Suikoden II, so if I stick with it I'll probably play something non-JRPG on the side to try and avoid burning myself out on the genre.