Gabe_i_guess's Week 10 Ballot

Rank	Team	Reason
1	Michigan	We all saw what they did to USC. 3 straight top 25 wins by 30+. Can't keep them #2 any longer
2	Arizona	The Wildcats have also been insanely dominant, and in a normal year would be the easy #1, but Michigan exists
3	Iowa State
4	UConn	The Huskies continue to dominate even in conference play (though the Big East seems weak), so I'm jumping them when comparing them to some others I had above them
5	Purdue	The Boilermakers looked more solid this week than Houston and Duke did, and they've played a comparable schedule. I just feel more confident in Purdue right now
6	Houston	Really didn't impress this week, and while I still think they're good, I currently feel more confident in Purdue so the Boilermakers jump
7	Duke	Duke got scares from GT and FSU both, and neither of those teams have impressed to this point, so I'm backing a bit off of the Blue Devils
8	Gonzaga	Nearly blew a game at USD and needed a huge comeback vs Seattle, just like Duke, I just feel a bit more confident right now in the teams above them
9	BYU
10	Nebraska	Huge win vs Sparty, Nebraska now has two top 25 wins and looks really good
11	Alabama	Stomped a solid Yale team and then did the same to Kentucky, Alabama looks really good right now
12	Vanderbilt
13	Michigan State	After playing strangely close vs not amazing teams, Sparty finally takes a loss to a really good Nebraska team. They still look good, but I'm really starting to worry
14	Illinois
15	Arkansas	Picked up a huge win vs Tennessee. The Razorbacks seem to have one of the(if not THE) best freshman duos in the country with Acuff and Thomas
16	North Carolina	Took an L at SMU. The Tar Heels still have an impressive resume and look good, but they did get a little humbled by the Mustangs.
17	Texas Tech
18	Louisville	The Cardinals pick up their 3rd L at Stanford. In hindsight, their wins aren't that amazing, and they've lost their two hardest games (in retrospect). They're still good, but a bit worrying
19	Iowa	Beat UCLA pretty easily. This ranking is more about them being consistent and a lot of teams I had near the bottom of these rankings losing
20	Georgia	Solid win vs Auburn. I'm unsure how good this team truly is, but they just picked up almost definitely their best win of the year to this point
21	Tennessee	Got handed their 4th loss at Arkansas. I think Tennessee is good, they just have some problems they NEED to fix if they want to go far or win the SEC
22	SMU	SMU only has losses at Vandy and to LSU, and they just took care of UNC pretty easily. The Mustangs may be fools gold, but right now they look kind of good
23	Villanova	Nova's only losses are BYU and Michigan, and while their wins haven't been super great, they've all around looked solid
24	Saint Louis	The Billikens only have one loss by 1 to Stanford on a neutral court, and they've really handled most of the rest of their schedule with relative ease, including some decent mid major wins
25	Virginia	Took a loss in a wild game at VT, but almost instantly made up for it by slaughtering NC State on the road. The Hoos barely hold onto their ranked status, for now

Overall Rationale

New Year, new ranking. I decided to shuffle around the top of my ranking due to some of the results from this last week, as well as just reconsidering what I think about some teams compared to others. I continue to try and reward winning games over quality losses, but I'm also trying to not just rank teams high for playing nobodies (EX. Miami (Ohio) is still just outside my top 25 because they just now are starting to play some more non-quad 4 games). As conference play forces teams to play more quality opponents, we'll really learn which teams are real and which aren't. Just for anyone curious, other teams I seriously considered this week (not really in order): UCF, Saint Mary's, Miami (Ohio), Utah State, and Seton Hall