Stepkeyt's Week 9 Ballot

RankTeamReason
1 Michigan
2 Arizona
3Iowa State Such an interesting schedule, played some good teams and then some really bad teams.
4 UConn
5 Gonzaga
6Vanderbilt
7 Duke
8 Purdue
9Michigan State
10Nebraska I am still really high on this team I know the predictive metrics don't match this quite yet but the resume metrics are good and this team can play
11 Houston Almost the opposite of Nebraska, elite preditice metrics but the resume is just okay. not many super big wins compared to some teams on this list.
12 Illinois
13BYU
14 Alabama
15Kansas
16 North Carolina
17 Louisville Poor Matchup versus Tennesee, Overall body of work Lousiville is better so far
18 Utah State
19 Texas Tech
20Villanova
21 Tennessee
22 Arkansas
23 Virginia
24 Iowa
25 USC

Overall Rationale

No Previous ranks will be added for this, as with the lack of games, I decided to go back to audit my own rankings and correct some overreactions to specific teams. The most notable will be teams like Louisville, Texas Tech, and Tennessee, which were lower than they should have been, and some teams that were a bit too high, like Georgia, Virginia, and USC. These teams climbed up my rankings with a few losses and just winning. I felt I had to adjust how these teams should be valued, and Georgia is still among the teams I am considering, as is Saint Louis, which I ranked last week.