Travbowman's Week 13 Ballot

RankTeamReason
1 UConn That Xavier game was something
2 Purdue Survived the Rutgers trip
3Houston Huge trip to Lawrence this weekend looming
4 North Carolina Keep winning games even on the road.
5 Tennessee Had a tough call between 5 and 6. Either of these teams are interchangeable
6Wisconsin At Nebraska, home for Purdue is a gigantic week for the Badgers
7 Arizona Haven't won more than two in a row since starting 8-0. Somehow still lead the Pac 12
8 Creighton I don't think they've played like a top 8 team, but someone had to occupy this slot
9Kansas It's weird but they feel worse than a 16-4 team somehow
10Marquette Top 3 of Big East starting to separate themselves
11 Dayton Not going to drop them too much for a road loss
12 Auburn Would like to see them win a road game vs a top 100 opponent
13Utah State Have a decent shot at playing the opening weekend in SLC
14 Iowa State Had them unranked last week. I was wrong
15Kentucky Fun opportunity at home vs Tennessee this weekend
16 Texas Tech Didn't have these guys ranked last week either. I was also wrong on that
17 San Diego State Big week vs CSU and USU coming up
18 Duke They have the talent and the metrics, they just really don't have a lot of big wins still
19 Illinois Same thing as Duke's situation
20Florida Atlantic Game winning threes are always fun to watch
21 Alabama 109 points. In regulation. Sheesh
22 Baylor Remember just two weeks ago when they were 3-0 in conference?
23 Colorado State Early hot start earned them a lot of leash on my list. Losing four of six has almost exhausted it
24 Oklahoma Basically the same situation as Colorado St
25 New Mexico Made Nevada look terrible last night

Overall Rationale

Just missed: Indiana St, BYU, Clemson, Utah, Memphis