RagingLasagna's Week 17 Ballot
| Rank | Team | Reason |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Houston | We were Purdue and UConn 1A and 1B for like 6 weeks and now here we are. Congrats Cougs (shoutout Zach Wilson) |
| 2 | Purdue | A week later and we have learned losing to Jake Diebler is actually a privilege |
| 3 | UConn | I know I ride for Creighton as much as maybe anyone in here but we can't be losing like that fellas |
| 4 | Tennessee | Dalton Knecht is a lock first team All-American right??? |
| 5 | Marquette | They won games this week scoring more than 54 points |
| 6 | North Carolina | Held a team to 44 points. Football team should take some notes sometime |
| 7 | Arizona | Washington State is not a bad loss *this year* but you still have to win that game if you're Tommy Lloyd |
| 8 | Kansas | Don't like natty chances without McCullar |
| 9 | Iowa State | A Houston loss is not bad by any means but you still had a negative point differential on the week |
| 10 | Duke | YOU'VE BEEN BOOPIED |
| 11 | Creighton | Win over UConn outweighs a loss to white suit Pitino in the Garden |
| 12 | Auburn | Everyone around them lost and they won a true road game |
| 13 | Saint Mary's | That 0 in the conference loss column is doing a lot of heavy lifting |
| 14 | Alabama | Highest ranked team this week without 20 wins |
| 15 | Baylor | Usually an 0-2 week is more punishing but everyone else in that area of my rankings also lost so Baylor should really be thankful for losing |
| 16 | Kentucky | Against my morals ranking them behind Alabama after they just beat them but one team lost to Kentucky and the other lost to LSU |
| 17 | Illinois | Hey another week of making sure Illinois isn't 10 or 14 (derogatory) |
| 18 | South Carolina | Hey drink if you've heard this one before, but everyone else around them lost so they get a boost from something very similar to the moon boots in Subway Surfers |
| 19 | Dayton | 3 conferences losses in the A10 and still ranked 19? All 3 were true road games by a combined 11 points |
| 20 | Gonzaga | This might just be for the top 20 matchup push this weekend in Moraga |
| 21 | Utah State | Beat my pookie bear love bug honey bear Aztecs |
| 22 | San Diego State | I cannot tell you how frustrating it is to rank 2 different MWC teams every single week bc THEY ALL KEEP BEATING EACH OTHER |
| 23 | Washington State | Season sweep of Arizona is enough to hold firm in the 21-25 camp despite the loss to the fighting Herm Edwards's |
| 24 | Florida | OT loss at Alabama not enough to drop them out since my bubble teams last week were not convincing enough to take these spots |
| 25 | Texas Tech | It was between them and TCU for this spot and oh my god look at that they played each other and Tech won happy #25 vote Lubbock |
Overall Rationale
HM: TCU, Wisconsin, Colorado State, Boise State, South Florida