Kent State University LogoBlackSquirrelMed's Ballot for Week 9 of 2018-19

Submitted on Monday, December 31, 2018 at 12:41AM EST
RankTeamReason
1 University of Michigan Logo Michigan UM, Duke, and KU are practically identical to me right now, I just value SOR most so I'm putting UM here for consistency
2 Duke University Logo Duke
3 University of Kansas Logo Kansas
4 University of Oklahoma Logo Oklahoma Stop sleeping on this team because you got sick of Trae Young last year, he's gone but OU is still here and has #6 SOR and #19 noncon SOS
5 University of Nevada, Reno Logo Nevada
6 University of Virginia Logo Virginia
7 Gonzaga University Logo Gonzaga
8 Michigan State University Logo Michigan State
9 University at Buffalo Logo Buffalo Extremely high SOR and higher noncon SOS than most blue bloods, people dropped them WAY to much after a true road loss
10 Mississippi State University Logo Mississippi State Another team being slept on that the resume stats love
11 University of Tennessee Logo Tennessee (Buffalo rant cont.) plus Buffalo wasn't ranked high enough prior to their loss
12 University of Houston Logo Houston
13 Marquette University Logo Marquette Even i am not immune to the bias of the eye test
14 Indiana University Bloomington Logo Indiana
15 Florida State University Logo Florida State
16 Ohio State University Logo Ohio State
17 University of Kentucky Logo Kentucky
18 Texas Tech University Logo Texas Tech
19 Belmont University Logo Belmont Welcome to the "underrated mid-major" portion of my list, where I skip over blue-bloods with three losses
20 North Carolina State University Logo NC State
21 University of Toledo Logo Toledo
22 Auburn University Logo Auburn
23 Furman University Logo Furman still a great resume so far despite two straight losses
24 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Logo Nebraska tall corn make tall player who ball good
25 Kent State University Logo Kent State homerism plus two P6 road wins