Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 | Baylor | Skipped last week due to work. I feel like this is a good week for a completely fresh ballot! No poll inertia here. |
2 | Gonzaga | Also a disclaimer: THERE ARE NO EASY ROAD GAMES! Now, on with the poll... |
3 | Kansas | |
4 | San Diego State | Any team who's still undefeated at this point in the season needs to be in the top 5. |
5 | Louisville | |
6 | Florida State | |
7 | Dayton | They will likely lose one or two road games this year. Friday night was close, but not one of them. |
8 | Villanova | |
9 | Michigan State | |
10 | Seton Hall | |
11 | Duke | |
12 | West Virginia | |
13 | Oregon | This is the point where the poll started to get extremely difficult. Don't take any rankings after this too seriously. |
14 | Iowa | |
15 | Butler | |
16 | Kentucky | Seems like every top 25 team is going to have at least one completely perplexing loss this year. South Carolina was this team's. |
17 | Houston | |
18 | Maryland | |
19 | Auburn | |
20 | Rutgers | What world do we live in where Rutgers is ranked and UNC is in last place in their conference? |
21 | Arizona | Yeah they're awesome at home. But I want to see how they perform on the road before ranking them higher. |
22 | Illinois | |
23 | Colorado | |
24 | Memphis | |
25 | Liberty | I didn't want to rank them, but here we are. (Next 5: Texas Tech, UNI, Penn State, Florida, Arkansas) |