Rank | Team | Reason |
---|---|---|
1 | Gonzaga | Tier S | I'll give this to Gonzaga until Baylor returns from pause because teams coming off pause are generally moderately worse than normal |
2 | Baylor | |
3 | Michigan | Welcome back! |
4 | Ohio State | Tier A |
5 | Houston | |
6 | Virginia | How are people calling a three-loss high major team (with one of the losses to Gonzaga) overrated?? |
7 | Illinois | Is Nebraska good, actually? |
8 | Villanova | And Creighton blew Villanova out. Man, Nebraska's a weird state. |
9 | Texas Tech | Tier B |
10 | Oklahoma | I have them as about equal to Texas Tech but I'll give the Red Raiders the extra point on account of sweeping the Sooners. |
11 | Alabama | 115! Christ! |
12 | USC | Gonna win the Pac-12 by a wide margin |
13 | Texas | |
14 | Iowa | Metric darling because their losses are close and their wins are not |
15 | West Virginia | |
16 | Creighton | They're back from the dead! |
17 | Florida State | The First Game Back Blues struck but they still won. Barnes is so good. |
18 | Arkansas | |
19 | Loyola Chicago | 1-1 @ Drake with the loss by one and the win by 27 is a pretty good outcome for both Loyola and two-bid MVC |
20 | Virginia Tech | Tier D |
21 | Tennessee | |
22 | Clemson | |
23 | Kansas | Eek! A blue blood! |
24 | LSU | Except for getting demolished by Alabama twice, they don't have a super bad loss yet. |
25 | Colorado State | Fringe: Rutgers, Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma State, Xavier, Drake, Wright State |