Was traveling last week and forgot to submit, but I’m back with another bad poll

1. Oregon
2. Indiana
3. Miami
4. BYU
5. Army
6. SMU
7. Ohio State
8. Penn State
9. Boise State
10. Tennessee
11. Iowa State
12. Notre Dame
13. Washington State
14. Pittsburgh
15. Georgia
16. Texas
17. Lousiana
18. Kansas State
19. Ole Miss
20. Texas A&M
21. Tulane
22. Sam Houston
23. Memphis
24. Navy
25. Clemson

Alabama down at #30 because they’ve played a game less than many other ranking two loss teams. Notably Ohio State up at #7 after dropping out of my top 25 two weeks ago.

Notre Dame hates America.

My computer really doesn’t like Ohio State (#27) and Alabama (#34) after their respective losses. I spent too much time trying to over-fit the data and get them ranked higher before realizing that my computer must not be what is wrong and instead it’s everyone who thinks that Ohio State and Alabama should be ranked in the top 25.

Anyways, why worry about anything when you have #1ndiana?

1. Indiana
2. BYU
3. Miami (FL)
4. Oregon
5. Iowa State
6. Army
7. Pittsburgh
8. Penn State
9. Navy
10. Texas
11. Tennessee
12. Notre Dame
13. UNLV
14. SMU
15. LSU
16. Memphis
17. Kansas State
18. Louisiana
19. Georgia
20. Illinois
21. Clemson
22. Liberty
23. Washington State
24. Texas A&M
25. Duke

At this point in the season the only thing that I want is for Navy-Army to be an undefeated match-up.

Seeing Michigan fans at the bar watching this game is 👌

I haven’t watched any of their games, but how in the world is FSU so bad? This must be the worst that a pre-season ranked team (at least up as high as 10(!)) has ever performed, right?

I might just be blind but I think ULM is missing from the Others receiving votes.

Guess what - I’m back and this week I’m just going to submit my awful computer poll in its completeness because where is the fun in being rational.

I’ve modified the methodology slightly, but it’s still incredibly rudimentary and it hates two loss teams which is good because I hate them too. It still really favors teams that haven’t lost, but I’ve added some SOS and Conference Strength weight, so it kind of keeps teams in check but not really.

1. Oregon
2. Texas
3. BYU
4. Pittsburgh
5. Miami (FL)
6. Indiana
7. Penn State
8. Iowa State
9. Army
10. Texas Tech
11. Navy
12. Liberty
13. Kansas State
14. Texas A&M
15. Clemson
16. LSU
17. Nebraska
18. Boise State
19. Notre Dame
20. SMU
21. Syracuse
22. Alabama
23. James Madison
24. Ohio State
25. UL Monroe

Some fun facts: -It rates the SEC highest of all conferences (I have each conference start out level and it adjusts their strength based on out-of-conference performance; I haven’t actually looked at these records so I can’t speak to the validity of it). Followed by: Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac-12 (congrats OSU and WSU for keeping it above the Group of 5 conferences). -It thinks that Florida State has had the more difficult schedule up to this point and that Army has had the softest.

They’re the one opening the door.

Alright, you guys win, I’ll take the time to actually put something together. Ended up playing it pretty safe:

I tried throwing together a computer poll, but it’s pretty rudimentary and over-favors teams that have played more games (and won those extra grames):

MSU got this and you can’t convince me otherwise

I completely overlooked the ballots. That’s spicy!

Michigan State receiving votes 👀 (2, so that might mean that someone had them at 24?)

I imagine they mean M. Night’s 2010 movie, The Last Airbender. I thought this was pretty obvious, but upon Googling learned that his film was not called Avatar: The Last Airbender like the show is.

I think Mint is better out of the box than it used to be. I was on it maybe 5 or 6 years ago and had to troubleshoot a few issues, but I just came back to it a few months ago and everything worked flawlessly out of the box.

I’m relatively new to Mint, but I thought that sudo apt update just checked for updates and sudo apt upgrade -y was for actually installing the updates. I don’t see why that would break it though.

The one I have you can set temperature that it heats to and tell it to either hold that temperature or get to it and then it’ll just cool off if you don’t use it. It has more settings but I’ve just had it set to 194 for forever.

I will say that I swear I spent closer to $50-60 for mine but it’s at like $105 on Amazon right now which is absurd. But looking at the price history on camelcamelcamel the price really has climbed a bit over the past few years. It used to drop around $60-70 a bit. Ridiculous how expensive things are getting.

I’ve had a bonavita electric kettle for 5+ years and it’s been great. I just use it for heating up water ~daily and have zero complaints (not sure if there is anything else that you would be looking for an electric kettle to do). I’m pretty sure it was like $50 on Amazon.

I’ve had an Anker 2 port 3A charger for at least 5 years or so and don’t have any complaints about it. I’ve been an Anker fanboy for a while (albeit, I don’t buy a ton of electronics, but when I do need something Anker is my go-to), but I will say that doing some Googling recently it sounds like their quality might be going down. Just something to be aware of; I’ll probably keep buying from them unless I have a bad experience or keep hearing similar things. I’m just not aware of an alternative that’s as good as they have been.

I’ll take another look at it. I had a pihole setup and tried to switch it over when I moved to ATT but couldn’t find any DNS options. After some quick Googling the unanimous answer seemed to be that ATT doesn’t let you. But I’ll look into it again, I would love to get my pihole working again.