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BJ Rains’s 2026 Week 5 AP Ballot

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BJ Rains submitted a complete 25-team ballot for the 2026 Week 5 AP football poll. This ballot includes 0 teams outside the published Top 25 and omits 0 teams inside it.

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1.4425 Shared Teams Compared
0 / 0Compared With Consensus
1.67
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Week 5 Ballot

Positive differences mean a higher vote than the AP rank; negative differences mean a lower vote.

VoteTeam
#1Texas#10
#2Notre Dame#3+1
#3Georgia#2-1
#4Ohio State#5+1
#5Indiana#7+2
#6Miami#4-2
#7Alabama#6-1
#8Ole Miss#9+1
#9LSU#10+1
#10BYU#8-2
#11Texas Tech#110
#12Utah#120
#13Oregon#130
#14Missouri#140
#15Florida#16+1
#16Tennessee#15-1
#17USC#19+2
#18Houston#22+4
#19Mississippi State#17-2
#20Boise State#23+3
#21Iowa#20-1
#22Oklahoma State#18-4
#23SMU#24+1
#24Pittsburgh#25+1
#25UCLA#21-4
NRArizonaNRBoth Unranked
NRDukeNRBoth Unranked
NRJames MadisonNRBoth Unranked
NRKentuckyNRBoth Unranked
NRMinnesotaNRBoth Unranked
NRNebraskaNRBoth Unranked
NRNorth Dakota StateNRBoth Unranked
NRNorthwesternNRBoth Unranked
NRWake ForestNRBoth Unranked
NRWisconsinNRBoth Unranked

Biggest Outliers in This Ballot

VoterTeamVote
BJ RainsHouston#18#22+4
BJ RainsOklahoma State#22#18-4
BJ RainsUCLA#25#21-4
BJ RainsBoise State#20#23+3
BJ RainsBYU#10#8-2

Added and Omitted Teams

Teams this voter includes outside the AP Top 25, and Top 25 teams they leave out.

VoterTeamVote
No inclusion differences in these ballots.

Conference Comparisons

2026 Week 5 · This ballot only. Positive placement means higher than the AP rank; additions and omissions stay separate.

Conference / GroupShared Teams
SEC-0.220 / 09
Big Ten0.000 / 06
Big 12-0.400 / 05
ACC0.000 / 03
Pac-12+3.000 / 01
American—0 / 00
Mountain West—0 / 00
Sun Belt—0 / 00
MAC—0 / 00
Conference USA—0 / 00
FBS Independents+1.000 / 01

Bars share a −3 to +3 scale. No shared ranked teams means no placement score (—). One ballot does not establish a lasting conference tendency.