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Message: [QUOTE="LETTERL, post: 3815316, member: 4687"] I have sort of adopted a policy in my BY Top 25 ballot that if you aren't playing, even if it's something out of your control like COVID, you shouldn't be ranked above teams that are putting their records on the line, even if it is against lesser teams. In the previous two BY ballots, I had Louisville in the #5 position because they were either not playing or were coming off a layoff, and I had NC State at #2 because they had continued to play. This week, I moved Louisville to #1, UCONN to #2 and dropped NC State to #4 (and behind South Carolina, a team they had beaten earlier in the year), because the Wolfpack Women had not played a game since the last ballot. I doubt NC State will look like the team that was rolling along pretty well prior to their pause when they finally return to action on Thursday. I justified putting them ahead of Stanford due to their still-undefeated status...but I am concerned about what will happen the next game. [/QUOTE]