Place Team Points #1 Votes Movement Noisy
1 Georgia 191 6 - Georgia
2 Michigan 189 0 - Michigan
3 Texas 180 1 +6 Ohio State
4 Florida State 177 0 +1 Texas
5 Ohio State 163 0 -2 Florida State
6 Penn State 148 0 - Penn State
7 Washington 139 0 +1 Washington
8 USC 138 1 +4 USC
9 Notre Dame 135 0 +4 Notre Dame
10 Alabama 121 0 -6 Alabama
11 Tennessee 121 0 -4 Tennessee
12 Utah 116 0 -2 Utah
13 Oregon 108 0 -2 Oregon
14 Ole Miss 80 0 +4 Kansas State
15 Oklahoma 77 0 +1 Ole Miss
16 Kansas State 72 0 +1 Oklahoma
17 LSU 65 0 -3 LSU
18 North Carolina 63 0 -3 North Carolina
19 Oregon State 50 0 +2 Oregon State
20 Miami (FL) 43 0 NR Miami (FL)
21 Colorado 38 0 +2 Colorado
22 Duke 37 0 - Duke
23 Washington State 21 0 NR Louisville
24 Arkansas 17 0 NR Troy
25 Iowa 17 0 NR Baylor

Others receiving votes: Wisconsin (15), Texas A&M (14), UCLA (14), Auburn (10), Louisville (10), Wake Forest (10), Kentucky (8), Kansas (5), Rutgers (4), Clemson (3), Tulane (1)

Link to check out the spreadsheet of responses here

  • @[email protected]MEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I’m okay with ties (but I’m also a weirdo who thinks games should be able to tie and is okay with split national champions). IIRC, r/cfb had the occasional tie and split the #10 spot in half – but they had tons of voters so that was rare. I think if we get to, say, 20ish regular voters then I would suggest allowing them.

    Kind of bummed we already seem to have gotten a throwaway ballot, and surprised it wouldn’t have messed up the poll too much given our small sample size (although it would have made a mess of “others receiving votes”). If they really wanted to manipulate the poll, they could have been more crafty about it and then we would have had to keep it. I think you made the right call here, but we should probably set up some guidelines for throwing out ballots. I don’t know if it would be too much work, but if they are missing more than, say, 5 teams on the otherwise final rankings then I would say it should be thrown out. The criteria could be looser than that if only a few games were played (and in the preseason I like it being a free-for-all).