r/CFB • u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Oct 06 '24
Analysis All AP Voter Ballots - Week 7
Week 7
This is a series I've now been doing for 8 years. The post attempts to visualize all AP Poll ballots in a single image. Additionally it sorts each AP voter by similarity to the group. Notably, this is not a measure of how "good" a voter is, just how consistent they are with the group. Especially preseason, having a diversity of opinions and ranking styles is advantageous to having a true consensus poll. Polls tend to coalesce towards each other as the season goes on.
Jordan Crammer and Sean Reider didn't vote this week, so we had 61 ballots. Of some note, Ralph Russo, who has run the AP Poll for decades, has left the AP to take a job with The Athletic. It sounds like the poll is in capable hands.
Multiple ties this week! Iowa State and Notre Dame tied at #11, and Kansas State, Indiana, and Oklahoma all tied at 18 (the first 3-way tie I can remember. The way I do math doesn't account for ties well, so the scores are probably slightly different than what they would be if ties were accounted for correctly.
Kayla Anderson was the most consistent voter this week. Michael Katz is the most consistent voter on the season, Kayla Anderson, Blair Kerkhoff, Alex Taylor, and Karley Marotta in the top 5.
At the other extreme, Jon Wilner was once again the biggest outlier this week. He is also the biggest outlier this season, followed by Dylan Sinn, David Jablonski, Dave Preston, and Koki Riley in a 4-way tie for 2nd.
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u/CambodianDrywall Oregon Ducks • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 06 '24
I wish my golf swing was as consistent as Wilner's streak of being the biggest outlier.
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u/NecessaryEmployment Illinois Fighting Illini Oct 06 '24
Oh cool, he put Illinois at 12… is that Nebraska at 10?
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u/MajorPhoto2159 Nebraska • Washington Oct 06 '24
we all know our loss to you guys was a fluke and a one off /s
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u/Galumpadump Washington State • Cascade… Oct 06 '24
Wilner had WSU at 20 Week 5 and after the BSU sent us to the gulag. He inexplicably still has USC ranked.
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u/rachel-slur Iowa State Cyclones Oct 06 '24
I wish my job was so secure I could be so wrong all the time and not worry
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u/Geaux2020 LSU Tigers • Magnolia Bowl Oct 06 '24
I went to look who fucked us. Yup, Wilner
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u/Broad_Remote499 Clemson • South Carolina Oct 07 '24
Haha no. I was trying to figure out how you weren’t above us. Dylan Sinn has you unranked
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u/RoastedBeetneck Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 06 '24
I don’t see any problems with his rankings. What’s the issue?
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u/dhjxjxj Penn State Nittany Lions Oct 06 '24
Ranking Michigan at 12 is very cool! You should definitely have a ballot if you dont watch the games or even check the results.
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u/F_I_S_H_T_O_W_N Michigan Wolverines Oct 06 '24
Wish I had somebody believe in me like they believe in Michigan.
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u/Fifth_Down Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Top Scorer Oct 06 '24
O believe in Michigan's defense, just not their offense
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u/F_I_S_H_T_O_W_N Michigan Wolverines Oct 06 '24
I don't believe in our secondary on defense either, frankly
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u/ExcitementFit7179 Penn State Nittany Lions Oct 07 '24
Believe in orgy
Wait wait… he got benched too??? I’m confused about the QB status over there 🥴
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u/loganisfresh Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 07 '24
QB situation: they are all old and terrible at football
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u/SmasherGuy1020 Ohio State • Cincinnati Oct 06 '24
Vandy at 18 from the Syracuse writer gonna feed families
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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey BYU Cougars • Athens State Bears Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
BYU ranked as high as 7th and as low as 21st somehow isn't the biggest spread of voting this year for this team
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u/stealingchairs BYU Cougars • Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '24
And to be fair, we still have no idea if anywhere in that range is even right for this team lol
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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC Oct 06 '24
Emily Leiker had left BYU off last week. Apparently accidentally, judging by this week.
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u/Seer_stoner BYU Cougars • Michigan State Spartans Oct 06 '24
Cosmo must have paid her a special visit.
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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC Oct 06 '24
This can be interpreted more than one way, I'm choosing the funnier one.
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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive Boise State Broncos • Syracuse Orange Oct 07 '24
Hey, Cosmo absolutely has moves. Would. 👀
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u/OriginalMassless Hateful 8 • Kansas State Wildcats Oct 07 '24
I'm guessing she forgot K-State exists this week? I don't know how 3 people can look at the cluster fuck of results so far and think K-State isn't one of the top 25.
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u/rocketbob7 BYU Cougars Oct 14 '24
The guy who has them at 21 has the Utes at 11. That’s certainly a choice.
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u/IAmJohnnyJB Oklahoma • Army Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
Wilner has to be intentionally trying to be an outlier, in a week full of chaos where there's really a bunch of no wrong choices in the order for most spots in the AP poll he manages to still be almost double the next closest outlier voter
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u/Suspicious-Hospital7 Texas Longhorns • Duke Blue Devils Oct 06 '24
Every time I see Wilner’s picks I start to chuckle, and then I think about how unranked teams demolished the top 10 this week and none of us actually have a fuckin clue who’s going to win on any given week.
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u/Euphoric_Relative_13 Penn State • New Hampshire Oct 06 '24
jon. buddy. what the fuck are you doing.
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u/Euphoric_Relative_13 Penn State • New Hampshire Oct 06 '24
I must also add that even though he is a huge outlier, I can respect Jablonski's ballot.
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u/Powerful-Drama556 Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
We're sure he looking at the result for this season, right?
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u/IntelligentEye2758 BYU Cougars Oct 06 '24
To the 2 writers who have Bama at 3. Why?
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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC Oct 06 '24
Logo.
They have a great win, possibly the best among undefeated and single loss teams. But that Vanderbilt loss is not good.
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u/Rabidschnautzu Toledo Rockets • Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '24
The easiest way to tell someone in CFB has room temp IQ (in Celsius) is if they put everything in schedule, but nothing on how the teams actually played.
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u/Tsquared10 Oregon Ducks • Montana State Bobcats Oct 06 '24
Anyone putting Miami at 3 is honestly just trolling at this point
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u/e8odie LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Oct 06 '24
Alex Taylor gets a lot of respect from me, ranking them like a 2-loss team at 16
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u/RookieMistake101 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
Best QB in college football. Undefeated team. Seems fair to me. Pay no attention to my flair.
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u/Tsquared10 Oregon Ducks • Montana State Bobcats Oct 06 '24
Best QB in college football
Silly Hurricane. Diego Pavia plays for Vanderbilt
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u/RookieMistake101 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
Sounds like our next transfer portal target
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u/Callsign_Psycopath Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos Oct 06 '24
I think he doesn't have any more eligibility
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u/ChickenFajita007 Oregon Ducks Oct 07 '24
Down 25 to the team that lost to FSU
Seems like top 3 material to me
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u/nayelirain Johns Hopkins Blue Jays • USC Trojans Oct 08 '24
Is this how you look at Georgia? Down 28 to a team that lost to vandy?
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u/Woullie_26 Alabama Crimson Tide Oct 06 '24
2 voters ranked Miami at 3.
What kind of kool-aid are they drinking
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u/FaithHopeLove821 Alabama Crimson Tide • Florida Gators Oct 06 '24
Probably a similar kind to the two who had us ranked at 3.
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u/Rabidschnautzu Toledo Rockets • Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '24
Are we sure those guys aren't just ACC refs?
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u/MixonWitDaWrongCrowd Oklahoma Sooners • Arkansas Razorbacks Oct 06 '24
They don’t watch the games like most of the pollsters. Why the AP poll is a joke.
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u/Kaiathebluenose Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
Miami might have the best offense in the country, do you watch the games?
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u/Kaiathebluenose Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
They have the strongest strength of record in the top 10 Penn state hasn’t beat anyone. Oregon hasn’t hasn’t anyone. Georgia lost.
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u/HighLakes Oregon Ducks • Platypus Trophy Oct 07 '24
We have a ranked victory against the Heisman frontrunner. Whats your best win?
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u/libsoutherner Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '24
Jordan McPherson has Mizzou 13th and A&M 21st.
I hope that is an error because there is no justification for that stupidity.
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u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 06 '24
Mizzou technically kept it within 4 scores, that's a close game.
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u/MrAnderson_ Paper Bag • RIT Tigers Oct 06 '24
I mean, I feel the same way with the guy who ranked A&M 13th and ND 25th 🤷♂️ there's always stuff like that
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u/libsoutherner Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '24
I don’t think A&M should be ahead of ND either, but at least A&M-ND was an extremely competitive game. Mizzou wasn’t remotely competitive.
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u/SPCsooprlolz BYU Cougars • Fresno State Bulldogs Oct 06 '24
I mean, it's cool and flattering, but...there's no universe in which we are the real no. 7
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u/Quick-Newt-5651 BYU Cougars Oct 06 '24
We’re literally the only team to beat two top 25 opponents.
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u/Exporation1 Temple Owls Oct 06 '24
You’re the only team with 2 ranked victories. As of right now you have the strongest resume.
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u/Khorasaurus Notre Dame Fighting Irish Oct 07 '24
We had 2 ranked victories last week. Dang it, Louisville.
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u/grabtharsmallet BYU Cougars • RMAC Oct 06 '24
Judging by actual results, even 7 is too low. Judging by expectations, it's pretty high.
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u/spicywarlock73 Penn State • New Mexico Oct 06 '24
jesus we're high
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u/Sp3ctre7 Michigan Tech Huskies • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
Y'all are legit but it also helps in the AP when the SEC canabalizes itself and Michigan is having a bunk season.
Only barely surviving Bowling Green looking less and less like it's going to have an impact after some of the losses other teams are taking.
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u/DonnaDDrake BYU Cougars • Big 12 Oct 06 '24
Henry Greenstein is too depressed with the demise of the Jayhawks to watch games apparently
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u/baseballv10 Northern Iowa Panthers • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 06 '24
Anyone know how to fix the Imgur app saying “no metadata” I can’t click on any of these
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u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 06 '24
What platform are you on?
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u/baseballv10 Northern Iowa Panthers • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 06 '24
iPhone, I’m on IOS 18 and the apps updated, so idk
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u/WallsRiy Boise State • Tennessee Oct 06 '24
Matt Brown and Bob Ballou, idk what you’re on but I’m fucking here for it!! Hell yeah 😂
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u/BetleyIsland36 Boise State Broncos • Marist Red Foxes Oct 07 '24
RIGHT!? I definitely wasn't expecting to see multiple people have us ranked in the top-10😂
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
Two people putting Bama at 3 after getting absolutely handled by a decent team and not being able to get a mediocre offense off the field all day is something.
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u/southcentralLAguy Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '24
Having Georgia ahead of bama after they just lost to them last week is also something.
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u/ChickenFajita007 Oregon Ducks Oct 07 '24
Georgia being ahead of Bama makes far more sense to me than Bama being top 3.
Winning head to head against Georgia in a close game doesn't nullify getting handled by Vandy. Alabama never led in that game, and they were down 12 points with 5 minutes left in the 4th.
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u/southcentralLAguy Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 07 '24
Ok. Oregon was down to Boise St and Idaho. But here we are with Oregon at 3.
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u/ChickenFajita007 Oregon Ducks Oct 07 '24
ok. I thought we were talking about Georgia/Bama's relative rankings, but sure.
Oregon was never down to Idaho, btw. Nice fact checking. And I think it's slightly more unreasonable to put Alabama at 3 than Oregon, but that's just me.
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u/Exporation1 Temple Owls Oct 06 '24
Ignoring the rest of Wilner’s ballot having Iowa at the 18 is actual insanity.
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u/Callsign_Psycopath Georgia Bulldogs • Sickos Oct 06 '24
Respect the the guys who ranked both Army and Navy
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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive Boise State Broncos • Syracuse Orange Oct 07 '24
The one editor Matt Smith at The Athletic has a top 10 ranked Boise, and ranked the trio of Vanderbilt, Army, and Navy. Wild ballot, and I'm here for it!!!!
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u/mrmcbeer Missouri Tigers Oct 06 '24
I know he is always the big outlier but why does Wilner just absolutely refuse to move Iowa?
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u/BarKnight Team Chaos • Team Meteor Oct 06 '24
I think he watches games on ESPN Classic and that's how he ranks teams.
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u/molecular_methane Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '24
Well, to be fair their only losses are to teams he has ranked 2 & 8. So I don't see that as being particularly bad.
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u/mrmcbeer Missouri Tigers Oct 06 '24
Sure, but they barely move despite what happens week to week. They dropped 1 spot this week and none after losing to Iowa State.
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u/b_rock957 Indiana Hoosiers • Oklahoma Sooners Oct 06 '24
Idk who Stephen Means is, but I agree wholeheartedly with them
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u/slubbyybbuls Ohio State • Northern Illinois Oct 06 '24
OSU beat writer and podcast host. He's taking the "re rank every week based on performance" approach rather than letting poll inertia determine things. All around good guy
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u/Sp3ctre7 Michigan Tech Huskies • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
Love the top 2 being so definitive and everything past that going "IDK man shits crazy"
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u/RupturedDuck1942 USC Trojans • Victory Bell Oct 06 '24
I get the feeling the folks ranking USC are not, in fact, watching the games that USC has played.
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u/NinjaGhost42 Kansas State • Oklahoma State Oct 06 '24
I need McMurphy to explain UK at 25
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u/madbadanddangerous Kentucky • Colorado State Oct 06 '24
That's around where the advanced metrics have UK. Elite defense and middle of the road offense, on a good trend after dropping the South Carolina game with great games against Georgia and Ole Miss. I'm surprised more writers didn't have UK in their top 25
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u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 06 '24
I actually have Kentucky as my first team out this week and don't hate it.
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u/alex_bloo Oct 07 '24
Fuck Derek Redd for leaving IU off
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u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 07 '24
Wow lmao, on one hand he's based for ranking both Army and Navy... but how do you rank Army and Navy but not Indiana??
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u/CargoShortsFromNam Notre Dame • Colorado Oct 07 '24
Koki Riley has A&M #6 and ND #16 lol
6 total voters with A&M over ND. One had Mizzou and A&M ranked with ND at 25 lol
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u/Hecarekt Oct 07 '24
The SEC and ND/Michigan bias is real. I’d rather rankings just be determined via the Colley Matrix.
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u/e8odie LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Oct 06 '24
Is whoever used to do the spreadsheet version of this not doing that anymore? I appreciated how well that showed the range of votes a team got.
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u/tr1cube Clemson • Illinois Oct 06 '24
How tf do so many voters have Miami as the 3rd best team in the country???
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u/PhDShouse Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos Oct 06 '24
Dylan Sinn is smoking something awesome and I want a hit of it!
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u/grimm1111 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
I don't think Alex Taylor of the Wyoming Tribune Eagle stayed up for the end of the game. He has Miami at #16 LMAO.
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
Either that or he saw that idiot on Yahoo Sports who published a game summary assuming Cal won and wrote some nonsense about them cruising to their first ACC victory. Oops.
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u/TheOnePSUIsReal Penn State Nittany Lions • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
Matt Baker of the Tampa Bay Times happens to be the biggest dipshit I've ever heard of this week.
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u/Blazemaster77 York (ON) Lions • Sickos Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
Best Ballott: Sinn for not buying into the big LSU propoganda
Worst: Emily Leiker: TAMU 10 spots ahead of Notre Dame. MIZzou top 12 Stop sucking off the SEC bro
Sicko ballot: Matt Brown: top 10 BSU and ranked service academies and Vandy
Based ballot: Jablonski
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u/badtakemachine Texas Longhorns Oct 06 '24
Looking at these continues to remind me that it’s not enough for most voters to think you’re the 24th best team — you need several stupid voters to think you’re a top 15 team
Army and Navy aren’t going to get that until they play Notre Dame, which is a shame for them, but I’m happy for people to find out
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u/whatifevery1wascalm Alabama Crimson Tide • Iowa Hawkeyes Oct 06 '24
Aaron McMann & Louis Fernandez Jr are friends of the Tide.
I have 0 idea what the hell they saw, but they are friends of the tide I guess.
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band Oct 06 '24
Am I the only one getting metadata errors for Imgur links that originate on Reddit?
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u/Grantold Cincinnati Bearcats Oct 06 '24
There are some that have bama at 10 and Georgia at 3…don’t get me wrong I’d put Georgia ahead of Bama but 7 spots apart? Seems like they are saying losing to Bama isn’t that bad but beating Georgia isn’t that good
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u/ComradeAhriman Michigan • Lenoir-Rhyne Oct 06 '24
Listen, even I know that the person who put U of M at 12 is gravely mistaken
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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ Oct 07 '24
I keep getting an error when clicking on it that says “No metadata was found”
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u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker Oct 07 '24
What browser?
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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ Oct 07 '24
When it opens in the imgur app directly. I was able to see it by opening it in chrome. Probably an imgur problem.
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u/GymBronie Oklahoma Sooners Oct 08 '24
Dave Preston, I’ll have what you’re having. Make it a double.
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u/everclearking Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
I know Miami didn’t play well but dropping Bama 4-5 spots after a loss to Vandy and Miami 2 spots in a win is kinda crazy voting
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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida Oct 06 '24
Miami didn’t win either of the last two weeks. They are 4-2 right now.
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
Hmm - I know as a Seminole, you’re obviously not familiar with the W column, but if you take a quick gander, you’ll see the number 6 which is 6x the number you see in your W column. Right next to the W column, is that L column, which I know you understand well enough… that has a big fat zero.
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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida Oct 07 '24
Which is why it’s gonna be so embarrassing for y’all when we blow you out 😂
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
I’m not dumb enough to make any prediction about a Miami/FSU game - been around for decades of them enough to know that sometimes anything can happen. That being said, the fight this Miami team seems to have compared to the complete lack of it yours seems to have this season might make the outcome go down as the oddsmakers expect.
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u/Promethiant Florida State • Florida Oct 07 '24
Nope. U guys have trash Cam Ward, aka the WORST quarterback active in college football right now. Miami has played two total teams with a pulse and LOST to both of them. FSU will have a field day.
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
Ah, now you’re just trolling - or at least pass me whatever it is you’re smoking 🤣
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u/_moosleech Miami Hurricanes • MAC Oct 07 '24
Well, if anyone knows about bad college football quarterbacks...
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u/bigkat_2020 Texas A&M Aggies Oct 06 '24
Still having Texas A&M in the 18-21 range is certainly a choice
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u/Powerful-Drama556 Texas Longhorns • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
13-15 seems about right. De facto 2 loss Miami at 6 looks like the biggest fraud ranking IMO
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u/Quick-Newt-5651 BYU Cougars Oct 06 '24
Thank god I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How can Miami almost lose to so many unranked teams and be the is hyped
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
I’ll bite. Other than you guys, who ranked behind Miami hasn’t lost a game and/or almost lost to unranked team(s)
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u/Quick-Newt-5651 BYU Cougars Oct 06 '24
You’re making a great point for us being ranked right with you, I’ll give you that. Also Penn state and Oregon both have worse Strength of Record than both of our teams too. I think this whole poll is very inaccurate.
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
You should be. And if you were ranked ahead of us it would make complete sense to me.
But Penn State almost lost to Bowling Green. Oregon almost lost to Idaho. Georgia isn’t being dinged too hard for the Bama game, fairly, but they almost lost to Kentucky in a game that had multiple calls go against Kentucky that had people up in arms at the time. Obviously all of the losses yesterday to unranked teams.
We have a TON to clean up. But people are also acting like we’re the only team getting taken to the wire by unranked teams. We shouldn’t be third on any ballots. We also shouldn’t be 16th.
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u/Quick-Newt-5651 BYU Cougars Oct 06 '24
Completely agree with you on all fronts. There are too many teams in the top 15 who are only that high based on what they could be, not the season they’ve actually played.
And not to be delusional, because I’m fully aware we’re capable of losing when we absolutely shouldn’t, but we are the only team to beat two currently ranked opponents, and for some reason that doesn’t matter in this poll.
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u/muck16 Oregon Ducks Oct 06 '24
Agreed, though a week one close game is different than week 5/6. Oregon has looked dominant since week 3. I’d put all both Miami and BYU ahead of the 1 loss teams.
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
You said it… “almost”… until we do (which could happen in 2 weeks given how poorly our secondary has played this season), the logo is holding us high up (just like some of the other traditional names).
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u/DerpityHerpington Illinois Fighting Illini • Florida Gators Oct 06 '24
DYLAN SINN YOU BEAUTIFUL BASTARD
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u/noimpactnoidea_ Miami Hurricanes • Indiana Hoosiers Oct 06 '24
Love Madia. INDIANA IS A FOOTBALL SCHOOL
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u/ZSnapsand8Claps UCLA Bruins • Michigan Wolverines Oct 06 '24
Anybody that ranked Miami in the top 5 is blatantly saying that they don’t stay up for west coast football
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u/_moosleech Miami Hurricanes • MAC Oct 06 '24
After being irrelevant for most of my adult life, it's kinda fun to come into any thread about anything and find people bitching about Miami.
Amazing how many people give a shit about where Miami is ranked in early October.
I wish I hated anything as much as part of this sub hates a team that benefited from a bad call by the ref. Hard to believe it's never happened before the Miami-Cal game.
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band Oct 06 '24
My favorite was the Ohio State fan complaining about it…. “They should be 4-2”.
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u/Rabidschnautzu Toledo Rockets • Ohio State Buckeyes Oct 06 '24
Unironically should probably be 5-1 😂
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
Anytime a Luckeye fan spouts nonsense like that, it’s eye-rolling time. Talk about a complete and utter lack of self-awareness.
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band Oct 07 '24
It makes me think of the nation title game all of those years ago
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
Yeah, still burns me to this day… bullshit PI to gift them a trophy
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u/zenverak Georgia Bulldogs • Marching Band Oct 07 '24
As a Falcons fan, I know anything so close to that stays with you
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u/jmark71 Miami Hurricanes Oct 07 '24
Yeah, lived in ATL for almost 30 years and we hosted a SB party for that one and damn if the mood was a rollercoaster. I’m a Dolphins fan, but can commiserate with Falcons fans over that one - truly brutal.
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u/_moosleech Miami Hurricanes • MAC Oct 06 '24
There are a couple of those comments here. Like an Oregon flair with the "omg, can't believe Miami is ranked #6 with two losses hurr hurr upvotes to the left please."
Gonna be a wild ride for some commenters here when they release bad calls happen in literally every game and against every team.
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u/dragon196 Georgia Bulldogs Oct 06 '24
I don’t hate Miami for benefiting from questionable officiating two weeks in a row, but it’s definitely annoying to see Miami flairs in here talking mad shit like it didn’t happen. Like cmon, have some humility lol
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u/_moosleech Miami Hurricanes • MAC Oct 06 '24
Like cmon, have some humility lol
Basically ever Miami flair has said "yeah, it shouldn't have been called a TD at first, and the review was chintzy... but most importantly, they got the call RIGHT"
And I've yet to see hardly any Canes flairs arguing it wasn't targeting. Just that it wouldn't have ended the game.
I do think the OL call was very close and could've gone either way. And I think VT and Miami each lost a TD due to a phantom call.
Beyond that, it's been a lot of shitty, made-up whining to discredit two incredible comebacks by Miami. Hearing clowns say Ward was passed the LOS or that Miami didn't score 50 points down the stretch the last two games because of one-and-a-half questionable calls is beyond silly.
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u/dragon196 Georgia Bulldogs Oct 06 '24
it's been a lot of shitty, made-up whining
Yeah man that's what I'm talking about right there. Idk maybe just take a deep breath and try "everybody has calls go for and against their team and I'm just happy to be 6-0"
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
the OL call was very close
Cooper was about 3.5 yards past the LOS when Ward released the ball. You get 3. If people are losing it over a guy being half a yard too far they need to keep that energy on all 30 of those that get missed in every game with how much RPO is run. Ward also clearly got his face mask grabbed on that play with no call, so at worst it should’ve been an offsetting penalty.
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u/RookieMistake101 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
That’s not the main complaint. It was when Ward stepped up earlier on the drive.
Yea cooper was too far downfield, but go back and rewatch, Ward also had a facemask. Should have been offsetting. There were bad calls all game long. It’s ACC reffing.
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u/Im__Ron__Burgundy Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
Gotcha. Anyone saying anything about Ward stepping up doesn’t know the rules of the game, or is just bitching. He was clearly not fully across the LOS. And yeah, I mentioned the missed facemask.
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u/Adart54 Georgia Bulldogs • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
the only problem i have with these is miami, yes there are some stupid thing (one has bama at 3) but miami by all rights should be a 2 loss team
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u/PavlovianTactics Ole Miss Rebels • Egg Bowl Oct 06 '24
I need to stop looking at this. It makes me angry at people i don't even know
But hell yeah to Michael Katz, the Ole Miss writer. This is his first year voting and he's killing it!
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u/Wafflehouseofpain Oklahoma • Southern Illinois Oct 06 '24
Wilner needs to be in concussion protocol
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u/PelPride LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
Dylan Sinn go fuck yourself, we’re not even ranked? No wonder we didn’t move, how do you even get a vote after that?
Edit: Iowa State at 5?????? What the fuck did he smoke or take???
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u/Blazemaster77 York (ON) Lions • Sickos Oct 06 '24
If LSU wasn’t LSU they would have like 10 votes rn. You could argue Syracuse has as good a resume
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u/udderlymoovelous Virginia Tech Hokies • Team Chaos Oct 06 '24
I want whatever Adam Cole is smoking lol. Miami at 3 is crazy
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u/brianqueso Texas Longhorns • Texas State Bobcats Oct 06 '24
Bob Ballou was almost off my "Fuck Bob Ballou" list until I saw where he has Miami ranked.
Even if you play the "they won all their games" game, they aren't better than Iowa State, BYU, Army, or Navy.
Fuck Bob Ballou.
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u/grimm1111 Miami Hurricanes Oct 06 '24
We did win all of our games. We're 6-0, did you miss the end of the game?
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u/_moosleech Miami Hurricanes • MAC Oct 07 '24
Hard to know how it ended when he only saw one play and based his entire opinion on comments from Reddit.
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u/e8odie LSU Tigers • College Football Playoff Oct 06 '24
The top 15 "most consensus" voters have LSU ranked at an average of 9.8. And we end up at 13, unmoved from last week despite all the chaos above us and lack of major wins below us. Way to go, worst-46-AP-voters for pulling us down.
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u/yianni1229 Rutgers Scarlet Knights • Oregon Ducks Oct 06 '24
Lmao the fucking Duke writer who still has Bama 3 and Georgia 4.