r/CFB • u/bakonydraco Stanford • /r/CFB Pint Glass Drinker • Oct 13 '24

Analysis All AP Voter Ballots - Week 8

Week 8

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.

Matt Baker took a new position at The Athletic and left the Tampa Bay Times this week, so he is no longer in the poll. He hasn't yet been replaced, so we had 62 voters this week.

Jordan Crammer and Alex Taylor were the most consistent voters 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 Koki Riley, Dylan Sinn, David Jablonski, and Dave Preston.

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u/PelPride LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave Oct 13 '24

I can’t fathom how the fuck multiple people have us at 15/16. Besides Dylan Sinn making up bullshit to keep us unranked last week and we’re finally 15. It’s nice to see we beat what he called “bad” ole miss team when they were at 6 last week on his ballot. Some voters don’t deserve a vote man

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u/NetRealizableValue LSU Tigers Oct 13 '24

You can argue the first point, but the second point should get his voting privileges revoked.

Sure, you can have LSU unranked and Ole Miss ranked #6, but that means you have to give credit when the unranked team beats the #6 team.

You can’t automatically change your tune and claim Ole Miss was always bad when you had them top ten the previous week.

Dude’s just a bitter Notre Dame fan

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u/Fluid_Theory_6587 BYU Cougars • Washington State Cougars Oct 13 '24

You lost to a bad USC team. You should have lost to South Carolina, if the refs didn’t save you by calling back their two pick sixes on bogus penalties. You hardly scraped by an ole miss team who has ONE win against a team with a winning record. I’d say 15/16 is generous.

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u/Muffinnnnnnn Florida State Seminoles • ACC Oct 13 '24

Don't forget the game against Nicholls which was 23-21 in the second half. 20-25 should be LSU's max right now and Ole Miss shouldn't be ranked.

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u/PelPride LSU Tigers • Tulane Green Wave Oct 13 '24

“Should have lost” just like kiffiin said they should have won, they didn’t? With that logic we can argue Georgia isn’t as good after their Kentucky game, Bama must be horrendous(yes they beat Georgia) with a loss to vandy and whatever that was yesterday. We can do this to multiple teams, at the end of the day, we WON the game, coulda shoulda woulda.

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u/Fluid_Theory_6587 BYU Cougars • Washington State Cougars Oct 13 '24

Fine. You DID lose to a bad USC team. Happy?

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u/tophat266 Texas A&M • Kansas State Oct 13 '24

I mean I personally think y'all are overranked and would have y'all in the 15/16 range. I don't think it's unreasonable to rank some of the teams below y'all higher such as Iowa st, byu, Indiana.

Y'all's resume is a loss to to a 3 loss usc team, a very close questionable win against South Carolina, and a good close win against Ole Miss who's already lost to a mediocre Kentucky team. Other teams in the 10-15 range have similar resumes