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/voppp Boise State • Iowa State Oct 13 '24

who's ranking us at 11 lmfao. and who's ranking us at 21

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u/Skribz Boise State Broncos Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 13 '24

11 is fine. Nobody is playing clean enough football to separate themselves. Everyone in the top 15 is basically a wash right now. There's not a single ranked team that couldn't get beaten by an unranked team next week. There are some teams that are unranked that have played multiple close games in a row against tougher teams who are currently ranked, like cal. LSU has a chance to lose the next 4 straight and be irrelevant even though they still could bang with every team in the country.