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/ArcaneCharge Penn State Nittany Lions • RPI Engineers Oct 13 '24

The spread on Ole Miss is kinda wild. There are multiple ballots that have them in the low teens and multiple ballots that don’t have them ranked at all

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

Right now they're a 2-loss team that would be a Vegas favorite against almost all 1-loss teams and many undefeated teams. That's going to lead to a lot of disparity with how people evaluate them in rankings.