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The original was posted on /r/cfb by /u/Perryapsis on 2025-10-06 12:59:59+00:00.
TABLE
HOW TO READ THIS TABLE
Teams are ranked in their order from the Logo (note for mobile users: everywhere you see a “Logo” link, that means that inline flair is shown on old.reddit.com/r/cfb) AP Poll for Week 1 (That is, the pre-season rankigns that apply during Week 1 games). The column to the right of the team name shows the number of points that team received using the AP Poll’s Borda count rules. The following two columns show information about each team’s previous and upcoming games. The following columns show how many votes for each ranking the team received. The ‘U’ column shows how many voters left the team unranked (off their ballots entirely). Gridlines are placed every 5 rows and columns for ease of reading. A thick line is placed below the 25th-ranked team to distinguish “ranked” teams above it to “receiving votes” teams below it.
Some cells are shaded to highlight points of interest. The green diagonal highlights how many voters ranked a team exactly where they ended up in the overall poll. For example, Logo Georgia is ranked 10th in this week’s poll, and 31 voters placed the Bulldogs exactly in their 10th spot. Values for which a team received no votes at that rank are shaded in red, while placements chosen by only exactly one voter are highlighted in blue. Some unique votes are annotated with the name of the corresponding voter. The most common selection (the mode) for each team is shaded yellow unless it matches the team’s rank. Finally, since there are very few votes that ever end up near the top-right or bottom-left of the chart, those cells are filled in with black diagonally as much as possible without covering up any nonzero values. This helps naturally guide the eye while viewing the chart and helps locate the most unusual votes. We lightheartedly call these the “Wilner” diagonals.
Finally, I note violations of the Condorcet Criterion on the bottom left corner of the black space. These occur when Team A is ranked above Team B in the poll, but Team B would win if you ignored the points system and just asked the voters “Which team do you think is better?” I note every instance of this when it would affect the placement of a team in the Top 25, but not necessarily if it only flips teams’ positions in the receiving-votes category.
This season, scores will be highlighted (lowlighted) in black to indicate a loss instead of using a W/L column. I did this at the end of the season last year, and it was well received, so it returns for this entire season. This way is easier to see at a glance and slightly reduces the clutter on the left side of the table.
COMMENTARY FOR THIS WEEK
The upper Wilner diagonal is set by Sean Reider putting Logo Louisiana State 24th, 13 spots below their final rank in the poll. Koki Riley also touches the diagonal with the lowest rankings for each of Logo Ohio State (4th) and Logo Mississippi (10th). The right end is set by multiple voters omitting Logo Georgia Tech entirely. The lower diagonal is set by Koki Riley again with Logo Mississippi A&M State at 17. Other voters touching the diagonal include Bob Ballou (Missouri, 6), Kirk Kenney (Notre Dame, 7), Pete Yanity (Washington, 18), Robert Cessna (Louisville, 23), and Sam McKewon (Logo, 25). The left end is set by five voters with Logo Oregon in their top spot.
The lowest-ranked team to sweep all 66 ballots was 15th-ranked Logo Michigan. Logo Georgia Tech a couple spots above them was the highest team to fail to sweep, missing two ballots. Teams outside the top 25 received 145 votes (8.8%) for a total of 604 points (2.8%) this week. The highest vote among them was Kirk Kenney’s placement of Logo Austin State Texas at 13, while their most frequent vote was Logo Cincinnati in 23rd. 80 team-rank pairs (4.8%) were unique and 448 votes (27%) matched their teams’ ranks exactly. The most-matched team was once again Logo Ohio State, this time with 40 votes (61%). The least-matched team was Logo Western Ohio Iowa State with only 5 matches (7.7%). Matt Murschel managed to match 17 teams this week, while only Pete Yanity matched nobody at all.
Logo Maryland received no votes after getting some last week, while five new teams received votes this week: Cincinnati, Auburn, Washington, Navy, and Nebraska. Logo Cal State Happy Valley Penn State and Logo Austin State Texas dropped out of the top 25 this week, replaced by Logo Memphis and Logo South Florida. If you include omissions from ballots as votes worth zero points, you get the highest and lowest (within the top 25) standard deviations as shown below. A larger number indicates a wide variety of opinions about that team, while a smaller number indicates strong consensus.
Team | St. Dev. |
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Brigham Young | 3.63 |
Notre Dame | 3.55 |
Arizona State | 3.10 |
Texas | 3.09 |
Georgia Tech | 3.06 |
… | … |
Texas A&M | 1.27 |
Georgia | 1.20 |
Oregon | 0.91 |
Miami (FL) | 0.85 |
Ohio State | 0.64 |
There are three Condorcet criterion violations this week. First, Logo Oklahoma overcomes a 15-point deficit to leapfrog Logo Texas A&M. At the bottom of the top 25, Logo Florida State jumps Logo South Florida, 31-28. That vote breaks down as follows:
Case | Frequency |
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Florida State > South Florida | 7 |
South Florida > Florida State | 8 |
Florida State only | 24 |
South Florida only | 20 |
Both unranked | 7 |
Finally, Logo Cincinnati beats Logo Western Ohio Iowa State 34-19 after their head-to-head victory last week. Despite leapfrogging the Cyclones, they still lose their Condorcet comparison to all three teams in between! That breaks down as follows:
Opponent | Cincinnati total | Opp. total | Cincinnati higher | Cincinnati lower | Cincinnati only | Opp. only | Both unranked |
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Iowa State | 34 | 19 | 22 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 13 |
Memphis | 24 | 33 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 21 | 9 |
South Florida | 26 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 19 | 11 |
Florida State | 24 | 31 | 8 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 11 |
Thanks again to /u/bakonydraco for providing the ballot data; you can find his weekly visualization here!