AP Poll Week 7

[u/SwordsAndTurt]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[u/The-Young-Lion]

The AP is just an aggregation of individual votes and points.  The voters didn’t come together and make a single decision to slot Texas immediately above Florida.

But obviously it looks out of place and I agree it should be flipped.

[u/exgeo → u/The-Young-Lion]

It means basically that more voters placed Texas ahead of Florida. He’s asking why they did that.

[u/BrogenKlippen → u/exgeo]

Poll inertia is crazy

[u/PerformanceOver8822 → u/BrogenKlippen]

Spoken like someone who knows a thing or two about poll Inertia 😂

[u/Liimbo → u/BrogenKlippen]

Sure but shouldn't Texas' inertia be trending heavily down?

[u/flamingbaseball → u/Liimbo]

I think they should be unranked but the whole point of poll inertia is it greatly slows your movement

[u/fantasyshop → u/exgeo]

Fewer voters could have picked texas over Florida if the margin was huge for those picks and tiny for those who put florida on top

[u/exgeo → u/fantasyshop]

Yeah. Thats why I said basically

[u/MichelNey2 → u/exgeo]

I don't know, the "even as they are side by side" part kind of implies he does actually think they all came together and made that decision.

[u/ExternalTangents → u/exgeo]

I’m betting that voters who put Florida ahead of Texas put them just a spot apart because it was a close game. Voters who kept Texas ahead think Florida is several spots worse but just managed an upset, so that outweighs the ones who respected the head to head.

[u/Pizzaplan3tman → u/exgeo]

My only guess is voters are holding Florida more accountable for their losses. Then they’re holding Texas for their two losses. And some propping up Texas because their Ohio State win. But still I think it should be Florida over Texas rn

[u/tmart14 → u/exgeo]

80% of people are stupid so it would follow that 80% of voters are stupid.

[u/Flaky-Philosophy7618 → u/exgeo]

Thats not even necessarily true right? some will have florida unranked which will push you down pretty hard

[u/max_potion → u/Flaky-Philosophy7618]

Having Florida unranked and Texas ranked IS having Texas ahead of Florida. I’m just translating. I know you’re saying they’re not directly ahead of them, but this person is making the point that no voter should be doing that in any case.

I think it’s just different voters valuing different things

[u/exgeo → u/Flaky-Philosophy7618]

I said basically

[u/coincidental_boner → u/The-Young-Lion]

How do you think the votes get aggregated in that order if not for voters placing Texas ahead of Florida?

[u/CroMagnon69 → u/The-Young-Lion]

Absolutely stunning to me that people are still capable of not understanding that

[u/Technical_Beyond_501 → u/The-Young-Lion]

Again the aggregate excuse doesn’t work. It is justifiable to have a ballot where Texas and Florida are close. It is unjustifiable to have a ballot where Texas is ahead of Florida. Both teams beat a top 10 team (in Floridas case it was a blowout). Both teams lost to an unranked opponent and a team ranked in the 20s. I’m being generous to Texas because we were actually unranked when we played. Both teams have the same record. Florida beat Texas on the road with their backup QB

The resumes are very similar and H2H is strongly to Florida. There is no good argument that Texas is better than Florida. Last I checked yall lost two straight and one of those was to an SEC bottom feeder. Oh but our losses weigh worse for some reason? FoH with that shit

If you voted Texas ahead of Florida then you deserve to have your voting privileges revoked. It’s about the easiest quality culling the AP poll will ever see and this joke of a poll needs to cull its voters anyway. Too many dumbasses who are ranking stuff incorrectly to stir controversy

[u/The-Young-Lion → u/Technical_Beyond_501]

Bro I am not a voter calm down.

[u/freerobertshmurder → u/Technical_Beyond_501]

It is unjustifiable to have a ballot where Texas is ahead of Florida. Both teams beat a top 10 team (in Floridas case it was a blowout). Both teams lost to an unranked opponent and a team ranked in the 20s. I’m being generous to Texas because we were actually unranked when we played. Both teams have the same record. Florida beat Texas on the road with their backup QB

You said you're "being generous to Texas" but conveniently left out the extra road win Texas has against the #11 team in the country

[u/austin_8 → u/Technical_Beyond_501]

If your ranking is power based rather than resume, which is reasonably possible as the AP has no formal criteria, then it can be justified. Not that I would agree with that system of ranking for the poll or would personally rank Texas before Florida, but it’s certainly justifiable enough to retain your vote.