AP Ballot breakdown for week 8 (AP Poll 9)

© Copyright 2006, Paul Kislanko

In the Ballot comparison the teams are ordered by the best rank for which a majority of voters voted the team at least that high (see the ballot summary below). In other words, the 10th team was listed by at least 33 voters somewhere between 1st and 10th, and the ballots are listed left-to-right by the number of teams for which their ranking contributed to the teams' order. Within the table the cells corresponding to ranks for team i by voter j where the voter ranked the team worse than the majority did are bold.

The voters are not quite as consistent as last week.

• 37 teams were listed on at least one ballot (up 2 from last week)
• 16 teams were in at least one voter's top ten (up 2)
• 25 teams were on a majority of top 25 ballots (unchanged)
• 17 teams are in every voter's top 25 (down 1)

The Auburn-Tennessee-Florida triumvirate continues to confound the AP voters. By four points Auburn's ahead of Tennessee, but by 35-30 the voters think the Vols should be ahead of Auburn. They have Auburn ahead of Florida by a whopping 53-12 vote, but Florida ahead of Tennessee 34-31.

Ballot Analysis for Associated Press Poll
22 Oct 2006 5:38pm (Central)

Maj Team Cnt Pts Best #Ballots RealB
1 Ohio State 63 1623 1 65 7668
2 Michigan 44 1533 2 65 7578
3 Southern California 36 1468 2 65 7513
4 West Virginia 57 1458 1 65 7503
5 Texas 47 1355 3 65 7400
6 Louisville 33 1215 4 65 7260
8 Auburn 48 1182 4 65 7227
8 Tennessee 42 1178 5 65 7223
8 Florida 33 1146 4 65 7191
11 Clemson 47 989 7 65 7034
11 Notre Dame 42 988 6 65 7033
11 California 39 964 7 65 7009
13 LSU 36 799 8 65 6844
14 Arkansas 53 843 7 65 6888
16 Boise St 36 608 13 65 6653
16 Rutgers 34 579 13 65 6624
17 Wisconsin 35 560 10 65 6605
18 Boston College 40 526 10 64 6478
18 Oklahoma 39 497 13 64 6449
20 Nebraska 36 373 14 62 6139
21 Georgia Tech 38 303 14 60 5883
21 Texas A&M 34 288 16 61 5961
22 Missouri 38 240 18 60 5820
24 Wake Forest 41 164 18 57 5465
24 Oregon 34 132 16 44 4224
Maj Team Cnt Pts Best #Ballots RealB
  Georgia   48 16 14 1350
  BYU   12 22 8 756
  Tulsa   15 22 7 666
  Virginia Tech   10 23 5 475
  Pittsburgh   5 23 3 284
  Washington St   4 24 3 283
  Miami-Florida   7 22 2 193
  South Carolina   5 22 2 191
  Penn State   3 23 1 96
  Iowa   2 24 1 95
  Hawaii   2 24 1 95
  Alabama   1 25 1 94

Ballot Counts by Rank - AP Poll # 9
22 Oct 2006 5:38pm (Central)

Team #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25
Ohio State 63 2                                            
Michigan   44 16 4 1                                      
Southern California   10 26 22 6 1                                    
West Virginia 2 9 20 26 4 2 1   1                              
Texas     3 8 36 12 6                                  
Louisville       1 8 24 7 11 5 3   4 1 1                    
Auburn       3 1 12 16 16 6 4 1 4 2                      
Tennessee         3 9 20 10 9 12 2                          
Florida       1 6 4 11 11 15 7 6 2 2                      
Clemson             1 4 9 10 23 11 2 5                    
Notre Dame           1 1 3 10 16 11 12 6 3 2                  
California             1 5 6 7 20 16 7 2                   1
LSU               1   2   8 25 18 3 1 2 3 1     1    
Arkansas             1 4 4 2 2 7 9 24 5 2 4 1            
Boise St                         6 2 13 15 10 6 5 4 1 2 1  
Rutgers                         2 4 11 17 8 6 5 4 4 3 1  
Wisconsin                   1   1 1 1 8 9 14 13 7 5 2 1   2
Boston College                   1     1 1 11 10 7 9 9 4 6 1 1 2 1
Oklahoma                         1 2 9 4 13 10 6 8 2 3 2 2 2
Nebraska                           1 3 4 3 5 13 7 6 9 3 5 3
Georgia Tech                           1     1 4 8 14 10 5 9 5 3
Texas A&M                               1 1 3 7 9 13 6 15 2 4
Missouri                                   2 3 6 10 17 9 9 4
Wake Forest                                   2   2 6 8 12 11 16
Oregon                               1   1 1 2 4 4 7 14 10
Team #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16 #17 #18 #19 #20 #21 #22 #23 #24 #25
Georgia                               1 2       1     5 5
BYU                                           1   1 6
Tulsa                                           2   2 3
Virginia Tech                                             2 1 2
Pittsburgh                                             1   2
Washington St                                               1 2
Miami-Florida                                           1 1  
South Carolina                                           1     1
Penn State                                             1  
Iowa                                               1
Hawaii                                               1
Alabama                                                 1

Pairwise Matrix for Associated Press Poll #9
(Only teams on a majority of ballots listed)
22 Oct 2006 5:38pm (Central)

Cond Borda Indx Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
2338 1623 1 Ohio State   65 65 63 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
2248 1533 2 Michigan     52 52 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
2183 1468 3 Southern California   13   33 58 65 65 65 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
2173 1458 4 West Virginia 2 13 32   55 63 62 64 62 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
2070 1355 5 Texas   1 7 10   56 60 59 57 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1930 1215 6 Louisville       2 9   40 44 43 60 59 57 62 60 65 65 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1897 1182 7 Auburn       3 5 25   30 53 56 57 55 65 54 65 65 65 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1893 1178 8 Tennessee       1 6 21 35   31 59 56 61 64 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1861 1146 9 Florida     1 3 8 22 12 34   55 53 54 65 59 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1704 989 10 Clemson           5 9 6 10   35 38 56 55 63 64 64 64 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1703 988 11 Notre Dame           6 8 9 12 30   38 61 50 65 63 63 63 65 65 65 65 65 65 65
1679 964 12 California           8 10 4 11 27 27   58 51 64 64 63 63 64 64 64 64 64 65 65
1514 799 13 LSU           3   1   9 4 7   35 57 60 57 57 61 64 64 63 64 65 63
1558 843 14 Arkansas           5 11 1 6 10 15 14 30   56 60 61 65 59 62 64 65 65 65 65
1323 608 15 Boise St                   2   1 8 9   38 41 39 43 51 60 63 62 64 63
1294 579 16 Rutgers                   1 2 1 5 5 27   41 44 38 50 55 60 61 63 63
1275 560 17 Wisconsin           1       1 2 2 8 4 24 24   36 35 51 58 63 63 62 63
1230 526 18 Boston College             1     1 2 2 8   26 21 29   36 49 54 58 59 60 60
1201 497 19 Oklahoma                       1 4 6 22 27 30 29   43 51 52 54 60 56
1055 373 20 Nebraska                       1 1 3 14 15 14 16 22   38 39 44 52 57
963 303 21 Georgia Tech                       1 1 1 5 10 7 11 14 27   33 38 50 52
959 288 22 Texas A&M                       1 2   2 5 2 7 13 26 32   47 49 49
900 240 23 Missouri                       1 1   3 4 2 6 11 21 27 17   46 47
791 164 24 Wake Forest                             1 2 3 5 5 13 15 16 19   37
616 132 25 Oregon                         2   2 2 2 4 8 8 11 15 17 27  
Cond Borda Indx Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25
        2 92 157 167 270 410 443 447 479 636 637 660 826 781 1016 1044 1063 1093 1124 1244 1308 1323 1372 1443 1455