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HOW TO READ THIS TABLE

Teams are ranked in their order from the Logo (note for anyone not on old reddit: everywhere you see a "Logo" link, that means that inline flair is shown on old.reddit.com/r/cfb) AP Poll for Week 2. 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. New for the 2023 season, 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 Notre Dame is ranked 10th in this week's poll, and 12 voters placed the Fighting Irish 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. The most common selection (the mode) for each team is shaded yellow. 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. Last season's practice of trolling the team whose rank matches the week number is not going to continue this year because I am a bad programmer and can't make it work again.

NOTES FOR THIS WEEK

The upper Wilner diagonal was set by two voters (Mike Barber and Randy Johnson) unranking Logo Louisiana State entirely after their loss to Logo Florida State. That choice is 12 spots below the Tigers' consensus rank in the poll. On the other side, the lower Wilner diagonal was set any of seven (!) teams who received a single vote for last place. Take your pick of Logo Illinois (Greg Maida), Logo James Madison (Johnny McGonigal), Logo Central Florida (Scott Springer), Logo Louisville, (Brett McMurphy) Logo Texas Tech (Jordan Guskey), Logo Washington State (Ryan Thorburn), or Logo Houston (Adam Zucker).

The team with the most votes matching their rank is Logo Georgia. 58 voters placed the Bulldogs in 1st place. On the other hand, the team with the fewest votes matching their rank is Logo North Carolina, with only 4 voters ranking the Tar Heels in their 17th spot. Altogether, 386 votes matched the team's rank in the poll. Moreover, 414 votes were off by ±1 rank, 261 were off by ±2 ranks, 185 were off by ±3 ranks, 97 were off by ±4 ranks, and 58 were off by ±5 ranks. The highest-ranked team to be left off a ballot is Logo LSU, as 2 voters did not have the Tigers on their ballot. The lowest-ranked team to appear on all 63 ballots was Logo Oregon State in 16th. The two closest teams were Logo Colorado and Logo Texas A&M, with only 2 points keeping the Buffaloes over the Aggies. Conversely, a whole 132 points separate Logo Washington and Logo Tennessee, more than any other teams only one rank apart.

This week, teams in the receiving-votes section received 83 votes (5.3%) for a total of 245 points (1.2%). Logo UCLA received the highest vote of any team in that area, with Mike Barber ranking the Bruins in their 15th slot. 318 distinct team-rank combinations occurred in votes this week, of which 87 were unique. The most common vote was placing Logo Georgia 1st, cast by 58 voters (92%). The team with the lowest variation in votes was Logo Georgia with a standard deviation of 0.346. On the other hand, nobody could agree on where to put Logo LSU. The Tigers had the largest standard deviation of 4.38. The most bizarre coincidence this week is Logo Tulane going 8-8-8-8-8 from 22 to unranked, and also being one vote at 21st away from six-in-a-row.

This week, 9 teams received their first votes of the season. Welcome to the 2023 AP Poll, Logo UCF, Logo Wyoming, Logo Colorado, Logo Iowa State, Logo Washington State, Logo Houston, Logo Miami, Logo Fresno State, and Logo Texas State! That brings the total number of teams to receive at least one vote this season up to 57. Unfortunately, the following 9 teams did not receive any votes this week after getting at least one last week. Depending on your rooting interests, better luck next week or good riddance to Logo Toledo, Logo South Carolina, Logo South Alabama, Logo Boise State, Logo UTSA, Logo Coastal Carolina, Logo Florida, Logo Baylor, and Logo Liberty.

SEASON PROGRESSIONS OF EACH TEAM ^beta

They're back! And clearly has some bugs left to work out (wins/losses marked incorrectly, one row is off-center, etc), but whatever, something is better than nothing. I will fill in new rows of data as the season goes on. Please let me know what you think and offer any feedback you may have.

TABLE IN CSV FORMAT

Want to have a go at analyzing or visualizing the data on your own? Here is a CSV dump for easy copying:

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3,Alabama,1424,0,9,29,16,9,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
4,Florida State,1384,3,7,12,23,8,3,6,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
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17,North Carolina,551,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,2,8,10,10,4,7,5,6,2,2,3,0,1,1
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19,Wisconsin,407,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,3,8,9,4,6,7,7,6,5,4,1,2
20,Ole Miss,379,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,3,5,7,7,9,5,5,6,5,2,3
21,Duke,343,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,3,3,4,2,6,7,7,6,9,4,5,4
22,Colorado,269,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,2,1,3,7,5,3,7,6,6,6,13
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24,Tulane,241,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,3,1,2,4,9,8,8,8,8,8
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26,Iowa,73,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,2,1,1,3,8,5,40
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42,Louisville,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,62
42,Texas Tech,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,62
42,Washington State,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,62
42,Houston,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,62

PAST WEEKS

Here are some handy links to previous weeks' posts:

Week 1

Week 2

SPECIAL THANKS

I would like to thank u/bakonydraco for providing the data set that makes this post possible. If you like this table, then you will also like his weekly voter-by-voter ballot breakdown. That post is also great for answering your "Who ranked [team] at [place]?" questions. Check out the post for Week 2 here.

I would also like to thank u/BlueSCar, who maintains the College Football Data API, which I used to get the game and TV information.

REQUEST FOR FEEDBACK

As always, I am interested in any feedback or suggestions you may have. Ways to improve readability or aesthetics, new ways to analyze the data, or anything else. I have some ideas of my own, but if past seasons are any indication, I probably won't get to them before the season's end. Also, I significantly rewrote the code that generates this chart again this year, so please feel free to let me know about any bugs, typos, grammer errerrs, or general "is that a mistake or on purpose?" sorts of things. Also, if you would like to receive this chart DMed to you as soon as I finish it (usually late evening the night before it goes up on reddit, so not that amazing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), please send me a DM and mention which variety you want (e.g. dark mode) and I will DM it to you until you ask me to stop.

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