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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 5. 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 Utah is ranked 10th in this week's poll, and 30 voters placed the Utes 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 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 Scott Springer's vote for Logo USC in 20th place. That selection is 12 spots below the Trojans' consensus rank in the poll. Two teams sit on the lower Wilner diagonal this week. Both Logo Texas A&M (Creg Stephenson) and Logo Clemson (Mike Berardino) received a vote 16 spots above where the group as a whole had them. The team with the most votes matching their rank is Logo Georgia. 55 voters placed the Bulldogs in 1st place. On the other hand, the team with the fewest votes matching their rank is Logo Fresno State, with only 7 voters ranking the Bulldogs in their 25th spot.

Altogether, 463 votes matched the team's rank in the poll. Moreover, 479 votes were off by ±1 rank, 258 were off by ±2 ranks, 157 were off by ±3 ranks, 64 were off by ±4 ranks, and 31 were off by ±5 ranks. The highest-ranked team to be left off a ballot is Logo Oregon State, as 3 voters did not have the Beavers on their ballot. The lowest-ranked team to appear on all 63 ballots was Logo Miami in 18th. The two closest teams were Logo Ohio State and Logo Florida State, with only 4 points keeping the Buckeyes over the Seminoles. Conversely, a whopping 157 points separate Logo Miami and Logo Oregon State, more than any other teams only one rank apart.

This week, teams in the receiving-votes section received 107 votes (6.8%) for a total of 268 points (1.3%). Logo Kentucky received the highest vote of any team in that area, with Mike Niziolek ranking the Wildcats in his 18th slot. 271 distinct team-rank combinations occurred in votes this week, of which 73 were unique. The most common vote was placing Logo Georgia 1st, cast by 55 voters (87%). The team with the lowest variation in votes was Logo Georgia with a standard deviation of 0.6. On the other hand, nobody could agree on where to put Logo Tennessee. The Volunteers had the largest standard deviation of 2.84. This week, one team received their first votes of the season. Welcome to the 2023 AP Poll, Logo Air Force! That brings the total number of teams to receive at least one vote this season up to 65. In addition, one team received a vote this week after receiving none last week, but getting some in earlier weeks. Welcome back to Logo Texas A&M! Unfortunately, the following 3 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 Auburn, Logo BYU, and Logo Iowa.

TEAM PROGRESSION WEEK BY WEEK

Now available in regular or dark mode! Some of the bugs have been cleaned up, but please let me know if you find any more. Each team that has received a vote in any week is included, even if they have since fallen out of the receiving-votes section entirely.

BALLOT CHANGES BY VOTER

Now you can quickly compare how each voter's ballot changed this week and since the start of the season! Like the team progression tables, this is a bit wonky, but something is better than nothing. Please let me know what you think and give me any feedback or bug reports you notice.

Also, this made me realize how many repeat and near-repeat names the voters have this year. There are two Adams and a Ms. Adams; two Brians; a Creg and a Greg; two Daves and two Davids; two Emilies; a Jon, two Johns, a Johnny, and two Mr. Johnsons; two Jordans; two Kirks; a Ron and a Don; two Ryans; two Scotts; a Steve, Steven, Stefan, Stephen, and a Mr. Stephenson; two Toms; two Mr. Williams; a Mr. Murphy and a Mr. McMurphy; a Robert and a Bob; three Matts; four Mikes, a Michael, and a partridge in a pear tree.

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,Texas,1401,2,8,24,9,13,5,1,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
4,Ohio State,1370,1,5,11,22,12,8,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
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15,North Carolina,659,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,3,5,10,16,11,5,8,1,2,0,0,1,0,0,0
16,Washington State,652,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,3,3,3,7,10,13,7,11,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0
17,Duke,648,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,5,4,7,10,15,11,6,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,0
18,Miami,523,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,3,3,5,18,18,5,3,4,2,1,0,0,0
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20,Ole Miss,349,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,3,4,14,13,10,8,2,2,1,4
21,Tennessee,260,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,1,3,5,8,9,8,7,7,1,11
22,Florida,220,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,3,6,11,15,6,4,3,13
23,Missouri,197,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,4,9,7,4,11,6,3,17
24,Kansas,132,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,3,2,4,4,11,11,8,20
25,Fresno State,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,3,7,4,7,39
26,Kansas State,57,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,3,2,1,6,6,43
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28,Louisville,32,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,3,2,2,5,50
28,Colorado,32,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,2,6,5,48
30,UCLA,28,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,2,1,2,0,2,55
31,Maryland,20,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,4,5,52
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35,Wisconsin,6,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,3,59
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37,Texas A&M,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,62
37,Clemson,5,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,1,61

PAST WEEKS

Here are some handy links to previous weeks' posts:

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

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. You can find the one for Week 5 here.

I would also like to thank u/BlueSCar, who runs 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.

Random personal note: I finished Silent Hill 3 this week. I almost understood what was going on in this one!

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