Mumme Poll Results – My How the Mighty Have Yo-Yo’d

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Due to a brain fart I neglected to post the results of last week’s Mumme Poll, so here’s your collective feelings after Week One of action:

Falling out of the Mumme Preseason Top 25: Syracuse (15), SMU (previous 19), BYU (20), Texas Tech (22), Boise State (24), Kansas State (25). Others receiving votes: Indiana (7), South Florida (6), Tulane (6), Missouri (5), USC (4)

Alabama, lose to an ACC team, and FSU, at that, and we were sold on nearly dropping you out of the Top 25 altogether. Ditto Fran Brown, don’t lose to Tennessee, ever. Methinks a lot of us enjoyed not selecting Alabama in the poll for a change, and it shows. Regarding the bonus question – which Preseason Top 25 SEC Team will finish unranked…well:

  1. Texas A&M – 27%
  2. Oklahoma – 24%
  3. Florida and Alabama – 18%
  4. South Carolina – 25%

Man, what a difference a week makes…let’s see how our opinions changed after some upsets and lackluster Week Two performances:

Falling Off the Literal Face of the Earth: Florida (previously 15th), also falling out of the polls, Arizona State (!5th), TCU (18th), Michigan (19th).

Others receiving votes: Mississippi State (9), USC and TCU (8), Tulane (7), UNLV (6), Baylor (4), Indiana (4)

Lackluster performances matter, so Georgia drops from a first place tie with tOSU to 2nd, while Oregon’s destruction of Mike Gumby’s poverty-ridden program (seriously, where is the oil money in Oklahoma?) was enough to move them into the top 4. Clemson’s similar lackluster day against Troy moved them down the most by seven places, while apparently Ole Miss’s close game with Kentucky gave us pause on the Laner and the 2025 season. Oklahoma’s win over Michigan catapulted the venerable Venables into the Top 10, and South Florida – who likely has the best strength of record resume out there, is just outside the Top 10 at 11. Looks like they could be CFP12 G5 team…time will tell. And don’t look now, but South Carolina is in the top 10…there’s a cannon shot being fired somewhere.

Seeing Alabama and Auburn tied…well that just makes me smile.

Regarding our bonus question, the majority of voters see a pair or more of losses in the Dawgs foreseeable future:

  1. Two losses – 40%
  2. Three losses – 23%
  3. One loss – 19%
  4. Undefeated – 14%

Thanks for voting…I’ll try to have next week’s poll out on Sunday after the Saturday slate of games.

5 thoughts on “Mumme Poll Results – My How the Mighty Have Yo-Yo’d”

  1. Considering the comments on here over the last 3 days, I’m honestly surprised to see the Dawgs that high. I assumed more folks would have left them off. They certainly didn’t play like a Top Anything team on Saturday.

  2. I think that’s the inherent flaw with the Mumme Poll. Unless the Dawgs truly suck, they will always show up on our ballots. We’re still picking the 12 teams that make it to the tournament at this point, and we’re certainly in that bunch no matter what Bobo does or doesn’t do.

    If the poll was nationwide, it might change some (we wouldn’t be that high) but it would be still be generally the same 12 teams, I think.

    • No, that’s the flaw with this showing up on a Georgia-centric site. If you did preference voting across a cross-section of fans of the sport, you would get a different result.

      I still have Georgia on my ballot because they are undefeated AND have a roster that can go 16-0.

      Peyton and the Senator didn’t start the voting until either the week of or before the initial CFP rankings come out.

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