Georgia moves up in the AP ballot to number two. Not much of a shakeup anywhere, but Haley Sawyer strikes again.
Who is Haley Sawyer? Why, she’s the AP voter who last year moved Florida up two spots in the AP poll…after Florida lost to USF.
I’m just surprised she hasn’t been named to the CFP Committee, if I’m being honest. She’s in the news again because she left Michigan at 17 after their loss/win from Saturday.
Anyway, here’s the breakdown of the latest voting:
Worth noting Mike Griffith’s voting at the bottom. LSU #1? Hmmm.
Jeez go make a sandwich and stop talking, Haley.
She’s a friggin Valley Girl.
But, like she has a, process that is, you know, like, make a process fun, like, you know there is a lot of …….like, voters….her next attempt at speaking will be one giant , like, word salad…..
You know you know you know….
Interesting that we’re the only team in the top 8 without a single first place vote.
It is pretty hard to be ranked #2, without any first place votes for sure…
If you do the math, our average is fourth place, which indicates there is not a lot of consensus in the rankings. Surely that will change this week when the winner of Ohio State and Texas gets all the #1 votes and things sort out some more….
Thanks for taking your time to parse that out. My eyes got sensory overload.
Future chair person of the College Football Playoff Committee.
Ok, someone enlighten me. How did this woman get an AP ballot? Did some old guy at her news agency kick the bucket leaving her the last person standing? I don’t get it. That said, she’s probably still better than Heather Dinich.
You had me at, mike griiffithithith at the bottom….
JP, next time that happens maybe you might wanna say “We’re Second In The Poll” or something like that? 🙂
We’re ranked purdy high for a 7-5 team. Heyell, Nolan Smith tried to suit up (reckon due to LSU) according to socialist medias pictures. Oh well, Tennessee St down, 15 more to go…
I’m surprised she hasn’t been contacted by Michigan to be their Athletic Director. “ Haley, Michigan president here, you got a second?”
Mike Griffith should have his voting privilege revoked!
I see Michigan grad Nicole Auerbach has UGA at 7. I guess we will see, but it doesn’t change my long standing suspicion that she’s an insufferable know it all who doesn’t understand anything but b10 homerism.
The default for people like Nicole is “of course the b10 is better than everyone and always has been.” Michigan is a fraud. OU is going to thrash them. Oregon seems like a solid team that had an off week. It happens. Ohio St looks like a contender, I guess this week shows us whether Texass is s a fraud. Too early to tell about IU. Last year was impressive, but let’s see if it’s sustainable. The rest of the b10? Garbage.
Every change the last 10 years is meant to hobble the SEC and promote the b10. Bama and LSU in the BCS title game? Can’t have that. 4 team playoff with no b10 rep? Can’t have that. UGA and Bama in the NC 2x in 5 years? Can’t have that.
Make the SEC play their cupcake games early instead of saving one for November? Check. The b10 has in-conference cupcakes. Make the SEC play 9 conference games, leading to brutal November stretches? Check. Expand the CFP to 12 teams to force feed mediocre teams for the sake of “diverse geography”? Check. 2024 Ohio St played their way out of a 4 team playoff, but with 12 teams? No problem. All tv cares about is mo’ games, mo’ money. It seems like Greg Sankey has consistently gotten outflanked the last few years. Next they’re going to make the conference championships go away. This has been a jewel for the SEC that no other conference has come close to matching, especially the b10. But it gets more b10 mediocrities into the expanded (16? 24?) field.
Conference expansion? Bad for the SEC, especially the most recent round. Play Texas or OU OOC? Fine. Sacrifice SEC games we all have enjoyed for years to shoehorn those 2 into the schedule? Not fine. A 16 team conference is not really a conference. The schedules are haphazard. But the week after week bludgeoning is toughest in the SEC. Now it’s tougher.
I hate all of this.
Sankey does not do what is best for the SEC fans. He does the best for SEC revenue. We all warned the playoff advocates…several who The Senator argued with…that it would lead not to a “true national champion” who “won it on the field” (scary quotation marks intentional) but to college football’s destruction. RIP Bluto…you were so right.
Wow, Rece Davis doesn’t have an SEC team in the top 5.
We’re all dumber from having watched that.
What do the numbers in the two columns under “Season” and “Week” mean?
I did the work so you don’t have to comparing the preseason ballot to this week’s ballot when it comes to Georgia:
Of the 69 ballots:
Moved up – 31
Held steady – 28
Dropped – 10
Of the 10 – here are who they are and where we moved to and from (and who they moved in front of us)
1) John Johnson (Wake Forest) – 6 to 7 (LSU)
2) Adam Liechtenstein (Miami) – 5 to 6 (LSU)
3) Randy Johnson (Minnesota) – 4 to 5 (LSU)
4) NICOLE AUERBACH (Michigan) – 5 to 7 (LSU, Miami)
5) David Briggs (Ohio St) – 6 to 7 (LSU)
6) Andy Yamashita (Washington) – 4 to 5 (LSU)
7) Bob Asmussen (Illinois) – 6 to 7 (Miami)
8) Kirk Bohls (Texas) – 3 to 4 (LSU)
9) Stephen Means (Ohio St) – 7 to 9 (LSU, Ole Miss)
10) Dylan Sinn (ND) – 7 to 9 (LSU, USC)
10 assholes who clearly see their ballot as an opportunity to stroke their personal preferences instead of doing their job to vote objectively.
I have no problem with those who moved LSU up. I have a big problem with the 2 ballots that moved Ole Miss and USC ahead.
This is the value of the law of large numbers that offsets the bias on individual ballots as opposed to the joke that is the CFP selection committee.
All of those votes quantify to ONE thing – the reason why the AP poll is irrelevant, period.
Bless her heart.