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@NorthernOhioBuckeye , 15 voters.
Some notes:
#1 Iowa (1.85), #2 PSU (2.23), and #3 tOSU (2.69) are all within less than 0.5 of the next team such that #3 tOSU is closer to #1 Iowa than they are to #4 Wisconsin.
#4 Wisconsin and #5 Michigan are pretty close also but the bigger issue is that #5 Michigan is actually closer to #1 Iowa than they are to #6 Rutgers. Ie, the gap between #5 and #6 is ENORMOUS.
#6 RU (7.92), #7/8 UMD/IU (both 8.0), and #9 MSU (8.31) are all basically tied for 6-9.
#10 MN (9.23) and #11 PU (9.38) are basically tied for 10/11.
#12 Northwestern is all by themselves.
#13 Nebraska is fairly close to #14 IL whom they lost to.
What I call the COTY/Hot Seat Chart is odd. This chart compares preseason to current ranking. I call it the COTY/Hot Seat chart because COTY is usually given to the coach of the biggest unexpectedly improving team and the coach of the biggest unexpectedly declining team is generally on the hot seat.
This chart is unusual because right now only IL (-0.23) and UW (-1.0) are within +/-1 of where they started. Everybody else is either significantly up or significantly down.
Vote Distribution:
These are the only things that at least half of us agree on:
- 11 of 15 agree that NU is #12
- 10 of 15 agree that IL is #14
- 9 of 15 agree that RU is #7
- 9 of 15 agree that UNL is #13
- 8 of 15 agree that Iowa is #1
Other than that it is pretty much a jumbled mess.
Ohio State's distribution is odd. They have:
- 4 votes for #1
- 4 votes for #2
- 3 votes for #3
- 0 votes for #4
- 4 votes for #5
It is relatively unusual to have multiple non-contiguous votes like that. One or maybe two outlier votes are common but not a statistically significant number like this, more than 1/4 of voters have them at #5 while the other ~3/4 have them #1, #2, or #3.
For a normal comparison, here are Wisconsin's votes:
Contiguous games (games between teams adjacent in the rankings):
- 9/25 #6 RU @ #5 M
- 10/2 #5 M @ #4 UW
- 10/2 #10 MN @ #11 PU
- 10/2 #12 NU @ #13 UNL
- 10/9 #2 PSU @ #1 IA
- 10/16 #9 MSU @ #7/8 IU
- 10/30 #2 PSU @ #3 tOSU
- 10/30 #7/8 IU @ #7/8 UMD
- 11/13 #6 RU @ #7/8 IU
- 11/13 #7/8 UMD @ #9 MSU
- 11/20 #11 PU vs #12 NU at Wrigley
- 11/27 #7/8 UMD @ #6 RU
- #13 UNL already lost at #14 IL