Mumme Poll – Week 10

Rank	Team	Votes (top five)
1	Alabama	330     (328)
2	Texas	330     (325)
3	Florida	328
4	Cincinnati	327
5	TCU	326
6	Georgia Tech	321
7	Boise State	315
8	LSU	275
9	Pittsburgh	262
10	Oregon	197
11	Iowa	185
12	Ohio State	174
13	Miami	146
14	Southern Cal	142
15	Houston	119
16	Utah	71
17	Oklahoma State	25
18	Arizona	24
19	Penn State	19
20	Clemson	14
21	Virginia Tech	5
22	Stanford	4
23	South Florida	3
23	Tennessee	3
23	Wisconsin	3

COMMENTS

• Overall, this strikes me as a rational set of results, particularly with regard to the placement of Oregon and Southern Cal.
• 330 total ballots cast this week, which is a drop of slightly less than 10% from the previous vote.  But at least there are two teams this time around which appeared on all of the ballots.
• As you might expect, the number of teams we see as elite has slipped to seven, but the number of what I’d refer to as middle tier schools has increased.
• Miami was the highest ranked team this week to receive no top five consideration by the voters.  Penn State was the lowest ranked team in the top 25 to gain top five approval.
• Things must be getting clearer – over 70% of the voters this week compiled their ballots in fifteen minutes or less.
• Bias watch:  Still no votes for Tennessee from the UT faithful.