2022 Mumme Poll, Week 14

Well, this is it, the last MP vote of the season.  No doubt the suspense is killing y’all.

Turnout, not unexpectedly, dropped like a stone this week. We had 211 people cast their votes.  The typical ballot had 3.1 teams on it.  Only 23 teams received votes.

Here’s our final top 23.

No team appeared on every ballot.  Georgia was the only Tier One (90+%) team.  And only four teams appeared on more than a third — hell, more than a tenth — of the ballots.  I guess we’re not feeling that 12-team CFP vibe this year.

Speaking of which, here’s what the selection committee came up with.

Pretty similar lists, other than our Michigan State jollies.  And of course, our top four match exactly.  Speaking of which, we once again managed to get our business done efficiently

One week, instead of asking why this team if ranked such instead of that team, I wish the media would ask Boo Corrigan why there’s a need for an expensive, time-wasting junket for the selection committee’s vote.

The Big Ten finished in the lead for conference affiliation.

And participation by Georgia voters jumped to 66.4%, which probably explains some of this result:

I voted for Judkins, for what it’s worth.

Anyway, that’s it for 2022, other than thanking my Mumme Poll partner in crime, Peyton, without whom there’s no way I could have pulled the balloting off week by week.  Peyton, you ‘da man!

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My Week 14 Mumme Poll ballot

Before I get to my ballot, here’s Bill Connelly’s last regular season Résumé SP+ rankings:

Which is why I feel pretty good about my last ballot.

• Georgia
• Michigan

And you?

Week 14 Mumme Poll ballot link

It’s the Mumme Poll’s last dance for the 2022 season, so if you’re jonesing to indulge your inner Erik Evans by including ‘Bama in the final four, now’s your chance.

Here’s the link.

2022 Mumme Poll, Week 13

Turnout bumped back up to 293 voters this week.  The average number of teams appearing on a ballot dropped to 4.1, which again makes sense as we approach the end of the regular season.  A total of 39 teams received votes.

Here’s how things look:

Two Tier One (90+%) teams, with TCU close by.  And only one other team appearing on over half the ballots cast.  The gap between four and five increased significantly.  (Although I am sort of curious how many folks would pick USC to beat Ohio State on a neutral field.)

Let’s see how the selection committee’s top 22 looks.

Identical through the top six, and really, if you ignore the joke vote for Michigan State, the only real difference between the two rankings in the top ten is Penn State’s placement.  (I think we’ve got them pegged more accurately than the selection committee, for what it’s worth.)

Well, there’s also this real difference:

With the Ohio State loss, conference affiliation essentially evened out this week.

Georgia voters comprised 61.4% of the total pool this week, a slight rise.

Bonus question results:

No votes for Valentine’s Day, so I guess we’re not a bunch of hopeless romantics.

Next week, after the championship games, will be the last Mumme Poll vote for the 2022 season.  Don’t miss it!

My Week 13 Mumme Poll ballot

Step back, Ohio State.

I have to admit I was close to adding TCU to my list, but decided to wait until I see what they do against K-State.  In the meantime…

• Georgia
• Michigan

Week 13 Mumme Poll ballot link

Well, shit.  I almost made through the season without having to change my ballot.

This week’s link is here.

2022 Mumme Poll, Week 12

Turnout dropped this week, back down to 277 participants.  The average number of teams appearing on a ballot was 4.9.  Only 35 teams received votes.

This week’s top 22:

The gap between the top two and the rest of the field enlarged slightly.  The gap between four and five actually decreased a little bit, but it’s pretty clear who belongs in our playoff field.

Speaking of which, here’s the selection committee’s top 22:

The interesting difference between the two is which team comes in at number five.  The selection committee went with two-loss LSU, while we voted one-loss Southern Cal into the spot.

Might be a little recency bias in our vote this week, with Vandy at 11th and Tennessee at 15th (tied with South Carolina, to boot).

As has been the case, time wasn’t a factor in choosing.

It probably took the CFP more time to book the hotel reservations.

Conference affiliation continues to favor the Big ten.

Ballots from Georgia voters declined to 60% of the total pool this week.

And here’s how our SEC Coach of the Year voting played out.

Congrats, Coach Smart!

(I’d love to see the Venn diagram of the folks who cast votes for Jimbo and those who had Michigan State on their ballots.  But I digress.)

My Week 12 Mumme Poll ballot

It’s rubber meets the road time this week.  For now, though…

• Georgia
• Ohio State

Week 12 Mumme Poll ballot link

This week, you’ve got your close calls to consider… and then you’ve got Tennessee losing by 25.

Ballot link is here.

2022 Mumme Poll, Week 11

Turnout this week was still quite good, if not quite at the level of Week 10.

Our top 22 looks like this:

Or, as I refer to it, “our top 21 plus the Michigan State trolling”.

Ohio State climbed back into the top (over 90% of all ballots) tier and TCU slipped past Michigan into third place this week.  Other than that, not much changed in our top ten.

Looking at the selection committee’s latest vote,

… really, much the same could be said about it.  Significant overlap remains the rule, although we did not give in to Irish-itis and list Notre Dame in our top 22 as the committee did.

As usual, we were extremely efficient with our time, unlike certain folks we could name.

In terms of conference affiliation, the SEC is no longer at the top of the heap.

Voters from Georgia climbed to 63% of the total pool.

This week’s question saw Kirby Smart capture a whopping 94% of the vote.  Not a big surprise, considering.