The Crowd Top 25
The best fans know college football better than a random AP voter. We grade both by the games to prove it.
Every fan Top 25 we hold, added up. A ballot's weight is earned by the games: wins above the favorites, measured against the middle AP voter over the same weeks. Beat the middle voter by two games and your ballot counts twice; fall well behind and it counts a quarter. A first ballot counts once. Then we grade the crowd itself like a voter.
Among AP voters#64of 70, over 2 graded weeks
vs the AP poll0 of 2weeks ahead · crowd -3.1, poll -0.5
vs the middle voter0 of 2weeks ahead of the median AP ballot
Weighting+0.6wins over the same crowd with every ballot counting 1
Week 8
22 ballots · 10 with a graded record · total weight 20.5| # | Team | vs AP | Points | Flat | #1s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Miami | even | 500.6 | 1 | 11 |
| 2 |  Ohio State | ▲ 1 vs AP 3 | 478.1 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 |  BYU | ▼ 1 vs AP 2 | 468.4 | 3 | 8 |
| 4 |  Indiana | ▲ 2 vs AP 6 | 410 | 4 | |
| 5 |  Notre Dame | ▼ 1 vs AP 4 | 387 | 5 | |
| 6 |  Georgia | ▼ 1 vs AP 5 | 384.7 | 6 | |
| 7 |  Texas Tech | ▲ 1 vs AP 8 | 378.4 | 7 | |
| 8 |  UCLA | ▲ 1 vs AP 9 | 369.5 | 8 | |
| 9 |  Utah | ▲ 1 vs AP 10 | 362.2 | 9 | |
| 10 |  Ole Miss | ▼ 3 vs AP 7 | 358.9 | 10 | |
| 11 |  Tennessee | even | 306.7 | 11 | |
| 12 |  Kentucky | even | 251.1 | 12 | |
| 13 |  Houston | ▲ 1 vs AP 14 | 201.4 | 13 | |
| 14 |  Iowa | ▲ 1 vs AP 15 | 182.2 | 14 | |
| 15 |  Alabama | ▼ 2 vs AP 13 | 177.1 | 15 | |
| 16 |  Wake Forest | ▲ 1 vs AP 17 | 169.1 | 16 | |
| 17 |  USC | ▼ 1 vs AP 16 | 168.3 | 17 | |
| 18 |  LSU | even | 108.2 | 18 | |
| 19 |  SMU | ▲ 4 vs AP 23 | 94.2 | 19 | |
| 20 |  Florida | even | 82 | 21 | |
| 21 |  Northwestern | ▲ 3 vs AP 24 | 80.9 | 20 | |
| 22 |  Boise State | ▼ 1 vs AP 21 | 72 | 23 | |
| 23 |  Texas | ▼ 4 vs AP 19 | 71.1 | 22 | |
| 24 |  Arizona | ▲ 1 vs AP 25 | 46.9 | 24 | |
| 25 |  Missouri | ▼ 3 vs AP 22 | 45.9 | 25 |
Graded like a voter
Each past crowd poll is a ballot built from the Top 25s posted before that week's first kickoff, dated by the last of them, and graded by the games after it. The AP poll and the middle voter are the bars. Flat = the same ballots with every weight at 1.