cartman's FOFC College Football Top 25 Poll - preseason open for voting

[cartman]

Howdy all,

It is that time of year again! The 2015 season kicks off next Thursday. Welcome to the 13th season of the poll.

Ground Rules:

• The poll is open to all forum members. All I ask is that if you decide to participate, you send in a poll each week during the season. It helps to keep the continuity of the poll going by having a stable set of voters.
• Also, I realize that some folks do not want to start voting until after the season has started. That is fine. Voting will be closed to new submitters after the voting for the week of Oct. 3rd
• The voting will open up the day after the last game of each week is played, and voting will close by kickoff of the first game of the following week. 24 hours prior to the poll closing, I will PM voters that haven't sent anything in a reminder.
• Please use the following format when making your submission (it helps cut down greatly on processing time).
  1. State University
  2. Your State
  3. State Tech
  Basically, just make sure each of your votes starts with 1 to 25, and is marked with a period after the number then a space before the team name. Any other character (or none at all) confuses the parser.
• Please keep the thread with voting submissions free of any comments about someone's vote. If there is an obvious mistake or omission, that is ok, but running commentary muddies up the thread. Comments should go into the weekly college football thread.
• Solecismic's Football Frontier College Rankings will be one of the voters.
• cartman reserves the right to reject submissions.
• Teams on probation or with bowl bans are eligible to receive votes

So without any further ado, let the voting begin! Voting closes at 5:00pm Central, Thursday, Sept. 3rd

[Chief Rum]

Always love this, and then real life kicks in and I forget to put in a poll. Gonna make a concerted effort to consistently participate this year.

[Umbrella]

I've been waiting for this. Now I just need to come up with my rankings.

[cartman]

I've been meaning for the past several years to come up with an online way to submit polls, but keep getting stuck/distracted/frustrated. I have the plan for how it should work, but my lack of leet programmer skillz is a big roadblock.

[tarcone]

Woot. The tarcone method of polling is back in business.
I have a very intricate and complicated algorithm that I use.
It has a few very complicated parts working together to put the poll together.
I am going to reveal my process after many years of filling out the poll.
Are you ready? Its very complicated. Not so much in the name of the parts but how they work and work together.
Is the anticipation killing you?

The tarcone poll is based on the brain, the heart and the guts.

Yep. 3 very complicated parts that come together to create the most accurate polls of the lot.

[Umbrella]

Originally Posted by tarcone

Woot. The tarcone method of polling is back in business.
I have a very intricate and complicated algorithm that I use.
It has a few very complicated parts working together to put the poll together.
I am going to reveal my process after many years of filling out the poll.
Are you ready? Its very complicated. Not so much in the name of the parts but how they work and work together.
Is the anticipation killing you?

The tarcone poll is based on the brain, the heart and the guts.

Yep. 3 very complicated parts that come together to create the most accurate polls of the lot.

Damn you tarcone. How did you get a hold of my top secret formula?

[HomerSimpson98]

Without a healthy dose of BIAS mixed in, I dont see how that formula works.

[Umbrella]

OK, I'll get this party started.

1. Ohio St.
2. Alabama
3. TCU
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. Auburn
7. Mississippi
8. UCLA
9. Michigan St.
10. USC
11. Georgia
12. Florida St.
13. Oklahoma
14. Arizona St.
15. Wisconsin
16. Notre Dame
17. LSU
18. Clemson
19. Mississippi St.
20. Louisville
21. Boise St.
22. Georgia Tech
23. Texas A&M
24. Missouri
25. Stanford

[tarcone]

1. Ohio St.
2. TCU
3. Auburn
4. Baylor
5. Michigan St.
6. Alabama
7. Georgia
8. Oregon
9. USC
10. Wisconsin
11. Florida St.
12. Clemson
13. Arizona St.
14. UCLA
15. Oklahoma
16. Ole Miss
17. Missouri
18. Norte Dame
19. LSU
20. Arkansas
21. Stanford
22. Arizona
23. Tennessee
24. Boise St.
25. Georgia Tech

[cartman]

Here's the Top 25 from Solecismic's Football Frontier:

1. Ohio State
2. Michigan State
3. Baylor
4. TCU
5. UCLA
6. Georgia
7. Alabama
8. Mississippi
9. Auburn
10. Boise State
11. USC
12. Georgia Tech
13. Clemson
14. Oregon
15. LSU
16. Arizona State
17. Oklahoma
18. Missouri
19. Florida State
20. Stanford
21. Arkansas
22. Virginia Tech
23. Wisconsin
24. Texas A&M
25. Marshall

[cartman]

My Top 25:

1. Ohio State
2. TCU
3. Baylor
4. Michigan State
5. Auburn
6. Alabama
7. UCLA
8. Georgia
9. Oregon
10. USC
11. LSU
12. Florida State
13. Arizona State
14. Georgia Tech
15. Notre Dame
16. Arkansas
17. Mississippi
18. Oklahoma
19. Stanford
20. Arizona
21. Boise State
22. Kansas State
23. Louisville
24. Tennessee
25. Virginia Tech

[JonInMiddleGA]

1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. TCU
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. Michigan State
7. Auburn
8. USC
9. Florida State
10. Notre Dame
11. LSU
12. Clemson
13. Georgia
14. Arizona State
15. UCLA
16. Georgia Tech
17. Ole Miss
18. Wisconsin
19. Stanford
20. Oklahoma
21. Arizona
22. Arkansas
23. Missouri
24. Mississippi State
25. Boise State

from Jon's Three Cents | Because two cents worth isn't always enough

[Chief Rum]

1. Ohio State
2. Alabama
3. TCU
4. Michigan State
5. Baylor
6. Auburn
7. Oregon
8. Georgia
9. Notre Dame
10. Florida State
11. UCLA
12. USC
13. LSU
14. Arizona State
15. Clemson
16. Ole Miss
17. Arkansas
18. Georgia Tech
19. Oklahoma
20. Stanford
21. Wisconsin
22. Boise State
23. Arizona
24. Missouri
25. Tennessee

[cartman]

Still about an hour left to get a vote in for this week.

[Zinto]

1. Ohio State
2. TCU
3. Alabama
4. Baylor
5. Oregon
6. Auburn
7. Michigan State
8. Florida State
9. USC
10. Notre Dame
11. Georgia
12. UCLA
13. Clemson
14. Ole Miss
15. LSU
16. Georgia Tech
17. Mississippi State
18. Arizona State
19. Arizona
20. Boise State
21. Texas A&M
22. Kansas State
23. Oklahoma
24. Wisconsin
25. Louisville