Final Coaches Poll voting in graphic form

Anyone voting OSU above us is suffering from the same 1997 recency bias that propelled Nebraska, except worse.  An 11-2, non-conference champ, who happened to give UGA a good game in their finale.  The same team that, in their last 5 weeks of conference play was tied with NW, trailing PSU and in a dogfight with Maryland, before having their asses handed to them in a game they'd been talking sh*t about for 362 days. They give UGA a good game, and suddenly they're #2, over a 13-1 team that crushed them at home.  Ridiculous bias, and a classic example of voting based on the most recent game.  

And how on Earth could Pat Fitzgerald vote like that?  I've lost all respect for the guy.  For any B1G coach to have so little respect for winning the B1G championship is pathetic. The dude himself won the B1G, and should revere how difficult that is.    

Got to hand it to Saban too, votes himself #2.  I wonder how many other 11-2 teams he's voted #2.  

Ditto Will Hall.

The same Phat Fill who says he can't remember how he voted in the most controversial Coach's Poll he ever voted in?  I guess it would be a surprise to Phat Fill himself to see it.  

Middle Tennessee gave us one of the greatest schadenfreude games ever. I can't be mad at them.

Put em on the schedule. 

Makes no sense. If you’re downgrading Michigan the only reason can be because they lost to TCU because that’s literally our only loss. The implication being that losing to TCU is some terrible mark against us. Yet both rank 2 loss TCU ahead of us??? (One at 2nd and one at 3rd)

Don't know but if I had to speculate, I'd guess that it's completely worthless and has no impact on the sport anymore, fortunately. Imagine if losers like Pat Narduzzi determined the champion. 

Jim probably was voting us #1 every week.

Coaches' poll official: "Now Coach Harbaugh, we've been over this before.  The rules state that the winner of the CFP must be #1 in the final poll.  No one else."

Harbaugh: "There's no way I'm not supporting my team."

Coaches' poll official: "Well, then, we're going to have to strip you of your ballot."

Harbaugh: "Well then."

I'm willing to bet that he won't vote because he doesn't want to 'diminish' another team.  Dude pretty much goes all in with the things he says and does, and he will not compare teams/players/programs/whatever because that necessarily diminishes one from the other.  I can see this as a reason he'd tell the Coaches Poll representative, politely, to go away.

Not every coach votes.

Never disliked Franklin or Tucker. They don’t seem like assholes like Dantonio. Just incompetent which actually makes them kinda likeable. (Frames did have the sandwich incident and Tucker acting clueless after the tunnel incident but I think that speaks more to the incompetence)

Boy would TCU-USC be a fun game to watch, though!  At least offensively...  Michigan (and Iowa) fans would get an ulcer watching those defenses!  I say TCU wins by 3 scores going away...

His picks spelled GOAT I think he was trying to be cute…

I counted 17 coaches that made that incredibly stupid decision.

There is a narrative out there that our victory over Ohio was a fluke.  That Ohio controlled the game except for a few lucky plays that went for big yardage.  They use the Georgia loss and our TCU loss as evidence.  The haters are eagerly willing to buy into it.

I know different because I was there and saw the looks on the faces of the Ohio fans after the game and have a game program given to me by a man who was too embarrassed to possess it.

Not the point of your post but seeing where Tennessee lands after they beat both LSU AND Alabama is so funny. These people don’t watch the games!

True. Narduzzi is a Sparty bitch. But I think this has more to do with him being just an overall idiot. Tucker is a Sparty bitch, but at least he seems to be smart enough to objectively rank.