This was made using PowerPoint. I utilized the AP Poll rankings for Preseason through Week 9 and the College Football Playoff rankings for Weeks 10-14. I don’t like changing sources midway through the year, but there’s no CFP ranking before week 10 and it’s the only one that “matters” starting that week. I’ve personally found the AP Poll to be more authoritative than the Coaches Poll, which is why I chose to use that for the first 10 weeks.

I’m aware that this chart is extremely busy, and would appreciate any suggestions folks might have on how to make it more readable.

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It's fascinating. I have no idea what each of the teams are or know anything about American Football at that, but it really is interesting to see all the movement

All you gotta know is the Vols absolutely BLEW IT against South Carolina

Go Lions! Wait, this is not their league...

The figure is a bit hard to read. Looks like a spiderweb. I’d suggest try visualizing in a way that provides more continuity.

This format does provide us with a beginning assumption that the AP/CFP are more accurate at assessing the talent/performance of the top 5 teams than the rest of the field.

I also look at the wild changes from Weeks 2 to 4 as an indication that preseason and even early season rankings are dumb.

The fact AF have rankings for college teams genuinely blows my mind

Pretty amazing what TCU accomplished honestly

In the AP poll most of the movement is simply, X team lost so they move down in the rankings and other teams move up

The CFP ranking is more likely to actually evaluate whether a team should actually be ranked where it is