2009 Mumme Poll

Being new to the college football blogging scene doesn’t mean I am new to college football. And you can’t discuss college football without discussing the polls. I was too late to get into the BlogPoll, but not too late to get into the Mumme Poll. Started in 2008 by the authors of Get The Picture, it’s an attempt to rank teams in a non-baised way. Quote:

This is accomplished by means of conducting the voting in two very different ways from other football polls:

1. The first vote does not take place until after the games of Week Six have been played. Voters are not asked to evaluate teams based on preseason expectations and are not expected to use those as a baseline from which to rank teams for the rest of the year.
2. Rather than being required to rank twenty five D-1 teams in order of preference, Mumme Poll voters submit ballots of the top twelve teams in the country, without ranking (other than to designate the top five of those twelve, for use as a tiebreaker). The poll rankings are then compiled by means of approval voting; that is, the teams are ranked in the order of the total number of times they appear on voters’ ballots.

It should be a fun time. I’m going to be ranking teams according to a soon to be unveiled ranking system, so it should be interesting. Also, the poll is open to everyone, so register if you’re interested.