A map of college football pollster sentiment for LSU this week shows a band of less favorable pollsters running across New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa and Illinois. These pollsters all peg LSU at 18 or 19 on their ballots, rather than the 11 spot which the team currently holds overall.
LSU can’t even count on generous polling in its home state: Glenn Guilbeau, writing for Gannett Louisiana News Service, has the Tigers 18th on his ballot for week ten.
Previously, the Reveille gathered voting information directly from the Associated Press website. For week ten, these detailed results were not available from the AP site. Week ten results were pulled, instead, from Pollstalker.com.
LSU’s poorest ballot showing came courtesy of Fox Sports’ Charles Davis, who had the team at number 20 this week. On the other side of the scale, three pollsters joined in ranking the Tigers number eight on their ballots: Dave Matter of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dave Reardon of the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and Mike Barber of the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Other Teams of Interest
Stanford’s national sentiment map shows a fascinating effect as votes decline away from the west coast, and number five team Baylor was voted fifteenth-best team in the nation by Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, a ranking which can’t go over well with the Bears.