Fun with cfbtrivia, pt. 4

[CincyUte]

True stat: this Saturday will be the first time BYU and Utah have ever played each other when neither team was ranked, yet both were “receiving votes” in the polls.

[89ute]

Why is the other’s receiving votes parameter set at 26-60?

[CincyUte]

The site tracks all poll votes and counts those receiving votes as being ranked #26, #27, etc.

[89ute]

Okay, so you didn’t cut it off at 60, it turns out that one of the teams probably got at least 1 vote to be in the top 25 but the actual ranking was 60, right?

[CincyUte]

Actually, I did cut it off at 60 because I didn’t think there would be any instance where >35 additional teams received votes in one of the major polls. I think it’s safe to say that if BYU and Utah both received votes during the week they played–but not enough for either to be ranked in the top-25–then they would have appeared on the site as ranked between 26-60.

But just to be sure, I extended the query range to 26-90 and got the same result.