College Football

I'm okay with ties (but I'm also a weirdo who thinks games should be able to tie and is okay with split national champions). IIRC, r/cfb had the occasional tie and split the #10 spot in half -- but they had tons of voters so that was rare. I think if we get to, say, 20ish regular voters then I would suggest allowing them.

Kind of bummed we already seem to have gotten a throwaway ballot, and surprised it wouldn't have messed up the poll too much given our small sample size (although it would have made a mess of "others receiving votes"). If they really wanted to manipulate the poll, they could have been more crafty about it and then we would have had to keep it. I think you made the right call here, but we should probably set up some guidelines for throwing out ballots. I don't know if it would be too much work, but if they are missing more than, say, 5 teams on the otherwise final rankings then I would say it should be thrown out. The criteria could be looser than that if only a few games were played (and in the preseason I like it being a free-for-all).