Midseason poll 2018–19

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It's time for the midseason installment of the most sacred rite in quizbowl, the collegiate poll. Please vote.

Feel free to discuss, but do not post ballots directly in the thread. Do not vote for high school teams. You can vote for B teams. Ballots must contain 25 teams. E-mail them to me at [email protected] by Friday, January 11. If you change your mind, you can submit multiple ballots and I will count the last one that I get.

This year's preseason top 25:

1. University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.): 322
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): 315
3. Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio): 297
4. University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.): 277
5. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minn.): 264
6. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.): 263
7. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.): 254
8. Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.): 208
9. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.): 191
10. McGill University (Montreal, Que.): 189
11. University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.): 181
12. University of California, Berkeley B (Berkeley, Calif.): 177
13. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.): 150
14. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.): 141
15. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Mo.): 131
16. University of Oxford (Oxford, England): 120
17. University of Chicago B (Chicago, Ill.): 116
18. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.): 114
19. Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.): 111
20. University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.): 89
21. University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas): 60
22. University of Maryland, College Park B (College Park, Md.): 54
23. Duke University (Durham, N.C.): 42
24. Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.): 33
25. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.): 28

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Voting has concluded. The 11 voters were Geoffrey Chen, Nick Collins, Justin Hawkins, Ryan Humphrey, Moses Kitakule, Jack Mehr, Jakob Myers, Rudra Ranganathan, Graham Reid, Vishwa Shanmugam, and Kevin Wang. Thanks to each of them for taking the time to contribute.

1. University of Chicago (Chicago, Ill.): 274 (10), highest #1, lowest #2 (previous: #1)
2. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.): 265 (1), highest #1, lowest #2 (previous: #2)
3. Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio): 246, highest #3, lowest #5 (previous: #3)
4. University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, Md.): 238, highest #3, lowest #5 (previous: #4)
5. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (Minneapolis, Minn.): 234, highest #3, lowest #8 (previous: #5)
6. Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.): 212, highest #5, lowest #9 (previous: #8)
7. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, Calif.): 209, highest #3, lowest #14 (previous: #6)
8. Columbia University (New York, N.Y.): 189, highest #6, lowest #12 (previous: #7)
9. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.): 183, highest #7, lowest #16 (previous: #9)
10. University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.): 176, highest #7, lowest #12 (previous: #11)
11. McGill University (Montreal, Que.): 171, highest #7, lowest #12 (previous: #10)
12. University of Virginia (Charlottesville, Va.): 152, highest #9, lowest #15 (previous: #14)
13. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, Pa.): 133, highest #9, lowest #17 (previous: #13)
14. University of Maryland, College Park B (College Park, Md.): 122, highest #12, lowest #21 (previous: #22)
15. University of California, Berkeley B (Berkeley, Calif.): 105, highest #12, ranked by 10 voters (previous: #12)
16. University of Chicago B (Chicago, Ill.): 99, highest #13, ranked by 10 voters (previous: #17)
17 (tied). University of Oxford (Oxford, England): 90, highest #14, lowest #22 (previous: #16)
17 (tied). Stanford University (Palo Alto, Calif.): 90, highest #11, lowest #21 (previous: #19)
19. Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.): 85, highest #10, lowest #23 (previous: #18)
20. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Mo.): 75, highest #14, lowest #25 (previous: #15)
21. University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.): 58, highest #14, lowest #24 (previous: #20)
22. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (Champaign, Ill.): 51, highest #15, ranked by 9 voters (previous: received votes)
23. University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas): 47, highest #11, lowest #25 (previous: #21)
24. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.): 31, highest #19, ranked by 6 voters (previous: received votes)
25 (tied). Duke University (Durham, N.C.): 8, highest #23, ranked by 4 voters (previous: #23)
25 (tied). Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.): 8, highest #21, ranked by 4 voters (previous: #24)
25 (tied). University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.): 8, highest #22, ranked by 4 voters (previous: received votes)

Also receiving votes:

28. University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.): 7, highest #24, ranked by 5 voters (previous: #25)
29. University of Cambridge (Cambridge, England): 5, highest #21, ranked by 1 voter (previous: received votes)
30. University of Chicago C (Chicago, Ill.): 4, highest #24, ranked by 2 voters (previous: received votes)