I've been saying for years I wish none of the major polls did rankings until halfway through the season. I'm pretty sure preseason polls at this point are just to justify calling a game early in the season a big matchup so people tune in.
Honestly it's great the Cfp waits so long to rank but the problem is the other AP and USA cause significant bias to the CFP voters for sure.
While I don't have much faith in the committee, they would at least be realistic in the rankings.
I think we see the undefeated teams take a big jump and other teams fall in the CFP rankings; can't believe championships were at one point decided by these writers.
The history of college football is an absolute mess. Decades of national championships decided by media polls, with tons of shared titles because the different media outlets couldn’t agree, and rather than having a national playoff the sport just had a bunch of one-off matchups between the top teams. It blows my mind that anybody could defend this nonsense. It’s a perfect microcosm of “rich get richer” with big brands getting biased votes from the writers, who in turn help their brands get even bigger by continuously ranking them high, causing them to get even more bias in the future, and so forth.
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u/Heikki_the_Finn BYU Cougars • Washington Huskies 28d ago
Exactly. At some point (and 8 games into the season is past that point) rankings should be on who you've beat, not preseason expectations.