Why are they even published?

A little more for the College Football (CF) fan. I was talking to some friends and they were calling this past season, THE GREATEST COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON EVER! We witnessed Appalachian St. beating Michigan, no team was able to stay unbeaten (well Hawaii, but you see how that played out), and the fact that #1 and #2 teams where losing every week (sometimes to unranked teams).

That is where I had to insert my dissent. The week I published the blog entry May Never Happen Again referencing the fact that it was the first time in history I agreed with the weekly ranking system, all but one of those teams proceeded to lose that week. The other team lost the following week. Everybody laughed….. But by the end of the season all but 1 of these teams was back in the Top 10! What happened in the polls in those subsequent weeks is precisely the point I was trying to make. The #1 and #2 teams were losing every week, Top 10 teams were losing every week. As that does establish that there is more parity in CF. What it really establishes is that the pollsters are I-D-I-O-T-S!!! Most of those teams should have never been ranked that high in the first place.

Those teams were not victims of upsets, they were victims of a ranking system full of idiots. Just because USC loses a game doesn’t mean that KU is a better team. Just because West Virginia loses a game doesn’t mean that BC the next best team in the Big East is the 2nd best team in the nation?

This played out beautifully in the Big 12 Championship when the #1 team in the nation is going into a game as a 7 point underdog against a team they loss to earlier in the season. You are left thinking the bookies in Vegas appear to be more qualified to rank teams for the polls as Mizzou went on to get rolled by OU. Doesn’t mean Mizzou was not a good team, but #1 in the nation?

If the #1 team goes into a game and is an underdog your entire ranking system is worthless… Maybe if they are playing the #2 or #3 team on the road, but otherwise they should never be an underdog…..

So I ask the pollsters, go out to Vegas spend a long weekend and get the proper training on how to rank teams. Then at the end of the year the teams you have ranked high all along will be the teams that are playing in the BIG GAMES, and not the team that is getting knocked off week after week!