re: Alabama in top 3 sports

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Oh, that matters?

Well......

Total AP Poll Appearances Basketball

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Wrong. As I stated before, football unfortunately has not historically had a true playoff system to go by. So for football, you have to use other measures.

As I previously stated, had football had an 8, 16, or even 32-team playoff for the past 60 years or so, all that would matter in the sport was playoff appearances and the success within those playoffs. Nothing else would matter. But football has never had such a system, unfortunately.

Because of that, we have to use other measures. AP poll performance is one of those.

But with that stated, even your method of using "appearances" in the AP poll is worthless. Who cares if a team appears 50 times at #25 if your team has appeared 40 times in the Top 10?

Secondly, who cares if teams are erroneously hyped in the preseason but do nothing during the year? FINAL rankings are the only AP rankings I go by. To use anything but final rankings is just stupid.

If you weight final rankings only.... Bama is ranked behind Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri.... and is one spot ahead of Florida.

But again, thankfully basketball gives us a purer measure: The NCAA Tournament. The AP poll means far more in football than basketball because there is no such measure in football.