What kind of bullshite is the AP Poll putting upon us???

MEh, there shouldn't be pre-rankings at all. But if they must exist winning big games should matter. Who did they jump that proved more week 1?

Who cares. It's meaningless. It will all work itself out

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Who cares. It's meaningless. It will all work itself out

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Pretty much.

It is interesting though. AP voters have dramatically changed the way they vote though. That kind of jump wouldn't have happened even a few years ago and it probably signals a changing of the guard from older baby boomer age reporters to gen x and gen y reporters.

The polls are stupid until about week 8. They are overrating a bunch of shitty teams that will get spanked later on and drop out for good.


I mean, they even have Aggy ranked, which is...frickin....

UT wouldn't have beaten Wiscy or Texas in week 1 so what is your problem with them jumping in that far and you falling 8 places from 9 to 17 even though you won?

Get a fresh tampon and you'll feel better.

AP is the most reasonable poll I've seen.

Rewarded well if you win and punished if you shat the bed like the Vols did. Based on what was done on the field.

AP hates the big orange

They want to fix the rankings because they were way off.

They are going to fix these rankings by basing them off results of rankings that were way off

If Tennessee can be "worse" than expected maybe Notre Dame and Texas could both be as well. Maybe app state is a lot better than expected and would have beat Texas.
Nobody knows anything after one week, it's a crapshoot until we have a bigger sample size.

I think the jumps were a little drastic for week one. I agree with where we are though, but I don't see how Wisconsin squeaking out a win against a "decent team" in Wisconsin makes them top 10.
I'll take it though because right now we have a two point loss against a top 10 team, and we are losing our minds.

I'm ready for a change, but I think it would be hilarious if Wisconsin has a great season and ends up with a top 3 defense again.

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I agree that it's interesting and I agree that it's a dramatic shift in voting tendency, but your reasoning is all wrong. These are still the same old print dinosaurs - this isn't about demographic shifts over just a three-year period. It's the CFP, stupid. They are now evaluating the T25 as the CFP Committee wildly shifts depending on each week's results.

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Oh no, I'm not saying that the old print dinosaurs have been usurped by online or other types of media so much that I think there's a shift from older reporters who've retired but who were more conservative in their voting to a younger reporting pool that's a bit less conservative and more likely to feel comfortable making more dramatic changes. There's no doubt that a lot fewer older reporters are around while more younger ones start to chip into the once boomer held majority.

That said, I think you're onto something with regard to the CFP having an influence. I just think there's a generational tendency at play as well.

It doesn't matter.