re: I miss poll era football.

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At the end of the day, there's still subjectivity to it.

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Of course, but the more you can buffer the subjectivity involved with actual football games, the closer you come to a legitimate result. Is it better to play the “eenie meenie minie moe” game before or after the games are played? Obviously before, because it allows the stakes to be clearly and consistently defined.

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it's true #1 vs. #2 rarely collided in those match-ups, but did that really matter considering how subjective those rankings were to begin with? Almost all of those games were match-ups between Top 5/10 teams. So either way, you were getting a high-stakes game between two teams that were very good.

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If you’re arguing that a game between #2 and #8 is just as good a finalè as a game between #1 and #2, you’re fooling yourself out of pure nostalgia.

Also, you had no control, even if you were number 1 going into the bowl game, of actually being able to decide your championship. If you got stuck in a bowl game against #9, #2 could beat #3 by 20 and sorry you lose because........reasons. But then you just claim the natty anyway because nothing is actually real.

And guess what? That ultra-meaningful bowl you played in was actually meaningless.