re: ESPN Way-too-early 2025 football rankings....Oregon declared national champions

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Semantics - only difference in awarding / declaring is presented a physical item here.

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No, it's the difference between 1958 and 1908. There was no title awarded to LSU following the 1908 season, therefore there is no championship that year for LSU.

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Once all the conferences agreed to the BCS arrangement the AP trophy became as relevant as the Reddit trophy

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Except that every August people want to know where their team ranks in the AP pre-season poll, and proceed to obsess over poll rankings all season. Then at the end of the season, they want o use poll rankings for playoff seeding.

People so want the pre-season poll to stop, but they can't help themselves for being obsessed over it.

People so want a playoff to determine the champion, yet they are so obsessed with the opinion polls, they insist on having them play a part of the playoff system.

It's completely retarded.