re: Rankings vs Predicted Finish

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There are basically two kinds of pre-season rankings.

A power ranking (how good you believe the teams are in order)

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A season prediction (basically a projection on how the games in the season will end up to give a guess at what the final ranking would be.

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This. I think there is a happy median that could be made by media and pollstees. Run their power projection polls early to feed TV interest and slots. Then have some sort of power rating composite poll. Then, after week 5, run projected finish polls .

The power ratings would still have a bias on the projected finish polls. But, it could help alleviate some of the tunnel vision that voters get locked into in preseason polls.

But, if it's not CFP poll or CCG result, it really doesn't matter anymore.