Comments on: Pre-Season College Football Rankings are the Most Important http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/preseason_colle.html Dispatches from a Small Business Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:53:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Highway http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2006/08/preseason_colle.html/comment-page-1#comment-3589 Highway Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:59:23 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2006/08/preseason_colle.html #comment-3589 <p>I think you're exactly right, and it's one reason I don't particularly care for college football. I'm a huge pro football fan, but I don't always care for the college style. Then add the college students and alumni who put so much pressure on, and then this totally rigged ranking system.</p> <p>I think you're missing one important thing: if there is more than one undefeated team, any team that was outside the top 10 has no chance against one that was in the top 10 to begin with. Even if there are no undefeated teams, the team that starts out in the top 10 will ALWAYS end up higher than any team with an equivalent record that started outside the top 10.</p> <p>The initial poll is just a total guess, based on propaganda from the schools themselves. I don't see why anyone believes them, or why there's even a poll in the first place before the season that means anything.</p> I think you’re exactly right, and it’s one reason I don’t particularly care for college football. I’m a huge pro football fan, but I don’t always care for the college style. Then add the college students and alumni who put so much pressure on, and then this totally rigged ranking system.

I think you’re missing one important thing: if there is more than one undefeated team, any team that was outside the top 10 has no chance against one that was in the top 10 to begin with. Even if there are no undefeated teams, the team that starts out in the top 10 will ALWAYS end up higher than any team with an equivalent record that started outside the top 10.

The initial poll is just a total guess, based on propaganda from the schools themselves. I don’t see why anyone believes them, or why there’s even a poll in the first place before the season that means anything.

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