The top 5 in both the coaches and AP are identical and looks like this: 1. Alabama, 2. LSU, 3. Oklahoma State, 4. Oregon, 5. Arkansas. In the AP poll, for some reason LSU received one first place vote, and Oklahoma State received four first place votes. How Alabama isn't the unanimous number one team in the AP poll proves once again why we need a playoff system. Some of these people are clueless when it comes to voting, and some have political reasoning behind it. Time to blow the system up! For the entire top 25 here's the link:
http://espn.go.com/college-football/rankings
AP poll looks about right in my opinion. Whats suprising to me is USA Today doesnt have USC in top 25 and niether did espn's fan poll. USC is definitly a top 10 team and will be a thorn in Oregon's side next year. Just saying. I'm with you though Chris, I'd like to see a playoff system too. Good read....as usual.
ReplyDeleteThat's surprising to me too, however, I wouldn't feel too bad for the Trojans...they will be back to being the media darlings next year, and will probably get more hype coming from the Pac than Oregon. Which is fine with me, let Oregon 'fly' under the radar for once! The fan poll is a wash. You think there's agenda's and political reasons behind voting in the AP poll? The fan poll is worse. A Duck fan (maybe not you or me but there are some) will vote Oregon #1 regardless of the outcome of the NC. Same goes for fans of their teams. Not too many people take it seriously.
ReplyDeleteI would have given serious consideration to Oklahoma State at #1 as well. Nick Saban had Oklahoma State 5th in his final ballot of the regular season, which you can't excuse. Not saying Alabama didn't deserve to play in the BCS title game, and isn't a deserving national champion, but bias and politics are a bigger part of the rankings then they should be.
ReplyDeleteThe rankings will never be perfect. Not even with a playoff system, so it is what it is, and we have to live with it.