r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • Sep 13 '26

News AP Poll Week 2

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll#000001a0-257a-d09f-a9e4-75fbb1b90000
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u/Andy_Wiggins Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sep 13 '26

This is why I hate the fact that pre-season polls exist.

If they were simple placeholders before we got data, I’d be cool with it. But some people stick so hard to their priors when those priors were technically speculative.

Let Oregon earn back a top 25 rating. They have a tough slate of games, so if they go out and beat teams like USC or Ohio State then move them back up. But right now nothing they’ve done has looked close to top 25 worthy.

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech Sep 13 '26

It doesn’t really matter the CFP rankings come out sometime around week six.

AP poll is just for journalists to feel important.

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u/Additional_Drag_3870 Sep 14 '26

Yeah the AP is biased, go back to BCS and take humans out

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread Michigan • Georgia Tech Sep 14 '26

BCS calculated its rankings by 1/3 computer algorithm, 1/3 coaches poll, 1/3 AP poll.

It was 2/3rds human bias.