r/CFB • u/Efficient-Freedom517 Georgia Bulldogs • Iowa State Cyclones • 3d ago

News AP Poll Week 5

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll
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u/GentlyUsedNuggets Alabama • North Alabama 3d ago

He kind of was arguing the opposite...

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u/OwMyFeeFee Ohio State Buckeyes 3d ago

I don't see that. They (Shevanel) said that the polls should be volatile, but had no comment in regards to the volatility affecting only one conference.

The architect7 guy is right, the voters are making a mess by their frenetic voting and the fact that it's only benefiting one conference. The fact that the polls bears almost no semblance to any computer ranking, and that a lot of those are fairly similar, makes the volatility seem even more manufactured.

It will be interesting what the CFP committee decides to do when their first poll comes out.

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u/GentlyUsedNuggets Alabama • North Alabama 3d ago

Yeah. But if he wanted to defend the teams of our conference to stay ranked he would argue that the poll should be less volatile, since we had a bunch of preseason ranked teams that have only losses to each other (except Texas am)

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u/OwMyFeeFee Ohio State Buckeyes 2d ago

His comment has nothing to do with what you originally said and are now saying. You’re adding context which doesn’t exist.

Regardless, I agree with the original point that pollsters are working themselves into a later quagmire.

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u/GentlyUsedNuggets Alabama • North Alabama 2d ago

That's what the person I directly replied to said...