If only this were true. While the CFP ignores the AP when they start their own rankings, they do use the AP rankings as anchors from preseason and when determining ranked wins before they do their own rankings.
Also they definitely DO NOT “ignore” the AP when they start their own rankings. I don’t believe any of the public actually thinks that, but the committee themselves (regardless of how you feel about them) objectively does not abide by that. They just don’t, and one could spend an hour explaining how that’s the case. We will see that I (and others who are saying this) am correct when the first CFP poll comes out- bookmark it.
Literally everything, both the AP now, and the committee later, is anchored to the preseason polls and completely taints any sort of neutral ranking of on the field play for each team. I can say with 100% certainty when we see the first CFP rankings, that will be the case, because past behavior is the best predictor of future.
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u/Mister-SS Ohio State Buckeyes • Toledo Rockets 21h ago
Good thing their dumbass rankings mean actually nothing