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2014 Preseason and Regular Season Polls

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Mike80 said:
Meaningless polls are thankfully meaningless. The only poll that matters comes out on Tuesday.
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I agree to a point, Mike - but the problem is that these now useless polls drive perception across the country.

They need to just do away with these polls. Anytime you can jump one team from 24th in the country to 16th in the country and drop a team that beat another team by 20+ down a spot....and call it fair......needs to be done away with.
 
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alexhortdog95 said:
I agree to a point, Mike - but the problem is that these now useless polls drive perception across the country.

They need to just do away with these polls. Anytime you can jump one team from 24th in the country to 16th in the country and drop a team that beat another team by 20+ down a spot....and call it fair......needs to be done away with.
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The AP will do their poll as long as they see fit to do it. Given they are the media they will drive perceptions, regardless.
 
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Here is all that needs to be said:

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/10/bo_pelini_questions_espns_rela.html

Nebraska coach Bo Pelini on Monday questioned ESPN's relationship with the SEC and whether the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" can be unbiased in its coverage of a conference whose network it owns.

"I don't think that kind of relationship is good for college football," Pelini said in his Monday press conference. "That's just my opinion. Anytime you have a relationship with somebody, you have a partnership, you are supposed to be neutral. It's pretty hard to stay neutral in that situation."

Pelini's comments come one day after four SEC teams were ranked in the top five of the Associated Press poll, and one week before the College Football Playoff selection committee will announce its first rankings of the season, a first step in the process of selecting four teams to play in the inaugural playoff in January. With only three Power 5 teams still unbeaten -- and two of those, Mississippi State and Ole Miss, set to play each other at the end of the regular season -- there is sure to be heated debate over which one-loss teams are chosen for the playoff.

Pelini's Cornhuskers, 6-1, are ranked No. 16 in this week's AP poll.
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Then this...

ESPN owns the SEC Network, which launched this year. ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit refuted the idea that the company's ownership of the network might lead to bias or the pushing of an agenda from its analysts.

"I think that's kind of an outside-of-the-company perception because ESPN is associated with the SEC Network," he said. "I've worked at this company for a long, long time. Nobody has ever told me what my take needs to be or what my opinion needs to be. All they ask is that we do our homework and that we have opinions. That's it. It hasn't changed from the time we did not have an SEC Network to now that we do have an SEC Network. No one's ever whispered in my ear, or any other analyst for that matter: 'Hey, SEC Network, we've got to back that conference.'
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Finally, my favorite line....

"I'm a Big Ten guy," added Herbstreit, who played quarterback at Ohio State in the early 1990. "Nobody loves Ohio State more than me and nobody's more of a Big Ten guy than me. But the reality is the reality."
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Polls show today that the AP dropped the 7-1 Huskers from 16th to 17th, while putting LSU from 24th to 16th. They also kept TCU and (I can't believe I'm saying this) the K-State Kitties at 10th and 11th, respectfully.

Bo has become a Master of Zen.
 
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BayBuck said:
Also Baylor jumped back over OSU (USA Today) after their bye-week performance proved that last week's lost to WVU was a fluke.
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That's why they should just do away with those damned polls. For example - Steve Sipple of the Lincoln-Journal Star here in Nebraska voted like thus:

RANK TEAM RECORD POINTS PV RANK
1 Florida State (14) 7-0 1,453 2
2 Mississippi State (46) 7-0 1,486 1
3 Auburn 6-1 1,267 5
4 Alabama 7-1 1,290 4
5 Notre Dame 6-1 1,161 7
6 Oregon 7-1 1,199 6
7 Michigan State 7-1 1,086 8
8 Georgia 6-1 1,074 9
9 TCU 6-1 1,030 10
10 Kansas State 6-1 930 11
11 Mississippi 7-1 1,095 3
12 Ohio State 6-1 676 13
13 Baylor 6-1 839 12
14 Arizona 6-1 669 15
15 Nebraska 7-1 535 16
16 Arizona State 6-1 667 14
17 East Carolina 6-1 366 18
18 Oklahoma 5-2 430 17
19 West Virginia 6-2 379 22
20 LSU 7-2 574 24
21 Clemson 6-2 265 21
22 Utah 6-1 524 19
23 Duke 6-1 121 26
24 Marshall 8-0 184 23
25 UCLA 6-2 106 25
 
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