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How Important Are Preseason Polls?

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#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #73 In Total Offense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #86 In Total Defense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #92 In Passing Yards Allowed
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #71 In Scoring Defense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #67 In Rushing Defense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #100 In Fewest Penalty Yds/Game
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #71 In Passing Offense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #71 In 3rd Down Conversion Pct.
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #69 In Red Zone Defense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #74 In Rushing Offense
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #104 In Offensive First Downs
#1 Polls - Alabama - Currently Ranked #78 In Red Zone Offense

http://www.ncaa.com/stats/football/fbs/current/team/28/p2

I'd say they matter a lot. Statistics mean little. :lol:
 
I put this up just to show how hard it is to get knocked out of the Number 1 preseason spot.

Even though there are teams that haven't lost may be playing better, it definitely takes a loss to drop from #1.
 
Oh I agree, and then the polls determines who plays at the of the year which is wrong.

Should have to win conference, then winners play it out. Take away 2 of the non conference games, and just use polls to match up seeds in the playoff. Make 8 conferences. Each game still matters. Play in a weak conference, you get the big boys first game.

Attendance and viewership would be huge. Every conference would be on even ground and in it till the end- it is dumb to take a no loss team from an easy conference over a tough conference 1 or 2. But deciding all that is so ridiculous.

But that is just a pipe dream as there is money and egos involved.
 
iwannabeacowboy said:
Oh I agree, and then the polls determines who plays at the of the year which is wrong.

Should have to win conference, then winners play it out. Take away 2 of the non conference games, and just use polls to match up seeds in the playoff. Make 8 conferences. Each game still matters. Play in a weak conference, you get the big boys first game.

Attendance and viewership would be huge. Every conference would be on even ground and in it till the end- it is dumb to take a no loss team from an easy conference over a tough conference 1 or 2. But deciding all that is so ridiculous.

But that is just a pipe dream as there is money and egos involved.
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best idea so far, but no way the big boys let the power and cash slip away from them....
 
http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/

The Playoff

Beginning with the 2014-15 season, college football will enter a new era when a postseason playoff will begin. The format is simple: top four teams, two semifinals played in bowl games, and a national championship game played in a different city each year. Each semifinal will be played during the New Year's holiday with the national championship game in prime time on a Monday night at least a week later. It will be the best of all worlds, and the biggest innovation to the sport in decades.
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Mike said:
http://www.collegefootballplayoff.com/

The Playoff

Beginning with the 2014-15 season, college football will enter a new era when a postseason playoff will begin. The format is simple: top four teams, two semifinals played in bowl games, and a national championship game played in a different city each year. Each semifinal will be played during the New Year's holiday with the national championship game in prime time on a Monday night at least a week later. It will be the best of all worlds, and the biggest innovation to the sport in decades.
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For sure it is an improvement and I welcome it fully over what we have, but I still don't like the polls picking the top 4 teams. There is too much BS in voting for teams from your own conference over others. And with big conferences having more votes.

Take this year. What happens if all of the following win out or have 1 losses- 1. Oregon/Stanford, 2. Ohio state, 3. Oklahoma State (I have to dream some)/OU, 4. Clemson/Fl State, 5. Alabama/LSU and then you have 6. Louisville- which very much should with their non schedule, schedule.

There is still going to be controversy. Do you take a one loss team over an unbeaten whoever to make up the 4? Which one loss gets the nod over another?

This year especially, I'd love to see them duke it out. I don't think the SEC is the big man on campus this year, but I could be wrong. I sure don't feel that the BIG 10 or BIG 12 are either :lol: But that doesn't mean Ohio state couldn't hang 40 on about anyone.
 
The proposed playoff system is meant to evolve into conference games being the deciding factor in the playoff teams. But what happens to the smaller conferences getting left out?

I think they have it set up so that the SEC winner will play the Big 12 winner for a BCS Bowl in the near future.

But ESPN outright owns too many bowl games and those should be eliminated first.

There has always been controversy in picking the National Champs and probably always will be................
 

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