Georgia Tech head coach Paul Johnson doesn't as reported by the ajc.com. Johnson makes some valid points. You really don't know the teams until they've played. It does probably take about 4 weeks to really to get a feel for how good teams are relative to each other.
Fair enough, but I don't think the problem is with preseason polls, but with the postseason.
Oh no, not another BCS\Playoff article you’re saying. Well I'm not going to get into that. That argument has been beat to death. Just for record I'm a fan of the +1 or 4 team playoff, but back to the original question.
I actually like preseason polls. I understand that these are just educated guesses, but that's part of the beauty of college football. Who doesn't enjoy discussing college football in the off-season? I know I do.
The polls are great conversation pieces and they are source of pride and good publicity for teams that make them. Are they most accurate way of gauging teams? No they aren't, but how else do you rank 100+ college football teams?
There will be a certainly level of subjectivity no matter when you rank teams. There is also the problem of coaches that don't follow the rest of nation or those that have others vote for them, and you got AP voters that watch less college football than most fans.
The bottom line is if the post-season were more sensible we wouldn't even have to ask this question.
Fair enough, but I don't think the problem is with preseason polls, but with the postseason.
Oh no, not another BCS\Playoff article you’re saying. Well I'm not going to get into that. That argument has been beat to death. Just for record I'm a fan of the +1 or 4 team playoff, but back to the original question.
I actually like preseason polls. I understand that these are just educated guesses, but that's part of the beauty of college football. Who doesn't enjoy discussing college football in the off-season? I know I do.
The polls are great conversation pieces and they are source of pride and good publicity for teams that make them. Are they most accurate way of gauging teams? No they aren't, but how else do you rank 100+ college football teams?
There will be a certainly level of subjectivity no matter when you rank teams. There is also the problem of coaches that don't follow the rest of nation or those that have others vote for them, and you got AP voters that watch less college football than most fans.
The bottom line is if the post-season were more sensible we wouldn't even have to ask this question.
