Quick College Football Rant

I pretty much confine myself to NFL news on this site, but it should not come as much of a surprise that I'm also a pretty big Penn State fan.  So permit me just a quick digression.

I'm not a big poll-watcher guy.  I don't really enjoy those October arguments about which teams "deserve" to get a shot at the national championship and all that junk.  It's just not for me.

But here's the biggest reason the polls are a joke: human voters.  You're just not going to convince some voters to believe their own lying eyes over their inherent biases.  It just can't be done.

For example, Stewart Mandel is a college football writer for SI.  He also has a vote in the AP writer's poll.  Here's how the bottom of his final ballot looked:

20. Tennessee
21. Virginia Tech
22. Wake Forest
23. Boston College
24. Hawaii
25. Penn State

Notice anything odd about that arrangement?

Perhaps he was too hung over on New Year's Day to get up early enough to actually watch the damn game... 

Comments

[AJC]

Agreed -
As a former Philly guy living in Tennessee and a big UT fan, I agree completely.
Tennessee played a terrible game and Penn State stepped up.
Actually, the AP ranked Penn State 24th and the Vols 25th while USA Today had the Vols ranked 23rd and Penn State 25th. The Vols were ranked 17th before their performance, so they took a pretty good, well deserved fall.
As for the game, we could have used Donte Stallworth, Darwin Walker and Omar Gaither back.
Oh, and Peyton Manning would have been an improvement as well.

[Me]

I'll give you those guys if we can have Tony Hunt playing for the Eagles.

[whoismariowilliams]

Mandel is an idiot.