Week 6 College Football Rankings

[Zaiko]

Originally Posted by BWillie007

I would agree if it was any other sport, but the ONLY thing that matter is the polls in college football. If you are ranked #2 to start the season and another team is unranked, regardless of what happens the #2 ranked team has the advantage of positive perception.

Exactly. It's garbage.. but where you are at the start of the season has a huge impact.

#20 and lose you're probably out of the top 25.. If they placed you 10 to start, you may only drop to 16-17.. Which impacts your BCS ranking, which then impacts what bowl you may get in, and then the money your school gets, the recruits you get because of that money being used to up the program, etc.


And someone was seriously saying BSU shouldn't have dropped after Oregon beat Stanford by 21? NMSU is a joke. Even KU beat them by 26.

I do think LSU is probably a little over-rated in the coaches poll though.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Zaiko

Exactly. It's garbage.. but where you are at the start of the season has a huge impact.

#20 and lose you're probably out of the top 25.. If they placed you 10 to start, you may only drop to 16-17.. Which impacts your BCS ranking, which then impacts what bowl you may get in, and then the money your school gets, the recruits you get because of that money being used to up the program, etc.

Bullshit. If you're ranked low at the beginning of the season and win your games you'll climb in the polls. If you're ranked low and and you lose some games...well you probably deserved to be ranked low to begin with. And bowl selections are based more on record than rank. Outside of determining who gets to play in the BCS title game the rankings don't mean shit.