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[QUOTE="SmilinBob, post: 777935, member: 857"]
It's not really the pre-season Top 25 Rocco.  A friend of mine explained it to me really well and hopefully I can convey what he said so I'm doing him justice.

It's the coaches and press that are to fault with this.

They:
A) Don't watch the games and

B) Won't adjust their rankings due to what teams have done or didn't do.  It's like the pre-season rankings (which even they will admit are a crap shoot) have taken a life all to its self and once it has been created (voted on) it is now the constant.   The games ebb and flow but this remains constant because the voters DO NOT HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE  to be voting thus they just continue to vote the same rankings like congress giving away our money.  Well...#8 didn't lose so they stay there.   Well, what if #25 played #3 and beat them while #8 played Patsy U and won by 30?  Earn your points as he puts it.  You play a high quality team and win while they don't bump #25 up to the highest ranking until you see a school that has beaten better teams...make this fluid on earning it, not prestige and assumption.  People don't want to see the polls fluctuate...and in the beginning of the season that's EXACTLY what they should be doing.   He doesn't blame the pre-season polls, just the archaic thinking behind them. As the season progresses, it starts to take shape.
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