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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2422852, member: 780"] This conversation scratches the surface of how polls work and why it's difficult to move into the Top 25 once the season starts. A team's starting point is based upon a guess or a projection as to how good a team is going to be based on what they did last year, who they still have on the roster and a really wild-assed guess on how much they are going to be helped by incoming talent. Once a team is put at say, #20, they have to lose games to drop down. And because almost everyone's OOC schedule is chocked full of gimme games, that doesn't happen all that frequently. Coming from #35 to #20 takes a herculean effort. At the end of the year, the Top 25 will approximate which are the best 25 teams. Early in the season, we know it does not. It's near meaningless. [/QUOTE]