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[QUOTE="TheCusian, post: 1246228, member: 2585"]
You must have a vote or something.

Nimble is this issue. If it were round robin with every team playing everyone - we'd have no use for polls at all. But we don't - we have to rely on opinions informed by data. Polls favor the historically good teams sometimes regardless of results or data. The committee is influenced by these things much like the poll voters - but - and this is THE important distinctions:

- they don't do preseason polls released publicly
- they have the freedom and responsibility to hold each other accountable
- they can and did move teams around
- the AP poll is the least helpful tool to use - because it's the least reliable tool because of a billion reasons

The ability to be nimble and react based on results helps remove bias. It puts the onus on scheduling and winning. Who did you play and who did you beat?

Now - as I've said, repeatedly- the SEC used the bias in the polls and it's reputation (some deserved, some not) to give itself cover to schedule the worst overall OOC matchups league-wide. It's like it was mandated or something. It won't be enough. If you are the best, schedule the best and win. Bowl matchups are worth less in a way because it's the last time those particular teams with those players and coaches exist.

Going forward, I'd put money on a leagues overall OOC scheduling practices being more important than any preseason poll.
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