Want to see what the national distribution of voting in the AP Top 25 looked like? As EE mentioned in the comments on the last Top 25 post, an AJC writer (Tech beat writer) has the Dawgs behind…BYU? The same BYU who lost their starting quarterback on a false allegation?
Also, peep the ESPN pundits, particularly Rece Davis.
And color me perplexed as to the love for Penn State. Not so much from a talent aspect, but given Franklin’s propensity for crapping the proverbial bed in big games, I wonder how anyone ranks them #1 with a straight face?
Granted, this is all opinions and hot air, but noting that a Tech, Clemson, and Notre Dame writer all put Georgia at #10 just fuels the bias hatred a little hotter, amirite?
# FTMF
Nothing is more Tech than rating the Dawgs as low as possible and not even ranking Tech in the Poll. As bad as our fans are (according to their stoopid Inner Munsoning), is there a bigger loser’s mindset than the North Avenue Trade School’s?
Little brother mindset. Their bunch would rather see us lose than their team win. Jacketasses.
Dude’s name should be Chud.
Kirby’s reaction:
D’OH! Let’s try that again:
Yet further proof that we need to do away with pre-season polls. No system is perfect, but the only polling group with more bias than sports writers are the coaches.
The research actually supports the preseason poll as a barometer for who really is in the running but doesn’t typically predict the national champion, but the champion has come from the preseason top 7 every year since $Cam, Nick Fairley and Abuurn family of 2010.
Sure, there’s a correlation between the two. But I would argue that it’s a bug and not a feature.
Take two teams with the same record and a similar resume, the team that was ranked higher pre-season will almost always be ranked higher at the end. Also think how those resumes are built. Records against top-25 teams are often considered in the CFP rankings. Look at FSU in 2024. Preseason #6 and they lose to Tech and BC first two games. If Tech had had a better season, they would have had a top 10 win in their resume even though FSU was trash. That could have jumped them into a CFP spot.
Maybe none of this mattered so much in the BCS and 4-team era, when the cream really had to rise to the top (*cough cough Auburn 2024*). But with the expanded playoff, pre-season biases can become more meaningful. Hopefully this isn’t something that ever impacts us, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t important to address.
Well on Penn St…its their time…that’s why…I’m with you.
TEXAS IS BACK! Until they lose the RRR in Dallas and tix in Austin start going cheap. Every…damn…year.