Here's one guy's ballot this week (from CFT.com):
The Associated Press voter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer is a bit confused. Ranking Florida at No. 5 is his most egregious crime, but having Houston at No. 4 and UCLA at No. 12 is nearly as unspeakable. We're just scratching the surface here. Michigan is No. 6 and Texas is No. 8.
And here are the current rankings from one of the BCS computer ratings:
No. -1 Massey Ratings . . . This is one of the six computer ratings used by the BCS, but the only one that has Pittsburgh at No. 1 and Florida at No. 533. Don't worry Gator fans. When you trim the list down from the one including all 715 college teams to just FBS schools, Florida rockets all the way up to No. 103. Of course, schedule difficulty plays a huge role in this early-season computer madness, but that doesn't explain Otterbein College getting ranked one spot higher than No. 17 USC.
How sad is that? These obviously can both be fixed as the season goes on, but really how can they depend on these things to choose a champion!?!? FLA at #5 in the nation?!? The defending National Champs that are 2-0 and outscoring opponents 59 to 4.5 through 2 games. Yep, for sure 5th...or at least behind HOU! Yes, nice win HOU, but I'm sorry you are not #4! Can we find 70 competant people to vote in this poll please.
The computer ranking is almost more of a concern than the poll. Otterbein College is ranked ahead of USC. Digest that one for a second...the same Trojans that just beat Ohio State would be expected to lose to Otterbein based on these rankings. Then you have the Gators at 103 among D1 teams. Can this one poll for this one week be enough to throw out all moronic computer rankings from all future BCS decisions!? Please!
Keep it simple - 6 BCS conference winners, 1 wild card team, 1 non-BCS conference winner. 8 teams. No guess work. Too simple I guess.
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