The AP Poll just announced that they’ll allow “lower-division schools,” meaning non-D1 schools, meaning App State, to be voted into their Top 25 College Football Poll.
This is mind bogglingly stupid on a level usually reserved for contestants of Big Brother. Let’s consider this new, improbable, but not impossible scenario for a moment…
App State, riding the wave of excitement over the biggest upset in football history, gets voted into next week’s AP Top 25. Michigan, now fully pissed and a bit more focused, goes on a tear and wins the rest of their scheduled games. And let’s say at the end of the season that their exists only 1 undefeated BCS eligible team, and, say, one other 1-loss, BCS eligible team. Whereas, with the old voting rules, there was no chance that Michigan would get into the BCS National Championship game because every person with a brain would just have to see that they lost to a freaking 1-AA team, now any thinking person must contend with Michigan apologists who will contend, “But Michigan simply lost an early season game in a close contest with a Top 25 team!”
Sure, the AP isn’t part of the BCS formula, but suddenly you’ve got a real problem on your hands. And you can be sure this world is full of enough idiots that, should the perfect storm occur, there will be people fighting for Michigan’s “right” to be in the BCS NC game.
And why would the AP do this? They’re already, essentially, irrelevant under the current BCS system. Why now make it possible that teams that have no reasonable place in a Top 25 ranking get voted into your poll? You wish to be a joke along with being irrelevant?
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probably just a stunt to get SOMEONE SOMEWHERE to care about their poll again. once they left the BCS, they became completely irrelevant. they have ensured that with this move. tools.
Polls and BCS selection mean nothing as long as schools are allowed to pack their schedules with patsies….Akron, Youngstown, Toledo, and yes, App State.
If a team is in a conference, they schedule their conference games according to the formula of that conference. Then, their non-cpn games should be selected like the NFL does…based on strength of schedule. At the end of the season, we’d see REAL worthy teams. For example, Wosconsin whined last year because they were 12-1 but left out. However, they played NOBODY. Clausen’s high school team would have gone 10-2 against their schedule.
How would Wisc do if they had to play Auburn or LSU for example. How would Penny State do without Temple and the assorted zeros they play? Would Louisville be ranked with their schedule.
At the very least there should be NO 1A and 1AA games. It might save Lloyd’s job for another year.