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Posted on 8/20/08 at 6:15 am to ksayetiger
Polls shouldn't be out until week 6...too many easy OOC games prior to week 4...after week 6 you'd know where teams should be...it's all media hype...there is no reason to have polls out so early.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 6:44 am to ksayetiger
I agree with this one. Preseason polls are a joke but if you are going to insist on having such a thing then the defending champions should start where they ended up.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 9:22 am to ksayetiger
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To be honest, i think the first polls should come out after week 3.
That's often suggested, but evidence indicates it would do no good. The Harris poll doesn't come out until a few weeks into the season, and it is virtually identical to the other polls of that week, which means that waiting a few weeks to start doesn't change anything. You still wind up with the same thing you'd have if you started in preseason and adjusted as the weeks went by.
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This garbage of predictions hurts a team (like 04 auburn).
You're right, it does. The problem is that waiting until week 3 (or 5 or 10 or whatever) doesn't solve that problem. Voters still have an idea in preseason how good everyone is and "rank" them that way in their minds. Then as games are played, they adjust their preexisting rankings accordingly, just like the voters do in the polls that come out in preseason. There is simply no way to get human beings to go into the season with a completely open mind and no preconceptions about how good teams are. Once those preconceptions are there, they become the voter's presumptive rankings until something changes them.
Posted on 8/20/08 at 9:36 am to ksayetiger
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To be honest, i think the first polls should come out after week 3. This garbage of predictions hurts a team (like 04 auburn).
Why do y'all continue to perpetuate this myth? Auburn could have been ranked preseason #3 and they still wouldn't have made the NC game. The polls could have come out in week 13 and they still wouldn't have made the NC game. Preseason polls didn't hurt Auburn, it was the fantastic regular seasons of USC and Oklahoma that did that. It sucked for them, but shite happens. It was not the fault of early polls.
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