re: BCS Champion should be # 1

Preseason polls are an indication of how good your team is. The preseason polls are, however, for the uneducated, soundbyte college football fan.

He/she can quickly scan the top 25 polls and at least make a comment when the football talk comes up at the office.

Everyone who knows football realize the preason polls are just a guage of how people feel about how talented your team is. The real deal is who gets it done on the field, and that will be proven over the season until the bcs screws it up at the end because there is no playoff system.

And there is absolutely no way the national champion should be preseason number 1. The national champion is just that, the national champion for the previous year. The national champions or for that matter, most college teams not called Temple who actually has 21 of 22 starters coming back, actually lose a significant number of players to graduation. The team that won the championship is not the team playing this year.

Since the polls are for this year, obviously being national champ last year means nothing to the preseason polls. And just keeping the number 1 spot open, or not coming out with polls until the 5th week will not alleviate the bias that many of the voters have. The bias in any poll is just human nature. Certain pollsters will look at certain teams through rose colored glasses.