re: BCS Champion should be # 1

quote:

---

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.

quote:

---

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.