Muck FcDisney wrote:Weird things happen in the preseason coaches poll. Spurrier always ranked Duke 25th.
The polls are now for entertainment purposes only. Playoff committee makes the call. I believe they lean on the computers quite a bit.
They're still humans making the same human mistakes. The BCS was destroyed due in large part to humans fucking up/with the system and computer systems, completely removing margin of victory as if winning by 1 point is exactly the same as winning by 35. This is why I use MOV caps. No computer ranking system is perfect, either, but at least it's fair: every team plays by the same rules.
Dumbasses (mainly M.I.A. fans) were outraged by FSU getting to play OU in the 2000-2001 Orange Bowl and they get really pissed if you mention that by their transitive property rules, UWash should have gone up against OU. That whining (inevitable as it was) got the CFB PTBs to fuck up the computer rankings. Relevant:
https://www.bcsguru.com/bcs_2000/