2008 sj.com college football poll -- (1/9) Final Poll, Page 118

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

Maybe this is the thing that pushes Sid to implode...

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

I didn't post my ballot this week because I had to rush it, but the combination of several teams being idle and the general suckiness below, say, the No. 10 spot made the final five really tough. I threw Florida State in at No. 25 almost by default. People say why do they deserve it, well, why does any team deserve it?

This is one year where the old top 20 system would have sufficed just fine.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

When was that in place?

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

The AP was top 20 until 1988.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

Ah. Didn't realize that.

Any idea why it was changed?

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

I vaguely recall bitching and moaning that worthy teams were being left out of the rankings, but I don't know for sure.

In addition, through most of the 60s, the AP poll reverted from top 20 to top 10 before it went back to 20.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

I seem to remember the rationale was also something like everyone looked at the HM's and as 21, 22, 23... and they said they might as well make it official...

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

political correctness run amok in its infancy.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

No doubt.
From 18 back, I was struggling to find some worthy teams.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

I could very easily be wrong, but I thought the AP going to 25 teams was in reaction to the USA Today poll, which has always been a top 25.

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

I believe that was assumed but unsaid...

 

Re: 2008 SportsJournalists.com college football poll -- WEEK 8 10/20, Pg. 65

That's why I've got VA at 25. Who the fuck else was I gonna put there? They've had three wins against teams currently or formerly in the top 25. More than I could say for anyone else. And, again, I LOATHE Al Groh.

And I think we should expand the poll to 119. The other 94 teams try just as hard as the top 25!!!!