r/CFB • u/Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu11 Michigan Wolverines • Akron Zips • Sep 13 '26

News AP Poll Week 2

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll#000001a0-257a-d09f-a9e4-75fbb1b90000
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u/OnionKnight73 Alabama Crimson Tide Sep 13 '26

I don’t understand rankings. If you really think that Texas is the best team in college football as the rankings indicate, and last week you thought the best team was Ohio State, then how do they drop to 6 after a 1-point loss in Austin? Georgia has two wins and no losses, but a one-point loss at the best team’s stadium is more impressive to me than beating Tennessee State and WKU by a million. It’s never clear to me what these polls are actually supposed to measure

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u/Automatic-Nerve-3625 Sep 13 '26

It’s because AP voters don’t understand ranking either. They don’t rank based on who they actually think the top 25 teams are. They rank based on an old school method where you move down if you lose and you only move up if others lose in front of you or you beat a team with a better ranking. It’s dumb