Re: Case for South Florida and Virginia over USC, Oregon and Oklahoma?
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here's the real question about polls: how does one evaluate the teams?
1) Who is the 'best' team?
2) Who has the best results on the field so far?
3) Who do we project to have the best results on the field at the end of the year?
These 3 things have some overlap, but are far from being the same.
Too often, it comes down to someone's opinion on who is the 'better' team.
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Right. The typical AP voter is way too dumb to understand the differences among 1, 2 and 3. They're just guessing, mostly. Outside of really unusuall stuff, their thought process is "OK, this team was #7 last week, and they didn't lose, so they can't move down AMIRITE?"
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