Stupid question?

UK_Seahawk · Sep 12, 2015

What do the numbers mean next to the colleges on the list of games I can watch?

For example on the list there is:

Middle Tennessee v 2 Alabama

SF Austin v 3 TCU

19 Oklahoma v 23 Tennessee

SomersetHawk · Sep 12, 2015

Rankings.

Chapow · Sep 12, 2015

It is the ranking. For example, Alabama is the #2 ranked team in the country.

http://collegefootball.ap.org/poll

Glasgow Seahawk · Sep 12, 2015

Top 25 rankings

UK_Seahawk · Sep 12, 2015

Thanks. Will read up how they come to those rankings.

hawknation2015 · Sep 12, 2015

UK_Seahawk":ewayxrkt said:
Thanks. Will read up how they come to those rankings.

Sometimes they use the AP Poll (which is the Top 25 teams voted on every week by the Associated Press sports writers). Other times they use the Amway Coaches Poll (which is the Top 25 teams ostensibly voted on every week by a select group of college football coaches, but really voted on by their assistants).

At the end of the season, a 13-member committee selects and seeds the Top 4 teams to take part in the College Football Playoff.

Scottemojo · Sep 12, 2015

UK_Seahawk":3lz0z8z8 said:
Thanks. Will read up how they come to those rankings.

In the coaches poll, a coach hands the voting sheet to an ill informed flunkie who fill the form out for him and turns it in.

In the AP, a reporter who has written column after column an which conference is best submits his "unbiased" vote.

In the computer polls, the top 25 that start the season are given far more credit for where they began than how good they really end up being.

But holy shit, it only took 100 years and we have a kind of sort of playoff.

UK_Seahawk · Sep 12, 2015

Scottemojo":xod45kxg said:
UK_Seahawk":xod45kxg said:

Thanks. Will read up how they come to those rankings.

Click to expand...

In the coaches poll, a coach hands the voting sheet to an ill informed flunkie who fill the form out for him and turns it in.

In the AP, a reporter who has written column after column an which conference is best submits his "unbiased" vote.

In the computer polls, the top 25 that start the season are given far more credit for where they began than how good they really end up being.

But holy shit, it only took 100 years and we have a kind of sort of playoff.

Call me crazy but do I detect fragrant hint of cynicism here?

Scottemojo · Sep 12, 2015

UK_Seahawk":a6v4thx3 said:
Scottemojo":a6v4thx3 said:

UK_Seahawk":a6v4thx3 said:

Thanks. Will read up how they come to those rankings.

Click to expand...

In the coaches poll, a coach hands the voting sheet to an ill informed flunkie who fill the form out for him and turns it in.

In the AP, a reporter who has written column after column an which conference is best submits his "unbiased" vote.

In the computer polls, the top 25 that start the season are given far more credit for where they began than how good they really end up being.

But holy shit, it only took 100 years and we have a kind of sort of playoff.

Click to expand...

Call me crazy but do I detect fragrant hint of cynicism here?

The East German Judge thinks you might be on to something.

Tical21 · Sep 12, 2015

Don't bother looking at those rankings for the next 8 weeks or so. They don't mean anything at all. A lot of those teams in the top 10 now are going to lose 3 times and a lot of teams that weren't ranked in the top 50 in the preseason will start working their way up.

sc85sis · Sep 13, 2015

It still mystifies me why they bother ranking any team until at least four weeks into the season.

Seahawks1983 · Sep 14, 2015

sc85sis":3sl169j5 said:
It still mystifies me why they bother ranking any team until at least four weeks into the season.

TV, tradition, clicks, etc etc etc

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