« I hate it when I'm right | Main | Sign on the bottom line »
College football's worst-kept secret
May 28, 2009Not that it's going to make a whole lot of difference, but the American Football Coaches Association has decided to keep its final regular season poll confidential.
Yay.
Here's the scoop from the Associated Press:
Beginning in 2010, ballots in the final regular-season USA Today coaches' college football poll will be confidential--one of a handful of changes on tap for the poll that helps decide who plays in the BCS national championship game.
The American Football Coaches Association asked Gallup to study its poll and recommend how to make it more accurate and credible. The AFCA's board heard the results in early May and announced them Wednesday in Waco, Texas
How this really helps anything is beyond me.
Maybe it shields some coach from catching any flack because he cast a vote for or against a conference rival -- but that's about it.
Later in the story, Gallup suggested possibly reducing the number of ranked teams to 10 or 15 as well as reevaluating the preseason poll.
Now there's an idea.
The preseason poll is what causes all the problems to begin with.
It all starts before the season when a certain team is anointed No. 1 -- and not always the defending champion -- and we begin the season on the wrong foot because that's what we've always done.
In short, who cares if the last regular season poll is secret or not?
It's that first one that's the real issue.
Posted by Stephen Smith at 3:15 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
