Nothing that happens at TDECU Stadium in 2014 has anything to do with today’s college football poll or selections of the first college football playoffs.
In the waning moments left before the MLB Playoffs resume this Sunday, we decided to dawdle away the morning doing something we’ve never done here with the latest college football polls – and that simply is – to beat them to the digital punch that now come so quickly in this high tech age of instant gratification personified. My approach probably was no different that the one used by most official media participants – and that’s the scary point. – No one has the ability from total knowledge or the close experience of watching all the Division I teams across the nation. You simply pull together what you have seen, heard, or trained to think about the quality of SEC play over little leagues like Conference USA and start stacking up your choices in spite of limited exposure and unconscious regional biases you may hold for or against other areas or certain schools.
Playoffs are better for their objectivity and so – college football at this level makes the NCAA’s long somnolent decision to “start” a playoff system this year with four teams as a starting point an improvement. Just doing this list today only amplifies the question, however, of how long it will take them to next figure out that “four is not enough.” The selective choice of those teams today, 10/05/14, for example, would leave the door open for a rage of objection – if you go my list. No doubt about it.
Our methodology for the following selections was admittedly marred by the presence of subjective choice, in some instances, to place some teams with single losses ahead of certain teams that are still undefeated, but, for the most part, the teams with better records are ranked higher – especially if they were the big upset winners over all the big dog clubs that lost yesterday.
It will be interesting to see how this ranking by The Pecan Park Eagle compares to the official polls that come out later today:
The Pecan Park Eagle College Football Poll Through 10/05/14 – and a One-Time Shot at This Kind of Fun:
1) FLORIDA STATE (5-0)
2) AUBURN (5-0)
3) BAYLOR (5-0)
4) MISSISSIPPI (5-0)
5) MISSISSIPPI STATE (5-0)
6) NOTRE DAME (5-0)
7) ARIZONA (5-0)
8) GEORGIA TECH (5-0)
9) TCU (4-0)
10) ALABAMA (4-1)
11) OKLAHOMA (4-1)
12) OREGON (4-1)
13) TEXAS A&M (5-1)
14) UCLA (4-1)
15) MICHIGAN STATE (4-1)
16) GEORGIA (4-1)
17) NEBRASKA (5-1)
18) OHIO STATE (4-1)
19) OKLAHOMA STATE (4-1)
20) KANSAS STATE (4-1)
21) EAST CAROLINA (4-1)
22) MISSOURI (4-1)
23) BRIGHAM YOUNG (4-1)
24) ARIZONA STATE (4-1)
25) MARSHALL (5-0)
And now – back to baseball!
The Pecan Park Eagle 
May 22, 2015 at 2:37 pm |
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