A Response and Solution to College Football’s Mysterious Ranking Systems

Posted by Dan Scofield on October-18-2009 Add Comments

As I do every Sunday around 2:00 p.m., I logged onto ESPN, clicked the "Rankings " link, and found myself looking at yet another miserably put together group of rankings of the Top 25 football teams in the nation.

I check back an hour later, and to my great displeasure, I find myself looking at the second of the polls—the USA Today rankings.

I find these rankings somewhat improved than that of the AP, but still does not satisfy my own or the rest of the nation's opinions.

These two systems consistently show many discrepancies between each other.

My first observation is that I see defeated t...

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