Look I think it's dumb that there is more than one poll to determine who is the top-25 of college football, coaches should not be allowed to vote because they spend so much time being focused on their teams that they don't get a chance to follow the rest of the college football world. You can't tell me that these coaches are able to watch all 119 college football teams to determine who is better than the rest.
The other thing that is really dumb is that the AP poll has to be the biggest joke in all of college football, right after the BCS National Championship game. Notre Dame finished last year 7-6 beating a 6-6 Hawaii team and they start out ranked in the top-25. Michigan finishes 3-9 and got destroyed in a lot of games last year and they start this year off beating a team that they should have beaten in Western Michigan and then they get lucky against an overrated ND team and all of a sudden they are in the top-25. And the biggest head scratcher of the early polling season is Washington, a team that lost 15 straight games including their home opener against LSU, beats Idaho(who, are they even a D-1 school?) and they get lucky against the #3 team in the nation USC and all of a sudden they are a top-25 team? Come on you have got to be kidding me, they look like a better then years past but come on USC loses on the road to unranked PAC-10 teams almost every year it doesn't mean anything other than on that day the Huskies were a better team then the Trojans, that's it, it doesn't mean that Washington could hang with Florida, Texas, or Alabama, heck I don't even think they can beat Notre Dame(we will find out in a couple of weeks).
The polls should not come out until after week 5 you can't really gauge how good a team is until at least after their third or fourth game because players and coaches are still getting used to each other during live situations and there are players who have yet to emerge or make a name for themselves. They should have a formula that goes into determining who the top teams are in the nation, my suggestion is that it should include strength of schedule, margin of victory over teams(but not teams that are favored to win by 20+ points), how many road games against home games, where you beat an opponent, and the eye test.* But college football will always continue with their hypocrisy of polling and handing out championships instead of letting the teams determine it out on the field.
The eye test is: sure a team won against someone but how did they look doing it, did they struggle and pull it out at the end or were they dominate in every game they played?
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