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[impala454]

haha baylor got their asses whooped already.

[Oasis]

One other thing, the thing that's made college football the most talked about and popular sport in America in the last 10 or so years is the same reason college football has a rankings problem.

Talk radio and especially the internet have given rise to the stat nerds who analyze shit way too much. You used to have to have some semblance of talent and competency to score a gig talking about sports on ESPN or Foxsports radio. Now, you just have to be controversial and piss people off. Colin Cowherd, although he's my favorite radio personality, is a fucking idiot when it comes to being rational about college football.

"Well, USC is a better team than Tech because...." then he rattles off 900 rivals.com recruiting rankings, 600 head to head matchups, compares coaching, compares home field advantage, analyzes the decibel levels of the stadium, etc etc. Cool, USC has hotter cheerleaders. That must extend to the talent of their football program.

Or, "Well, USC is a better team than Oregon State and if they played 100 times on a neutral field, USC would win 85 of them. Fine and dandy, Colin, but you're forgetting one key point: USC only has one chance to play OSU this year. They blew it. You can talk all you want about what might happen if they played another decade worth of games this season against them, but it's a moot point, because they won't.

Or, "OU should still be ranked #1 over UT because they're a better football team. If they played another 9 times against em, OU would win 7!" Again, that's why they're out there playing the games and you're sitting behind a microphone talking to overweight middle aged guys driving to work. You don't, and shouldn't ever be voting in any top 25

The internet is even worse. Screw having any knowledge of football, you just need a brain functional enough to open a blogspot.com account to spread your idiocy to the rest of America. It also helps having a few bucks to throw at Google to get your URL to jump up to the top of their search engine.

At least ten years ago, the dumbasses were relegated to local sports talk radio and the back page of local newspapers, where only a small portion of the population had to be influenced in thought by their stupidity. Now you can get stupid anywhere and everywhere, and it's causing people to actually think a three loss Auburn team is better than a 1 loss Missouri team, and should be ranked higher