Connor Mcilhinney on CFB AP Poll Rant
Connor Mcilhinney
CFB AP Poll Rant
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 I want to talk about the college football AP poll.
- 0:02 So there's been a little bit of controversy within it recently, specifically with one of the reporters who gets a vote, Haley Sawyer.
- 0:09 She made a video kind of posting saying that like the votes don't really matter and it's all for fun and the better teams will win regardless, and the better teams uh will go to the playoffs and they'll make their money.
- 0:20 But there's a lot of economic controversies or decisions that are decided based on how high teams are within this poll.
- 0:27 Like how where college game day is, that provides a lot of financial incentives to schools who make it, and that's largely decided on because of the AP poll.
- 0:36 So I think voters that really don't take the time to watch the game are doing a huge disservice to programs that are are really on the rise and a huge favor to college teams who who are where they are because of their name brand and their football team's talent does not represent them at all.
- 0:53 I think uh a great example of this is Penn State, um, how they've been rated in the top five of the AP poll um and then they got destroyed by UCLA, a team that was 0-4, um, and really fraud checked.
- 1:07 So I think they need to do a much better job on vetting AP voters, and AP voters need to do a much better job really watching the games um and putting time into their votes.