Casey Comerford on CFB AP Poll Rant
Casey Comerford
CFB AP Poll Rant
Claims and stances
Transcript
- 0:00 Yeah, Connor, I just wanted to speak a little bit to what you were saying.
- 0:03 Um, because I've had some thoughts about it recently as well.
- 0:06 And I'm also seeing how what other people believe.
- 0:09 And you kind of mentioned how, yeah, obviously they're not watching every game, so it's kind of tough for them to rank them.
- 0:13 And at the end of the day, especially early in the season, a lot of these rankings just come down to name value, um, brand value of these schools, like team, like you mentioned Penn State, but obviously um schools who have historically had success in the past when it comes to football, or just big schools who you know people recognize more or just are more in you know incentivized to believe are good because of previous success.
- 0:38 Um, and it is actually pretty important.
- 0:41 Like obviously, in the grand scheme of things, it may not impact, you know, where a team's ranked in AP poll week four may not actually impact where the committee decides to rank them for the playoffs.
- 0:52 I'm not saying that's the main issue, which maybe it could be, but you bring up financial incentives, um and yeah, like schools being ranked low because maybe they haven't had success in the past.
- 1:02 I think of teams like Indiana who have been pretty poor over the last you know decade or plus more in football.
- 1:10 So obviously maybe people are less inclined to fully buy in or believe in their success now.
- 1:16 Um were ranked much lower than other teams who had a high name brand.
- 1:21 Um I'm not saying Alabama's bad, but let's just say a team like Alabama has had tons of success in the past would maybe get ranked higher.
- 1:28 Um this impacts, you know, future recruiting as well.
- 1:32 I mean, you think obviously, you know, the high star high star players, you know, important players to get recruited to play in the future are gonna want to go to you know schools who are ranked high.
- 1:43 Um, and that might just continue the cycle of feeding into these one programs, even though programs who have had success, good coaching may not even get the you know the resources, the financial resources, or you know, even the looks um from these kids based off of these rankings.
- 1:58 And I do think there should be some level of there should be some regulations to become an AP AP um voter.
- 2:05 I think you should have to watch tape on multiple teams, especially teams that are even close to the top 25, maybe the top 50, um, because that's where it really comes down to.
- 2:14 Sometimes teams are 4-0, and people talk about their resume compared to teams who may have one or two losses who've lost to good teams, but then the good teams come down to the A-P polls ranking, and like a good team could be Penn State and the A-P polls or the AP voters' minds.
- 2:30 Um, but that's because of their name value.
- 2:33 So it's kind of this cycle, and uh I do think it is an issue within the current ranking system of college football.