The Coaches’ Poll that counts for one-third of the BCS formula made the following real, actual, and live documented votes without laughing or pleading drunkenness this weekend:
Coaches’ Poll Finally Chokes To Death On Bone Of Its Own Absurdity
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—LSU at 4 despite a shaky performance versus Miss. State and a lack of quality wins on the schedule.
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—Oklahoma at 8 despite a loss to BYU
↵—Penn State (13) over Iowa (17), the team who abused them in a 21-10 loss Saturday night on national tv.
↵—Oklahoma State over Houston, who has two wins over ranked teams, no losses, and a win over…yeah, Oklahoma State.
↵—Cal over Oregon, the team who beat them 42-3 this past weekend.
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This has been building up for a while, but the completely inanity of the week four balloting for the poll only drives home the main weakness of the poll itself: it asks coaches, who focus on one team all week long and perhaps get to watch one other conference game, to rank a national scene they cannot possibly follow in total. They either flub the ballot with picks made on reputation, or hand off the balloting to assistants who fill out the balloting for them. Based on this week’s results, it looks like they decided on the ol’ botch-it-yourself approach. (Or they need to hire new assistants ASAP across the board in D-1 coaching.)
↵Andy Staples of SI.com makes one provocative suggestion: Vegas bookmakers, the most objective and clinical oddsmakers of them all. It would never happen, but if you want cold and unbiased, you can’t beat the money line.
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