Great tongue in cheek article from an AP voter and his glee at the new playoff system and how utterly stupid the poll system was.
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Polls are horribly wonderful and wonderfully horrible. They make for fantastic discussion in a world in which rankings things - from bikini bodies to fantasy football players to craziest modern dictators - takes up about 60 percent of the Internet. They are legitimately needed for historical reference and present-day comparisons.
But they were a terrible way to pick a national champion, or which two teams should meet for the national title.
In the BCS era, polls accounted for two-thirds of the choice. There was the Harris Poll - often uninformed - and the coaches poll - often uninformed and biased. Then there was the AP poll - irrelevant
I'm still an ego-drive blowhard in my daily life, but when it comes to polls, my sanctimonious days are over.
Vote how you want everybody. It doesn't matter. Thank goodness
Polls are for fun. Polls are not something I'll be dedicating myself to for a couple hours every Saturday night or Sunday morning while trying to beat the insane AP deadline of 11 a.m. Sunday, less than 12 hours after many of the best games end.
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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.s..._im_not_g.html