As you will come to know I am a huge college football fan. I have never had much affinity for the human generated polls primarily for these reasons:

1. The pre-season rankings have an impact on the final rankings far too much and completely skew the margin of error for different teams with different schedules.

2. There is no clear mandate for "how" a person should vote. Is it the perceived best team? Is it the perceived best wins to date? Is it the best records? Does it matter if teams win big, on the road, and against what opponents?

3. There never seems to be enough of an emphasis placed on actual strength of schedule and often, if there is, it is based upon pre-season rankings that have no bearing on the current point in time. If a top 10 pre-season team loses 2 games in September in the woods and there is nobody in the stands, was it ever a top 10 team?

4. Teams don't ever seem to get punished for what they can control, their OOC schedule. Given, games are booked years in advance, but recent trends tell you that you are easily a 6 figure buyout and phone call to ESPN away from scheduling whomever you wish.

5. The voters, especially the coaches, abdicate their position to an underling because there is no possibility they can prepare for a game, coach the game, and have any clue as to what is going on outside their stadium let alone across the country.

As such, no poll should come out until the last games in September are played, and at the very least. I will be releasing the Hostile Take top 10, at the conclusion of this weekends games. I will make my thesis quite clear with an emphasis placed on actual game performance and results.