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Message: [QUOTE="Alydar, post: 4381525, member: 730"] True but it's influence diminishes as the season goes on and by the end of the season it's miniscule. And it isn't bias. It's still an objective measure. Unlike the AP bias where teams that play a mickey mouse OOC sched. but are in a P-5 ( Maryland, LSU) get a high preseason ranking, go 13-0 in OOC, move up to AP top 5 and even though they play .500 ball the rest of the season they still stay top 25, get a 4 or 5 seed only to lose in the 1st 2 rounds of the NCAA's. Then that Team loses a few players to transfer, picks up a bunch and when the 2023 AP top 25 comes out Maryland will once again be named as a likely FF team by Vopel and Creme. And definitely a top 10 program although Maryland left the ESPN stable to the B1G so maybe they won't get the hype this year. Sorry for the rant but the whole topic of AP rankings isn't worth it. It's a media side show. There are a few good analytical rating services but I wouldn't try and claim a championship based on them either. I lived decades with the AP deciding who the NCAA football champion was to accept any claim based on the votes of 31 people, all of whom have biases whether or not they are aware of them. [/QUOTE]