I love college football, but I hate pre-season polls.
If you are a follower of the pigskin, you know what happened last year. You have "your team" that you follow with religious fervor. But, pre-season polls are a premature table-setting for disappointment and heart ache.
I'm glad that Alabama is the #1 pick this year. I think they are that good. But in fairness to every other team, they've yet to play a game. These polls come out 2-3 weeks before the season begins and they are based on the same data as global warming and evolution: hypothesis (guessing).
In the perfect world, we would not have the first ranking of any teams until the 3rd or 4th week of the season.
Every analyst is picking Alabama to play Ohio State in the National Championship game. Sounds fun. But, what about Miami, BYU, Florida State, or the devil's child - Notre Dame? Every year we hear how "no team ranked outside the top 10 has ever won the National Championship. Why not? Mainly due to the difficulty of rising up through the arbitrary polling system.
I'm excited that kickoff is in 6 days. I'll be more interested to see how reality occurs on the field rather than in the pre-season prognosticating.
Other things to watch: what will the final polls look like? How soon will Notre Dame be in the top-15, and how many coaching changes will occur? Last year there were 17 coaching changes.
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