One AP Voter Refused to Vote Oklahoma State in the Top 25

He’ll remain nameless, although I will link to his weekly poll, but one AP voter decided to leave Oklahoma State out of the top 25 this week. That’s not insane, I suppose, but it is a little odd. OSU is one of the six 6-0 teams in the country which, at some point, has to mean something.

Even more odd? This voter has Baylor No. 1 (so he clearly thinks the Big 12 is at least decent) and he has Oklahoma at No. 20.

So OU and OSU have two common opponents (Texas and West Virginia) and one of them is 2-0 against those two opponents and the other team is 1-1. And the 1-1 team is ranked higher. Makes sense.

This goes back to whether these polls are a power ranking (fine, have OU higher — maybe they are better, maybe not) or an actual resume-based poll. Does your resume matter when it comes to these things? It should, which is why I like it when Berry Tramel (and Clay Travis) rank teams like Utah No. 1. They have the best resume so far so they should be the No. 1 team. Otherwise it’s just a combination of “which teams have the best record combined with the most glamorous name” contest.

Remember when these things used to legitimately count for something in regards to the college football postseason? Yikes.