Final Rankings

Here is a quick comparison of the final AP Poll rankings with the team’s preseason rank which is in parenthesis:
 
1-Alabama (#5)
2-Texas (#2)
3-TCU (#17)
4-Cincinatti (unranked)
5-Florida (#1)
6-Boise State (#14)
7-Oregon (#16)
8-Ohio State (#6)
9-Georgia Tech (#15)
10-Iowa (#22)
11-Penn State (t-#9)
12-Virginia Tech (#7)
13-LSU (#11)
14-Miami (unranked)
15-BYU (#20)
16-Oregon State (unranked)
17-Pittsburgh (unranked)
18-West Virginia (unranked)
19-Stanford (unranked)
20-Nebraska (#24)
21-Oklahoma State (t-#9)
22-Arizona (unranked)
23-Utah (#19)
24-Wisconsin (unranked)
25-Central Michigan (unranked)
 
 
Preseason Top-25 teams that dropped out of the final AP Poll:
 
Oklahoma (#3), USC (#4), Ole Miss (#8), California (#12),  Georgia (#13), Florida State (#18), North Carolina (#21), Notre Dame (#23) and Kansas (#25)
 
 
Only three of the preseason top 10 teams finished in the final top, while the number of preseason top ten teams who finished unranked is also three. One team who started unranked snuck into the top five, while eight others made the final poll. 
 
The pollsters missed BAD on USC and Oklahoma, as well as Cincy, TCU and Boise. How many more years of busted rankings do we need to eliminate this mess? More thoughts on the bowl games coming soon….