Perhaps your poll sucks?
The gist of a message that was sent to me by an ND bud he saw on twitter (or X as it is called now)
Hard to argue with that logic, perhaps someone should ask Vega$ to do their ranking and we can compare.
Just my 2 cents as always I could be wrong, but I really don’t think I am
The rankings from Tuesday is the outlier
Just let the Vegas championship odds determine the playoff rankings. Easy, clean and more accurate. Here's what it would look like now:
I believe the best way to rank college football teams is to take the geometric mean of three complementary ranking systems. For simplicity, I use:
((AP + Coaches)/2 × Colley × Sagarin)^(1/3)
Each component captures a different, legitimate way of evaluating teams:
These are three substantially different approaches to ranking teams, each with its own strengths and weaknesses.
The geometric mean is particularly appropriate because it rewards excellence in any one category without allowing a poor ranking in another to dominate. In a field of 130-plus teams, the difference between #1 and #5 is far more consequential than the difference between #51 and #55.
As of this past weekend (November 1), my top 15 are:
For Sagarin, I use his primary overall rankings, not the separate Predictor or Elo-Chess variants. For teams outside the AP or Coaches top 25, I extend the rankings using the others receiving votes totals.