All great points, but D is especially good.

I’ll also add that people being against preseason polls generally comes from an uneducated stance that these polls impact the CFP rankings (completely separate. The AP poll doesn’t matter in the slightest (outside of maybe the final one) and the CFP rankings start 2+ months into the year for the exact reason that everyone pretends to be concerned about).

Here it is:

RalphRussoAP
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1y ago
A) It's fun. Sounds flippant, but projecting the way the season goes is deeply imbedded part of the sports fan experience.

B) It draw eyeballs. People like to engage with it. If you ran a business would you pull one of your best selling items from the shelf.

C) There is no doubt that for the first month of the season, while the result sample size is small, the preseason rankings linger. But i can guarantee you that if you voted after 4 weeks, you're still getting pre-season assessments.

D) The poll tells the story of a season. Sure some teams are overranked and some end up being underrated. The poll helps document that.

I could go on but alas, there are A LOT of questions

.https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/15q6h58/ama_im_ralph_russo_aps_lead_college_football/