Preseason Polls

Preseason polls have a bad reputation among sports fans especially in college football, as I was thinking about why this is two things became abundantly clear: 1) the public and the pollsters have different views of how they are put together and 2) when games begin to be played pollster stick to steadfast to their preseason rankings of teams and we see the difficulty it causes in the fluidity of opinions of teams. To address the first issue, when looking at the polls it is clear to see that those who vote, vote for the most talented teams as that would point to the most likely to succeed on the football field, however, this assumption isn't without a killer pitfall. Is that the type of schedule will adversely effect the seasons final outcome and yet the end of the season rarely seems to factor into a preseason poll. This flaw would be forgivable if we saw the pollsters willingly alter their rankings before halfway through the season, their should be a high fluidity to the start of the season as we see how the teams are maturing but instead we see a stubbornness from pollsters that doesn't allow for a more tried and true outcome from the polls.