I-AA Schools Now Eligible For Football Poll

[Flying Headbutt]

"Why not? The poll was always intended to measure teams that compete against each other, regardless of division, based solely on on-field performance," she said. "It was that way long before Division I was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978."

She being SE Terry Taylor.

 

[slappy4428]

where? Who? What?

 

[BYH]

HA! I was way ahead of the curve. Take that slappy!!!

 

[spnited]

Bull****, knee-jerk reaction to Applachian State beating Michigan.

 

[slappy4428]

HA! I was way ahead of the curve. Take that slappy!!!

And you remain the only one to vote for them because everyone else had the foresight to offer an alternative...

 

[micropolitan guy]

Perfect plus-1 game: 1A vs. I-AA for the right to play the Mt. Union-Carson-Newman winner.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Bull****, knee-jerk reaction to Applachian State beating Michigan.

Why? If they're one of the best 25 teams, what does it matter what their scholarship or attendance limits are? They aren't playing for a bowl berth or a national title, but they are playing college football and if they're competing with BCS teams on the field, they should at least be considered in the mix.

 

[slappy4428]

OK, I'll elaborate:Who is Terry Taylor, what paper is this person with and what poll is she talking about?

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Terry Taylor is the SE for the national AP, I believe. So that would be the AP writers' poll.

 

[LiveStrong]

Why the heck not?

 

[wickedwritah]

Why?

What does this prove?

I-AA teams are not competing on the same level. They can't take part in the BCS, and they can't play in a bowl game.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Why the heck not?

Because the poll's already a joke so adding more wacky neighbors to further confuse an already-convoluted storyline is bad business. This, BTW, is an example of the AP becoming the news as opposed to reporting it.

 

[Football_Bat]

App State is No. 38 in the Sagarin ratings and is No. 31 in everyone's favorite list, ELO_CHESS.

Still not Top 25. Their SOS will make it hard for them to stay even in the top 50.

So they may get votes, but it's moot.

 

[wickedwritah]

I guess Division II teams will become eligible next week.

 

[JayFarrar]

I-AA players can win the Heisman and, in theory, Appy State could skip the playoffs and accept a bowl invite. Or at least I think they could, the SWAC schools don't do the playoffs now.
When they took the restrictions off I-AA games counting or not counting toward the six-win mark, that should have made the I-AA teams eligible for the poll then, not that it mattered.

 

[Armchair_QB]

And the coaches get ripped for not seeing enough teams play before they vote? How the **** can an AP voter cast a legitimately researched ballot when they never, ever see I-AA teams play? What a ridiculous ****ing idea.

If AP feels that strongly about I-AA football they should start publishing a I-AA Top 25.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

"Why not? The poll was always intended to measure teams that compete against each other, regardless of division, based solely on on-field performance," she said.

As someone alluded to with a reference to schedule strength, it becomes a moot point unless Appalachian and other schools in that subdivision decide to become independents and play a lot of games against the big boys and a lot fewer against teams on their own tier. Does McNeese State get a shot at Michigan soon?

 

[Armchair_QB]

This is the kind of **** you get when you put a woman in charge of the sports department...

I keed... I keed...

 

[Flying Headbutt]

For crying out loud guys, some of you take these polls way too seriously. It doesn't mean anything. Besides, it's not like Lou Holtz is voting and giving points to schools like Georgia Southern or Alcorn State or Bethune-Cookman or FAMU or any other school he'd schedule early in the year.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Good point.

Sincerely,

The most anti-poll college beat writer in America.