It is interesting to see how many of the teams in the pre-season poll are not in the top ten anymore. See chart below.
In fact, some of them are not even ranked at all! And notice that the current #1 and #3 teams (Missouri and Ohio State) are not even ranked. Missouri did not even make the Top 25!
I think it demonstrates how weak is the foundation for determining teams’ worth. Perhaps no rankings should come out at all until teams have played 1/2 of their conferecne schedules.
For the pre-season rankings click here.
