A woman by the name of Haley Sawyer is making waves. She covers USC football for the SoCal news group and she has an AP vote for the top 25. And people are calling for that vote to be stripped.
Why? Well I’ll tell ya…
Florida suffered the worst loss of any team so far this season when the Gators fell 18-16 at home to South Florida. The loss sent the Gators tumbling from No. 13 to out of the AP Top 25, but not in Haley Sawyer's ballot. Sawyer thought UF's performance was good enough to move them up a couple spots from No. 16 to No. 14 and somehow still has USF outside the Top 25 entirely.
Here’s her reasoning is below.
I don’t blame her, frankly. Blame the system. All she did was shine a light on how stupid and arbitrary it is.
The people with votes are the ones watching games at stadiums and writing stories about 1 particular team. It would be like being able to rank NBA teams when I’m sitting at the kia center…as opposed to having someone who is able to sit back and observe the whole league more closely.
Pod is on demand as well, enjoy!
Photo: James Gilbert / Getty Images Sport / Getty Images