10-23-2016, 06:34 PM
Win margins, other stats, and wins/losses of other teams are factored in. Since the AP Poll is voted on by 61 people, personal opinions affect this. Butch Jones pushed to get the Tennessee/Appalachian State game scheduled to be the very first FBS game this year and UT hype was really high, winning in double overtime to a team that recently came up from Division II to Division I; there was no other "big" games to watch at the time and the game was supposed to be a blow out and the first impression made was that maybe Tennessee was ranked too high.
The committee that will decide who will be the final four teams is still largely preferred versus the BCS system that used a computer and algorithms to calculate which teams would be in which end-of-season bowl games.
The committee that will decide who will be the final four teams is still largely preferred versus the BCS system that used a computer and algorithms to calculate which teams would be in which end-of-season bowl games.