This simply cannot be true . . this would never happen in the FBS . . what blasphemy . .

Research conducted by Yale University economist Matthew Kotchen and University of Calif.-Santa Barbara political scientist Matthew Potoski, which covers the USA Today coaches poll administered by the American Football Coaches Association from 2005 to 2010, shows that coaches rank their own teams, teams in their own conference, and teams that they’ve defeated more favorably than merited. The researchers argue those biases skew the results of the poll, which is one of the components in the system used to determine which teams get to play in major bowl games, and what two teams go to the national championship game.

“The idea that coaches have been gaming the system is not new,” says Mr. Kotchen. “What we figured out is that you could use econometric methods to study this in a systematic way.”

http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/11/2...aches+poll

Shocking, simply shocking...

Not surprising. If the BCS controlled college basketball no way Butler would have played for a National Championship twice or George Mason and VCU would have never got to be ranked in a final 4.

Major college football is the only sport from little leagues through the pros that you can't tell every player that if you win all your games you are going to be the champion.

This just in....Sky is Blue, Water is Wet, and Fire is Hot. Film at 11. Back to you Jane!!

Coaches only care about their team, and the team they're going to play. They don't care about previously played teams, or teams they won't ever meet.

Coaches are the among worst sources for ranking teams. I'd trust CFN and BleacherReport before them.