The polls, I think moreso the coaches than the Stats (or AP Poll for FBS) are very over reactionary. You're much better off looking at computer rankings to find out which teams are better. That's not to say the computers are perfect.

Like last week we barely beat Utah Tech while South Dakota and Illinois St both lost FBS games so we jumped them in the coaches poll. But this week we lose an FBS game while Illinois St beats an FCS team and they jump us. Why does Montana St drop 3 spots after losing a 2OT game to the No.2 team? I guess Illinois St's 41-13 win over Morehead St and Rhode Island's 31-17 win over Stony Brook were both super impressive.

At least in Illinois St's case, they get the MVFC gauntlet to prove themselves since they play NDSt, SDSt, SD and Southern Illinois.

I find it irritating that analysts keep touting the five returning O linemen, when one is not going to play until later in season. Porotesano is a red shirt freshmen who played in two games prior to this season. ( I don’t know why the team does not classify anyone besides transfers as a redshirt-whatever, makes the team look older than it is,)

The computer rankings have little data until there are a few games played and they have comparative scores. At this point in the season most or all computer rankings are still influenced by last season or preseason predictions, so garbage in garbage out. Last season is largely irrelevant this year due to player movement. I’m a believer in computer rankings but only after five or six games,

Very true. Voters are biased by their preconceived thoughts as well. So yeah any polls/computer rankings at this point should be taken with a grain of salt.

I also can't stand the coaches poll in any sport since it's pretty well known that many coaches don't actually vote or are heavily biased towards their conferences when they (or whichever staffer fills it out for them) do vote. I mean, I get why because the coach isn't getting paid to pay attention to all of the other teams to be able to form opinions on where teams should be ranked.

Polls, Schmolls, won't matter until about week 8 or 9.

We got smoked plain and simple, and Washington certainly looks like a Top 10 team, or did we just make them look that good? I don't know, but playing a decent Southern Utah team at home, who whooped Idaho State, and actually just lost to San Diego -- will be a good measuring stick. Will be watching the NAU @ SUU game on Saturday.

BYU 69 PSU 0
Oregon 59 Montana State 13
Boise St. 51 Eastern 14
Utah 63 Cal Poly 9
Washington 70 Davis 10
Arizona 48 Weber 3 — SochorField

This is a 60-8 average beatdown for the Big Sky. I'm not sure it warranted a drop in the polls....but it is what it is. More motivation to get better.

This is one person's take on the Top 766:

Interesting tidbits:
Washington #29
North Dakota State #40. Damn!
Tarleton State #78 and #2 in FCS
UC Davis #141 and #16 in FCS
Sacramento State #177 and #42 in FCS

Id argue that their top WR was actually Denzel Boston #12 who is draft eligible and by all accounts that I've seen is supposed to go in the top 3 rounds... Considering that I think cofield and Richardson did a pretty nice job on him throughout the game

my previous post being in response to this one*