{"id":1692,"date":"2009-09-08T20:31:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T01:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/georgia-drops-to-21-or-why-the-polls-suck\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T06:13:14","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:13:14","slug":"georgia-drops-to-21-or-why-the-polls-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/georgia-drops-to-21-or-why-the-polls-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia drops to 21 (or why the polls suck)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/1\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/1', 'AP Poll');\" target=\"new\">AP Poll<\/a>, Georgia is now 21 after their kick in the pants from Oklahoma State.  Riddle me this Batman.  How does Oklahoma State (at the time 9) beat Georgia (at the time 13) and move up 4 spots to 5, but Georgia falls 8 spots to 21?<\/p>\n<p>If a victory over Georgia is worth moving into the Top 5, how come a lost to a Top 10 team (now Top 5), warrants such a demotion for the Dawgs?<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I have no problems with a 21 AP ranking, I just think it is ridiculous that there is such a disparity in the way these votes are cast.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest AP Poll, Georgia is now 21 after their kick in the pants from Oklahoma State. Riddle me this Batman. How does Oklahoma State (at the time 9) beat Georgia (at the time 13) and move up 4 spots to 5, but Georgia falls 8 spots to 21? If a victory over Georgia &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/georgia-drops-to-21-or-why-the-polls-suck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Georgia drops to 21 (or why the polls suck)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-uga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}