{"id":1711,"date":"2009-09-14T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T11:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/14\/why-the-polls-suck-week-2\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T10:54:56","slug":"why-the-polls-suck-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/14\/why-the-polls-suck-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the polls suck week 2."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/1\/week\/3\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/1\/week\/3', 'AP');\" target=\"new\">AP<\/a>, Houston is now #21 in the nation, which is the result of jumping up and beating a #5 Oklahoma St team.  Poor Oklahoma St; they fall to #16.  How does all this affect Georgia?  The Bulldogs were ranked #21, but fell two spots to #23 when everyone realized that their loss to the Cowboys looks that much worse.  Who cares about a hard fought win over South Carolina?<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/2\/week\/3\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/espn.go.com\/college-football\/rankings\/_\/poll\/2\/week\/3', 'Coaches Poll');\" target=\"new\">Coaches Poll<\/a>, poor Houston\u2019s win over #6 Oklahoma St was not good enough for the Cougars to crack the Top 25, but the Cowboys tumbled all the way to #17.<\/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>According to the AP, Houston is now #21 in the nation, which is the result of jumping up and beating a #5 Oklahoma St team. Poor Oklahoma St; they fall to #16. How does all this affect Georgia? The Bulldogs were ranked #21, but fell two spots to #23 when everyone realized that their loss &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/14\/why-the-polls-suck-week-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the polls suck week 2.<\/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-1711","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\/1711","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=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}