The AP Poll is broken: here's how we can fix it in three easy steps

Texas A&M v Notre Dame | Michael Reaves/GettyImagesThe AP Poll has been the authoritative omnipotent voice from the heavens tasked to declare the best and most formidable squads across all of college football. It began in the 1930s and has survived all the way to 2025 despite BCS rankings and the College Football Playoff usurping its authority to declare national champions.

A list of 25 teams, ranked best to worst, which was previously utilized to declare champions at the end of the season -- BYU owes its lone national championship to the 1984 final AP Poll -- now has been relegated to a trivial digit on the side of the schedule. Hiding in the score bug. Present, yet largely insignificant.…