Yeah, yeah, we know. Nick Saban isn’t poring over the Saturday scoreboard to determine the No. 25 team on his weekly ballot in the Amway Coaches Poll. Paul Chryst isn’t spending much time debating the merits of San Jose State and Oklahoma State. Hell, Jimbo Fisher probably hasn’t even looked at his ballot since 2010. We all understand that the coaches poll isn’t really the ~coaches poll~. It’s the graduate assistant poll, or the director of football operations poll, or the hey-that-one-student-manager-did-a-great-job-setting-up-cones-this-week-so-let’s-have-him-do-the-poll-this-week poll.
It’s not really what it’s supposed to be.
But let’s pretend for a moment that it is, because USA Today released the latest round of ballots on Monday morning, and hooooo buddy, there’s some fun stuff there.