With the COVID-19 pandemic stopping everyone in their tracks in 2020, it’s pretty amazing to have had a college football season.
The season was thrown together last minute and excluded conferences such as the Big-10, Pac-12 and Mountain West Conference. College football teams west of the Colorado River were not playing college football until late October, when the MWC began play on Oct 24. The BYU Cougars, who are independent of a conference, were the lone exception to this starting their season on Sept. 7 versus Navy.
With all of these NCAA football teams and conferences starting at different times, it doesn’t seem fair to have a traditional AP Top 25 ranking system like in years past.