The first USA Today Coaches’ Poll of the 2019 season debuted last Thursday, and there’s no better time to discuss it than a full week later. (Better late than never, or so I often tried to convince college professors.)
Coaches’ Polls are always pretty bland. I’ve heard rumors that it’s mostly the sports information directors that fill them out in coaches’ steads, but I don’t know how accurate that is. And there aren’t many coaches/SIDs that screw things up too badly or have consistently outlandish rankings like, say, a Jon WIlner in the AP Poll.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t still evaluate the Coaches’ Poll.