What is wrong is that these polls are created before the season has even begun. Then, every win or loss is based off these faulty polls. Eliminates all but a handful of teams from even reaching the playoffs from day one.
You have to also take in consideration the influence behind the polls.
For example, ESPN/ACC has vaulted in the past four years Virginia Tech from being non-ranked, to a very high ranked team after one week and one win.
The first time this happened was against Florida State who was led by the amazing Willie Taggart. Florida State, as everyone knows, has not been the same since from that disastrous hire. Complete disaster the rest of the year.
This year the mighty Hokies, again, beat a over ranked ACC team and is vaulted into the top 15. All signs pointing to a complete disaster again.
Since BCS, out of the power five conferences, ACC has been worse than the PAC 12. ACC broke the BCS “Big East Rule” not having a team ranked hire than 12 on avg of years. (Avg rank was 14) Followed by a FSU/pedophile university BCS game where FSU should not have been ranked in top 25 but ESPN/ACC wanted that Bobby vs Joe matchup.
and here we are and 2021 and Clemson finally has a bad year and look at the rest of the conference. If it wasn’t for Clemson, this conference would have zero credibility in football. There is a massive, massive gap between Clemson and number 2 in the conference. Miami? Syracuse? Nobody can come close to Clemson or put consecutive years together.
When Dabo takes over for Nick, it will get worse.
Polls are useless until November