So I‘ve been watching College Football for 3 years now, having attended a FBS college as semester abroad myself.
What doesnt get in my head is why certain teams keep getting ranked (even pretty highly) while others with the same record and even stronger schedule arent.
Take for example Texas or Iowa after week 7 this year. Both have a 4-2 record, having lost against 2 top ranked teams and won against unranked only. In contrast, Indiana has the same record, only lost against ranked teams and won the rest of the games easily while having one of the most difficult schedules you could have in Big10 east.
Yet the former are ranked 17 and 20something while the latter doesnt even get one vote in the rankings.
And then teams like Notre Dame almost never play ranked teams and still are consistently ranked top10.
How are both polls evaluating the teams???
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They are polls. The AP (associated press) is literally a panel of sports journalists (currently 62 of them), and the Coaches poll is a panel of FBS coaches ([chosen by random draw, conference by conference plus independents, from a pool of coaches who have indicated their willingness to participate.](https://www.usatoday.com/sports/ncaaf/polls/amway-coaches-poll/)) that rank teams 1-25.
A first-place vote gives a team 25 pts, a second place vote gives a team 24 pts, etc. The final polls reflect the total points each team earns from all the panelists’ rankings. Each panelist ranks the teams according to his/her own reasoning.
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