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College football has changed by leaps and bounds in recent years, from NIL to the transfer portal to Kansas being kind of good. What once seemed a core tenet of the sport is now yesterday's news.
And yet, we remain tethered to an outdated metric when it comes to judging teams. We can put a speaker in a helmet, but we can't find a better system than a Top 25 list.
It's a ridiculous premise, as North Carolina coach Mack Brown astutely pointed out.
"I used to do the coaches' poll, but I quit doing that," Brown said, "because after about the first six or eight, they're all about alike.