Some highly intelligent human being years ago had a brilliant idea. Let’s not rank college football teams until we have watched a few games. Unfortunately, some idiots didn’t get the memo. In the old BCS, they waited to come out with the “official” rankings, but still used the polls that were ranking teams from the beginning of the season.
Obviously, the committee does the same. This house of cards builds up one or two teams by ranking them way to early, and then giving way too much credit to the teams that beat them. This is the disease that ruins college football.