College football preseason polls are very important. They are expertly crafted by the college football watching world’s most accomplished writers, thinkers, and analysts, and serve as a paradigm-establishing exercise, without which college football would be rendered disorganized and chaotic. As America’s most sensible sport, college football has always relied on consistent, definite criteria and metrics to determine who the sport’s most accomplished and deserving teams are, and the preseason poll is an irreplaceable element of this foundation of objectivity and rationality.
To express to you the importance of these polls, let me posit to you the harrowing hypothetical of a world without preseason college football polls.