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BC you are obviously much smarter than I am because you've got me defending Wilner in public which takes some clever doing. But since I've already crossed that line, I would say that you are right, every pollster does that, but the blend is different in degree and timing. Wilner is more willing to make major changes based on an early result, while the majority of voters hang onto their biases longer. That being said, his reasoning based on results often seems specious to me. But I don't necessarily fault elevating both Texas and UFDFG based not solely on the result (which only tells you they should be ranked very closely to each other) but also, at this point in the season, on watching them play as well (which provides more info than a preseason guess). I also have no problem with him moving Stanford down this week, not because he thinks any worse of us per se, but because in his own mind he thinks the wins of all those other teams were better (which you and I might well disagree with). So I am trying to make an admittedly fine distinction between his professed method/approach (which I think is correct) and how he executes that method week to week (which is easy to criticize). Maybe you are looking at the results and thinking, this could not possibly be a rational product of the professed method--and you may be right.

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BC you are obviously much smarter than I am because you've got me defending Wilner in public which takes some clever doing. But since I've already crossed that line, I would say that you are right, every pollster does that, but the blend is different in degree and timing. Wilner is more willing to make major changes based on an early result, while the majority of voters hang onto their biases longer. That being said, his reasoning based on results often seems specious to me. But I don't necessarily fault elevating both Texas and UFDFG based not solely on the result (which only tells you they should be ranked very closely to each other) but also, at this point in the season, on watching them play as well (which provides more info than a preseason guess). I also have no problem with him moving Stanford down this week, not because he thinks any worse of us per se, but because in his own mind he thinks the wins of all those other teams were better (which you and I might well disagree with). So I am trying to make an admittedly fine distinction between his professed method/approach (which I think is correct) and how he executes that method week to week (which is easy to criticize). Maybe you are looking at the results and thinking, this could not possibly be a rational product of the professed method--and you may be right.