ESPN poll lacks prestige

If you have been following the daily releases of ESPN.com's "prestige poll," which is supposed to rank all of the schools in the Football Bowl Subdivision in order of prestige. So how do you rank prestige?

The final five were just released and Oklahoma is on top. Yep, that Oklahoma. What a crock.

This is why people hate ESPN. This is what the Worldwide Leader loves. Fans from schools like Notre Dame, Alabama, Florida and Ohio State get all worked up and flood the site with comments and hate mail to the offices in Bristol.

This poll is flawed in so many ways. My biggest complaint is the emphasis put on conference championships. Schools in Conference USA or the Big East are at a big disadvantage since these are relatively new conferences, therefore limiting their ability to earn as many points as say long-time participants of the SEC, Big 10 or Pac-10.

They put in some language about Independent schools earning bonus points if they ranked ahead of at least three of the big six conference champs in the final poll. Only Notre Dame really benefits from that rule.

Thanks for trying ESPN, but this list lacks credibility and ... prestige.