Why the college football ratings are complete garbage

I can pinpoint the exact moment when I came to realize that college football ratings were a bunch of garbage. It was the 1985 season, and the supposed number one team was playing the supposed number two team in a bowl game. And the number two team was a seven-point favorite! How can this be? It is because the people who vote on the rankings are unable to think and reason clearly.

For the record, Penn State was ranked #1 because it was undefeated, and Oklahoma was #2 because it had lost to the #3-ranked Miami Hurricanes, in a game in which its starting QB was hurt. Penn State had played a relatively weaker schedule, and of course, they lost 25-10 to the Sooners in the Cotton Bowl, and the voters were exposed for the idiots they are.

And now, fast forward to 2022, when the voters made a similarly ridiculous decision in putting TCU into the four-team playoffs over Alabama. The pathetic result of this disaster was TCU getting blown out in a complete joke of a final game to Georgia 65-7.