Dan Shanoff Is The Bandwagoneer: Don't Even THINK Of Ranking Michigan In Your Top 25

Published: September 4, 2007, 11:10 am

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Dan Shanoff writes a weekly college football column for Deadspin. Email him to let him know what you think. Not that they would ever let me participate, but I know what I would do if I was a voting member of the AP Top 25 (or advising a coach who votes in the Coaches' Top 25): Exile Michigan entirely. Certainly for this week. Possibly, punitively, for as many weeks until the Wolverines lose the stink of humiliation. That could take a while. When the official polls come out today, I simply won't understand if Michigan is still in the Top 25. Hell, as a self-respecting college football fan, I'll be outraged. I don't even want to see them listed under the "Also Receiving Votes," because that implies that at least some voters thought Michigan was rank-worthy.Presumably, Michigan's pollster-defenders will point to their preseason Top 5 ranking. I would counter that "inertia" is no reason to leave a team in the Top 25, when all we have to go on is a single performance. The

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