College Football Rankings 2014: Twitter Reacts to AP and Amway Week 3 Polls

Both the Amway Coaches poll and Associated Press poll were released in college football on Sunday, and it's safe to say the reaction to each was quite different. Let's just say a few of the coaches may not have read the paper or checked any of the scores on Saturday night.     

Below, we'll take a look at each poll and find out how folks online reacted to the polls. Spoiler alert: The Coaches poll wasn't popular.

Associated Press Poll

Ranking	Team	Record	Points
1	Florida State (38)	2-0	1,463
2	Oregon (16)	2-0	1,415
3	Alabama (1)	2-0	1,334
4	Oklahoma (2)	2-0	1,303
5	Auburn	2-0	1,236
6	Georgia (1)	1-0	1,201
7	Texas A&M (2)	2-0	1,101
8	Baylor	2-0	1,043
9	Southern California	2-0	1,039
10	LSU	2-0	1,029
11	Notre Dame	2-0	815
12	UCLA	2-0	779
13	Michigan State	1-1	751
14	Mississippi	2-0	703
15	Stanford	1-1	592
16	Arizona State	2-0	570
17	Virginia Tech	2-0	532
18	Wisconsin	1-1	391
19	Kansas State	2-0	285
20	Missouri	2-0	237
21	Louisville	2-0	234
22	Ohio State	1-1	222
23	Clemson	1-1	206
24	South Carolina	1-1	199
25	BYU	2-0	179

Amway Poll

Rank	Team	Points
1	Florida State (51)	1529
2	Alabama (1)	1435
3	Oklahoma (3)	1408
4	Oregon (6)	1407
5	Auburn	1312
6	Georgia (1)	1209
7	Baylor	1135
8	Texas A&M	1090
9	LSU	1034
10	USC	999
11	Notre Dame	858
12	UCLA	812
13	Michigan State	716
14	Arizona State	646
15	Ole Miss	609
16	Stanford	585
17	Wisconsin	409
18	Ohio State	402
19	Virginia Tech	349
20	Kansas State	333
21	Nebraska	310
22	Missouri	281
23	South Carolina	232
24	Clemson	212
25	North Carolina	129

Reaction

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Suffice to say, more than a few folks thought the Amway Poll was, shall we say, a bit misguided. Another way of saying it would be that many people thought it was an absolute joke.

And frankly, it probably deserved that level of scrutiny.

Bruce Feldman of Fox Sports pointed out the most egregious decision in the Week 3 poll:

It truly boggles the mind. Ohio State just got smoked by Virginia Tech and it lost its star quarterback for the season. You could make a very strong argument that the Buckeyes don't deserve to be ranked at all, or at least should have dipped as low as they did in the AP Poll (from No. 8 to No. 22).

Feldman wasn't done pointing out the questionable calls in the Coaches poll:

Indeed, in the Associated Press version, Louisville was ranked No. 21 and BYU came in at No. 25. Both proved they belonged.

It gets worse, as Dan Wolken of USA Today tweeted:

Just to review, Texas Tech just barely got by UTEP and Iowa squeaked past Ball State, while Michigan lost to Notre Dame by a 31-0 margin. At least, thankfully, they weren't ranked. 

Joe Schad of ESPN pretty much summed up everyone's thoughts after seeing the Coaches poll:

Amen. 

The AP Poll, on the other hand, seemed a more accurate reflection on the week's action. The always entertaining Fake Bo Pelini on Twitter noticed:

One team in the rankings that will look around and see some familiar faces is Notre Dame, as Matt Fortuna of ESPN noted:

Notre Dame plays Stanford on Oct. 4, Florida State on Oct. 18 and finishes their year at USC. Oh, and North Carolina, Louisville and Arizona State are squeezed into the mix, too. Suffice to say, Notre Dame is going to have quite a fight on its hands to maintain its ranking. 

Then again, after the shellacking the Fighting Irish just put on Michigan, they seem up to the challenge. 

Another riser was Oregon after its impressive win over Michigan State. Of course, that should come as no surprise, as Rob Moseley of GoDucks.com pointed out:

Even with Florida State and Oregon ranked at the top, the Top 10 in the AP Poll again has an SEC flavor, with five of the 10 teams from that conference. At some point many of those teams will beat up on one another, but it will be intriguing to see where they all end up when the final rankings are released.

Will the SEC regain its perch atop college football once again? Teams like Florida State, Oregon and Oklahoma will certainly have something to say about that.