ESPN analyst calls AP Poll ‘garbage’ following Week 5 update
By Sydney Hunte
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Every week the AP Top 25 poll comes out, there’s bound to be several people who aren’t on board with how the votes turn out.
Count ESPN college football analyst Heather Dinich as one of them.
Florida State on Saturday suffered its first loss of the year, a 46-38 double-overtime loss to Virginia. The Seminoles entered the Week 5 matchup in Charlottesville at No. 8. They dropped all the way to No. 18.
Dinich wasn’t impressed with how far down the poll voters ranked the Noles following the loss.
“It’s garbage! That’s what I thought,” Dinich said, according to Awful Announcing. “It’s way too reactionary, as evidenced by the fact that Florida State dropped 10 spots after losing in double overtime in its first road game of the season to a very good Virginia team. This is not the same old Virginia team. They’ve put money into the facilities and the transfer portal, OK?”
Dinich pointed to the Seminoles’ season-opening win over Alabama as a reason why Mike Norvell‘s team shouldn’t be ranked this low. The Crimson Tide haven’t lost since and currently sit at No. 10 after defeating Georgia.
“I remember it and after it happened, everyone said, ‘hey, that was the SEC team out there — not Alabama. Oh, hey, Alabama got beaten, pushed around up front.’ The same Alabama team that just beat Georgia,” she said.
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
