The AP Poll is about as synonymous with college football as the marching band is fight songs, but in more recent times, the poll has become less important. First, the BCS poll rivaled the AP, and in the modern era, all that really matters are the College Football Playoff rankings, which the committee will first release in October.

For that reason, the AP Poll has become somewhat archaic, but it’s probably kept in large part because of tradition. However, Fox Sports analyst Joel Klatt argued Friday that the AP Poll is one tradition the sport shouldn’t keep.

“The voters in that poll refuse to move teams based on the teams that are actually being played,” he said.

Klatt cited “confirmation bias” and “utter incompetence” as his two main reasons why college football should eliminate the AP Poll. To prove his point, he used two ACC teams as examples.

Clemson entered the season ranked No. 2 in the country, and despite other teams dominating its competition more throughly than Clemson, the Tigers have stayed at No. 2. Whether it’s because of previous Clemson teams, the preseason ranking or both, Klatt argued “confirmation bias” is the only reason Clemson has remained at No. 2.

Klatt then mentioned Florida State, who received one Top 25 vote in the most recent AP Poll. The Seminoles sit at 1-1 and needed a comeback against FCS Samford to win last Saturday. Obviously, that’s not the resume of a Top 25 team, but one voter (who is left anonymous because that’s the way the poll works) still voted Florida State into the Top 25.

The Fox analyst grew very angry at this fact and actually had a message for that voter.

“Your vote should be stripped from you.”

Klatt also had a message for fans or analysts who have argued the AP Poll doesn’t matter all that much because of the new playoff rankings.

“If you think that playoff committee walks into their room in October with zero bias, you’re wrong. You’re wrong,” Klatt said. “They have watched games the entire first half of the season with rankings in mind. Part of the strength of schedule is how many ranked teams have you beat? Were they top 10? So on and so forth? Well guess where they get that?

“(From) a poll that’s derived by confirmation bias and incompetence.”

Klatt’s final point in his rant was that the AP Poll also effects jobs. The media constantly brings up Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh’s record against the Top 25, and it shapes fans’ view of him. Klatt essentially argued that isn’t fair because the bias and incompetence that exists among the AP Poll voters.

There’s a lot of truth to what Klatt is arguing. It will be interesting to see where this conversation may go because besides hyping up a matchup, there really isn’t much use for the AP Poll in the modern era.