We get the fact there is nothing scientific about the polls.

We get the fact the system is utterly broken.

We get the fact the dinosaurs of the BCS conferences have no intention of giving the fans what they want: A playoff.

Fine. Whatever. We’d still would like to see the best team each week voted number one. And from that we scream: How can the pollsters, both AP and coaches, vote the Crimson Tide number two? Have you been watching this season?

The worst part is not the AP voting them second, but the coaches blindly dropping them to FOURTH, with only TWO coaches out of 61 finding enough reasons to rank them first.

That’s only two more 1st-place vote than I got, and I can’t even enter Georgia, much less crush it. More on the insanity after the jump.

This is not to say Oklahoma isn’t great - the team’s dominating, Sam Bradford is fantastic and the Sooners have won every game by at least 25 points (including a couple of home wins over quality teams, Cincinnati and TCU). But no one has the body of work Alabama has.

What more does the Crimson Tide have to do? The team has already won three road games against BCS teams (three more than Oklahoma, btw), and has dominated all of them. The Tide blew out Clemson (which doesn’t look as good now, but a 24-point road win ain’t easy, much less down there), crushed Arkansas, and remember that Georgia team? Yeah, you coaches and AP voters put them number one in the pre-season. Yeah, they beat Alabama last year. And, yeah, the Crimson Tide was up 31-0 at halftime.

Did any of you watch the game? It was pretty easy to find - the station with the “E”, the “S”, the “P”, and the “N” is on every cable system around the country. If you watched the first and second quarters, you saw the dismantling of a great team unlike any I’ve seen in a long while. Thirty-one point. And the score was indicative of the domination. Ignore the Bulldogs closing the gap in the second half - Bama dominated this one, and Georgia’s got a helluva team.

Beyond this, Alabama has proven early to be the best team in the SEC. Yes, LSU might end up winning the league (or maybe someone else sneaks in) but haven’t we learned our lesson the last few years? This league is far and away better than everyone else, and while you shouldn’t just give the top slot to the best team in the league, well, show me a team with a better resume right now than the Tide.

I’ll be over at Starbucks getting coffee while you mull this over.

This is yet another problem with the polls: People feel they have to either vote how they voted before (and not move someone down until they lose) or vote how they think games will turn out later, and vote that way (i.e. Every voter that said Georgia was the best team in the land, but couldn’t pick them because of a tough SEC schedule. Yeah, and USC is number one because it’s going to run through the Pac 10. Oh wait …). You vote on a body of work that’s in front of you, and four weeks in, we’ve got a pretty good read on everyone. There shouldn’t have been a problem bumping USC ahead of Georgia early in the season: A week after they reached the top, the Trojans crushed Ohio State. Fair enough read - USC number one, until we got reality this week.

And then you this week’s coaches’ poll which is mind boggling to say the least. LSU and Missouri have great teams, but are you ranking them second and third, respecitvely, because they were ahead of Alabama last week? Does anyone actually watch what goes on any longer, or are we’re just counting on googling results at night’s end?

Yes, Oklahoma is darn good, and if they win out, they’ll be in the national title game. Right now? The Sooners are deservig of number two. Believe me: There’s no one that’s had more problems getting over an anti-SEC bias than me. But this is the best league, and beyond that, no one played better this year than Alabama. All those factors together?

The Tide should be number one in both polls. I’ll wait for you to admit your mistakes, pollsters … which means I’ll be at Starbucks until 2049.