[quote name="liltex" post="1040093" timestamp="1314197530"] We all know polls are merely a groups opinions and change week to week but I'd like to know the process of pic-n where 3 classes are grouped together.If you go by how teams fared last year(the most logical stat-cause nobody's proven nothin this yr)Then Coldsprings(last team playin in a title game should be @ the top of the big school poll,then followed by the next most successful team,so forth.Personally I'd rather the team I support not be ranked(puts a target on your back)but on another note I can't see a team w/ZERO success of winning a dist.title in a very long time (Liv)grabbing the top 4a spot/2nd in the big school poll.Explain the reasoning please.And shoulda's don't mean anything,there's hundreds of those cases every yr.final tic is a done deal,until UIL reverses a protested game 8) [/quote] Well, tex. For a complete answer to your question you will need 10 different posts as we do not dictate the criteria by which the pollsters rank their teams. Yes, it is a struggle to rank teams across 3 different classes in polls. But we simply don't have enough teams to place in their own class ranking and really have only one combination of two classes (3A-2A) that really would make a Top 10 feasible. As for me, I attempt to look at who is "best" in their particular classification. How do I do that? Well, even the factors that I look at will change as the season goes on. For example, for a head to head result (an actual, not theoretical one) I will probably give that a lot more weight during the pre-district than I would later in the season where I will be giving a team's placement in district standings more weight. Also, take into consideration that things aren't always as they appear. For example, if someone made an assumption that EVERY pollster placed Livingston ahead of Dayton in their rankings simply because Livingston is higher in composite rankings, they would be incorrect as half of the pollsters had Dayton ahead of Livingston in their polls. But during the show Mike, Gabe, Robert and Aaron, who are also pollsters, can give you their takes.