CF-  I know Louisville lost, but you honestly expect most voters to drop them from #6 to out of the poll?  This wasn't Appalachian State that they lost to, this is a decent Kentucky team. 

Upsets happen.  To say that just because Louisville lost to Kentucky, you have to rank Kentucky, AND they have to be higher than Louisville is a little much, especially when most of the country doesn't think Kentucky is one of the Top 25 programs right now.

I know I don't think they are, even if they did beat Louisville.  Are they explosive on offense, sure, especially against a swiss cheese defense, but I don't think that makes them necessarily a Top 25 team.  Louisville did score 40+ points on them.  That doesn't say much for the Wildcat defense either.  I still think that Louisville, despite its defensive woes, can be and is, one of the top 16 teams at least in the country.   And I voted that way in the Fan Poll. 

So, give a little break at least to people who don't want to vault Kentucky into the #15 spot in the country, just because of an upset.

But with all of the other upsets occurring this year, are you willing to say that there are 20-some teams which are better than Louisville, even though the Cardinals have one loss?

I know there are about 28 teams that currently are undefeated in D-1A.  But can you say that Indiana, or Purdue, or Kansas is better than Louisville?  That means that Louisville has to at least be ranked...   Connecticut, Cincinnati, and Michigan State don't look as though they are better, yet.  Tulsa, or Air Force?  Probably not.  That probably, at the lowest puts Louisville to #20, not counting teams with one loss like Virginia Tech and Arkansas, who are both probably better.

Are you willing to put a Kentucky into the mix with the other 19 unbeatens and a one-loss Arkansas, and Virginia Tech?  That is how I look at it.  And no, I am not ready to do that.  I would at least rank Purdue or Michigan State ahead of the Wildcats.  And other one loss teams like a Boise State or a Washington would still get my vote right now before I would consider unbeaten Kentucky.

If Kentucky can go to Arkansas this week and win, maybe that will change my opinion, but just upsetting Louisville, in Lexington, is not enough yet for me to think that they are in that Top 20 caliber.

Louisville around 20 is fine with me, and I can be ok with Kentucky at 19 right now. It's only 3 weeks in and the polls will keep changing. I have no problem making changes based off more than just the last weeks results which I think too many pollsters do. My guess is that Kentucky loses next week (and a few more after that) and is out of any poll and there is no longer a discussion about Louisville (who will keep winning for awhile, when's that WVU game?) being ranked higher.

I like seeing the polls change week to week based more than just if they won or lost. For example Texas started around #6/7 and still is even though they haven't played like it, but they are 3-0 so the pollsters won't drop them because they didn't lose, and there are teams that are 3-0 that I see no problem putting ahead of them at least until Texas shows they are the better team. There just isn't enough fluidity in the polls.

I agree the polls need to be more fluid, and I have been dropping teams like Texas and Wisconsin for inconsistent wins. 

Last season, I had Michigan at #1 for most of the year, mostly because Ohio State kept having some close wins (which we later saw could burn them).   I was not adverse to putting a team lower in the polls based on a bad performance.

This year has been extremely tough the first three weeks.  Maybe it is the number of upsets based on the original rankings.  Maybe it is the inconsistent play that we are still seeing from some teams after 3 weeks, and maybe it is the poor scheduling that a lot of the teams have done in order to get their 12th game.   I just dread looking at this poll each week because I think that in recent memory (at least in the last 5 years since I have been covering college football with more than a passing glance), this is by far the hardest crop of teams to effectively rate.

Maybe that will get better with more conference games coming up, but right now, I want to throw my hands up when I get past #12.  For the most part, that is why I feel it is unfair to some of these guys for not ranking a Kentucky.  Heck, I haven't ranked South Carolina yet.

I wanted to revisit this...

I was thinking about it today, at work , and yes, on the surface, it makes sense to rank the team that won over the team they beat. However, you need to be voting for the team that is better to be higher in the rankings. Two teams that you consider evenly matched, yes, rank the winner higher. In the case of UL-UK, one could reasonable argue that they are evenly matched. But in a case like Appy St. and Michigan, yes, Michigan is a mess, but does anyone reasonably believe that Appy State is the better team? If they played nine more times, I believe Michigan wins all nine. So, I'd still rank Michigan higher than them.

So, in summary, I have no problem with Louisville still ranked higher. But at the end of the year and they have the same records against comparable opponents, I would take the head-to-head matchup into account and rank the winner of their game higher.