Josh Pate on Indiana's preseason No. 6 ranking in AP poll: 'You're insane'
Josh Pate reacts to the Hoosiers being ranked No. 6 in the preseason AP poll despite receiving the third-most first-place votes of any team. Subscribe to "Josh Pate's College Football Show" on YouTube .
Video Transcript
I think you're insane if you've got Indiana at number six.
I've lived this life, okay?
You, you guys haven't been in the trenches I've been in with Indiana.
I suffer from what doctors would medically describe as CDS, which is Cignetti Doubter Syndrome.
I was there this time a year ago.
There's the evidence.
I was there.
I had to own it on my own show.
Had to throw on the clown nose.
Very, very notably, very well-documented 0-5 record picking against Indiana last year.
So I don't know who I'd put number six.
It wouldn't be Indiana.
And here's what's very interesting if we dive into the numbers here about where Indiana is.
They're number six.
However, what you don't see on the graphic is they got the third most first place votes of any team.
Ohio State got a bunch of them.
Oregon did.
Notre Dame got some.
But Indiana had the third most first place votes, yet they're number six, which, Jesse, if I'm not mistaken, leads me to believe there are people out there walking amongst us with the ability to vote in the AP poll who ranked Indiana lower than six.
There has to be a number of you who voted them below six, and to them I'm asking this.
As much as I don't believe last year has to blindly carry over to this year, what is it you've definitively seen or heard or, or thought, conjured, imagined, if you will, about Georgia or Notre Dame or Oregon or Texas, whoever, that puts them that far above and beyond Indiana in your mind?
And if you have an answer, then I would ask you to base that or maybe test that against the reasons that you perhaps doubted Indiana at various points last year.
Ask how that logic worked out for you.
I know.
That's why I'm removing myself.
I don't endorse this.
And then ask if it's really worth putting them down here.
Don't do this to yourselves.
It's not too late.
Don't set yourselves up for this.
I went through it.
I came out on the other side.
I'm warning you, this right here is a terrible, terrible idea
