I know I haven’t forgotten — and I’m quoting myself here — “the only one of the AP’s esteemed voters who kept N0. 8 WVU out of the top 25. What’s that you say? Oh, he left five of the AP’s top 25 off his ballot!”

To review: Zarzour excluded Auburn, WVU, Tennessee, Illinois and Kansas from his preseason ballot. He took a lot of heat and I only took issue with just how arbitrary and inexact the polling is — and let’s be honest: he did not acquit himself with his self-depricating defense.

Here we are now, seven weeks into the voting and WVU, Tennessee and Illinois aren’t ranked. The other two remain ranked, but Auburn is nowhere near as good as most predicted and Kansas somehow erased a 20-point deficit on the road Saturday to salvage its season. Zarzour’s current poll is pretty fair.

The point? It’s still arbitrary and inexact, but he wasn’t as crazy as he once appeared.