AP Poll Predictions Go Global: How America’s College Football Rankings Rule Markets, Meme Wars, and Migrant Dreams
The AP Poll predictions have dropped again, and—surprise—half the planet is pretending to care. From the fluorescent war-rooms of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, to a smoky sports bar in Lagos where the satellite feed flickers each time the generator coughs, the same ritual unfolds: grown humans rearranging the emotional deck chairs on a geopolitical Titanic…