College Football Polls & The Voters

[Jewbull]

In Case some are wondering whose who in the polls that will determined the national championship, here is some info.

[Jewbull]

I found Coaches

Who chooses these 63 coaches to vote, how come JL isnt one of them, does conference play a roll, anyone have insight?

The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 63 head coaches at Division I-A institutions. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. This season’s board: Chuck Amato, N.C. State; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Mike Bellotti, Oregon; Jack Bicknell, Louisiana Tech; Larry Blakeney, Troy; Bobby Bowden, Florida State; Tommy Bowden, Clemson; Jeff Bower, Southern Miss; Gregg Brandon, Bowling Green; Art Briles, Houston; Mack Brown, Texas; Watson Brown, UAB; John Bunting, North Carolina; Bill Callahan, Nebraska; Lloyd Carr, Michigan; Larry Coker, Miami (Fla.); Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State; Darrell Dickey, North Texas; Bill Doba, Washington State; Randy Edsall, Connecticut; Dennis Franchione, Texas A&M; Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee; Joe Glenn, Wyoming; Walt Harris, Stanford; Dan Hawkins, Colorado; Pat Hill, Fresno State; Terry Hoeppner, Indiana; Brady Hoke, Ball State; Brian Kelly, Central Michigan; Steve Kragthorpe, Tulsa; Mike Leach, Texas Tech; Rocky Long, New Mexico; Sonny Lubick, Colorado State; Dan McCarney, Iowa State; Les Miles, LSU; Shane Montgomery, Miami (Ohio); Joe Novak, Northern Illinois; Houston Nutt, Arkansas; Tom O’Brien, Boston College; George O’Leary, Central Florida; Gary Patterson, TCU; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Bobby Petrino, Louisville; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia; Bobby Ross, Army; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; Howard Schnellenberger, Florida Atlantic; John L. Smith, Michigan State; Mark Snyder, Marshall; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Jeff Tedford, California; Joe Tiller, Purdue; **** Tomey, San Jose State; Jim Tressel, Ohio State; Tommy Tuberville, Auburn; Charlie Weis, Notre Dame; Tyrone Willingham, Washington; Ron Zook, Illinois.

[Jewbull]

Here is the Associated Press I believe it is from this yr, I wonder how often this changes

I wonder where our 4 votes came from last week.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/onlinenews.ap.org/collegefootball_rankings/voters.php?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME  

The AP Top 25 College Poll is compiled from votes by 65 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the country.

 

Joe Medley  Anniston Star    

Jon Solomon  The Birmingham News    

 

Jeff Metcalfe  Arizona Republic    

 

Bob Holt  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette    

 

Kevin Pearson  Riverside Press-Enterprise    

Scott Wolf  Los Angeles Daily News    

Ray Ratto  San Francisco Chronicle    

Jon Wilner  San Jose Mercury News    

 

B.G. Brooks  Rocky Mountain News    

 

Neill Ostrout  The Connecticut Post    

 

Susan Miller Degnan  Miami Herald    

David Jones  Florida Today    

Bob Thomas  Florida Times-Union    

 

Adam Van Brimmer  Savannah Morning News-Augusta    

 

Ferd Lewis  Honolulu Advertiser    

 

Mike Prater  Idaho Statesman    

 

Herb Gould  Chicago Sun-Times    

Mark Tupper  Decatur Herald and Review    

 

Michael Pointer  The Indianapolis Star    

Steve Warden  The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette    

 

Steve Batterson  Quad City Times    

 

Harold Bechard  Hutchinson News    

 

Fred Cowgill  WLKY-TV    

Scott Rabalais  The Baton Rouge Advocate    

 

Barker Davis  Washington Times    

 

Michael Vega  The Boston Globe    

 

David Birkett  The Oakland Press    

Angelique Chengelis  The Detroit News    

 

Chip Scroggins  Star Tribune of Minneapolis    

 

Robbie Neiswanger  The Jackson Clarion-Ledger    

 

Jason Whitlock  Kansas City Star    

 

Steven Sipple  Lincoln Journal Star    

 

Joe Hawk  Las Vegas Review-Journal    

 

Aditi Kinkhabwala  The Bergen Record    

 

Greg Archuleta  Albuquerque Journal    

 

Dave Rahme  Syracuse Post-Standard    

 

Joe Giglio  The News & Observer    

Jeff Gravley  WRAL-TV    

Ken Tysiac  The Charlotte Observer    

 

Kirk Herbstreit  WBNS-AM/ESPN    

Doug Lesmerises  The Plain Dealer    

Matt McCoy  WTVN-AM    

 

Joey Goodman  The Lawton Constitution    

John Hoover  Tulsa World    

 

Aaron Fentress  The Oregonian    

 

Ray Fittipaldo  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette    

Mike Radano  Courier-Post    

 

Joe Person  The State    

 

Chris Low  The Tennessean    

Steve Phillips  WBIR-TV    

 

Kirk Bohls  Austin American-Statesman    

Jimmy Burch  Fort Worth Star-Telegram    

Joseph Duarte  Houston Chronicle    

Tim Griffin  San Antonio Express-News    

 

Jason Franchuk  Provo Daily Herald    

 

Jeff White  Richmond Times-Dispatch    

 

Bud Withers  Seattle Times    

 

Mitch Vingle  Charleston Gazette    

 

Tom Mulhern  Wisconsin State Journal    

 

Robert Gagliardi  Wyoming Tribune-Eagle    

 

Brian Curtis  College Sports Television    

Chris Fowler  ESPN    

Craig James  ABC    

Stewart Mandel  SI.com  

[Jewbull]

Harris Poll to replace AP in the BCS standings

As we mentioned last month, the BCS has created a new football poll to be administered by Harris Interactive and comprised of former players, coaches, administrators and members of the media. Each conference nominated 27 people to be placed into a pool of possible poll voters, and each conference will have 10 of its nominees in the panel.

Called the Harris Interactive College Football Poll, it will rank the top 25 teams on a weekly basis, replacing the AP Poll, starting Sept. 25 -- four weeks into the season.

In addition to the new poll, the BCS will continue to use the USA Today coaches' poll and a compilation of six computer rankings -- each counting for one-third of a team's grade. The coaches will continue with a preseason ballot.

The coaches agreed to have their final ballots made public for the first time this season. The new Harris poll will take the same approach, releasing only the final ballots, but Harris poll voters will be permitted to publish their ballots at any time throughout the year.

The thing I really like about the Harris Poll is that you've got 114 voters from all over the country, so the whole concept of a 'regional bias' should be eliminated - at least I *hope* it's eliminated.

[VA_Bull]

Maybe JL wil be there next season, I see 8 who are history (Amato, Coker, etal)

[Jewbull]

http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/sports/columns/050823.shtml

Quirky list of voters for new football poll

No, Wimp and Sonny don't have a vote, too.

Harris Interactive released the panel for the new college football poll, and it includes several curious choices, such as former UAB basketball coach and athletics director Gene Bartow.

A couple of other former hoops coaches, Wimp Sanderson of Alabama and Sonny Smith of Auburn, aren't part of the panel, and neither is one of their well-qualified co-workers at Birmingham's WJOX-AM  former Alabama quarterback Jay Barker, a morning sports talk show host at the station.

The Harris Interactive College Football Poll will play a large role this year, since it replaces The Associated Press in the Bowl Championship Series formula.

The AP asked the BCS to stop using its poll after last season. The Harris poll will count for one-third of a team's points in the BCS standings, while the USA Today coaches poll will count for a third and a collection of computer rankings counting for the remaining third.

The Harris poll will include 114 voters, with former coaches, players, administrators and media making up the group. Harris Interactive Inc., a marketing firm hired by the BCS, selected the panel out of nominations provided by Division I-A schools. The first Harris poll won't come out until Sept. 25, and the first BCS standings won't be released until Oct. 17.

Also on the panel are former Auburn athletics directors Mike Lude and David Housel and former Alabama athletics director Glenn Tuckett, most famous in Tide circles for then-giving basketball coach David Hobbs a five-year contract extension. Tuckett left the school soon after that, and Tuckett's successor, Bob Bockrath, fired Hobbs two years later.

Bockrath doesn't have a vote, but former Southeastern Conference commissioner Roy Kramer does. Another former SEC commissioner, Harvey Schiller, made the cut, too.

So did Chuck Neinas, a former commissioner of the Big Eight Conference and now president of Neinas Sports Services, a consulting firm. He's a headhunter who placed coaches and athletic directors at interested schools. By the way, he's the one who put together the Dennis Franchione-to-Texas A&M deal.

Former Alabama senior associate athletics director Steve Townsend, who has written two books about Crimson Tide football, has landed a vote in the poll.

The Harris poll chose a good one in Ray Melick, an afternoon talk show host at WJOX-AM and a Birmingham Post-Herald sports columnist.

But Cleveland sports talk show host Kenny Roda also has a vote. Check his Web site, and you'll see different links for Browns football, Cavaliers basketball, Ohio State sports, Indians baseball and "hotties." Apparently, "hotties" are important to him. Maybe that earned him his vote. Who knows?

Whit Taylor, a Vanderbilt quarterback in the 1980s, made the list. So did former coach Lou Holtz, most recently of South Carolina.

The list of former coaches also includes Spike Dykes (Texas Tech), **** Sheridan (North Carolina State), Bump Elliott (Michigan), John Mackovic (Illinois and Texas), George Perles (Michigan State), Bill Dooley (Virginia Tech and Wake Forest) and Bill Yeoman (Houston).

Gerry DiNardo made the list after having losing college teams at Vanderbilt, LSU and Indiana and the old XFL with the Birmingham Thunderbolts. So if anybody needs to know about bad teams, he's your guy.

Another former Indiana coach, John Pont, made the list, giving the Hoosiers two more former coaches on the panel than Alabama and Auburn combined. Tennessee has one  Bill Battle, a former Crimson Tide player. Alabama will honor Battle at its season opener Sept. 3 as a recipient of the 2005 Paul W. Bryant Alumni-Athlete Award.

The list of players includes Rocket Ismail of Notre Dame, Lee Roy Selmon of Oklahoma, Anthony Munoz of Southern California. Former Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback and current broadcaster Terry Bradshaw has a vote, although he shouldn't gotten left out simply for those cell-phone commercials that make you feel like somebody's drilling in your brain every time they come on the television.

But, hey, this collection can't do any worse than what we've already seen from the AP and USA Today polls.

[VA_Bull]

Found a page with the Harris voter list, it's a PDF document.  Similar to story above, old coaches & AD's out of work, name retired players, and so forth.

http://www.harrisinteractive.com/news/bcspoll.asp

[On_the_Chip]

Here is the Associated Press I believe it is from this yr, I wonder how often this changes

I wonder where our 4 votes came from last week.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/external/onlinenews.ap.org/collegefootball_rankings/voters.php?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME  

The AP Top 25 College Poll is compiled from votes by 65 sportswriters and broadcasters from across the country.

 

Joe Medley  Anniston Star    

Jon Solomon  The Birmingham News    

 

Jeff Metcalfe  Arizona Republic    

 

Bob Holt  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette    

 

Kevin Pearson  Riverside Press-Enterprise    

Scott Wolf  Los Angeles Daily News    

Ray Ratto  San Francisco Chronicle    

Jon Wilner  San Jose Mercury News    

 

B.G. Brooks  Rocky Mountain News    

 

Neill Ostrout  The Connecticut Post    

 

Susan Miller Degnan  Miami Herald    

David Jones  Florida Today    

Bob Thomas  Florida Times-Union    

 

Adam Van Brimmer  Savannah Morning News-Augusta    

 

Ferd Lewis  Honolulu Advertiser    

 

Mike Prater  Idaho Statesman    

 

Herb Gould  Chicago Sun-Times    

Mark Tupper  Decatur Herald and Review    

 

Michael Pointer  The Indianapolis Star    

Steve Warden  The Fort Wayne Journal Gazette    

 

Steve Batterson  Quad City Times    

 

Harold Bechard  Hutchinson News    

 

Fred Cowgill  WLKY-TV    

Scott Rabalais  The Baton Rouge Advocate    

 

Barker Davis  Washington Times    

 

Michael Vega  The Boston Globe    

 

David Birkett  The Oakland Press    

Angelique Chengelis  The Detroit News    

 

Chip Scroggins  Star Tribune of Minneapolis    

 

Robbie Neiswanger  The Jackson Clarion-Ledger    

 

Jason Whitlock  Kansas City Star    

 

Steven Sipple  Lincoln Journal Star    

 

Joe Hawk  Las Vegas Review-Journal    

 

Aditi Kinkhabwala  The Bergen Record    

 

Greg Archuleta  Albuquerque Journal    

 

Dave Rahme  Syracuse Post-Standard    

 

Joe Giglio  The News & Observer    

Jeff Gravley  WRAL-TV    

Ken Tysiac  The Charlotte Observer    

 

Kirk Herbstreit  WBNS-AM/ESPN    

Doug Lesmerises  The Plain Dealer    

Matt McCoy  WTVN-AM    

 

Joey Goodman  The Lawton Constitution    

John Hoover  Tulsa World    

 

Aaron Fentress  The Oregonian    

 

Ray Fittipaldo  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette    

Mike Radano  Courier-Post    

 

Joe Person  The State    

 

Chris Low  The Tennessean    

Steve Phillips  WBIR-TV    

 

Kirk Bohls  Austin American-Statesman    

Jimmy Burch  Fort Worth Star-Telegram    

Joseph Duarte  Houston Chronicle    

Tim Griffin  San Antonio Express-News    

 

Jason Franchuk  Provo Daily Herald    

 

Jeff White  Richmond Times-Dispatch    

 

Bud Withers  Seattle Times    

 

Mitch Vingle  Charleston Gazette    

 

Tom Mulhern  Wisconsin State Journal    

 

Robert Gagliardi  Wyoming Tribune-Eagle    

 

Brian Curtis  College Sports Television    

Chris Fowler  ESPN    

Craig James  ABC    

Stewart Mandel  SI.com  

The AP voters were discussed in the following thread - http://www.thebullspen.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/nph-YaBB.pl?num=1164569196

Three AP writers voted for us......on for the #24 spot and two for the #25 spot.

Total of 4 pts.  The thread lists the voters and also has links to the AP voter page.

[USF03]

Craig James (2pts), Kirk Bohls (1pt), and Mitch Vingle (1pt) = USF's 4 points

http://www.thebullspen.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/nph-YaBB.pl?num=1164569196/30