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12/3/07
Picking Apart the Coaches Poll: Make Sure to Vote Your Conference High
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Our weekly look at the individual AP Ballots: Who was the biggest homer? Who failed to watch any games? And maybe, just maybe who actually (gasp!) deserves some credit?

Normally we pick apart the AP Pollsters, but now that the coaches have given some transparency to their final ballot of the season we'll surely find fault with the poll having an inpact on the BCS.

Hal Mumme (New Mexico State)
1. Hawaii

Here's where I think there's a problem with the system. Hal benefits from the Warriors being apart of the BCS so clearly he's going to do whatever he can to ensure a berth for Hawaii. Not a chance Mumme really thinks Hawaii is the best team in the country, no person outside of a mental institution believes that. Note: the other WAC coaches had Hawaii in the top 5, few others outside the conference did.

Art Briles (Houston/Baylor)
1. LSU
2. Oklahoma
3. Missouri
4. Ohio State
5. Virginia Tech
6. Georgia

I wanted to give Briles credit for putting some thought into his ballot. Just because Missouri lost two games to Oklahoma doesn't mean you drop them down into the teens which far too many coaches have done. It also doesn't mean you drop them behind Kansas, which an embarrassing amount of coaches also submitted.

Mike Leach (Texas Tech)
2. Georgia
3. Kansas
4. Oklahoma
5. LSU
22. Texas Tech

Come on, pirate. Kansas over Big XII champ? Nice work sliding your boys into the Top 22

Les Miles, Jim Tressel and Bob Stoops
(LSU / Ohio State / Oklahoma)
Not that it should surprise you, but all voted themselves #1.

Mark Richt (Georgia)
2. Georgia
3. LSU

Ha.

Steve Spurrier (South Carolina)
1. Oklahoma
6. LSU

Golfing buddies with Stoops?

George O'Leary (Central Florida)
17. Central Florida

By FAR the highest anyone ranked UCF. Wonder why? Someone should check the resume he submitted to become a Coaches Poll participant.

Mike Belotti (Oregon)
24. Oregon State
25. Oregon

Way to sneak in your team at end after losing three straight to end the season. No doubt with Dixon, Oregon is top 10. How do you rank a team based on injury?

Here's the link to the complete coaching ballots. Your thoughts?
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kantwistaye wrote:

Hawaii with 3 first place votes?  Really?  Apparently none of those 3 watched a Hawaii football game this year.

Just 1 first place vote from Hal.
 
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Just more reason that a system can't be legit if biased voters have a say in it.
 
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"George O'Leary (Central Florida)
17. Central Florida

By FAR the highest anyone ranked UCF. Wonder why? Someone should check the resume he submitted to become a Coaches Poll participant.
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It's funny you mentioned Spurrier, but what does Tommy Bowden have going on?  Is he pissed that Stoops shut down his daddy's team for a Nat'l Title.....  he had LSU 1 & OU 10.  How do you justify that one?

 

It all goes out the window anyways, as long as people are voting there will always be some kind of bias.  It's human nature!

 

No playoff = big mess.

 
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Hal Mumme sucks.
 
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rootman54 wrote:

Now if I had a vote in the polls, Id go

1 UGA

2 OSU

 

and leave LSU and Oklahoma out of the top 10 just to try and stir things up

UGA#1....c'mon...they aren't even #1 in their conference.
 
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Regarding Spurrier and Stoops--they are indeed good friends, golf buddies, and have vacation homes close to each other on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world--Crescent Beach, Florida.
 
 
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