HAY, THIS AINT THE POLL THE HSchool boy DID LAST YEAR AND GAVE AUBIE THE
N T?
Nah, that will be next year!
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BCS replaces AP poll with new Harris ranking
Panel of former coaches, players, administrators, media to vote on top 25
Updated: 2:51 p.m. ET July 11, 2005
DALLAS - The maligned Bowl Championship Series has responded to the defection
of the Associated Press poll.
The new Harris Interactive College Football poll will replace the AP poll in
the new BCS standings formula, BCS coordinator and Big 12 Conference
commissioner Kevin Weiberg announced Monday.
“Harris Interactive possesses a wealth of experience in the polling business,”
Weiberg said. “We are very comfortable with the approach Harris has taken in
constructing this new poll.”
Known for the Harris Poll and for pioneering Internet-based research methods,
Harris Interactive selected a panel comprised of former coaches, players,
administrators and media with a goal of 114 participants to rank the top 25
teams on a weekly basis during the 2005 season. The names of all voters will be
released prior to the start of the season.
“We are very pleased that our more than 40 years of polling experience will add
independence, objectivity, and statistically valid sampling principles to the
BCS formula,” Harris Interactive president and CEO Gregory Novak said.
The Harris college football poll will stand independently and first will be
released September 25, approximately one month into the season. It will be
included as part of the first BCS rankings released Oct. 17.
Individual votes will be made public in the Harris Interactive poll after Dec.
4, when the BCS teams are determined.
The AP announced in December it would no longer have its media-based college
football poll included in the BCS rankings after another season that ended in
controversy.
Southern California, Oklahoma and Auburn were three of five Division I-A
unbeaten teams and Texas overtook California in the final poll to earn the last
BCS at-large spot as a result of lobbying by the Longhorns and peculiar voting.
The Charlotte Observer pulled out of the AP poll after the Texas-California
controversy and Sen. Dick Ackerman, the Republican leader of the California
Senate, called for the dissolution of the BCS.
USC and Oklahoma finished 1-2 in the final BCS poll and played in the Orange
Bowl for the national championship. However, Auburn -- which had four players
selected in the first round of the NFL draft -- Utah and Boise State also were
unbeaten.
Two years ago, USC was the top-ranked team in both polls but third in the BCS
rankings and excluded from the BCS title game.
The Trojans won the Rose Bowl and were voted No. 1 by AP pollsters. LSU
defeated Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl and was voted No. 1 in the coaches’ poll
and final BCS rankings, creating a split national champion - precisely what the
BCS was developed to avoid.
The BCS standings will continue to be computed in the same manner, with equal
weight given to three components: a team’s percentage of points in the USA Today
Coaches poll, a team’s percentage of points in the new Harris Interactive poll and
an average of six computer ratings (Anderson & Hester, Jeff Sagarin, Richard
Billingsley, Colley Matrix, Kenneth Massey and Peter Wolfe).
BCS members include the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and
Southeastern Conferences as well as Notre Dame. The format calls for the
championship game to be rotated among the Orange, Rose, Sugar and Fiesta Bowls.
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