It's an AJC.com article, so registration is required (go to www.bugmenot.com and enter "www.ajc.com"). http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/sports/0605/22bcs.html Excerpt: Interesting note about the lack of a preseason poll. The coaches should do the same exact thing.
One of my concern is the inclusion of "players". Are these current or former players? The other is the inclusion of certain writers. Ted Lewis, the p-ss poor college beat writer for the T-P, was asked to join the poll. Harris Interactive Polling is conducting the actual count. I just wonder how this would be an improvement. The sportswriters show their "impartiality" every Heisman vote. I do not want to see a playoff, but there has to be a more reliable vehicle. The writers, changing votes to genuflecting to "their public", screwed Michigan in 1997 and the Good Guys in 2003. I can see folks like Ivan Maisel and Ted Lewis voting an undeated Arkansas State #1 over an undefeated LSU just push the playoff issue to the front burner, regardless of the fact that one team played in lousy league.
