http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/usatpoll.htm Code: 1. Southern California (56) 8-0 1,544 1 2. Texas (5) 8-0 1,485 2 3. Virginia Tech (1) 8-0 1,431 3 4. Alabama 8-0 1,349 5 5. Miami (Fla.) 6-1 1,285 6 [B]6. LSU 6-1 1,215 7[/B] 7. UCLA 8-0 1,200 8 8. Florida State 7-1 1,060 9 9. Notre Dame 5-2 988 10 10. Georgia 7-1 966 4
SEC (7) Rich Brooks, Kentucky Sylvester Croom, Mississippi State Steve Spurrier, South Carolina Tommy Tuberville, Auburn Houston Nutt, Arkansas Phillip Fulmer, Tennessee Mark Richt, Georgia BigXII (6) Gary Barnett, Colorado Mack Brown, Texas Dennis Franchione, Texas A&M Dan McCarney, Iowa State Mike Gundy, Oklahoma State Bob Stoops, Oklahoma BigTen (7) Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin Lloyd Carr, Michigan Jim Tressel, Ohio State Randy Walker, Northwestern Joe Tiller, Purdue John L. Smith, Michigan State Terry Hoeppner, Indiana Pac-10 (5) Mike Bellotti, Oregon Bill Doba, Washington State Walt Harris, Stanford Jeff Tedford, California Tyrone Willingham, Washington Big East (4) Greg Schiano, Rutgers Bobby Petrino, Louisville Randy Edsall, Connecticut Rich Rodriguez, West Virginia ACC (7) Chuck Amato, N.C. State Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech Bobby Bowden, Florida State Tommy Bowden, Clemson Larry Coker, Miami (Fla.) Tom O'Brien, Boston College John Bunting, North Carolina C-USA (6) Phil Bennett, SMU Jeff Bower, Southern Miss Skip Holtz, East Carolina Watson Brown, UAB Art Briles, Houston Ken Hatfield, Rice Mountain West (4) Joe Glenn, Wyoming Rocky Long, New Mexico Sonny Lubick, Colorado State Gary Patterson, TCU WAC (4) Jack Bicknell, Louisiana Tech Dan Hawkins, Boise State Pat Hill, Fresno State Dick Tomey, San Jose State MAC (6) Gregg Brandon, Bowling Green Brady Hoke, Ball State Joe Novak, Northern Illinois Brian Kelly, Central Michigan Shane Montgomery, Miami (Ohio) Frank Solich, Ohio Sun Belt (4) Larry Blakeney, Troy Darrell Dickey, North Texas Andy McCollum, Middle Tennessee Howard Schnellenberger, Florida Atlantic Independent (2) Bobby Wallace, Temple Charlie Weis, Notre Dame I think the fact that the big ten has 6 voters, plus notre dame (who plays half of them), and the mac (the big ten's favored non-conference opponents) has 6 votes explains the high early season rankings that the big ten always has... I have to wonder if this numberical balance is a specific formula or if this is just how it come out this year.
I think the fact that the big ten has 6 voters, plus notre dame (who plays half of them), and the mac (the big ten's favored non-conference opponents) has 6 votes explains the high early season rankings that the big ten always has... I have to wonder if this numberical balance is a specific formula or if this is just how it come out this year". Yep, that must be it!!! Forget the fact that the SEC has the same # of voters as the Big Ten... there are six from the MAC.... just as there are 6 from C-USA and 4 from the Sun Belt... where the SEC gets many of their OOC opponents. ... but go ahead... as I'm sure you feel you have found "the lost scrolls"... ah, the logic we use...
