FROM www.dallasnews.com website ........ BCS adopts new poll 02:49 PM CDT on Monday, July 11, 2005 Associated Press NEW YORK – The Bowl Championship Series has a new poll, one that begins a month into the college football season and will include former coaches and players, plus media members. Called the Harris Interactive College Football Poll, it will rank the top 25 teams on a weekly basis, starting Sept. 25, the BCS said Monday. Plans call for 114 voters. The BCS has said it wanted to eliminate preseason polls, which some believe give highly touted teams an unfair headstart in the rankings. The new poll replaces The Associated Press poll, which the BCS had used in its formula for ranking teams since 1998. Last season, however, the AP told the BCS it could no longer use its media poll. 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. Recently, ESPN pulled out of participating in the coaches poll. The AP preseason poll will be released Aug. 20, with the first regular-season poll Sept. 6. The AP national champion will be crowned after the Rose Bowl on Jan. 4. The coaches will also compile a preseason ballot. Last season, Southern California and Oklahoma held the top two spots in both the AP and coaches' polls in the preseason and kept those positions throughout undefeated regular seasons. Auburn, which began the season ranked in the teens in the polls, went unbeaten but never could pass the Trojans and Sooners. The Tigers did manage to tie Oklahoma in the AP poll for one week late in the season. All three teams finished the regular season unbeaten and USC and Oklahoma played for the national title in the Orange Bowl. Auburn went to the Sugar Bowl, finished the season 13-0 and had to settle for a final ranking of No. 2 behind national champion USC. Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville said the preseason rankings put his team at a disadvantage because they had too much ground to make up in the BCS standings before games were even played. Harris Interactive Inc., a marketing company hired by the BCS last month to coordinate the new poll, is in the process of compiling a panel from 300 possible participants. Voters' names will be made public and the panel will represent all 11 Division I-A conferences and independent teams.
Harris Interactive, huh? So, I guess instead of feeling like they're getting screwed, Auburn fans can now just get "HI".
i should dish you some red for that. your's is the speculative one with the proposed name.......mine is the real deal Holyfield. sucka :thumb:
You know what we outta do whenever it comes down to the bowl games, we outta just boycott them. And force them to create a playoff system. Money or should I say lack there of just might convince somepeople to change things. This new poll does as much for the BCS as reading glasses for Stevie Wonder.
