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Tom Hart removed as AP Voter due to Big Ten relationship,
and Pollspeak does its job as poll watchdog. Read the full story on
CBSSPORTS.COM by following the link.
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INSIDE THE 2010 PRESEASON AP POLL, by clicking the link.
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The
2010 USA Today Preseason Coaches’ Poll was released on Friday, August 6th.
Pollspeak takes you inside the numbers and even dissects how conference
re-alignment will affect the polls. See the
FOOTBALL section for the full story.
2010
USA Today Coaches' Poll Released (posted
8/6/10)
The 2010 Preseason USA Today Coaches' Poll has been
released. See Pollstalker's
BCS + AP COMPILED '10 report for the results. Breakdown of the poll
and the coaching changes coming soon.
Preseason
Poll Release Dates (posted
7/20/10)
The release dates for the 2010 preseason USA Today Coaches'
Poll and AP Poll have been obtained by Pollspeak:
Neither poll plans any changes in voter guidelines or
process for the 2010 season. Of course, that means no public coaches'
ballots on a weekly basis. To express your desire to see public ballots,
please sign the PETITION.
New
Polls Menu (posted
7/18/10)
Pollspeak now features a "Polls" menu on the top and
left side of
every page. This will give you easy access to the latest polls in any
sport . Of course, you can still navigate to any poll using the menu on
the left side of
POLLSTALKER. However, the new Polls menu gives you quicker
access to the latest rankings from any page on Pollspeak. Check it out to
see the latest College Football Polls, BCS Rankings,
AP Ballots, College Basketball Polls and
College Baseball Rankings.
Coaches
Won't Vote For USC This Year (posted
7/8/10)
The USA Today is reporting that the University of Southern
California will not be allowed on ballots in the 2010 USA Today Coaches Poll.
This is consistent with the American Football Coaches Association's policy of
withholding votes for programs under "major NCAA sanctions."
Read the full story in the FOOTBALL
section.
'10
Baseball Polls On Pollstalker (posted
2/10/10)
Like last year, Pollstalker let's you compare six major
baseball polls: USA Today/ESPN, Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball, and
the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Poll. When
Massey and the official NCAA Baseball RPIs are released later in the season, Pollstalker will include
those as well. You can now find the preseason polls in
Pollstalker using the Sport menu on the left of Pollstalker. Choose NCAA
Baseball '10 or simply click here:
POLLSTALKER
BASEBALL and choose Run Report on the left menu.
Christmas comes early every year at Pollspeak with the
release of the Coaches' and Harris Interactive ballots. Find out which
voters have been naughty and nice this year in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Also read this on
SI.COM

Pollspeak included Good Voter of the Week so fan voting
doesn't have to be seen as only a negative thing, but it has been proven time
and again that there is a lot more interest in complaining than praising when it
comes to college football polls.
Complain about it in the
FOOTBALL
section.
ESPN and the computers agree on which conference is the
hottest, but do they have the same reasons? Find out what turns on
the computers in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Also read this on
SI.COM

This week just goes to prove the old saying, "Glenn
Guilbeau doesn't like Ducks, and Ducks don't like Glenn Guilbeau." Read
more ancient wisdom in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Who uses slide rules now-a-days? Only endangered
breeds of geeks and voters. Straighten your pocket protector and
read more in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Also read this on
SI.COM

I am Horned Frog. Hear me croak! Amphibians
speak out in the
FOOTBALL section.
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do. So
that means negative one is the most crowded number. Maybe that's why there
are so many negative ones this week. Read the
FOOTBALL
section and join the crowd.
Also read this on
SI.COM

Bigger than Washington over USC. The biggest upset of
the year happened this week. Read about it in the
FOOTBALL
section.
If we build it, will they come? Read the
FOOTBALL
section and let us know.
Also read this on
SI.COM

Coaches
Agree to Release Final Ballots (posted
11/8/09)
In January, the American Football Coaches Association had
voted to no longer release their ballots for the final week of the regular
season. Historically, this is the only time the public can see how the
coaches are voting, which is a far cry from what we actually want -- public
ballots every week. Yet, the AFCA decided to make these ballots
private as well. On Friday, they reversed this decision (likely due to
pressure from the conferences and the BCS). You can read their press
release
HERE. While this is good news, we will continue to push for public
ballots every week of the season. If you haven't already, please sign the
PETITION.
A rare week where the voter with the most Good and Bad
votes didn't win either category. Find out who did in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Find all of the Good and Bad Voters for weeks 2 - 10 in the
FOOTBALL section.
See 2009 under the "Week" menu.
We cover the polls from top to bottom this week and list
some teams you don't normally see. So read up on schools normally kept on
the down-low in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Also read this on
SI.COM

Find all of the Pollspeak
Reports for weeks 2 - 10 in the
FOOTBALL section.
See 2009 under the "Week" menu.
This week Pollspeak will sing the praises of Doug
Lesmerises as a voting hero for trying to do the right thing and seeing it
through to a level we haven’t witnessed before. Hear our song in the
FOOTBALL section.
Also read this on
SI.COM

Sport Illustrated's online division, SI.com, reports that it will be using
the Freedom of Information Act to force the hands of coaches who work for public
universities to make their ballots public. This could be great news for
college football fans. Read about it in the
FOOTBALL
section.
With the 2009 preseason polls looming, this is a good time
to look back at 2008’s preseason polls and see what we learned. We use
last year's preseason pariah, Taylor Zarzour, as our case study. Did his
AP ballot actually deserve all the criticism?
How did Zarzour really do?
Was he prophetic? Find out in the FOOTBALL
section.
Learn about four flaws in the current system that must be corrected if the
BCS is to survive. Pollspeak's most intriguing special feature yet
includes never before released information about how the BCS rankings work with college
football polls and computer rankings. Click
the link above to read it or go to the
FOOTBALL
section and check out the new "Features" option under the "Week" menu.
Ever wonder
how voters are chosen and what they’re instructed to do?
Here is your chance to find out.
We contacted officials at the Associated Press (AP Poll), USA Today, American
Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and Harris Interactive to find out how they
conduct their college football polls and compare them to each other.
In typical Pollspeak fashion, we even rank their answers in each
category. Let’s see how they like
it! Read the full article on
the FOOTBALL Page,
and gain valuable insight into how college football polls
and college football rankings
work.
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