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come to Voter Coach, a new weekly feature during football season. At Pollspeak, we have historically pointed out concerns with polls and ballots after the fact. The goal of Voter Coach is to try to help voters before they turn in their ballots.

We’ll post a new Voter Coach each Saturday evening, ideally after all the biggest games are played, but before the ballots need to be turned in. Voter Coach will point out some significant events of the current, past and upcoming weeks that voters should take into consideration when filling out their ballots. We’ll keep them quick in order to make the ballot deadlines. In some cases we may update Voter Coach throughout the day as games are completed. We’ll also do our best to TWEET the points that can fit nicely into 140 characters. So voters, check here before you turn in your ballots each week.

A final note: we aren’t trying to make voters conform. It’s called Voter COACH, not Voter DICTATOR. Instead, the goal is to raise awareness of some issues (generally just by asking questions) and let the voters make an informed decision on their own.

Voter Coach – Sep 4^th, 2011

This week, due to the Labor Day game, polls aren’t released until Tuesday. So there may be some more additions before then.

- Did you have TCU on your preseason ballot? Will you now have Baylor ahead of them?

- Did you have Notre Dame on your preseason ballot? Will you now have USF ahead of them?

- Missouri plays Arizona State on Friday Sept. 9^th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?

- Mississippi State plays Auburn on Saturday Sept. 10^th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?

- South Carolina plays Georgia on Saturday Sept. 10^th. Is the team you rank higher this week the team you think will win that matchup?