Good and Bad Voters of Preseason 2011

Welcome 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.

Pollspeak's first ever tutorial video shows you the features of the NEW Pollspeak.com. You can find it on the Pollspeak YouTube Channel. Click the link or the YouTube icon at the top of any page.

We have a new look and some great new features:

The 2011 Preseason AP poll is now in the books, and more importantly, it is in Pollstalker here.  Before we dive into the details, here is the complete list of voter changes from 2010 to 2011.

The 2011 Preseason AP Football Poll comes out on Saturday, August 20^th. It’s the perfect time to release Pollspeak’s annual list of the most overrated and underrated teams in the AP Poll over the last five years.

The 2011 USA Today Preseason Coaches’ Poll was released on Thursday, August 4^th. Here are this year’s Preseason Poll Perceptions (PPP – pronounced like a raspberry sound):