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George
Geise's Ballot Missing - Week 7 (posted
12/23/08)
AP voter George Geise did not vote this week (week 7) in the Men's Basketball
Poll. No replacement was or will be made.
Did the BCS do its job? Are the computers being allowed to do theirs?
Or are they being treated like mere tools made to serve human needs like some
kind of...robot?
Read all about it in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Coaches'
Poll Ballots Released (posted
12/8/08)
The USA Today Coaches' Poll has made its ballots public for
the first and only time during the 2008 season. You may now use
Pollstalker to analyze them. Use the USA Today-Coaches' Poll '08 Report
(found in the "Poll" drop down on the left side menu), or
CLICK HERE.
Harris
Interactive Ballots Released (posted
12/8/08)
The Harris Interactive College Football Poll has made its ballots public for
the first and only time during the 2008 season. You may now use
Pollstalker to analyze them. Use the Harris Interactive Poll '08 Report
(found in the "Poll" drop down on the left side menu), or
CLICK HERE. There are only 113 voters, as Don Criqui did not turn in a
ballot.
Look for the Coaches' Poll ballots in Pollstalker once they are released late
on Monday.
The Big 12 really could learn a thing or two about tiebreakers from the SEC,
and the SEC can learn a thing or two about beating ACC teams outside the state
of Florida.
Read all about it in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Can the ACC really be #1? Oh yeah? Well how would the ACC have
done in WWII versus the Axis? Plus the BCS now has even more
responsibility. It may be used to decide the Big 12 South champion.
Read all about it in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Iowa AP Football voter Eric Page of the Quad-City Times was replaced in week
14 with Mike Hlas of the Cedar Rapids Gazette. We have requested
information from the AP, and details will be reported in the
FOOTBALL
section when available.
The editorial staff of Pollspeak has made a big decision -- we will no longer
be naming Bad and Good Voters of the Week. Read why in the
FOOTBALL
section.
This week we discuss The Billingsley Report, Maurice Patton and once again
Barrack Obama. Obama may be the most college football friendly president
since Gerald Ford. Read it all in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Pollspeak names the winners for week twelve. Find out who won what in the
FOOTBALL
section.
What do Barack Obama, Fat Albert, The Colley Matrix, Alabama, Texas Tech and
Texas all have in common? That's right; they're all mentioned in the first
three paragraphs in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Free
The Ballots Petition Reaches: 400 (posted 11/6/08)
Please help us reach our target of 500 signatures before season's end. The
goal of the Free The Ballots Petition is to make all ballots public, and it will
be sent to the BCS, Harris Interactive, USA Today and AFCA.
You can sign online HERE. Please spread the
word, and help make it happen.
Pollspeak names the winners for week eleven. Find out who won what in the
FOOTBALL
section.
There are signs that the polls are going to Hell in a hand basket. We
saw the signs that opened up our eyes, and now you can too. Also, tips on
understanding Sagarin, and why did the Coaches drop Texas like they're hot?
Read about it in this week's blog on
SI.com.
Preseason
Women BB Poll Released (posted
11/3/08)
The Preseason Women's AP Basketball Poll for the 08-09
season was released on Sunday 11/2/08, and the ballots were made public today.
You can now find them in Pollstalker using the
AP Poll Women BB 09-09 Report. When the Coaches' Poll and other
rankings are released we'll add a Women BB All Polls Report.
Preseason
Men Basketball Polls Released (posted 10/31/08)
The Men's preseason AP and USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Polls have been released and
entered into Pollstalker. One AP ballot is still missing -- Will
Vandervort. We have notified the AP and will update Pollstalker when his
ballot is made available.
POLLSTALKER can compare all polls using the
Men BB All Polls Report or analyze individual ballots using the
AP Poll Men BB 08-09 Report.
UPDATE:
Vandervort's ballot has been found and entered into Pollstalker. There
was a typo in the link on the AP site, which should be corrected by Monday.
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 works. Click
the link above to read it or go to the
FOOTBALL
section and check out the new "Features" menu at the top of every page.
Pollspeak names the winners for week ten. Find out who won what in the
FOOTBALL
section.
Is there still consensus? Is the BCS watered down? Are people watching
the games? What does Barbara Billingsley have to do with football?
Those questions answered and more
in this week's blog on
SI.com.
A momentous event occurred this week in the BCS standings -- something rare
and beautiful.
Read about this special, unique occurrence plus a bunch of the same old garbage
in this week's blog on
SI.com.
This week's
article covers Texas getting respect, Oklahoma State getting no respect, Florida
getting more respect and, of course, respecting a head-to-head win.
Respect it
HERE.
Amazingly, Sports Illustrated hasn't kicked us to the curb. This week's
entry covers the problem of ranking Pittsburgh, USF and Kansas. Also, are
computer polls biased towards schools with good computer science programs? Check it out
HERE.
Pollspeak's first poll-related blog for SI.com was just published. If
you're interested in the polls, be sure to check it out. If enough people
view it, hopefully there will be more blogs to come. Check it out
HERE.
First
Harris Interactive Poll Released (posted
9/28/08)
You can find the results for the first 2008 Harris Interactive College
Football Poll
in Pollstalker HERE. Also of interest, here is a list of
HICFP
voter changes made from 2007 to 2008 and
here is a shorter version listing only the 20 changes made.
There is a brewing controversy surrounding preseason
college football polls – mainly because where a team starts often determines how
high it can finish. Preseason
rankings do matter. See specific examples of the double standard used to
rank non-BCS teams in Bryan Frost's new article on the
FOOTBALL Page.
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), USA Today, American
Football Coaches Association (AFCA) and Harris Interactive to find out how they
conduct their 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.
Today we turn to the AP Poll in part two of our series
covering voter changes and demographics in the polls.
See Pollspeak’s previous article on the Coaches’ Poll below.
It’s more difficult to spot regional bias in the AP Poll than in the
Coaches’ Poll. We’re not saying that bias
doesn’t exist, but the potential for it is just much less transparent.
Read the full article on the
FOOTBALL page.
As part of our preseason analysis of the polls, we look at
who's doing the voting. We compare
the voters from last year to this year and point out who's left and who's
new. We’ll also look at potential
regional or conference biases. We’ll
begin the series with the USA Today Coaches’ Poll.
Read the full article on the
FOOTBALL page.
Pollspeak
Reports to the AP, USA Today, Harris Interactive and BCS Released (posted 1/22/08)
The following reports may be freely downloaded. The AP report was sent to the
Associated Press on 1/18/08. The USA Today and Harris Interactive reports
were sent on 1/20/08 and the BCS Report was sent on 1/22/08. They cover the entire 2007 season as reported on
Pollspeak.com. They also make recommendations on removing bad voters,
setting basic rules and improving each Poll's perception. Download the
files here:
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Pollspeak Report to the Associated Press - College Football 2007
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Pollspeak Report to the
USA Today - College Football 2007
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Pollspeak
Report to Harris Interactive - College Football 2007
- Pollspeak
Report to The BCS - College Football 2007
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