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Coaches' football poll is officially invalid
May. 27, 2009 10:50 am
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If there had been any doubt that the coaches' USA Today Top 25 football poll was a joke, let they now vanish.
Starting in the 2010 season, the final regular-season ballots in the poll will no longer be made public beginning with the 2010 football season, according to a USA Today story.
Some of the voting has been pretty squirrelly before this, with coaches obviously leaning toward their biases of their own teams and conferences. But without making their votes public, they can really pull some shenanigans.
This matters because the poll factors into the BCS equation. Associated Press' media poll does not. So, the BCS is officially becoming more of a farce than ever.
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