newsok.com - 11/25/2008
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OU football Sooner mentor won’t discuss reasons Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops turned down an opportunity to vote in the coaches USA Today / ESPN poll but Monday declined to discuss his reasons why. "I’m not going to get into that because then it becomes a story,” Stoops said. "I don’t think ...
Polls & BCS Standings Open Thread
burntorangenation.com 11/23/2008 — The USA Today Coaches poll shoud be released about around 11 am, the Harris Poll should be out around 3 pm, and the BCS standings will be released sometime after that.
It is important to note that today is not the end of the race but more like a halfway point. It does matter if Texas is ahead ...
Settling the Oklahoma-Texas debate with the big picture
rivals.yahoo.com 11/30/2008 —
First things first: Of the two relevant polls that have been released as of this writing, the Coaches poll and Jeff Sagarin's computer poll both rank Oklahoma ahead of Texas. The margin in the Sagarin poll is .44 points, out of a possible 100 for ...
COACHES GIVE OKLAHOMA EDGE OVER TEXAS —
NBC Sports - College Football Talk
The USA Today coaches’ poll is out, and it gives Oklahoma the slightest possible edge over Texas: One point.
Oklahoma comes in No. 2 in the coaches’ poll, with a cumulative total of 1,397 points. Texas comes in No. 3, with 1,396 points. Oklahoma got two first-place votes; Texas got ...
OU by a single point in USA Today Coaches Poll —
Burnt Orange Nation
OU by a single point in USA Today Coaches Poll
With the Sooners likely equaling, if not surpassing, the Longhorns in the computers, Texas must be ahead of OU in the Harris poll to have a shot at holding onto #2 in the BCS.
Texas made up 41 points in the Coaches poll from last week to ...
Mack's Got a Vote and Stoops Does Not —
SimonOnSports
In a wonderful twist to this whole Big 12 BCS tie-breaking bullshit, Mack Brown has a vote in the USA Today Coaches Poll and Bob Stoops does not. How stupid is that? The Coaches Poll consists of 61 of the 119 Division 1 Head Coaches, why it doesn't include all of them just seems ludicrous. I ...
Poll Dancing: Weirdly, North Carolina back to unanimous #1 —
The Dagger
In yet another sign of the sheer and utter ridiculousness of the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll, the coach who voted North Carolina #1 in the preseason, then switched his vote to Connecticut for last week's poll, has once again placed the Tar Heels atop his ballot in the poll released this ...
Coaches Poll: Oklahoma Ahead of Texas —
Dan Shanoff
The Coaches pick Oklahoma ahead of Texas . There you have it: "Momentum" trumps the clarity of a head-to-head decision, at least as it relates to who the Big 12 South champ should be, which is the only thing the pollsters should have been thinking about when ranking them. But knowing that 1/3 ...
Oklahoma’s Football Resume —
Crimson And Cream Machine
The regular season is over and everything is in the hands of the voters. The computers, even though no one understands how they work, are unbiased and operate only on facts. There is nothing to sway with the computers but the Coaches Poll and the secret society known as the Harris Poll is a ...
The Best Damn Poll In The Land’s Top 25 Week 13 —
OnlineSportsFanatic.com
The Thanksgiving holiday is upon us….and that means a cornicopia of football to be watched, a ton of food to be consumed, and company of family and friends to be enjoyed. One of the things I am most thankful for this year is the overwhelming participation from the pollsters that put ...
NCAA Men’s & Women’s College Basketball Polls - Week 2 —
SOX & Dawgs
Here is a look at the NCAA Men’s and Women’s ESPN/USA Today Coaches College Basketball Polls after one week of action. The UConn Huskies men’s team is ranked second in both polls and the UConn Huskies women are ranked first in both polls.
Men’s ESPN/USA Today Poll
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UConn remains No.2 —
UCONN | Men's Basketball
The new rankings are out and UConn remains No.2 in the nation behind North Carolina. The only change was that UConn received one of the first-place votes in the ESPN/USA Today coaches poll. The Tar Heels, a unanimous No.1 in both preseason polls, were again the unanimous No.1 in the AP poll.
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UNC Still #1 and Still Unanimous in Polls —
UNC Basketball
UNC maintained their #1 ranking in both the AP and Coaches Polls - and maintained their unanimous selection. Below are this week's rankings. ESPN/USA Today Poll 1. North Carolina (31) 7-0 775 2. Connecticut 6-0 738 3. Pittsburgh 7-0 694 4. Duke 7-0 680 5. Gonzaga 5-0 640 6. Oklahoma 6-0 601 ...
UNC no longer a unanimous #1, despite 15-point victory —
The Dagger
In yet another sign of the absurdity of early-season polls, one voter in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll downgraded North Carolina to #2 this week after the Heels' 15-point win over Penn. UNC had been a unanimous #1 in the preseason tally, but the team only received 30 of the 31 possible #1 ...
