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Old 01-06-2009, 07:18 PM   #25
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

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True, but realistically if you are a Top 10 team the voters should be watching your games. All of the bowls are meaningless anyway and with the amount of scrutiny the BCS is getting you'd think that the voters would at least want to watch the Top 10 teams to get the best national champion. Obviously though, it hasn't been the case.
I agree there is more responsibility on the voters part to watch games since they do have a vote. But even w/that, we can't expect them to be on top of every team & game. There are just too many.
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Old 01-06-2009, 08:04 PM   #26
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

This is just pathetic.
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Old 01-06-2009, 08:50 PM   #27
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

After hearing some of the Harris Poll voters during the 2006 "controversy", this doesn't surprise me at all, and it's a joke that this "poll" is a factor in any way, shape, or form.
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Old 01-06-2009, 09:00 PM   #28
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

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After hearing some of the Harris Poll voters during the 2006 "controversy", this doesn't surprise me at all, and it's a joke that this "poll" is a factor in any way, shape, or form.
The bigger joke is David Housel having a vote.
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Old 01-06-2009, 09:06 PM   #29
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

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Big surprise. Not. There are approx. 120 FBS teams, potentially 60 games per week if no one played FPS schools. Times 12 weeks, plus conf title games. 700+ games a year. There's no way anyone could watch each team's games & make a fair assesment against a variety of opponents. Alot of us are jumping on the pollsters now, but when we were given our own chance to weigh in on Utah, we voted them 7th. http://www.operationsports.com/forum...2-08-08-a.html All this does is show the stupidity of letting opinions decide a "champion". Which is why I said earlier in the season, as far as I'm concerned, there's never been a national champion in football.
While I agree, not even watching one Utah game is a completely different story and is unacceptable.

Utah @ Michgan, Oregon State @ Utah, and TCU @ Utah were all nationally televised games. How could they not have even seen those games? At least for some of the posters here, they had a background of Utah and an ability to make a reasonable judgment from watching a few of their games. The Harris poll voters, meanwhile, probably had no idea about the team they were voting for and were probably copying each other's votes.

Have you checked the credentials of some of the Harris Poll voters?
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Old 01-06-2009, 11:49 PM   #30
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

But this irrelevant because every game in the regular season is a playoff. Right? Right?

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But this irrelevant because every game in the regular season is a playoff. Right? Right?

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LOL, yep.

It sure worked out for USC and Utah.
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Re: Some Harris Voters hadn't even watched Utah play before last Friday

As reported in the LA times:


Utah attorney general investigating BCS for possible antitrust violation

Utah's attorney general is investigating the Bowl Championship Series for a possible violation of federal antitrust laws after undefeated Utah team was left out of the national title game for the second time in five years.

Atty. Gen. Mark Shurtleff contends the BCS unfairly puts schools like Utah, which is a member of a conference without an automatic bid to the lucrative bowl games, at a competitive and financial disadvantage.

"We've established that from the very first day, from the very fist kickoff in the college season, more than half of the schools are put on an unlevel playing field," Shurtleff said today. "They will never be allowed to play for a national championship."

A message left with BCS administrator Bill Hancock was not immediately returned.

The BCS is designed to pit the top two teams against each other in a national championship game each year. It uses a complicated formula based on human polls and computer rankings to determine who plays in that game, which Shurtleff contends is biased.

The Associated Press crowns its own national champion based on a poll of sports writers who are not bound to vote for the winner of the BCS title game. Many fans are clamoring for voters to put Utah -- the nation's only undefeated team -- in the No. 1 spot in the final poll.

On Friday, Utah became the first team from a non-BCS conference to win two BCS bowls after it upset No. 4 Alabama 31-17 in the Sugar Bowl. Utah also beat Pittsburgh in the 2004 Fiesta Bowl to complete an undefeated season.

Shurtleff said his office is still in the initial stages of reviewing the Sherman Antitrust Act to see if a lawsuit can be filed. To succeed in a lawsuit, he would have to prove a conspiracy exists that creates a monopoly.

Oklahoma and Florida will play in the BCS title game on Thursday.

Shurtleff said he prefers that BCS officials and university presidents solve the problem of excluding some schools from a national title game by creating a playoff system, but added he's committed to doing whatever it takes to produce change.
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