You probably need to be a pretty avid college football fan to even understand this blog, but I think it's pretty interesting to see how various coaches voted for the final polls. USA Today published them. Check this out:
Boise State coach Chris Peterson ranked former Fiesta Bowl adversary and Big 12 champs Oklahoma #7. Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops didn't rank 2-loss Boise State at all.
Bob Stoops put Big 12 schools Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas all in the top 4. The other vote was Ohio State #2
Hal Mumme of New Mexico voted Hawaii #1. The coach of Texas A&M ranked Hawaii, the only undefeated team, #22. Tommy Tuberville of Auburn ranked Hawaii #4 behind LSU, Oklahoma, and Ohio State.
Tommy Bowden of Clemson ranked Missouri as #6 and Oklahoma as #10, even though Oklahoma won their conference and beat Missouri, soundly, twice.
Mike Leach ranked Georgia #2, even though they couldn't even get to their conference championship, and conference champs LSU #5 even though they never lost a game in regulation.
Two Sun Belt coaches (for Troy and FAU) ranked Boise State in the top 12. Chris Peterson ranked them #14. The only Big Ten coach to vote for Boise State was Jim Tressel of Ohio State, who voted mid-major teams BSU #21, BYU #16, and Hawaii #11.
Howard Schnellenberger, coach of FAU, voted almost exactly by number of wins: the only one-loss teams Ohio State and Kansas were voted #1-2, then undefeated Hawaii, then the 2 loss teams, then the three-losses, all in order.
and, saving the best for last:
Seven BCS coaches ranked BCS-busters Hawaii in the top 8. Five of them have since been fired.
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