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Others receiving votes
Georgia (5-2) 60; Notre Dame (4-2) 36; Rutgers (5-1) 31; Southern Methodist (5-1) 27; Texas (4-2) 26; Cincinnati (5-1) 14; Southern Mississippi (5-1) 14; Baylor (4-2) 9; North Carolina (5-2) 9; Temple (5-2) 3; Virginia (4-2) 3; TCU (4-2) 1.

I don't understand how anyone can be voting for UT at this point.

so that 1 had to be GP right?

That puts us at #29!

If you think about it, the 1 vote for TCU could have been from June Jones..

Neither June or Gary Patterson have votes.

The USA TODAY Board of Coaches is made up of 59 head coaches at Bowl Subdivision schools. All are members of the American Football Coaches Association. The board for the 2011 season: Gary Andersen, Utah State; David Bailiff, Rice; Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech; Tim Beckman, Toledo; Todd Berry, Louisiana-Monroe; Bret Bielema, Wisconsin; Art Briles, Baylor; Troy Calhoun, Air Force; Gene Chizik, Auburn; Dave Christensen, Wyoming; Dave Clawson, Bowling Green; David Cutcliffe, Duke; Mark Dantonio, Michigan State; Sonny Dykes, Louisiana Tech; Jon Embree, Colorado; Larry Fedora, Southern Miss; James Franklin, Vanderbilt; Al Golden, Miami (Fla.), Jim Grobe, Wake Forest; Pat Hill, Fresno State; Brady Hoke, Michigan; John "Doc" Holliday, Marshall; Skip Holtz, South Florida; Mark Hudspeth, Louisiana-Lafayette; Rob Ianello, Akron; Pete Lembo, Ball State; Mike London, Virginia; Rocky Long, San Diego State; Dan McCarney, North Texas; Mike MacIntyre, San Jose State; Doug Marrone, Syracuse; Bronco Mendenhall, Brigham Young; Les Miles, LSU; Ken Niumatalolo, Navy; Tom O'Brien, N.C. State; Bo Pelini, Nebraska; Chris Petersen, Boise State; Gary Pinkel, Missouri; Larry Porter, Memphis; Jeff Quinn, Buffalo; Paul Rhoads, Iowa State; Mark Richt, Georgia; Mike Riley, Oregon State; Nick Saban, Alabama; Greg Schiano, Rutgers; David Shaw, Stanford; Frank Solich, Ohio; Steve Spurrier, South Carolina; Rick Stockstill, Middle Tennessee; Bob Stoops, Oklahoma; Charlie Strong, Louisville; Kevin Sumlin, Houston; Jeff Tedford, California; Bob Toledo, Tulane; Tommy Tuberville, Texas Tech; Kyle Whittingham, Utah; Kevin Wilson, Indiana; Paul Wulff, Washington State; Ron Zook, Illinois.

Obviously Coaches from a particular conference will vote for their own conference mates to make the Conference look better

Good thing about being linked to two conferences is that there are more coaches who might want to vote for us based on that logic, right?

we could get in with a win against southern miss and some others dropping out, but i think we need 2 more wins, we are really starting to get noticed nationally... gotta do our part and keep taking care of business on the field

unbelievable, we are ranked higher than texas, baylor, and tcu right now!!

[quote="Wuba"]Neither June or Gary Patterson have votes.[/quote]

Yes.. sadly I looked at that list AFTER I posted my snide remark. Oh well. Someone gave TCU some love. It might help SMU a bit.

There are so many very good teams. To be considered among the top 40 is great. We don't need somebody from Maine or Montana to validate we have a very good footbal team.

I can remember when we were ranked as one of the worst 10 teams every week. Obviously this is a huge improvement and it's very exciting to be listed in the same class as such prolific teams.

Good to see this.
Looking forward to the AP poll later today, as well.

skyscraper wrote:Good to see this.
Looking forward to the AP poll later today, as well.

Here's one vote:

http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bulls/con ... -ballot-19

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/footba ... =cf_bnv_a7

Others Receiving Votes: Penn State130, Notre Dame107, USC87, Baylor19, Southern Methodist19, Texas12, Cincinnati4, Southern Miss4, Wake Forest3, Rutgers2

Here is a site for the AP poll. It shows how many votes each school received and highest rating. Run your icon over the numbers and it lists who the voters were. Run it over the "unranked" and it will show who didn't vote for that school. FYI Craig James voted for us.
http://www.pollspeak.com/component/opti ... /r,F/s,17/