Performance vs. perception all-important in AP poll voting

Performance vs. perception all-important in AP poll voting

First, Doug Lesmerises wants to apologize. A writer for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, he’s a voter in the AP college football poll, and he inadvertently omitted Washington this week after penciling the UW in at No. 15.
“It’s unacceptable for me to have done that,” he said by phone the other night. “I’m glad I didn’t cost them a spot in the poll.”

Ah, the polls — the chronicle of college football. In basketball, they mean next to nothing. In football, they’re the gospel according to 60 AP voters, 59 in the coaches poll and however many creaking ex-nose guards are taking part in the Harris Interactive poll.

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