Harris Interactive College Football Poll

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The Harris Interactive College Football Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football teams. The rankings are compiled by Harris Interactive, a market research company that specializes in Internet research.

The poll was created in the summer of 2005 to replace the AP Poll which decided it no longer wanted to be a part of the formula used by the BCS rankings to determine who plays in the BCS National Championship Game. Unlike the other two seasonal polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, the Harris Poll does not release a preseason poll; in fact, it does not come out until the the last half of September, several weeks into the season.

The Harris Interactive Poll is comprised of former players, coaches, administrators, and current and former media who submit votes for the top 25 teams each week. The panel has been designed to be a statistically valid representation of all 11 FBS Conferences and independent institutions.

Polling methodology

First, Division I-Bowl Subdivision college football conferences and independent institutions nominate prospective panelists. Then Harris randomly selects 114 members from the nominees to participate in the actual panel. From each week in September to the end of the regular college football season these 114 panelists vote on the particular ranking of teams. These rankings are then published and are used to determine 1/3 of the BCS standings.

Notable members

2005

See full list at: List of 2005 Panelists

Terry Bradshaw	Earle Bruce	Eddie Crowder	Gene Bartow	George Perles	Bill Battle
Raghib Ismail	Ed Podolak	John Pont	Joe Jacoby	Steve Preece	Blaine Bishop
Kim Bokamper	Pat Richter	Brentson Buckner	Harvey Schiller	Steve Largent	Lee Roy Selmon
Pete Dawkins	Gary Spani	Bill Dooley	Spike Dykes	Bump Elliott	John Mackovic
Boomer Esiason	Don Maynard	Whit Taylor	Foge Fazio	Don McCauley	Jack Thompson
Andy Geiger	Jim Grabowski	Bob Grim	Pat Haden	Craig Morton	Bill Yeoman
Anthony Muñoz

2006

See full list at: List of 2006 Panelists

2007

See full list at: List of 2007 Panelists

Year-by-year No. 1 and Final Rankings

2005 USC See results at: Final 2005 Harris Poll
2006 Ohio State See results at: Final 2006 Harris Poll
2007 Ohio State See results at: Final 2007 Harris Poll

See also

• NCAA Division I-A national football championship
• List of college bowl games
• AP Poll
• Coaches Poll
• Bowl Championship Series
• Grantland Rice Award
• Mythical National Championship
• Dickinson System
• Harris Interactive College Football Poll

External links

• Harris Interactive College Football Poll
• 2007 Harris Voter Affiliation

References

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