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Grading The Experts - Coaches Poll
December 4, 2006
By Benjamin Miraski
From the Editor: With sports guru and FanIQ blog editor, Critical Fanatic on vacation in Paris, I was called in to assist. That might be why it has been a little light around here lately. This article originally appeared on the FanIQ blog. This article is part of a recurring series on the 'Q'.
Guess who Lloyd Carr thought was the #2 team in the country? Yep, that's right. Michigan.
Guess you can't blame him. Urban Meyer doesn't vote, so he had to hope the other 61 coaches would see things his way.
Looking at the board, 50,000 feet up: 18 coaches liked Michigan at #2, 44 liked Florida. Guess they went with Meyer.
All the coaches had their votes released as per the agreement for the last week of the regular season. Let's see who really was watching this season, and who needs a little extra coaching.
Howard Schnellenberger (F) - Florida Atlantic - He liked Florida. But he apparently didn't watch a lot of football on Saturday, or the rest of the season for that matter.
#5 USC
#7 Boise State
#8 Notre Dame
#10 Rutgers
#13 West Virginia
#15 LSU
#18 Oklahoma
Grade: F
John L Smith (M) - Michigan State - Can we still say that? He smacked himself hard enough to agree with Howard about Notre Dame. He was a Michigan supporter.
#4 Wisconsin
#7 USC
#8 Notre Dame
#9 Oklahoma
Grade: C-
Charlie Weis (M) - Notre Dame - Our round mound of coaching fun liked Michigan and his own team (#8), but apparently there is one coach out there who liked his team, Notre Dame, better
Phillip Fulmer (F) - Tennessee - The man in Orange liked Florida at #2, and does not like the Big East.
#6 USC
#7 Notre Dame
#10 Louisville
#11 Oklahoma
#13 Tennessee
#15 West Virginia
#16 Rutgers
Grade: D+, plus a homer vote since Tennessee finished 18th in the final tally.
Bob Stoops (F) agrees with Steve Spurrier (F) on two things. Florida is #2, and Oklahoma is #4. Spurrier didn't vote for Duke this time, go figure. He didn't vote for his own team either, which got two points. He obviously didn't like Notre Dame, who he had #16. Larry Coker (F) liked them just a little better, putting the Irish #15.
One last note. Ron Zook (F) doesn't hold a grudge. He voted Florida #2, and was the only coach from the Big Ten or SEC to vote against the team in their conference.
Ben Miraski writes for MRISports.com and is a featured blogger on FanIQ. Readers can contact Ben at bmiraski@mrisports.com
Posted December 4, 2006 6:50 PM
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