Oklahoma No. 1 in Legends Poll
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You can’t have too many college football polls.... OK, yes you can, but here’s one more.
Hours after the AP, USA Today and Harris polls released their top-25 college football polls over the weekend, the ‘Coaching Legends’ unveiled their weekly rankings -- hey, haven’t these guys earned the right to sleep in on Sundays?
Only the Harris and the USA Today indexes are used in the BCS standings formula.
The Legends poll is composed of 18 former coaches who have joined forces to pontificate on the college football scene. The poll is presented, and then dissected, by The Sporting News.
Among the ex-coaches on the panel are John Robinson (USC, UNLV), Vince Dooley (Georgia) Terry Donahue (UCLA), Don James (Washington) and Frank Kush (Arizona State).
We hear Kush is in charge of the legends’ grueling pre-season, poll-conditioning exercises at Camp Tontozona.
Anyway, the legends have mostly fallen in line with the other polls. They have Oklahoma at No.1 this week, followed by Alabama, Missouri, LSU, Texas and Penn State.
USC, despite last Thursday’s road loss at Oregon State, checks in at No. 7, same as the Trojans ranked in Sunday’s Harris index.
It is interesting that, among all the polls, the old coaches have the least amount of respect for Brigham Young, a team fighting for a BCS at-large spot out of the Mountain West Conference.
BYU is No. 7 in USA Today, No. 8 in the AP, No. 9 in Harris but only No. 10 in the Legends index.
Wonder how this went over with former BYU Coach LaVell Edwards?
Edwards is one of the voters in the legends poll.
-- Chris Dufresne
