NUs lowest AP vote comes from a Big 10 Network journalist

[NUance]

Tom Hart's AP vote:

Rank Team

1 Alabama

2 Ohio State

3 TCU

4 Boise State

5 Iowa

6 Oklahoma

7 Florida

8 Texas

9 Miami (FL)

10 Wisconsin

11 Virginia Tech

12 Florida State

13 Houston

14 Georgia Tech

15 Penn State

16 Oregon

17 Nebraska

18 USC

19 North Carolina

20 Auburn

21 Missouri

22 Pittsburgh

23 Cincinnati

24 West Virginia

25 Arkansas

 

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But Hart loves Mizzou, ranking them higher (#21) than all but two other AP voters.

[HuskerfaninOkieland]

Personally, I think his NU ranking is more spot on than other rankings I've seen.

[billdozer15]

I dont agree with where he has us in relation to who he has ahead of us. Penn St will likely be an 8 win team. Oregon has way to many questions. Wisconsin has way to hard a schedule. Without going into it deeper those are just a few that we should be ranked ahead. I would have to look at others schedules and returning players to pick it apart any further. I think we are more in the 8-12 range.

[sd'sker]

apparently, he is out of there:

AP replaces two voters in poll

By Mike DeArmond - Posted on 24 August 2010

The Associated Press has just replaced two voters that voted in its pre-season poll. No reason given but it is usually because the voter has requested the change, largely because that person is not now primarily involved with covering college football or for some other conflict.

But I couldn't help noticing that one of the voters replaced was one of five persons who voted Missouri in their Top 25 pre-season list.

That would be Tom Hart of the Big Ten Network, replaced by Dave Curtis of the Sporting News. Again, without being told this by the AP, I figure someone thought it was not a good idea to have someone associated with a particular conference voting.

The other change was Brett McMurphy of AOL FanHouse replacing Scott Carter of the Tampa Tribune.

Carter is headed to the University of Florida as a web-site writer. Can't have a school employee voting in the poll, otherwise it would be just like the USA Today/Coaches' poll.

 

 

Read more: http://campuscorner.kansascity.com/node/1088#ixzz0xetBOstC

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[huKSer]

From his online bio at CBS

 

Tom Hart is a veteran football and basketball play-by-play announcer for CBS College Sports Network, now in his fifth season. Hart graduated from University of Missouri after spending one season playing football at Quincy (Ill.) University. A native of Columbia, Mo., he was previously the television announcer for Georgia Tech football and host of the Atlanta Braves minor league show "Movin On Up".

[NUance]

apparently, he is out of there:

AP replaces two voters in poll

By Mike DeArmond - Posted on 24 August 2010

The Associated Press has just replaced two voters that voted in its pre-season poll. No reason given but it is usually because the voter has requested the change, largely because that person is not now primarily involved with covering college football or for some other conflict.

But I couldn't help noticing that one of the voters replaced was one of five persons who voted Missouri in their Top 25 pre-season list.

That would be Tom Hart of the Big Ten Network, replaced by Dave Curtis of the Sporting News. Again, without being told this by the AP, I figure someone thought it was not a good idea to have someone associated with a particular conference voting.

The other change was Brett McMurphy of AOL FanHouse replacing Scott Carter of the Tampa Tribune.

Carter is headed to the University of Florida as a web-site writer. Can't have a school employee voting in the poll, otherwise it would be just like the USA Today/Coaches' poll.

 

 

Read more: http://campuscorner.kansascity.com/node/1088#ixzz0xetBOstC

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Good bye Tom Hart. I hardly knew ya.

 

 

btw, Hart used to be teamed up with Trev once in a while covering games for CBS.

[hosker]

I dont agree with where he has us in relation to who he has ahead of us. Penn St will likely be an 8 win team. Oregon has way to many questions. Wisconsin has way to hard a schedule. Without going into it deeper those are just a few that we should be ranked ahead. I would have to look at others schedules and returning players to pick it apart any further. I think we are more in the 8-12 range.

 

Wisconsin is a top 15 team. easy. Im actually disapointed they aren't higher in other polls....

[papersun87]

I'm curious to see who ranked us HIGHEST.

[sd'sker]

I'm curious to see who ranked us HIGHEST.

chip brown?

[bleedNUred]

The Mizzou grad explains it! LOL JK either way I think we have way too many questions on offense as of now, based on potential we are a top 10 team but in reality the offense is what dooms us.

[Apathy]

From his online bio at CBS

 

Tom Hart is a veteran football and basketball play-by-play announcer for CBS College Sports Network, now in his fifth season. Hart graduated from University of Missouri after spending one season playing football at Quincy (Ill.) University. A native of Columbia, Mo., he was previously the television announcer for Georgia Tech football and host of the Atlanta Braves minor league show "Movin On Up".

Would also explain why Georgia Tech is ranked higher than us too. Personally I don't think we should be in the top 10 just yet but there is no way that Georgia Tech should be ranked higher than us. I do believe that we are a TOP 15 team though and I want this 2010 Husker team to prove a lot of critics wrong this year. GO BIG RED

[fro daddy]

From his online bio at CBS

 

Tom Hart is a veteran football and basketball play-by-play announcer for CBS College Sports Network, now in his fifth season. Hart graduated from University of Missouri after spending one season playing football at Quincy (Ill.) University. A native of Columbia, Mo., he was previously the television announcer for Georgia Tech football and host of the Atlanta Braves minor league show "Movin On Up".

Would also explain why Georgia Tech is ranked higher than us too. Personally I don't think we should be in the top 10 just yet but there is no way that Georgia Tech should be ranked higher than us. I do believe that we are a TOP 15 team though and I want this 2010 Husker team to prove a lot of critics wrong this year. GO BIG RED

 

you do know that GT was 11-3 and played in a BCS bowl game last year right? I believe they return 14 or 15 starters including their QB. Its not unreal for someone to have them ranked above NE, especially since we are in agreement that NE starting ranked as high as they are isnt necessarily correct. In fact I am with you on the top 15. I think the fair ranking is in the 14-16 range. And at that range I can understand and see why GT would/could be ranked ahead of NE.

[HuskerJosh]

I'm curious to see who ranked us HIGHEST.

 

It was two guys from North Carolina, funny enough. One was Joe Giglio, I can't remember the other.

[NUance]

From his online bio at CBS

 

Tom Hart is a veteran football and basketball play-by-play announcer for CBS College Sports Network, now in his fifth season. Hart graduated from University of Missouri after spending one season playing football at Quincy (Ill.) University. A native of Columbia, Mo., he was previously the television announcer for Georgia Tech football and host of the Atlanta Braves minor league show "Movin On Up".

Would also explain why Georgia Tech is ranked higher than us too. Personally I don't think we should be in the top 10 just yet but there is no way that Georgia Tech should be ranked higher than us. I do believe that we are a TOP 15 team though and I want this 2010 Husker team to prove a lot of critics wrong this year. GO BIG RED

 

you do know that GT was 11-3 and played in a BCS bowl game last year right? I believe they return 14 or 15 starters including their QB. Its not unreal for someone to have them ranked above NE, especially since we are in agreement that NE starting ranked as high as they are isnt necessarily correct. In fact I am with you on the top 15. I think the fair ranking is in the 14-16 range. And at that range I can understand and see why GT would/could be ranked ahead of NE.

Oh come one. NU clearly deserves to be preseason top 10. Last year's team beat UT, the team that played for the MNC. Well, we beat them in the regulation 60 minutes anyway. And we didn't lose much to graduation that can't be replaced. Sure, Suh is gone. But I don't think our D-line will be a weak link.

 

I realize you Mizzou Tigurls stick together. But Hart's votes are clearly out of control. That's why he got the boot from the AP voting. I'm curious. Do you agree with Hart that Mizzou deserves to be in the top 20 right now?

[papersun87]

In case anyone's interested (from http://www.pollspeak.com/pollstalker/pollstalker.php?r=T&s=13&p=26&w=1&t1=63&t2=0&v=0). Voters of note are in bold.

 

Voter/Rank

Bill Cole 3

Joe Giglio 3

Kyle Tucker 3

Craig James 4

Jon Wilner 4

Ray Ratto 4

Chris Fowler 5

Ferd Lewis 5

Jack Bogaczyk 5

John Shinn 5

Kirk Herbstreit 5

Matt McCoy 5

Ray Fittipaldo 5

Rob Long 5

Pete DiPrimio 6

Scott Carter 6

Steve Sipple 6

Bob Hammond 7

Chip Cosby 7

Doug Lesmerises 7

Greg Archuleta 7

Scott Wolf 7

Doug Haller 8

Kyle Veazey 8

Marcus Fuller 8

Randy Rosetta 8

Robert Cessna 8

Steve Conroy 8

Adam Zuvanich 9

Bob Condotta 9

Cecil Hurt 9

Dave Foster 9

Desmond Conner 9

Garland Gillen 9

Mike Hlas 9

Cole Harvey 10

David Jones 10

Keith Sargeant 10

Kirk Bohls 10

Kyle Ringo 10

Lisa Byington 10

Tom Mulhern 10

Bob Asmussen 11

Mark Anderson 11

Tom Keegan 11

Travis Haney 11

Wes Rucker 11

Eric Hansen 12

Manny Navarro 12

Andy Staples 13

Chadd Cripe 13

John Niyo 13

John Werner 13

Jon Solomon 13

Tom Murphy 13

John Hunt 14

Wade Denniston 14

Mike DeArmond 15

Sal Interdonato 15

Tom Hart 17

 

 

Summary for Nebraska -- Week 1.

 

Best Ranking 3

Worst Ranking 17

Most Common Ranking 5 (eight times)

Average 8.78