AP replaces two voters in pollBy 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.
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