The Harris Interactive College Football Poll was a weekly ranking of the top 25
NCAA
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Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football teams. The rankings were compiled by
Harris Interactive, a
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company that specializes in
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The poll was created in the summer of 2005 to replace the
AP Poll
The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broad ...
in the
BCS formula. The AP had 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
The BCS National Championship Game, or BCS National Championship, was a postseason college football bowl game, used to determine a national champion of the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), first played in the 1998 college fo ...
. Unlike the other two seasonal polls, the AP Poll and the
Coaches Poll
The Coaches Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, Division I college basketball, and Division I college baseball teams. The football version of the poll has been known officiall ...
, the Harris Poll did not release a preseason poll; in fact, it did not come out until the last half of October, several weeks into the season. Also, the Harris Poll did not release a post-bowl game poll or crown a
national champion; the final Harris Poll was released along with the final BCS rankings.
The Harris Interactive Poll was composed of former players, coaches, administrators, and current and former media who submitted votes for the top 25 teams each week. The panel was 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 nominated prospective panelists. Then Harris randomly selected 115
[http://www.harrisinteractive.com/vault/HI-News-Release-HICFP-Panelists-2011-10-05.pdf ] members from the nominees to participate in the actual panel. Each week from mid October to the end of the regular college football season these 115 panelists voted on the particular ranking of teams. These rankings were then published and are used to determine 1/3 of the BCS standings.
Panelists
2005
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List of 2005 Panelists
2006
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List of 2006 Panelists
2007
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List of 2007 Panelists
2008
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List of 2008 Panelists
2009
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List of 2009 Panelists
2010
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List of 2010 Panelists
2011
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List of 2011 Panelists
2012
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List of 2012 Panelists
2013
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List of 2013 Panelists
Year-by-year Final Rankings
The Harris poll's final rankings were from the last week of the regular season for the purpose of producing a final BCS ranking. The Harris poll did not crown a champion in a post-bowl poll.
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Final 2011 Harris Pollbr />
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Final 2012 Harris Pollbr />
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Final 2013 Harris Poll
See also
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NCAA Division I FBS National Football Championship
A national championship in the highest level of college football in the United States, currently the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), is a designation awarded annually by various organizations to their selection of the best co ...
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List of college bowl games
The following is a list of current, defunct, and proposed college football bowl games. Three bowl games are currently part of the College Football Playoff, a selection system that creates bowl matchups involving four of the top-ranked teams in t ...
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AP Poll
The Associated Press poll (AP poll) provides weekly rankings of the top 25 NCAA teams in one of three Division I college sports: football, men's basketball and women's basketball. The rankings are compiled by polling 62 sportswriters and broad ...
*
Coaches Poll
The Coaches Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) college football, Division I college basketball, and Division I college baseball teams. The football version of the poll has been known officiall ...
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Bowl Championship Series
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Grantland Rice Award
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Mythical National Championship
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Dickinson System
The Dickinson System was a mathematical point formula that awarded national championships in college football. Devised by University of Illinois economics professor Frank G. Dickinson, the system crowned national champions from 1925 to 1940. Dicki ...
References
External links
Harris Interactive College Football PollArchive of all public Harris Interactive Football Poll ballots since 2007
{{Sports rating systems
College football rankings
Bowl Championship Series
College football championships