I'm sure that ESPN wanted the votes public so that they could spend time on SportsCenter with great college football coverage like this:
Stu - Hey'all, we're back at SportsCenter, and ready to give ya' all the inside dope on how the coaches voted. So let's go over to a couple of dopes on the inside, Trev and Mark... guys?
Trev - Thanks, Stu. By the way, is that short for Stupid? OK, let's first look at how the 'ol ball coach ranked the teams. Stevie's got his 3-4 'Cocks as #1, followed by the entire Sun Belt conference, then all the WAC teams except for Boise St. and Fresno St. Then he's got some teams from the BCS conferences: Indiana, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and Duke. Then he's got the 3 teams that already beat his South Carolina squad, Georgia, Alabama, and Auburn. He rounds out his top 25 with USC and Ohio State. Whaddya think, Mark?
Mark - I think I've got a couple of Super Bowl rings and I just got voted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
Trev - Thanks for reminding us, but I was talking about Coach Spurrier's voting.
Mark - Oh, I see. Well, you've gotta love those Sun Belt teams. I mean Troy went on the road to beat powerhouse Missouri for the second straight year, and we all know how strong the Big 12 North is.
Trev - You don't have to tell me, Mark. I played at Nebraska.
Mark - Was that back when they had winning records?
Trev - You bet. I won the Butkus, you know. And I graduated just before the team won back-to-back NC's.
Mark - I guess things worked out for them after they dropped some dead weight. How'd that Pro career work out, Trev?
Trev - Back to college football. How can Spurrier rank Troy in the top-10 when they've lost 3 times, including a 42-10 beatdown from South Carolina?
Mark - Well, on his ballot, that's a loss to #1 South Carolina.
Trev - OK. But how can he not rank Tennessee, who only has the 1 loss at Death Valley, and beat Florida in The Swamp?
Mark - Well, Spurrier knows that Florida will never be as good as back when he was the man there. And since South Carolina is playing in Knoxville this week, I think he just likes sticking it to Phat Phil. Remember "You can't spell Citrus without UT?"
Trev - I remember that. So you're telling me you think his rankings are Ok?
Mark - I can see why he voted for all those teams, yes.
Trev - Well, at least you're making me look smart by comparison. Let's move on to Mack Brown's voting. He's got Texas #1, followed by Oklahoma, Texas A&M, Oklahoma St, Texas Tech and then a 2-5 Baylor team. Then he's got the entire Big-12 North from 7 thru 12, followed by the whole Sun Belt. Then he's got Indiana, Duke, Vanderbilt, USC and Ohio State rounding out the top-25.
Mark - That's 2 coaches who have USC and Ohio State back-to-back at 24/25, so it's hard to argue with.
Trev - They're both undefeated, Mark. Ohio State beat Texas 31-17. How can Texas be #1 and Ohio State #25?
Mark - That was a night game at the Big House.
Trev - The 'Shoe.
Mark - Bless you.
Trev - The Horseshoe is the stadium in Columbus, I didn't sneeze, you moron.
Mark - Those road games at night are tough. I think you're just kissing up to all those Buckeye fans who send in those nasty e-mails. Texas dominated La-Lafayette, and they ate Rice for lunch.
Trev - I guess if that had been a night game, it would have been tougher to eat them for dinner.
Mark - No, because that was a home game for Texas. Pay attention, Trev! And since Texas finally won the Red River shootout, they've gotta be #1!
Trev - Can't you see that Mack Brown is just manipulating the rankings to try to get 2 Big-12 teams in the BCS bowls?
Mark - That couldn't happen. This system has too much integrity.
Trev - Let's move on to Jim Tressel's rankings. He's got USC, Ohio State, LSU, Michigan, Miami, all undefeated teams in the top-5; followed by Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Iowa. Let's just talk about his top-10 for now.
Mark - Well all he's done is gone with the preseason poll, and moved up teams that win while moving down teams that lose.
Trev - Doesn't that seem reasonable?
Mark - Not really. Where's Pitt?
Trev - It's in Western PA, in case you forgot. But they lost at home to Notre Dame in Wanny's opener, and then got beat by Callahan's wonderful West Coast offense in Lincoln, or have you forgotten that game?
Mark - I'm trying, but you mention it every half hour. Speaking of mentioning something every half hour, it's time to remind our viewers about the problems at Ohio State. Remember their starting QB missed the opener because of that booster thing. And Maurice Clarett said that there was a bunch of other bad stuff going on over there. And where there's smoke there's fire.
Mike Tirico - Sorry to barge in guys, but our ombudsman is telling me that I must let the viewers know that 2 NCAA investigations didn't find any truth to Clarett's allegations, and Myles Brand himself said that Ohio State's compliance program was a model of how things should be run.
Mark - Myles who?
Trev - NCAA President Myles Brand. Any other comments on Coach Tressel's voting?
Mark - I don't like his sweater vest. And Iowa's the best team in the Big 10.
Trev - I'd like to agree with that, but Iowa lost to the Buckeyes 28-17.
Mark - Look at those Ohio State scores. They're only scoring 31 opints, 28 points. My Pitt team put up 51 on Youngstown State!
Trev - They're not a Division IA football school.
Mark - Yeah, but we can count that win toward qualifying for the Emerald Nut Bowl.
Trev - Speaking of nuts, I think we've listened to you long enough. Let's go back to Stuart Scott.
Stu - Thanks, guys. Tomorrow we'll talk about who Philip Fulmer, Bobby Bowden, Larry Coker, and Bob Stoops voted for, and who they didn't vote for. College football coverage at it's best. Boo-yeah!
. mr. rose = pete rose. only difference is he tried to make a little profit off of it. not that im trying to trivialize what he did. much to the contrary actually. i find it amazing that we are forcing coaches to do something that is blatantly wrong. 
