Top 25 Team Rankings of the Harris Interactive College Football Poll

Business Wire, Oct 21, 2007

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Today's Harris Interactive College Football Poll(SM) rankings show the Top 25 results compiled from rankings submitted by the Harris Interactive panel of former coaches, players and administrators, and current and former members of the media. Ohio State received 111 first-place votes, retaining its number one ranking, while Boston College held on to its second place position. LSU and Oklahoma move up to third and fourth, respectively, with Oregon rounding out the top five. South Florida dropped from third position down to 12th following its' loss to Rutgers.

Highlights of October 21 Harris Interactive College Football Poll

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Number of first place votes shown in parentheses.

Other teams receiving votes: Wisconsin 153; UCLA 116; Boise State 94; Connecticut 80; Wake Forest 42; Purdue 37; Texas Tech 36; Texas A&M 30; Cincinnati 20; Clemson 15; Kansas State 12; Oregon State 11; Illinois 5; BYU 4; Air Force 3; Oklahoma State 1; Tennessee 1.

Dropped out of the Top 25: Cincinnati, Tennessee, Texas Tech.

Poll Methodology and Process

The 2007 Harris Interactive College Football Poll is comprised of former players, coaches, administrators and current and former members of the media who have committed to submit rankings for the top 25 college football teams each week. These panelists were randomly selected from among more than 300 nominations submitted by the 11 Division I-A Conference offices and the independent schools. The panel has been designed to be a statistically valid representation of all 11 Division I-A Conferences and independent institutions. Today, 114 poll participants submitted their top 25 college football team rankings.

In 2005 the 11 Division 1-A Conference Commissioners and Notre Dame Athletics Director Kevin White decided not to accept the Harris Interactive recommendation to apply a standard statistical practice that addresses potential instability, error, or bias associated with unusual ranking patterns. This process will remain the same for the 2007 season. Each week Harris Interactive will conduct a thorough verification of the results, and the rankings will stand as submitted.

This week's rankings and other information about the poll can be found at www.harrisinteractive.com/bcspoll and www.bcsfootball.org.

About Harris Interactive

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