By John Bridges | Wednesday, December 8, 2004, 02:19 PM
The 61 coaches ballots in the USA Today/ESPN poll remain a state secret, but slowly the code is getting cracked.
This morning on KVET-AM’s “Bucky and Erin” show, Oklahoma assistant (and former Texas assistant) Bobby Jack Wright let slip the news that his boss, Bob Stoops, had voted the Longhorns “as high as No. 3 all year.”
Isn’t that interesting? In the final coaches poll, Texas received three third-place votes and one second-place vote. I wonder which one was Stoops’? After all, the higher Texas is ranked, the better it makes the Sooners appear.
Meanwhile, Kevin Robbins of our staff reported today that Texas football spokesman Bill Little said that Mack Brown did not vote his own team at No. 2. Little’s comments also suggested that Brown was not one of the voters who ranked Cal seventh or eighth.
And newspaper stories in California say that Cal coach Jeff Tedford reportedly voted Cal fourth and Texas fifth in the final poll.
