AP Poll vs ESPN/USA Poll

[ShrubDog]

State has 61 votes from AP. And only 6 votes from ESPN/USA Today Poll. I don't remember ever seeing a difference that great between the two. Someone might have already brought this up earlier, if not......

 

[smootness]

Yeah, but I've seen disparities like that before. Also, those are points, not overall number of votes, so it's possible that just a couple of people ranked us fairly high for some reason while the votes in the other poll were all barely in. Also, the AP awards a little over twice as many points roughly, so you would expect some kind of variance. For instance, #1 Texas has over 1,600 points in the AP and under 800 in the ESPN.

 

[ShrubDog]

Thanks for explaining that. Has it always been that way? Seems like it used to be votes and not points....When was this modification if there was one?