Joel Klatt shreds AP voters for not giving Washington any votes to be ranked

No. 1 Ohio State vs. Washington will be one of the biggest games of the weekend in college football come Saturday. It just won’t be a ranked matchup between Top 25 opponents in the Big Ten, something Joel Klatt is blaming those voting in the AP Poll for.

Klatt was the latest to go after those casting votes for the Associated Press during his show on Wednesday. This one was related to Washington getting zero votes in the poll’s most recent edition this week, with Klatt repeatedly calling that a joke of a ballot, accusing those voters of not watching the sport, let alone not watching the Huskies.

“Hey, can Washington get a little respect?” Klatt asked. “The AP Poll is such a joke. Washington got zero votes in the AP Poll. Are you guys willfully ignorant, or just ignorant? Because that’s a joke. You mean to tell me – there are teams down there getting three and four votes that would get absolutely slaughtered by Washington. Please tell me you just forget that they’re in college football. Please tell me that this is a sign that you don’t stay up late for games on the West Coast. Please tell me that you just haven’t seen the Huskies play because they’re all the way tucked up there in the Great Northwest.

“They’ve got the number two scoring offense in college football at 58 points per game. They’ve got a hell of a quarterback, a coach that has built a winner before. Coleman is terrific, running the football well. This is a legitimate team with the second-longest win streak at home in all of college football, and they don’t have one vote in the AP Poll? What a joke. What a joke.”

Washington sits at 3-0 this season with wins over Colorado State, UC Davis, and, most recently, over Washington State in the Apple Cup. The Huskies have a solid defense too, posting one of the best offenses in the nation at 55.7 points, second most in the country to only Florida State, and 536 yards, which is 10th-most nationally per game.

Klatt was as frustrated as he was by this because he has been campaigning for Washington, which has yet to receive even a single vote all season in this poll, since this offseason, with him rating them in this episode as a team that is in the mix in the Big Ten. Klatt then just got even more so as he can tell that fans see it with the Huskies more than the AP Poll does based on how they’re projecting their matchup this weekend against the Buckeyes, who are arriving as the top-ranked team in the country.

“It’s been since the offseason, and since the summertime, that I’ve been talking about Washington as a dark horse…We have been shining lights on these teams,” said Klatt. “It’s not our fault that the AP voters can’t do their job. Washington is very good, folks. Very good.”

“That game against Ohio State this weekend, up in Seattle, started out as like an 11-point line. It’s been bet all the way down. Why? Because the public is smarter than the AP – period, facts. I don’t know how else to put it,” Klatt continued. “The public is betting this down because they know Washington has a very good football team. I’m a big believer that Washington, maybe not wins the game…They’ve got a huge opportunity this week.”