Final Coaches Poll -- Interactive Tool for Looking at their Votes

I have to hand it to USA Today. This is the coolest interactive tool that I've seen for this type of application. We use a ton of Flash at the office, but nothing quite like this.

Basically, they have published each vote in the Coaches Poll by both Coach and by Team.

Three most interesting ballots to me are:
1. Steve Spurrier
2. Frank Solich
3. Mark Richt

Spurrier -- The Head Ball Coach is all class in his ballot. He ranks UGA as the #4 team in the country, and he ranks Notre Dame as #14. That's good stuff.

Frank Solich -- He has LSU #5, Virginia Tech #7, Auburn #13, TCU #14 and Georgia #15. LSU at #5, are you kidding me? Was that some sort of payback for Les Miles bailing him out jail? Did he turn in this ballot drunk? Was this vote his one call from prison? I mean get serious.

Richt -- Ok, his isn't the most interesting ballot. Just nice to see what our head coach put together.

The odd thing is that I have Auburn at #4 in my Blog Poll ballot. An opinion only shared by Tommy Tuberville (AU), Larry Blakney (Troy) and Rich Brooks (UK). I keep lousy company; although, Houston Nutt has Auburn at #3.

One thing is clear, it would be a gigantic distraction for the coaches to have their votes published during the season.

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