Yesterday's controversy swirling around AP voter Haley M. Sawyer underscored everything that's wrong with traditional college football polls.
Sawyer, a USC beat writer, came across as the ultimate airhead with her breezy explanation of her poll vote, which included glaring flights of illogic like moving up Florida two spots after a loss to South Florida, then leaving the Bulls off her ballot.
“I don’t want to go too much into my process or logic… It’s really fun but it doesn’t probably matter in the end," she said.
Sawyer did an enormous disservice to the knowledgeable, hard-working female reporters who cover college football, voices like Holly Rowe, Jenny Dell, Heather Dinich and Nicole Auerbach, or Jenny Taft, who is doing the Oregon game this Saturday on Fox Sports, along with Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt.