Who Are the AP Voters

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

The AP voters and how they voted this week are in today's B'ham News. It's interesting to see that even a lot of the Southern/SEC voters aren't supporting Auburn. This includes Huntsville, Nashville, Little Rock, Baton rouge, etc. of particular note is that Paul Gattis of the Huntsville Times voted for Oklahoma as #1. Gattis is the bama beat writer for the Times. If he had voted for Auburn it would have given both Okalahoma and Auburn 7 first place votes and put us in 2nd place ahead of them. Gattis' e-mail is:

pgattis@htimes.com

Send him a nice e-mail asking that he support his state team....if he can get past his bama biases.

Re. who ESPN has voting as talked about on another thread here about Bob Stoops comments, ESPN voters are Chris Fowler and Pat Forde.

[AU4Ever 0]

I thought Herbstreet had a vote, also. I thought I heard him say it on Gameday.

[88Tiger 0]

AP #1 votes...

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SOUTHERN CAL (51)

Elton Alexander, Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer

Neil Amato, Durham (N.C.) Herald-Sun

Steve Batterson, (Davenport, Iowa) Quad City Times

Joe Biddle, (Nashville) Tennessean

Kirk Bohls, Austin (Texas) American Statesman

B.G. Brooks, (Denver) Rocky Mountain News

Jimmy Burch, Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram

Jim Carty, Ann Arbor (Mich.) News

Jimmy Cefalo, WPLG-TV, Miami

Bob Condotta, Seattle Times

Chuck Cooperstein, KESN-FM, Arlington, Texas

Rob Daniels, Greensboro (N.C.) News & Record

Doug Doughty, Roanoke (Va.) Times

Charles Durrneberger, (Tuscon) Arizona Daily Star

Pat Forde, ESPN.com

Chris Fowler, ESPN

Herb Gould, Chicago Sun-Times

Tim Griffin, San Antonio Express-News

Brian Hamilton, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press

Todd Harmonson, (Santa Ana, Calif.) Orange County Register

Doug Harris, Dayton (Ohio) Daily News

Shawn Harrison, Logan (Utah) Herald Journal

Joe Hawk, Las Vegas Review-Journal

Bob Holt, (Little Rock) Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Mike Kern, Philadelphia Daily News

Steve Kiggins, Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune

George Lehner, WTVN-AM, Columbus, Ohio

Ted Lewis, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune

Tom Luicci, Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger

Tom Mulhern, (Madison) Wisconsin State Journal

John Niyo, Detroit News

Neill Ostrout, (Bridgeport) Connecticut Post

Joe Person, (Columbia, S.C.) The State

Mike Prater, (Boise) Idaho Statesman

Scott Rabalais, Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate

Dave Rahme, Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard

Curt Rallo, South Bend (Ind.) Tribune

Kyle Ringo, Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera

John Rohde, The Oklahoman

Steve Sipple, Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star

Bill Smizik, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bob Thomas, (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union

Edgar Thompson, Palm Beach (Fla.) Post

Tommy Trujilo, Santa Fe (N.M.) New Mexican

Ken Tysiac, Charlotte (N.C.) Observer

Michael Vega, Boston Globe

Michael Wallace, Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger

Joe Walljasper, Columbia (Mo.) Tribune

Ryan White, (Portland) Oregonian

Doug Wilson, Bloomington (Ind.) Herald-Times

Scott Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News

OKLAHOMA (8)

Paul Gattis, Huntsville (Ala.) Times

Craig James, CBS

Fred Lewis, Honolulu Advertiser

Ray Ratto, San Francisco Chronicle

Mark Tupper, Decatur (Ill.) Herald & Review Bee

Keith Whitmire, Dallas Morning News

Jon Wilner, San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News

Chuck Woodling, Lawrence (Kan.) Journal-World

AUBURN (6)

John Adams, Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel

Tony Barnhart, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Barker Davis, Washington Times

Matt Hayes, The Sporting News

Neal McCready, Mobile (Ala.) Register

Mitch Vingle, Charleston (W.V.) Gazette

 Compiled by Jenni Carlson