Terry Bradshaw, Lou Holtz, Steve Largent and Anthony Munoz are among the 114 panelists voting in a new poll the Bowl Championship Series will use this season to determine which teams play in college football's four major bowls, including the national title game.
The Harris Interactive College Football Poll panel is comprised of former college football players, coaches and administrators, plus some media members. The names of its voters were released yesterday.
Largent, who played for the Seahawks, is among voters with local ties. Others are Jack Thompson, former Washington State quarterback, and Mike Lude, former athletic director at Washington.
"Harris Interactive has been diligent in creating a voting panel that is balanced, statistically valid, and representative of all I-A conferences and independents," BCS coordinator and Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg said in a statement.
The Harris Poll replaces The Associated Press Top 25 media poll as one of three components in the BCS standings. The USA Today coaches poll and a compilation of six computer polls make up the other two-thirds of a team's BCS grade.
The AP poll had been used by the BCS since its inception in 1998, but after last season the AP asked BCS officials to stop using its rankings in their formula. ESPN also pulled its affiliation to the coaches poll.
The Harris panel has numerous big names on it, including NFL Hall of Famers Bradshaw, Largent and Munoz.
The first BCS standings will be released Oct. 17.
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