Super Collegiate Power Poll

The Super Collegiate Power Poll was a poll we created to make a point that college baseball polls, more than any other sport's polls, are a pretty random lot. The poll ran in 2000 and a handful of newspapers use it, which serves to show just how confusing college baseball polls really are. Because there are so many polls and since  majority of newspaper sports staffs don't follow college baseball closely, they are as baffled by it as everybody else. Thus, they picked a up a poll with a legitimate-sounding name and ran the rankings, while we snickered in the background. For the record, we took our voting seriously and our rankings were fairly consistent with the other polls. 

If you want to read more about the college baseball polls, click here to read an article that ran in several newspapers around the country. (This is an abbreviated of the original article that ran in a South Carolina newspaper in 2000, but you get the picture.)

The Final Super Collegiate Power Poll - it rests in peace...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Lubbock, TX--The poll for the week of February 14-20 as voted on by sports information directors,  sports writers and fans in Raleigh, NC, New York, NY, Ft. Worth, TX, Tallahassee, FL, Lubbock, TX,  College Station, TX, Waco, TX, Oklahoma City, OK, and Tucson, AZ.   Total points are based on 40 points for first place down to one point for a 40th place vote. The number of first place votes is in parentheses.

Week of Apr 17 - April 23

Others Receiving Votes:
San Jose State 9, Stetson 7, Oklahoma 5, Kentucky 4, Rutgers 4, Alabama 4, Southern Miss 4, Illinois 3, Notre Dame 2, Tennessee 2, Florida International 1, Tulane 1, Wichita State 1, Loyola-Marymount 1.