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Voter error: One pollster thought the Sooners lost
Published: 11/20/2006 10:48 AM
Last Modified: 11/20/2006 10:48 AM

Turns out Oklahoma would have moved up two spots instead of one in this week's Associated Press Top 25 poll if not for a mistake made by one voter.
Jim Kleinpeter, a writer at the New Orleans Times Picayune, admitted Tuesday he sent in his ballot Sunday morning thinking the Sooners had lost to Texas Tech on Saturday night. He had OU ranked 15th last week but dropped the Sooners to 24th this week despite their 34-24 win over Texas Tech.
OU is 16th in the poll this week, five points behind Auburn, which Kleinpeter voted at No. 8 after the Tigers had lost at home to unranked Georgia 37-15.
"I was in the press box after the LSU game that night and I remember . . . asking somebody, 'Did Oklahoma get beat?' and somebody said 'Yes.' When I woke up the next morning, I rushed through my stuff and when I looked in the paper, I didn't see the score. It was still in my head that they lost.
"It was an honest mistake. I'm going correct it next week."
Kleinpeter assured there was no bias against OU. He said he voted for Adrian Peterson to win the 2004 Heisman Trophy and said he was sure Peterson would win it this year before Peterson's injury on Oct. 14.

-- John E. Hoover

Written by
Guerin Emig
Sports Writer



Reader Comments 5 Total

Billy (6 years ago)
This entire country has a problem with Big 12 football. No one likes or cares what happens with this conference. As for OU everyone has hated us ever since White won the Heisman and we lost the Big 12 championship and still played for the National Title. So It doesn't suprise me that someone thought we lost and his one vote was the diffrence between moving up one spot instead of two. If this was the last week before bowl selections that could have cost the school hundreds of thousands of dollars.

I already believe that the PAC-10 should write OU a check making up for the diffrence for what ever bowl we go to. The diffrence between a standard bowl and a BCS bowl. Without their unethical and biased screw up OU would be contending for a BCS Bowl worth millions of dollars. As for Mr. Kleinpeter he needs to realize just how important his vote is for millions of people in the college football community or have his voting rights taken away and given to someone more responsible.
Claude (6 years ago)
It's been as bad a year for the AP college football poll voters as it has for PAC 10 officials.

On 09/18 Ken Tysiac e-mailed in his ballot for the previous week by mistake, and on 10/01 Angelique Chengelis admittedly inadvertently omitted Oklahoma from her ballot.

jimmy baldwin (6 years ago)
Every one knows that sports writers don't like oklahoma but as for voting on the top twenty-five i would be better at voting than most of the people that vote.It is ashamed that the writers can't be honest.
Bill (6 years ago)
How, in the end result, is what Kleinpeter did any worse than obvious homerism? You know, the kind of homerism evidenced by placing OU and Arkansas above teams that beat them? You know, when a voter uses the same excuse to rank a team high that he used to rank one low just a few weeks ago? It's called hypocricy, Mr. Hoover ...
Carl Price (6 years ago)
Some irresponsible people should have their voting rights taken away. It seems like the sports writers pretty much wrote off OU after the PAC 10 cheated them out of the Oregon game. Where was the NCAA when that happened? A blind man could see that they cheated twice on one play. I could take a high scool team and win the NCAA National Championship if I had the PAC 10 officiating the games and had them on my side.
If there was any justice left in the BCS, OU should be considered what they are, a one loss team.
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Tulsa World Sports Writer Guerin Emig has covered University of Oklahoma football and men's basketball for the Tulsa World since 2004. He lives in Norman, where he keeps the fact that he is a University of Kansas graduate on the down low.

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Tulsa World Sports Writer Eric Bailey covered TU sports before coming over to the OU beat. He came to the Tulsa World in September 2004 after working eight years at the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. He attended Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas, where he was a 1996 Chips Quinn scholar, a national award given to minority journalism students.

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