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Contact the AP voters and tell them to vote Utah #1

UPDATE II: We've made our case, so please no more e-mails. We don't need to swamp them to the point where they turn against Utah's cause. But we've done well, I think the Utes will get a good number of votes come Friday morning. It may not be enough for #1, but we'll make a statement, regardless.

UPDATE: If you check out Pollspeak, it gives you a list of all the voters and a link to their media website.

If we get the word out, who knows what will happen! Be respectful, concise and reasonable.

Mark Anderson, Las Vegas Review-Journal; Robbie Andreu, Gainesville (Fla.) Sun; Bret Bloomquist, El Paso (Texas) Times; Kirk Bohls, Austin (Texas) American Statesman; Jimmy Burch, Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram; Mike Ceide, WREG-TV, Memphis, Tenn.; Bill Cole, Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal; Steve Conroy, Boston Herald

Barker Davis, The Washington Times; Mike DeArmond, Kansas City Star; Pete DiPrimio, The Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel; Joseph Duarte, Houston Chronicle; Ray Fittipaldo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Chris Fowler, ESPN; Jason Franchuk, Provo (Utah) Daily Herald; Marcus Fuller, St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press

Joe Giglio, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.; Anthony Gimino, Tucson (Ariz.) Citizen; Herb Gould, Chicago Sun-Times; Glen Guilbeau, Gannett Louisiana News Service; Bob Hammond, Laramie (Wyo.) Bommerang; Eric Hansen, The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune; Randy Harrison, Albuquerque (N,.M.) Journal; Tom Hart, CBS College Sports Network

Kirk Herbstreit, WBNS-AM Columbus, Ohio & ESPN; John Heuser, The Ann Arbor (Mich.) News;John Hunt, The Oregonian; Sal Interdonato, Middletown (N.Y.) Record; Craig James, ABC; Jon Johnson, Dothan (Ala.) Eagle; Tom Keegan, Lawrence (Kan.) Journal World; Aditi Kinkhabwala, The Record, Bergen County, N.J.

Jim Lamar, Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat; Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland; Ferd Lewis, Honolulu Advertiser; Stewart Mandel, SI.com; Jim Mashek, Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.; Matt McCoy, WTVN-AM, Columbus, Ohio; Jeff McLane, The Philadelphia Inquirer; Brett McMurphy, Tampa (Fla.) Tribune

Tom Mulhern, Wisconsin State Journal, Madison; Tom Murphy, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Little Rock; Eric Page, Quad City (Iowa) Times; Maurice Patton, Nashville Tennessean; Myron Patton, KOKH-TV, Okla.; Kevin Pearson, Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise; Joe Person, The State, Columbia, S.C.; Mike Prater, The Idaho Statesman, Boise

Ray Ratto, San Francisco Chronicle; Joe Rexrode, Lansing (Mich.) State Journal; Randy Rosetta, The Advocate, Baton Rouge, La.; Jake Schaller, The Gazette, Colorado Springs; Doug Segrest, Birmingham (Ala.) News; John Silver, Journal Inquirer, Manchester, Conn.; Steve Sipple, Lincoln (Neb.) Star Journal; Mike Strain, Tulsa (Okla.) World

Kent Taylor, WAVE-3, Louisville, Ky.; Mark Tupper, Decatur (Ill.) Herald & Review; Adan Van Brimmer, Savannah (Ga.) Morning News-Augusta; Mitch Vingle, The Charleston (W.Va.) Gazette; Jeff White, Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch; Jon Wilner, San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News; Scott Wolf, Los Angeles Daily News; Molly Yanity, Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Taylor Zarzour, WPTF 680 AM, Raleigh, N.C.

 

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8-5 against other BCS conference teams in the regular season (more wins than the Big Ten, SEC, and Big XII) and a better winning percentage as well.

6-1 against the Pac-10 this year (only Arizona’s bowl win over BYU).

One of the top 5 conferences in the nation and if any other BCS conference team went 13-0, they’d be a clear #1 and we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

by DoubleB on Jan 3, 2009 6:32 PM MST reply actions  

There's another loss to the PAC 10 in there.

We’re 6-2 after BYU’s loss. CSU to Cal 42-7.

Everyone hates a pink-shirt-wearing communist.

by displacedute on Jan 3, 2009 10:21 PM MST up reply actions  

Here is a complete list with email addresses

These are the 2008 AP Voters and emails or contact links as I have found them so far.
http://members.cox.net/kbrews/Utes/APvoters.html

Check back later as I fill them in.
Start by writing to your local paper, or papers in a region that you have a connection. I think they will consider your opinion more if they know you watch their show or read their column in the paper.
Be respectful and Fact-Filled.
If the Utes don’t deserve a share of the National Title they CERTAINLY deserve a crack at the winner of the “1-loss Bowl” aka the BCS Championship game. This is Exhibit A of why we need a REAL playoff, not some system that has to be continually band-aided to make up for all the possible contingencies.

by kbrews on Jan 3, 2009 7:06 PM MST reply actions  

#1

If you don’t think they deserve #1, then watch the entire game here in HD!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/50859/allstate-sugar-bowl-utah-vs-alabama

by notrub82 on Jan 3, 2009 7:10 PM MST reply actions  

On the looooooooooooooooooooooong..........

….drive home today, I said the same thing to everyone in the car. Not just because you beat Alabama, but because you’re undefeated, you beat the SEC runner-up, the Pac-10 #3, a Big 10 team (albeit a bottom dweller), a fine TCU team whose only other loss was to Oklahoma and you’re the only ones that ran the table.

I knew Utah was a good team going in and I thought they had a good chance to beat us, but damn, they handled their business and you guys are going to be screwed and you totally deserve better.

by Nico2.0 on Jan 3, 2009 7:59 PM MST reply actions  

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