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Consistent with the desire of the BCS for transparency, panelists’ names and their individual team rankings for the December 7 poll also will be released.

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The Harris Interactive College Football Poll is a weekly ranking of the top 25 NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision college football teams.

Then Harris randomly selects 114 members from the nominees to participate in the actual panel.

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Division I-Bowl Subdivision college football conferences and independent institutions nominate prospective panelists.

Poll participants will submit their rankings for the Top 25 teams on a weekly basis during the 2008 season, beginning September 28, through December To become a member of the Harris Poll Online and be invited to participate in future online surveys, visit www.harrispollonline.com. Unlike the other two seasonal polls, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, the Harris Poll does not release a preseason poll; in fact, it does not come out until the last half of September, several weeks into the season.

The rankings are compiled by Harris Interactive, a market research company that specializes in Internet research.

The poll was created in the summer of 2005 to replace the AP Poll which decided it no longer wanted to be a part of the formula used by the BCS rankings to determine who plays in the BCS National Championship Game.