Voting has already begun for the final 2009 season poll. The voting booth will remain open until at least Wednesday, January 13, 2009. Official pollsters must vote in this final poll or will lose their status for failing to vote. Official pollsters may vote at any time, and change their vote at any time while remaining official until the booth closes.

Any problems encountered with logging into the forums and staying logged in (see below for the fix) are not related to the voting booth.

I made a change to the forums settings regarding cookies and some folks are having trouble staying logged in. If you delete your cookies for the forums, and then log in, the problem seems to get fixed. So far, this has been reported twice and both users were using FireFox. If you delete you cookies for this website and still have problems, please let me know.

Week 14 Pick ‘Em game has been scored. Congratulations to cfbfanatic for willing the week, edging out cagman81 by 1 point. However, for the season, stevenra has a 5 point lead over tsberry56.

For Week 15, there is only 1 game: Army vs. Navy. I’ve loaded it up and this will count. Since this game is worth 5 points, this could evaporate that lead. The entire Bowl Season shall count as 1 week and be available to select the games until the first game starts. Last year, it was brought up that injuries and otherwise may want folks to change their pick for the later games, but with all the games locked, they can’t. However, it’s even for everyone, and the current software doesn’t allow this. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.

For current official pollsters only: Please check out this topic on how to get your free official pollster gift. It’s easy, and free to you! You must provide your information before December 7 to ensure you will get one.  Non-official pollsters: If you are elgible to apply now, this would be the week to do it as you could then get your free gift as well.

The gift is a THANK YOU for participating in the site and the money is generated by ad revenue on the site. It will be semi-promotional so you’ll be helping to advertise and get the word out as well.

Congratulations to fireman24951 for winning week 10. The Miami, Ohio and Temple game was removed since it was a Thursday game. For the season, stevenra maintained his 1-point lead over SOONERFLASH.

Congratulations to Abrion and Brandon for both earning 29 points this week. For the 2009 season, SOONERFLASH has recovered some of that lost lead and is now just 1 point behind stevenra. This week’s games are up.

This first honor challenge of the year against usbummer was started last week and concluded this week, but failed to achieve consensus, closing 9:9:5. Many important issues were brought up during the discussion, but in the end, it was uncertain whether usbummer should lose status over this vote.

On to the poll: Florida regains the #1 spot as the pollsters lose confidence in Alabama moving them down to third. Miami and BYU were the biggest drops after their losses. We welcome Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arizona, and Central Michigan taking the place of South Florida, Texas Tech, Kansas and Nebraska who all fell out of the poll. Seven undefeated teams top the poll. How many will be left at the end of the season?

Wow. I thought I only missed 1 week. Sorry for the long delay in updates. Congratulations to stevenra and Brandon for winning Week 8 Pick ‘Em and goodint37 for winning week 7 Pick ‘Em and Abrion and SOONERFLASH for winning Week 6 Pick ‘Em. For the 2009 season Pick ‘Em, since the last update, SOONERFLASH is fading down the stretch and lost his 1-point lead and now 4 points behind stevenra. In third place, 8 points back is tsberry56. Proving you don’t have to play every week to be competitive (but you can’t miss much!) are dahustla and PSUSyr5 who both missed a week and have more points or tied to someone who has played every week.

Remember, point values tend to increase towards the end of the season making large jumps possible. The Bowl season is worth a lot of points and could be the final shake-up.

The top 6 remain unchanged from last week. Is this a sign of stability in the poll? Oklahoma took the largest tumble but remained in the poll. Houston, Georgia, Michigan and California weren’t so lucky and were dropped and replaced with Auburn, Georgia Tech, Missouri and Wisconsin.

We gained one new official pollster but lost one due to not submitting a ballot.

The Pick ‘Em game has been scored for Week 5 and congratulations goes to knoxvillevolntr and sedwards468 for winning a very difficult week. However, SOONERFLASH’s 4-point lead has now dwindled to just 1 point over a three-way tie for second place for the season.