BCS Standings 2011: Who's the One Holdout Voting for Boise State in the AP Poll?

Now that the Game of the Century is behind us, the split amongst poll voters between LSU and Alabama for the top spot is over.

Fifty-nine voters have tabbed LSU as the nation's top-ranked team. It would seem logical then, that there are 59 voters in the AP Poll. 

There are actually 60 voters, meaning someone did not vote the Tigers No. 1. Oklahoma State received no first-place votes. Neither did Stanford. Boise State, however, continues to receive one lone first-place vote.

The man behind the madness is Scott Wolf of the Los Angeles Daily News.

He has voted the Broncos No. 1 each week since the preseason poll was released in mid-August. Wolf was asked to clarify his position on last week's BCS Countdown show on ESPN, where he stated the Broncos have proven their legitimacy with wins over Oklahoma, Oregon, Virginia Tech, and Georgia over the past few seasons.

When further questioned why he factored results from prior seasons in his poll, he simply stated that he thought Boise State was the best team in the country.

The issue here is whether Wolf truly believes the Broncos would beat all 119 other FBS teams, or if he's simply using his vote as self-propoganda. No one who voted LSU or Alabama No. 1 received ESPN face time last Sunday night, but Wolf did.

A similar situation occurred in 2009, when Doug Lesmerises of the Cleveland Plain Dealer ranked 4-0 Houston instead of defending national champion Florida, based on the Cougars' wins over Oklahoma State and Texas Tech.

Lesmerises also received face time on ESPN that week. The difference between Lesmerises and Wolf is that Lesmerises preached that Houston had more quality wins than Florida, which at the time was a valid argument.

Boise State's resume clearly pales in comparison to that of LSU's, who has beaten four teams away from home who were ranked at the time of the game, as well as two others at home.

With the AP Poll not part of the BCS equation, Wolf's voting has no effect on the BCS rankings. What it does do, however, is spotlight the potential fallacies of human voting playing a major role in determining the matchup in the BCS Championship Games.

Most voters do their polls with nothing but the game's best interest in mind, but some will have an agenda and use their vote to promote either a certain team, conference or themselves.

While Wolf is fully entitled to think Boise State is the best team in the country, college fans should also be entitled to have confidence in that those who are deciding the national title pairing are fairly and neutrally assessing every team.