I divided the country into seven regions as follows:

New England - - - 6 states - - - 2 BCS Schools - - - 2 votes

East - - - - - - - - - 8 states - - - 18 BCS Schools - - 10 votes

Mid East - - - - - -7 states - - -24 BCS Schools - - 13 votes

South - - - - - - - -9 states - - -31 BCS Schools - - 15 votes

Mid West - - - - - 7 states - - -17 BCS Schools - - 10 votes

Mountain - - - - - 7 states - - -13 BCS Schools - - 7 votes

Pacific - - - - - - - 6 states - - - 14 BCS Schools - -14 votes

------------------------50 states - - -119 BCS Schools - 65 votes

States by region:

New England- Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.

East- New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

Mid East- Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Indiana.

South- South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana.

Mid West- North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Mountain- Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada.

Pacific- Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, and Arizona.

Note: The list of voters includes a group of four advertised as "at large". Rather than let that stand, I put these voters in the regions where they attended college. An example of this is Chris Fowler who is listed as an at large voter from ESPN. I included him in the Mountain region since he graduated from Colorado.

I wanted to look at the breakdown on a percentage basis weighing the number of schools verses the number of voters by region. I was happy to find these numbers were pretty representative.

Region ----------%Schools--------%Voters

New England -------1.68%---------3.08%

East -----------------15.13%--------15.38%

Mid East -----------20.17%--------20.00%

South ---------------26.05%--------23.08%

Mid West ----------14.29%--------15.38%

Mountain ----------10.92%--------10.77%

Pacific -------------11.76%--------12.31%

Taking this a step further, there are 66 Major Conference Schools among the BCS 119 (Listed below by region). The same numbers were crunched using the major schools and the regional voters and converting to a percentage.

New England- Boston College & Connecticut.

East- Maryland, Virginia, Virginia Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Duke, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, West Virginia, & Penn State.

Mid East- Cincinnati, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Illinois, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Purdue, Iowa State, & Notre Dame.

South- Clemson, Georgia Tech, Florida State, Miami, South Florida, Louisville, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Arkansas, & Louisiana State.

Mid West- Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M,, & Texas Tech

Mountain- Colorado.

Pacific- Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, California, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Arizona, & Arizona State.

Region ----------%Schools--------%Voters

New England -------3.03%---------3.08%

East -----------------18.18%--------15.38%

Mid East -----------19.70%--------20.00%

South ---------------27.27%--------23.08%

Mid West ----------15.15%--------15.38%

Mountain -----------1.52%--------10.77%

Pacific -------------15.15%--------12.31%

Some discrepancies show up under these circumstances. There are 7 voters from the Mountain region with only one major school residing there while the East, South and West have a higher percentage of schools than voters.

All in all the make up of the AP system would have to be deemed fair with just a couple of questions.

One side note about this. Apparently there have been instances of voters consistently voting with their heart rather than their head as a letter (http://www.fanblogs.com/ap_poll/005412.php) went out to the voters before the 2005 NCAA football season kicked off that reviewed the high ethics the AP expects from their voters. I especially like the following Ethics guideline: Please be advised: "Homerism" will be challenged and could lead to dismissal from the poll board.

Now why was there a need to do that?

Unfortunately the USA Today Coaches Poll voters are kept under wraps. All I was able to find was the 2007 AFCA Division I-A Board of Coaches at https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=9300&ATCLID=639519 . I'm not sure but maybe this board is the voters?

For a look at the AP poll and who the voters are, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP_Poll . You'll also find a link to the USA Today Coaches Poll there as well.