My favorite poll story:
I would vote for the AP high school polls for hoops and football. Who knows who 90% of the teams are? You vote for your area teams if they are deserving, you vote for the teams they beat to make them look good, you vote for your school if you are from out of the area, and you vote for your friend's schools.
Well, I was nowhere near Cleveland when I was voting, and I had some friends who went to a HS in suburban Cleveland that was undefeated one year after years of sucking. I continually voted for that school #1. When each week the poll came out, it showed that school as "also receiving votes" and it for a few weeks had a (1) after its name, signifying one first-place vote. That was my vote.
One of my buddies was at one of their games and overhead their coaches talking. They were looking at the newspaper with the poll in it, with their name and my (1) behind it. The head coach said to the other guy, "At least someone out their respects us."
OR AT LEAST SOMEONE HAS FRIENDS THAT WENT TO YOUR HS, *****!!!!!