I think its 50 coaches voting ...so 10% voted them 4th or lower. You're gonna throw out 10% of the votes?

Of course he has an agenda all coaches do I would imagine a few of the 17 coaches that voted Alabama 3rd were trying to push their agendas too. You gonna throw them out too? ...heck there goes 25% of the voters.

However with that said, its not too far fetched to think a defense minded coach thinks a good team(Stanford)with the 25th ranked Defense if better than the good team(OK State) with the 107th ranked Defense.