College football fans erupted after AP Poll voter Haley Sawyer made a notable ballot blunder by omitting the undefeated South Florida from her top 25... and then stumbled through a bizarre Zoom call, defending her mistake with nonsensical statements, which only made things worse. Doug Kezirian breaks down why the initial fumble wasn’t the end of the world, but “the cover-up was worse than the crime” – the doubling-down, dismissive word-salad response insulted fans and fueled a larger debate about women in sports media, accountability, and the credibility of the AP college football poll itself. Doug looks at the backlash, the bigger issue of trust in the media, and considers whether Sawyer should lose her AP vote.
“She’s not entrusted to cure cancer, but she is expected to follow college football and have a defensible ballot.” ~ Doug Kezirian
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HARD PASS Ep. #38
📌 On Today’s Episode:
00:00 - Intro
00:42 - Huddle Up
🏈 Haley Sawyer’s AP Poll ballot backlash: the mistake, the word-salad defense, and why the “cover-up” became the real story.
05:13 - Heat Check
🔥 Social media outrage, calls for her vote to be revoked, and the bigger question of whether women in sports face an unfairly small margin for error.
10:50 - Fans in the Stands
📣 Fans are heated over the Ravens' choke, and have some words for coach John Harbaugh's punting play that ended in disaster.
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