[colonel4life]

I don't know who in particular votes on this, but I am pretty sure that this is voted on by local newspapers. I believe what happens is these sports writers vote for the teams they know about (their local teams) and then the rest is voted on based off of name recognition/tradition. That's the only thing that explains what you see in this pole all the time.

Plus things are watered down a little bit with the 6 class system. I like the idea of having more classes because it helps prevent the same teams winning the state championship every year. But it also allows teams to make the playoffs by default.