It's a long-held policy of the American Football Coaches Association that its members are prohibited from voting in the coaches' poll for teams that are under major sanctions, as in a postseason ban, AFCA spokesman Vince Thompson confirmed. That policy was in place before USA Today began overseeing the poll in 1991.
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