Jason Collington

Tulsa World Executive Editor

One of the football polls checked each week by fans includes a vote from Norman by someone who works for the Tulsa World.

Mason Young will make his picks each week as The Associated Press Top 25 voter for the state of Oklahoma. It’s the second straight year he’s doing it.

He explained to readers recently that in his first poll, he picked Penn State, not Texas, as the No. 1 team .

Young covers OU athletics for us. He excelled at the OU Daily, the great student publication at the University of Oklahoma, which propelled him to land internships with us, the Detroit Free Press and the Kansas City Star before we hired him full time.

Young’s deadline for his ballot is 10 a.m. Sunday. To meet it, Young told me he starts that job right after his

See Full Page