but spurrier is claimling it was all a big mix-up.isten. >> i admire and respect him, and i apologize to him. he should have been on that ballot. we messed up. i messed up. i tried to correct it the best i can. i was able to put tim tebow in today, so it's unanimous. >> so we asked sports nation, do you believe spurrier? >> i do. i covered him for two years. he was a lot of things. he was always honest. he was never dishonest. the bottom line, college football coaches are so busy, game film, scouting, recruiting, coaching. they don't fill out all s.e.c., big 10, they don't even fill out the top 25 b.c.s. rankings on a weekly basis. they give it to their sports information director. steve spurrier is on a golf course or watching film. i totally believe it. he's not the only coach to just casually dwlans at an all-conference ballot. he's not the only one. >> i don't care if he did, didn't, made a mistake, gave it to someone else, it's irrelevant. did you need the stand up there and apologize for that? this is a poll preseason. it means

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you know, its former florida coach steve spur spurrier.is came up wednesday in the thursday morning paper, i read, oh, some guy did not vote for tim tebow. who was there? and, our director of operation filled it out brought it into me one day and i looked at it quickly, and i said, that's fine. i signed off on it. so i called it. and i said certainly we had tim tebow. he's actually coached. we had sneed. i said wait a minute, why? we already had 10 gators. maybe get another guy. and i said no, no, that's bad. that's my fault. i take full responsibility. i messed that up. and i apologize to tim tebow. we should not have messed that up. we screwed it up pretty badly. i'm embarrassed about it. i feel badly about it. and that's the way it happened. >> the vikes the nfl fans, all still waiting for brett favre to make up his mind about his nfl return. the viking knew what he would do. but it could be sooner than that. here's rachel nichols. >> while those close to brett favre are leaving open a window that the quarterback could decide his nfl fu