Thanks for clarifying. I’m not surprised a coach (or, more likely, their assistant) didn’t take their pre-season vote seriously, it would have been different to see an AP voter do the same.
Regardless, pre-season polls are just this side of pointless and Texas is perennially overrated.
Of course the poll have more meaning after every week. Still, most people will begin to rank what they think they see starting in August. Each week adds data points with the last week being the most important. Every poll will get a great deal of interest.