A survey of writers and editors for the Sporting News, SportsBusiness Journal and SportsBusiness Daily put the CBS college football analyst at the top of a 25-man list.

Rounding out the top 10: Cris Collinsworth, Al Michaels, Phil Simms, Kirk Herbstreit, Troy Aikman, Ron Franklin, Verne Lundquist, Joe Buck and Jim Nantz.

Surveys of this nature are designed to produce lively pro-and-con arguments among couch potatoes.

But this list offers more than its share of cons.

To begin with, lumping together play-by-play men with booth analysts in a single survey is like mixing Jack Daniel's with grapefruit juice. (Yes, I tried that once. It was awful.)

Beyond this unworkable categorization, I evidently have been watching different college and NFL games than these writers and editors.

Example: ABC's Brent Musburger, the master of the sports cliche, ranks 13th, way ahead of CBS's venerable Dick Enberg, whose astute knowledge of the NFL, particularly the AFC, is encyclopedic. And Enberg's play-by-play focus remains intact.

Bob Papa, the NFL Network's play-by-play man who constantly reminds us about his employer, also ranks ahead of Enberg.

Who stuffed that ballot box?

Meanwhile, CBS's Dan Dierdorf didn't even make the list of 25, which includes Mike Patrick, Gus Johnson and Daryl Johnston.

Using the judges' awkward, questionable survey, here is my top 10:

Michaels, Collinsworth, Lund- quist, Danielson, Herbstreit, Enberg, Mike Tirico, Dierdorf, Nantz and Buck.

Any agreement or argument?