Week 7 BlogPoll Ballot
by rptgwb
on Oct 13, 2008 11:00 AM CDT
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Trying to put a method to the madness...
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
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| 1 | Alabama |  1 |
| 2 | Texas | 3 |
| 3 | Penn State | 3 |
| 4 | Oklahoma |  3 |
| 5 | Oklahoma State | 18 |
| 6 | Texas Tech | 2 |
| 7 | Brigham Young | 2 |
| 8 | Florida | 3 |
| 9 | Georgia | 1 |
| 10 | Missouri | 7 |
| 11 | Southern Cal | 2 |
| 12 | Utah | 2 |
| 13 | LSU | 9 |
| 14 | Ohio State | 2 |
| 15 | Boise State | 3 |
| 16 | North Carolina | 9 |
| 17 | South Florida | 10 |
| 18 | Kansas | 3 |
| 19 | Vanderbilt | 3 |
| 20 | Virginia Tech | 4 |
| 21 | California | 5 |
| 22 | Oregon | 2 |
| 23 | Michigan State | 3 |
| 24 | Ball State | 2 |
| 25 | Tulsa | 1 |
Dropped Out: Auburn (#12), Wisconsin (#17)
On the radar: Fresno State, UConn, Pitt, Florida State, Minnesota, Wake Forest, TCU
Justifications (or at least the best I can do):
- Before we begin, the delta numbers are off and I'm not sure why. Here's my ballot from last week.
- 'Bama takes number one, although I certainly have no objections to anyone that places Texas there this week. The tiebreaker for me was where the signature win came. Texas did it on a neutral field, 'Bama did it in Athens. But I think these two are fairly interchangeable as 1A and 1B.
- Oklahoma on drops to No. 4. This is a bit of Big 12 homerism, I'll admit, since I've dropped other teams much farther after losses. But OU played very well against a team who has legitimate claims to the No. 1 spot in the country.
- The Mike Gundy Mizzou-killers make a major hop to No. 5. Again, it's a bit of homerism, but they earned at least a Top 10 spot with the road win in Columbia. The perennial "OSU is going to emerge" story is finally playing out as scripted. Now, just please don't lay an egg anytime soon.
- Texas Tech moves to No. 6, and I'm absolutely sick about it. If Joe Ganz hadn't channeled his inner Ryan Leaf in overtime, Nebraska should have walked out of Lubbock with a win. Yes... Nebraska. Someone help me justify a way to get them out of my top ten.
- Florida bumps itself up after manhandling a good LSU team.
- I drop Mizzou seven spots to No. 10, as I justify it by saying the OSU loss was a "better loss" than USC's loss to Oregon State. Now that I look at it, that same philosophy means I should probably bump LSU a bit. Thoughts?
- After that, I'm not too sure how much else I have to say. Any egregious errors?
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- If OU only drops to #4, then I’d say UT’s win is more impressive than Alabama’s, and they should be #1.
- I’d have Florida above both BYU and Tech. And if you feel sick having Tech that high…don’t have them that high!
- I cannot in any way, shape or form justify bumping UNC five spots for beating Notre Friggin Dame. No way should KU drop a spot for beating CU if UNC jumps 5 for beating ND.
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by The Boy on
Oct 13, 2008 11:16 AM CDT
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The reason Tech sickens me is because...
… no one else deserves to be that high either.
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by rptgwb on
Oct 13, 2008 12:01 PM CDT
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Texas beating Oklahoma is more impressive than Alabama beating Georgia.
I disagree with The Boy on Florida. Ole Miss was a bad loss. Maybe not Oregon State bad, but bad.
As for Tech, they’ll lose soon enough, but I thought that about Okie St. too. The problem with lowering Tech is who you put above them. BYU? Seriously, who have they played? Whipping up on a horrid UCLA team that barely beat a putrid Tennessee team proves nothing.
I have to agree with The Boy on UNC and Kansas.
by AlaTiger on
Oct 13, 2008 11:53 AM CDT
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Agreed...Florida did their bad losing at home
USC at least had the good sense to go on the road and do it.
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by The Beef on
Oct 13, 2008 12:05 PM CDT
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The move to CBS has messed up the BlogPoll
I went in to make changes to this week’s ballot, which was due by noon today, to find that I can no longer make changes. Any ballot work I do today applies to the Week 8 ballot.
This is the mainstream media’s attempt to sabotage the BlogPoll!!
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Chance McDanielson for Heisman
by rptgwb on
Oct 13, 2008 1:26 PM CDT
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Texas Tech makes you Sick?
I don’t guess I understand everyone’s logic about wanting to leave Texas Tech out of the top 10. The only thing Texas Tech has done is won the last eight games in a row, beating the #4 team in the Nation and the #20 team in the Nation, with their last loss coming against the current #1 team in the Nation. What more can the players that put on the uniform do than win the games that are on the schedule?
I realize no one wants to acknowledge it but there are only 10 undefeated teams in the Nation, and one of them got scared at the last second and pulled out of a scheduled game against Texas Tech, Tulsa. So, Texas Tech had to scramble at literally the last minute to find someone to play against, it’s not Texas Tech’s fault and it certainly isn’t the players fault that Tulsa is scared to play Texas Tech. It’s not just Tulsa either, Texas Tech made the call to LSU and asked if they wanted to do a series, Tech will travel to Baton Rouge this year, if LSU will come to Lubbock in 2009, LSU was also too scared to play Texas Tech.
I guess Texas Tech should have just lost Saturday to Nebraska, because apparently according to all the media and blog people it’s better to get beat, than to barely pull out a win. Florida and USC are actually being rewarded for losing games while Texas Tech is being punished for winning the games on their schedule, pure stupidity!
by TechAdvisor on
Oct 13, 2008 5:53 PM CDT
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I certainly don't hold the Tulsa thing against Tech
… and I agree that they’ve gotten a bad deal in that regard since many people have seemingly glossed over Tulsa pulling out of the agreement.
Around these parts, though, having that much trouble with that Nebraska team, especially in your own stadium, is cause for concern.
As we’re learning quickly, though, teams that aren’t “established” national powers have to do more than just scrape by. The USCs, Floridas, and Georgias of the world will seemingly always receive benefit of the doubt. No matter how we perceive the successes of “the next tier” of teams like Texas Tech and Missouri, the fact is, you not only have to win, you have to win impressively against good teams and win mercilessly against bad teams.
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by rptgwb on
Oct 13, 2008 7:15 PM CDT
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