Week 9 BlogPoll Ballot

by RPT on Oct 27, 2008 10:00 AM CDT in National Football 2008

One more week, one more ballot:

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Texas	--
2	Alabama	--
3	Penn State	--
4	Oklahoma	--
5	Texas Tech	1
6	Florida	1
7	Oklahoma State	2
8	Georgia	1
9	Southern Cal	1
10	Utah	--
11	Boise State	1
12	Ohio State	1
13	TCU	1
14	Missouri	7
15	LSU	2
16	Tulsa	8
17	Brigham Young	3
18	Minnesota	8
19	Florida State	7
20	Ball State	3
21	Pittsburgh	4
22	Connecticut	4
23	South Florida	5
24	Michigan State	2
25	Georgia Tech	6

Dropped Out: Boston College (#15), Virginia Tech (#16), Kansas (#22), Vanderbilt (#25)

Justifications (or at least the best I can do):

Spots 1-3 explain themselves
Oklahoma sticks at No. 4, as Texas Tech gets an audition for a top 4 spot this coming weekend depending on how tough it plays Texas
I can't justify dropping OSU below 7. That is a damn good, well-coached football team who apparently gave the nation's top team hell
Ohio State drops only one spot following hanging tough with No. 3 Penn State
Mizzou comes in at No. 14, right ahead of an LSU team coming off a beatdown by Georgia
I finally start to give Tulsa its due at No. 16
Same for Minnesota, who ends up at No. 18
I have no idea what to do with the Big East. As The Boy and I were discussing over the weekend, someone in that conference is going to go 4-3 in-conference and get spanked in a BCS Bowl
I want so badly to be on the Georgia Tech bandwagon (Wooo Flexbone!), but Virginia pops up and bites another ACC team I find myself liking after beating North Carolina last week

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Congrats to you...

…on sticking with Oklahoma State. They’re good. I don’t buy the argument from (some) UT fans that they didn’t bring their “A” game on Saturday. They had 113 rushing yards; OSU gives up 116 on average. They had 390 passing yards, OSU gives up 240 on average. They played well, OSU is just that good of a team and gave the Horns trouble. In my humble opinion, Okie State is a better team than OU right now — my team’s performance against the Sooners to the contrary.

It’s going to be a wild finish in the South. We still have the following games: UT/TTU, TTU/OSU, OSU/OU, TTU/OU.

Wow.

We'll carry the banner high!
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by TB on Oct 27, 2008 11:41 AM CDT reply actions

Why Florida ahead of Oklahoma State?

You didn’t drop them very far, that’s true, but what makes Florida better than them? Ole Miss is not a good team, and Texas is #1 for a reason.

Maybe I’m a homer here, but I’m not convinced that Ohio State is better than Missouri.

I don’t think any Big East teams deserve to be ranked, and I’m pretty skeptical about the ACC teams too.

by AlaTiger on Oct 27, 2008 11:59 AM CDT reply actions

To respond

- Florida and OSU are neck and neck, but the Gators slide just ahead by virtue of Florida’s chance to respond to its loss, which they’ve done. OSU’s chance will come soon enough.

- Mizzou is where it is by virtue of the plummet from the two losses. tOSU didn’t deserve to be punished too badly after the loss to Penn State, just as Mizzou didn’t deserve more than a seven-spot jump for destroying a hapless CU team. In time, this should adjust itself.

- The Big East/ACC conundrum continues to mess with my mind. But who goes ahead of them? Nebraska? Ole Miss?

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by RPT on Oct 27, 2008 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Maybe the problem is rank order

…instead of relative difference. If you had 1000 points to distribute among your top 25 or however many teams, you could indicate clearly groupings and differentials between teams.

by AlaTiger on Oct 27, 2008 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions

That's actually an outstanding idea

That’d be a great idea for polls in general. Give out a sum of point (almost like confidence points), and distribute them across the Top 25 in proportion to the team’s “true” relative rank.

That’d give more credence to the idea of “tiered” polls.

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by RPT on Oct 27, 2008 1:25 PM CDT up reply actions

I smell a 2nd BlogPoll :-)

And nominate rpt to head that up in between all the other stuff he does

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by The Beef on Oct 27, 2008 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions

my goal is starting to come together...

I want a 7-way tie at 4-3 in the Big East (with ‘Cuse going 0-7, of course), and I want a 12-way tie at 4-4 in the ACC. It’s looking more realistic now than ever.

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by Bill C. on Oct 27, 2008 12:01 PM CDT reply actions