Week 1 BlogPoll Ballot

by rptgwb on Sep 2, 2008 10:15 AM CDT in National Football 2008 Comment 8 comments

With official ballots not being due until Wednesday, this ballot is open for argument.

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Southern Cal	--
2	Georgia	--
3	Oklahoma	--
4	Florida	--
5	Missouri	--
6	Ohio State	--
7	LSU	--
8	Wisconsin	--
9	West Virginia	--
10	Auburn	1
11	Texas	1
12	Texas Tech	1
13	Kansas	1
14	South Florida	2
15	Arizona State	2
16	Alabama	10
17	Wake Forest	4
18	Clemson	8
19	Illinois	1
20	Penn State	1
21	Tennessee	6
22	Brigham Young	2
23	UCLA	3
24	Cincinnati	--
25	Utah	1

Dropped Out: Oregon (#22), Virginia Tech (#23), Fresno State (#25).

Just Missed Out: Fresno State, Cal, Stanford, Oregon

Quick Thoughts:

Bama makes its debut at No. 17. I thought they were too young, but they looked pretty ready to me by the end of their win over Clemson.
Virginia Tech, who I've been down on all offseason, is now nowhere near my Top 25.
Tennessee, who I had been I high on, drops a six-spot thanks to the road loss to His Coachness Sir Rick Neuheisel and UCLA. The Bruins, as a result, replace Oregon at No. 23. Should I switch Tennessee and UCLA at Nos. 21 and 23?
Illinois takes a small drop to No. 19, but the Illini proved to me Saturday that they are definitely one of the Top 20 teams in America right now.
I gave Wake Forest a bump, not because they blew out Baylor (they should), but because they have the look of a team who inherently knows how to win football games. With Clemson and Va. Tech choking, I think the Deacs become the ACC frontrunners.
Utah rounds out the Top 25. Everyone seems to be sleeping on them thanks largely to all the spotlight on BYU this year.
I'm having trouble with allowing myself to drop Fresno State out of the Top 25 after a solid road win at Rutgers. I want to put the Bulldogs back in, but who on my current Top 25 would have to go to make room?
The "Just Missed Out" category features a lot of California flair. I was very impressed with Stanford in the Cardinal win over Oregon State.

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I think Penn State may be better than Wake

I know…tough to tell considering the team they played…but the offense showed a lot more than I thought they would considering they changed the scheme. they have a VERY talented frosh RB who should be solid along with their defense…

I dont know about Tech moving up…was not impressed by their output in this game

I think the Bama pop may be a hair too high…though I do understand week 1 polls are always very reactionary since there is not much to base the movement off of.

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by The Beef on Sep 2, 2008 10:26 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Tech's move is solely a function of Clemson's drop

I should get a better look at Penn State against Oregon State next week.

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by rptgwb on Sep 2, 2008 10:41 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs

Oregon falls out?

They throttled (an albeit bad) Washington with their #3 QB, and they fall out? Not sure about that.

And I’d say I was impressed with Stanford, only I expected Oregon State to suck, especially on defense, so I can only give them so much credit for that.

And that looks about right for ‘Bama. It’s already driving me crazy watching people overreact about them. They have like 19 new players—people can actually watch film on them now, and it’s going to make a difference. They’re solid, but they’re still likely to only finish around 8-4 or so.

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by The Boy on Sep 2, 2008 10:52 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Stinks of APness

First: APness sounds hilarious.

Second: Tennessee ahead of UCLA makes no sense. It was settled. We are a week in, these teams have no other games on their resume. Right now, UCLA is better. Don’t do the AP thing and derive rankings the rest of the season from the first ballot.

Beyond that, Oregon is being treated rather harshly, I agree, and I think Alabama is getting too much credit for beating Clemson (which is still coached by Tommy Bowden)… oh right, I forgot Alabama is in the SEC and therefore qualified to be our next Vice President (as a team).

by amorphous on Sep 2, 2008 11:06 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

i would

drop ucla and tennessee out. oregon and fresno stay in. clemson way down the list

by Wooderson on Sep 2, 2008 11:56 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs

Things I don't agree with.

-Moving Texas Tech up. They did not look good at home against a bad Eastern Washington team.
-Tennessee any higher than, say, No. 24. Tennessee showed me exactly nothing last night, and if they’re giving up big drives, primarily through the air, to the Fightin’ Neuheisels, they are going to struggle big time come SEC conference play.
-Wake Forest moving up four spots. Two spots? Maybe. But four spots for beating an awful, awful Baylor team?
-Fresno State drops out for beating Rutgers? Kick UCLA out and put them in the Just MIssed Out category until they do it again.
-I think you need to drop Mizzou a spot. I know, I’m going to catch crap on this blog for saying that, but until it becomes apparent that a) Juice Williams really is a good QB, or b) the defensive problems are fixable. I think both will happen, but I think for the sake of fairness and unbias (anti-bias?), you drop Mizzou a spot.

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by ghtd36 on Sep 2, 2008 2:11 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs