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Blogpoll Ballot, Week 10 Comment Count

Brian

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MGoBlog Ballot - Week 10

Rank Team Delta
1 Alabama Crimson Tide Arrow_up 1
2 Kansas St. Wildcats Arrow_down -1
3 Oregon Ducks --
4 Notre Dame Fighting Irish --
5 Florida St. Seminoles --
6 Florida Gators --
7 LSU Tigers --
8 Ohio St. Buckeyes --
9 South Carolina Gamecocks Arrow_up 1
10 Oregon St. Beavers Arrow_up 4
11 Georgia Bulldogs --
12 Clemson Tigers Arrow_down -3
13 Oklahoma Sooners Arrow_down -1
14 Texas A&M Aggies Arrow_down -1
15 Stanford Cardinal --
16 UCLA Bruins --
17 Louisville Cardinals Arrow_up 5
18 Nebraska Cornhuskers Arrow_down -1
19 USC Trojans Arrow_down -1
20 Texas Longhorns new
21 Northwestern Wildcats Arrow_up 2
22 Rutgers Scarlet Knights new
23 Michigan Wolverines new
24 Kent St. Golden Flashes new
25 Ohio Bobcats new
Dropouts: Texas Tech Red Raiders, Oklahoma St. Cowboys, Arizona Wildcats, Duke Blue Devils, Mississippi St. Bulldogs

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A REMINDER. I don't actually look at my old ballots before I assemble these things so no jitter is pretty weird.

NEW #1. Yeah, beating LSU leaps Alabama back to the top. That game doesn't affect LSU's status at all because hey, everyone behind LSU: just try and lose to Alabama by four points.

Oregon State soars! No reason.

Clemson plummets! No reason.

Michigan! Oh hell you try to find a team to put in there. Michigan's only losses are to Alabama, ND, and Nebraska when they did not have a QB for half of it.

MACtion! See the previous bullet.

Comments

Tater

November 6th, 2012 at 10:17 AM ^

If Michigan played Oregon and played KSU, which team would you be the most scared of?  For me, hands down, it would be Oregon.  I still think  lot of voters, bloggers and coaches alike, are giving Snyder and KSU the benefit of the doubt here becuase he seems to be everything that is right about college football, while Oregon seems to be everything that is wrong about college football.  

Both programs are morally bankrupt, and cheated to amass their rosters, but Alabama vs Oregon is the only "championship" game that makes sense on the field.  Hopefully, KSU and ND can manage to lose once each in the next three weeks and take it out of the hands of voters.  

I suppose, in the interest of fair play, that I should hope for Oregon and Alabama to lose and for ND vs KSU to be the "championship" game, but I am old enough to remember how insufferable ND fans are after an MNC.  They aren't classless like Sparty, or ignorant trolls like OSU, but their belief that God wants their team to win, and that they are just plain better than everyone else, puts them in a special category of arrogance.

 

 

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M-Wolverine

November 6th, 2012 at 12:24 PM ^

I think he gets love for being a good coach that took a bad program and made them good, and stuck with them, but I don't know if that makes his program a role model. He traditionally fills his team with Juco players. Not a couple to fill out a roster. Like almost 30 on this squad alone. I don't know that's the college athletic experience I think the sport is modeled after.  And guys who like to cut corners for quicker wins that way generally do it other ways too. 

He might just look good compared to the other guys running undefeated teams right now.

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david from wyoming

November 6th, 2012 at 11:59 AM ^

Have you watched a single K-State game all season? Since this is the internet and you are just going to lie to me, I'll cut you off at the pass and say that you haven't watched a game because then you would have not written this post.

K-State is a good team. They were 10-3 last year and returned just about everyone. Their QB is going to be a heisman trophy finalist and no one is going to question that. Why shouldn't they be respected?

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lhglrkwg

November 6th, 2012 at 12:04 PM ^

but they feel like w team waiting to lose 35-14 as soon as someone manages to shutdown Collin Klein whereas Oregon is basically the unstoppable machine on offense but without much defense to support it. I do think Oregon has a much better shot of beating Bama than KState does. Collin Klein would be eaten alive

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oriental andrew

November 6th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^

There aren't many teams you could make a case to put ahead of usc. 

You could maybe make a case for Michigan, which has significantly better losses (all ranked teams, including 2 top 4). 

TTU is a good possibility, as they have better losses than USC (all ranked teams) and better wins than Michigan (WVU, TCU).  So what I'm saying is that TTU is a big omission in your blogpoll, Brian (imo). 

Texas is the other one that could reasonably be considered ahead of USC in the blogpolls, as they have a better record (7-2 vs 6-3), better wins and better (and fewer) losses. 

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Logan88

November 6th, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^

Not really related to Brian's personal poll, but I went to look at the overall results of the Blog poll and saw that Ohio State had 1 first place vote. Laughing to myself at the obvious homerish behavior of a delusional OSU-slappy blog writer I discovered that it was actually cast by the guy who writes a blog for...Boise State. That was definitely an "LOL...WUT?" moment.

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