Blogpoll Ballot Week 6

Thought Iowa State should have replaced us in the AP Poll as well; I like what Paul Rhoads is doing over there (and I love to watch my fellow Iowans cry and complain and hate on Iowa State, especially in a year where they're better than their beloved Hawks).  Drop Florida State further and I can't argue too much (though I do admite, how much further, looking at the teams behind them, ew).  I keep seeing Mississippi State winning and always think to myself that they're on the come up before I remember to take an in depth look at what they've done, and man, talk about the notion of playing no one.

Obviously no respect at all for the B1G.  BTW - this should reflect the coaches poll and tsio should be ineligible.

Can't wait to see an unranked Michigan team win the B1G !

Go Blue!

Do you really think Ohio U would beat Michigan? Do you really? Do you really think Rutgers or NCSU would beat Michigan. Come on, man.

But you can't have ND at six.  They barely beat a terrible MSU team and potentially below average Purdue team and needed six TOs against Michigan to win by seven. The B1G is terrible and I'm not sure you should be giving that much credit to ND for those wins.

On the other hand, I'm not really sure who else should be in the Top 10.  There seems to be an elite three maybe four teams and the rest will be fighting to make up the most mediocre BCS bowl games since last year.

"Oklahoma finally got a win over a real team—a real team with no wins over BCS schools."

Texas Tech did beat Iowa State, no?  I could have sworn that was the reason all the cool kids were picking them to beat Oklahoma.

I'll also say, I'm glad I'm not putting up a top 25 to be ripped to shreds by the masses.  Have no idea of who is actually good in college football this year.

USC

Cincinatti

Louisville

Oklahoma

Louisiana Tech

...and I lol'd.

I know the B1G is down, and at the same time we all scheduled tough road games to start the year for some inexplicable reason, but right now most of the B1G has 2 losses. It doesn't seem to matter who you play, or how you play, just as long as you don't lose.

EDIT: Florida State loses to 2 loss ACC pipsqueak NCState and drops 4 spots, LSU loses at top 5 ranked Florida and drops 10 spots. Yeah, okay...

Good thing this and all other polls are irrelevant or I might have been miffed at the Michigan snub.

Specifically, they're still way better than Georgia, Oregon State, or Florida State, and I'm not sure about Clemson.

You can justify either Notre Dame at #6 or Michigan Unranked, but after watching that game, it's awfully tough to justify both of those spots at the same time.

Massey (NOT the silly BCS version of the Massey, of course):

1. Alabama
2. South Carolina
3. Florida
4. Oregon
5. Kansas State
6. Notre Dame
7. Oklahoma
8. West Virginia
9. Texas
10. Texas A&M
11. Georgia
12. LSU
13. Baylor
14. Texas Tech
15. Ohio State
16. USC
17. Stanford
18. Iowa State
19. Arizona State
20. Oregon State
21. Mississippi State
22. Michigan
23. Florida State
24. Oklahoma State
25. Rutgers

Six SEC and six Big 12 teams in the top 14. I have never seen conference domination like that in a computer poll.

Sagarin has bit more love for the PAC than this, but his synthesis rating has five SEC teams in the top 7 and his predictor has four in the top 6 (predictor's not as fond of LSU).

Sagarin also thinks that if North Dakota State was in the Leaders division they'd be favored to win it. They're a point better than Wisconsin and six points better than Purdue.

Schools which cannot go to a bowl game, nor cannot go to their conference championship game, should not be ranked.

...and in the case of tUoOS, I use the term, "school" loosely... we ain’t come to play SCHOOL, classes are POINTLESS.

Maybe I haven't taken enough time to read previous BlogPoll comments, but this one seems to have really kicked the hornets nest.



Y U angar people!