Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week 1

LSU's QB looked like he'd be a better fit at one of the service academies, but with all the other playmakers they have I don't know that I'd call them the 23rd best team in the country.

if Miami (YTM) is #11 shouldn't FSU be ranked? At least ahead of Oregon, IMHE.

Hey Tim! I gotta give you some props on the Canes. Not only were you one of the only people putting Miami on your initial ballot, but you had them in the poll over Florida State.

Nice work. Jacory Harris sure looks like a playmaker and that whole team is loaded with sophomores and redshirt freshmen. Very exciting.

A big game a week from Thursday: GTech at Miami. A top 10 spot on your ballot may be up for grabs.

One question......did you give any thoughts about putting Cincy in there. I can buy leaving Oregon in there given they were on the road at a place nobody ever wins at, but I think the Bearcats should in there over KU.

Otherwise, keep up the good work and enjoy the games.

Georgia dropped WAY too much...they lost a game they were expected to lose and held it close for a long time.

I think that's a tad high for our lady. I don't know if I drop them out, but 22 or so seems better to me. And if you really believe that Michigan has a shot at them on Saturday, don't you have to have Michigan ranked? Just out of curiosity, where do you have Michigan "ranked" 26th? 30th? 40th?...

I'm selling Oregon. I'd put MSU ahead of them. I'd put Michigan ahead of them. I'm sure if I thought long and hard about it, I could name another half-dozen teams I'd put in front of them.

Couple things. Not sure Penn St. deserves to jump five after a victory over Akron while Cal drops one after smoking Maryland. Secondly, TCU had a first round bye, not sure enough teams lost/looked bad to warrant a jump of 7 for them.

Do you and Brian collaborate on this ballot, or has he given up his spot in his own poll entirely?

FAU won the "neutral site" Motor City Bowl over CMU last year, so they're not some complete garbage opponent.

The Horned Frogs move up 7 spots for sitting at home picking their butts?

Also: da U looked pretty decent. I really want to see Jacory Harris at least get an invite to New York at some point in his career. I wanna know if he goes for the Leopard print or fuzzy purple (or both?).

• Nebraska was ranked and took care of their FBS opponent.
• Baylor beat a BCS opponent (Wake Forest) convincingly. Griffin is good.
• Kentucky also looked awesome against Miami(Not That Miami)
• Florida State may have lost, but they looked impressive in the loss
• Navy - see Florida State

Cal should be above PSU. What they did to Maryland was criminal.

Georgia showed no offense outside that first drive and shouldn't be above LSU; despite the fact UW outplayed LSU, LSU still won.

Mizzou should be on there, at least above Oregon.

I don't think you can drop Nebraska for smoking FAU, and raise up UT for beating WKU in WKU's first FBS game.

I don't think Virginia Tech deserves to drop so far. Even though they only had 150 yards to Bama's 500, they were still in the game late into the 4th quarter. When you consider their 243 yards of kickoff returns, VT had 409 all-purpose yards compared to Bama's 632. I agree they deserve a drop, but I don't know if I see them behind Notre Dame and Cincy.

The top half (besides BYU) looks good to me. I don't understand the dismissal of Pitt (38-3 W), Nebraska (49-3 W) and Clemson (37-14 W). I'd keep those teams ahead of the Utes (sloppy W against a very poor D1 team) and Oregon (L/ fisticuffs/ loss of top RB for season). BYU got fortunate with the loss of Bradford and are a better fit at #15, IMO.

I'd get rid of Oregon. They got trounced in the run game (their bread and butter) and lost their top RB for the season.

Add me in to those who think you should drop Oregon. No idea why you'd drop Nebraska when they won 49-3 against an FBS team that isn't horrid -- their QB is the Sun Belt's preseason offensive player of the year, and they did beat CMU in their bowl game last year as well. I'd rather see Nebraska in there over Oregon or even Kansas.

Mountain West has the most teams in the top 10. Not saying that that's a bad thing or a good thing. Just different.

- I'm thinking TCU a little high at the moment (more like 18-22 for me)

- I wouldn't have dinged LSU as much as you, however. Seattle is a hell of a place to play, whether pro or collegiate. With any semblance of competency from coaching, a trip to UW will never be anything other than damn difficult.

- As bad as Illinois might be, I'd think Missouri would at least be worthy of a 20's ranking. They were impressive. Or maybe Illinois made them look impressive. Or maybe vice versa. Whatever, it's early season ranking.

Tennessee in? wow.

to assume that what we saw last night between FSU and Miami wasn't Michigan-Purdue 2008. I'll wait until they both play someone other than each other before put either one in the top 10 or 15.

Not sure how you can move PSU up five spots for taking care of business against a cream puff and leave ND at the same spot as last week. Either move both or neither.

And if this poll is strictly based upon resume, Western Michigan is a better team than Akron, so why aren't our Wolverines ranked ahead of PSU as we beat a tougher opponent? Until we lose to someone, we are an undefeated team and our ranking should be based on who we have beaten. For that matter, we beat a tougher team than Florida beat. Or is it bad form to be a shameless homer?

Big props for putting Cincy in, if only for the fact that they're likely to dominate the Big East and unranked teams in the BCS is ew.

Re: Notre Dame v. Michigan's rankings - It's a resume ranking, not a power poll. Nevada was expected to be better than Western, and Notre Dame beat them more convincingly than we beat Western. That said, they didn't look as good doing it as the score would indicate, so maybe I have them just a tiny bit too high.