Blogpoll Draft Ballot: Week 8

i dont see a single reason for houston, lsu, oregon, cincinnati, or tcu to be ranked ahead of Georgia Tech.
Houston - look at the schedule fall off after miss st. 4th and 5th best wins are tulsa and SMU, while GT's are clemson and uva.
LSU - auburn is nose-diving and ugay is exceedingly average. no big wins.
Oregon - resume chart totally bereft of anything of note
Cincinnati see Oregon
TCU - the second and third biggest wins on their chart are GT's 4th and 5th. their biggest win comes against a team that lost by 40 at home to the team that is ranked as GT's 6th best win.

very perplexing

Give Navy a look for maybe one of those bottom slots, they're 6-2 with their only losses to OSU and Pitt

Texas did everything it was supposed to and has had 1 close game against their biggest rival. Florida just doesn't look like "Florida" and if Tebow continues to be their 1 and only source of offense they are going to get tagged by someone. Arkansas hadn't missed a FG all season and then they miss 2 against UF, they play like crap against MSU and get a few beneficial calls to help them out. At some point you've got to accept that the SEC outside of UF, Alabama and maybe LSU (who has beat a boat load of no one) just isn't that good to get a free pass. If UF goes undefeated then for sure, give them the #1 ranking but Texas has looked better and it looks as tho McCoy might finally be returning to last years form.

EDIT: Proposed top 4. Alabama (barely), Texas, Iowa, Florida

I know the MAC isn't all that great this year, but CMU is 7-1 after an opening season loss in Tucson (UA is at 19 in your poll). They also dusted off baby brother and have pretty much rolled through the rest of their schedule including EMU and WMU. There next two games @ Boston College and vs Toledo are basically their season. I think they deserve some credit for scheduling some tough teams OOC. Fire Up Chips!

I'm just not sure what Iowa has done to merit being #2. They have a great win over Penn State. That PSU win looks more impressive to me given what the Lions did to UM on Saturday.

However, I know this goes away from the "what have you done for me lately" mantra that drives the polls, but some of Iowa's wins are just not to impressive to me. Examples:
--Defeating FCS Northern Iowa by 1 at home.
--Defeating Arkansas St. by 3 at home.
--(Unfortunately) Defeating Michigan by 2 at home.

I think they are a top 5 team, but I wouldn't be comfortable putting them at #2.

My top 5 would be Texas, Alabama/Florida (can't decide), then Iowa, and Cincinnati with Boise St. just on the outside looking in.

I just cannot see Iowa ahead of Florida or Texas. Florida may not look like the Florida of past seasons, but they are still winning. Iowa scrapes by in non-impressive fashion. They would slip to fourth in my opinion. But hey, not OSU/MSU B10, woo hoo.

really??? They are vastly overrated and shouldn't be that high. They almost lost to Northern Iowa and barely held on against Arkansas State. A #2 team shouldn't be barely winning against a D1AA and a low class D1A school. They should be smashing them.

Cincinnati has been more impressive than Iowa and shouldn't drop a spot. I would put Iowa behind Cincy. My top 10 would have been:

1. Alabama
2. Texas
3. Cincy
4. Florida
5. USC
6. TCU
7. Boise State
8. Oregon
9. Iowa
10. LSU

I too agree Iowa should not be 2. I would put Florida Texas and Cinci in front of them and have them at 5. Texas should go ahead of Florida and Cinci 4th. Otherwise solid poll.

Lot's of close teams in the 5-through-16 range. I'd move down USC a few notches -- probably below Oregon, whom I'd move up. I'd also move down Houston (lost to UTEP!), while moving OK State and Pittsburgh ahead of 2-loss Virginia Tech.

A one-loss WVU team has to be considered ahead of all two-loss teams (save maybe Miami and VT). Their resume isn't particularly impressive, but other two-loss teams getting blown out by top 25 teams doesn't count as a resume builder to me - I'm looking at Wisconsin and Cal in particular.

I also don't see OSU as anything more than a fringe top 25 teams based on resume.

When they just beat a mediocre Michigan State team on a last second miracle? Both Florida and Texas have looked much bette thus far.

The BCS computers have Iowa at #1...fwiw. (And actually, I think that it IS worth something because the computers can essentially only do resume ranking, like Tim does.)

If you look at the resume, I guess it depends on how you weight games.

(sorry guys, I don't know how do do cool charts, and don't have the time to learn right now.)
Iowa....................Florida
21-10 PSU...............13-3 LSU
20-10 Wisconsin.........41-7 Kentucky
27-17 Arizona...........23-13 Tennessee
30-28 Michigan..........23-20 Arkansas
15-13 Michigan St.......29-19 Miss St.
35-3 Iowa State.........56-6 Troy
24-21 Arkansas St.......62-3 Charleston
17-16 N Iowa

I say PSU > LSU
Wisconsin > Kentucky
Arizona ~ Tennessee
Michigan > Arkansas
Michigan St. > Miss. St.
Iowa St. > Troy
Arkansas St/N Iowa < Charleston

So Iowa (5.5) > Florida (1.5) IF you are doing the resume like Tim is...

I think that if you have a beef, you should have it because he didn't have Iowa over Florida last week, and the only things that changed were Iowa 15 MSU 13 and Florida 29 Miss St. 19. So you could have made a similar case last week for Iowa over Florida.

I just don't think Iowa is that great of a team, they barely win games that they should just go out there and dominate. But then again what team in college football has been dominant this season?

Pitt just blasted South Florida. I really see them above 16th.
TCU/Boise: One will get a BCS berth, and another will play in a lower tier bowl. TCU beat Boise last year, which means nothing. But TCU has played better teams and they still face Utah, so if they run the table I see no reason why they would be behind Boise State which beat one good team this year. So I agree with TCU.
Georgia Tech: A lot better than 12. They lost a game and can't play from behind, but they rarely are. Then again, I don't care what bowl they play in because they will lose. Give a defense enough time to prepare for them and the GT offense won't be able to move the ball

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