BlogPoll Revamp 2009

It is time again to participate in Blogfrica's circle of life. We cull the herd, and then we welcome tiny mucus-covered baby voters onto the great plain of BlogPoll participation.

Three items: if you are on the "add" list and did not get an email from me, you should email me. If you did not hear back from me about not getting in, you should also email me. If you blog about one of the uncovered BCS teams, anyone in the Pac-10, ACC, Big 12, or the great wooly unwashed non-BCS masses, email me today and I'll consider you for last-ditch inclusion. SEC, Big East, and Big 10 blogs are currently out of luck.

And now on with the show:

Outgoing

The following blogs no longer exist and have been excised:

• SEC Football Talk (Auburn)
• ACC Football Report (FSU)
• Old Gold & Blog (Wake Forest)
• Bears Necessity (Cal)
• Varsity Blue (Michigan)
• Around The Oval (OSU)
• Mountainlair (WVU)

The following blogs didn't participate consistently last year or can no longer participate for reasons of time or conflict of interest and have also been excised:

• Deadspin (Tennessee – Clay Travis left)
• Texas A&M and Baseball In No Particular Order (A&M)
• TNABACG (Minnesota)
• Blue-Gray Sky (Notre Dame)
• Excuse Me For My Voice (Cal)

One blog was cut for years of embarrassing, poll-credibility-damaging homerdom:

• The Enlightened Spartan (Michigan State)

Repeat: cut for voting his team too high whenever there was the slightest opportunity to. Do not let this happen to you, good voter. One week, or three, in a season is not an unreasonable thing. Getting or being in contention for the CK Award whenever your team was even plausibly vote-worthy—which hasn't been the case with State very often—is cause for ejection.

Also, Michigan voter Russ Levine fumbled Football Outsiders' blogpoll vote over to ND partisan Brian Fremeau.

Incoming

ACC

• Gobbler Country (Virginia Tech)
• Eagle All Access (Boston College)
• Anton Azucar (Miami)
• From The Rumble Seat (Georgia Tech)

Big East

• WVU Pressbox (West Virginia)
• The Smoking Musket (West Virginia)
• Simon On Sports (UConn)
• Sox And Dawgs (UConn)
• The UConn Blog (UConn)
• The Bull Gator (South Florida)
• Beat Visitor (Rutgers)
• Eye Of A Panther (Pitt)

Big Ten

• Maize 'n' Brew (Michigan)
• The Wolverine Blog (Michigan)
• The Only Colors (Michigan State)
• SpartyMSU (Michigan State)
• We Will Always Have Tempe (Ohio State)
• Not Qualified To Comment (Illinois)
• Hail To The Orange (Illinois)
• Nittany White Out (Penn State)
• Smart Football (Purdue)

Big Twelve

• Tilting At Windmills (Oklahoma)
• Fantasy College Blitz (Oklahoma State)
• Atomic Teeth (Missouri)

Pac-10

UPDATE: Hey, awesome I forgot an entire conference!

• Bears With Fangs (Cal)
• Coug Center (Washington State)
• Pitchfork Nation (Arizona State)
• House of Sparky (Arizona State)

SEC

• Red Cup Rebellion (Mississippi)
• A Sea Of Blue (Kentucky)

Other

• Over The Pylon (Ball State)
• One Bronco Nation Under God (Boise State)
• Red And Black Attack (Northern Illinois)
• All Pac 10 (Somewhat oddly, Tulsa)

Voter Distribution And Stats

The poll swells from 88 blogs last year to 107 this year. Breakdown by conference, with mid-majors regarded as another 12-team conference for purposes of vote balancing:

The Big Ten and SEC remain over-represented, but less so than last year thanks to an influx of Big East and mid-major voters. Overall, the poll is 22% more balanced this year.

Teams without representation in the major conferences:

• SEC: Vanderbilt
• ACC: Duke, NC State, Wake Forest, Maryland
• Pac 10: Washington, Stanford, UCLA, Arizona
• Big 10: none
• Big 12: Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State
• Big East: Cincinnati