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Blogpoll Rough Draft Ballot: Final Comment Count

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1 Alabama
2 Texas
3 Florida 3
4 Boise State 1
5 Ohio State 4
6 Iowa 4
7 Cincinnati 4
8 Oregon 1
9 Penn State 3
10 Georgia
11 LSU 2
12 Brigham Young 10
13 TCU 9
14 Utah
15 Virginia Tech 4
16 Georgia Tech 8
17 Southern Cal
18 Pittsburgh 4
19 Oklahoma
20 Navy
21 Nebraska 2
22 Miami (Florida) 5
23 Stanford 5
24 Central Michigan 3
25 Connecticut
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Oregon State (#15), Oklahoma State (#16), Arizona (#20), Texas Tech (#23), Clemson (#24), North Carolina (#25).

This ballot is very rough, because I don't have a bunch of time today to come up with something, but I wanted to get a draft out there for people to critique. I didn't take a look at any of my past ballots, and I ranked teams based on what I think their resume probably looks like, because I don't have the time right now to do otherwise.

With that said, I'm sure there is a ton of stuff wrong with this ballot (BYU up 10 strike me immediately), so I'm bound to get a lot of... spirited comments. Try to keep them constructive. I'll post another, more polished draft ballot for additional commenting tomorrow morning, then the final ballot will come out Monday.

Northwestern hoops preview this afternoon.

Comments

neoavatara

January 9th, 2010 at 11:13 AM ^

No problem with your top 6. But Cincy at 7, after getting pummeled? And TCU lost to #4 close, and they drop 9 spots? That doesn't make sense. BYU you already noted...they don't deserve to be higher than 15, and I would put them closer to 20. Smaller quibbles...I would put Penn State above Oregon and Cincy. And why does CMU drop 3 spots for winning?

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RONick

January 9th, 2010 at 11:14 AM ^

Not that I think they should be ahead of Stanford or Nebraska, but Central loses and you drop them 3 spots? I thought that they looked pretty good...

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thisisme08

January 9th, 2010 at 4:01 PM ^

Agreed..it was a close game but geez..little harsh on the only Michigan team in the top 25. I dont care who you are but 12-2 is a good mark and as far the Arizona remarks that game was delated because of lighting which obv. could have played a part in the poor performance.

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Muttley

January 9th, 2010 at 5:05 PM ^

Sep 5 @Arizona Lost 6-19 Sep 12 @Michigan St. Won 29-27 Sep 19 Alcorn State Won 48-0 Sep 26 Akron Won 48-21 Oct 3 @Buffalo Won 20-13 Oct 10 E. Michigan Won 56-8 Oct 17 @W. Michigan Won 34-23 Oct 24 @Bowling Green Won 24-10 Oct 31 @Boston College Lost 10-31 Nov 11 Toledo Won 56-28 Nov 18 @Ball St. Won 35-3 Nov 27 Northern Illinois Won 45-31 Dec 4 Ohio Won 20-10 Jan 6 @Troy Won 44-41

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UMFootballCrazy

January 9th, 2010 at 11:27 AM ^

Boise should be number 2 ahead of Texas and Florida. In fact, because of the lack of playoff the blog poll should have the courage to crown Alabama and Boise co-champions. Put them on top as tied for first. Oregon, in spite of their record, is a better team that Cinci. How LSU managed to climb two spots in a losing effort to PSU is a mystery as well.

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blackacre

January 9th, 2010 at 6:37 PM ^

Well, if Boise St. had gone undefeated AND beaten something similar to UF + Heisman winner and finalist Tebow and UT + Heisman finalist and all-time games won (or whatever that stat is) McCoy back to back to close out the season, then maybe co-champions. But they didn't, nothing close to it. No. 2 is acceptable though.

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UMFootballCrazy

January 18th, 2010 at 10:20 AM ^

That may be true...but without a playoff how will anyone know for sure... I was convinced that in a neutral field game that Michigan could have beaten Nebraska, yet they were made co-national champions. I am almost certain that Alabama would emerge victors in that game, but that is not the point. Until we have some form of workable playoff to resolve these disputes, if two teams emerge from BCS games undefeated, they should be co-champions, if only to make a purely philosophical point.

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jokewood

January 9th, 2010 at 11:30 AM ^

#10 Georgia (8-5) L -- UF (13-1), LSU (9-4), OkSt (9-4), Tenn (7-6), UK (7-6) W -- GT (10-3), Ark (8-5), Aub (8-5), SC (7-6) #15 Virginia Tech (10-3) L -- Bama (14-0), GT (11-3), UNC (8-5) W -- Neb (10-4), Miami (9-4), BC (8-5), Tenn (7-6), ECU (9-5)

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Muttley

January 9th, 2010 at 4:57 PM ^

This is not a Top 25 season, much less than a Top 10 one. Beating a barely bowl elgible 6-6 Texas A&M does not this poster impress. Sep 5 @Oklahoma St. Lost 10-24 Sep 12 South Carolina Won 41-37 Sep 19 @Arkansas Won 52-41 Sep 26 Arizona St. Won 20-17 Oct 3 LSU Lost 13-20 Oct 10 @Tennessee Lost 19-45 Oct 17 @Vanderbilt Won 34-10 Oct 31 @Florida Lost 17-41 Nov 7 Tennessee Tech Won 38-0 Nov 14 Auburn Won 31-24 Nov 21 Kentucky Lost 27-34 Nov 28 @Georgia Tech Won 30-24 Dec 28 Texas A&M Won 44-20

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KBLOW

January 9th, 2010 at 11:41 AM ^

LSU goes up two spots after losing? Yeah, it was a muddy mistake filled game on both sides, but they should be below TCU, BYU and Utah. Wisky and Miami ought to be 24th and 25th respectively.

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Anonymosity

January 9th, 2010 at 12:53 PM ^

TCU below BYU is criminal. IME, TCU should be about 8 spots higher, but at the very least, they need to be above BYU. Don forget how good that team was all season. And how undefeated.

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Slinginsam

January 9th, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^

Anyone who watched PSU-LSU saw that it wasn't nearly as close as the score. TCU(#13) would rip LSU apart. Nebraska is a lot better than #21. IMO, Wisconsin's bowl win was the most enjoyable, since it was a real physical beatdown. Why then is Miami ranked, and the Badgers not?

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UMaD

January 9th, 2010 at 2:06 PM ^

I'm going to disagree with most of the others. Boise State didn't do anything to impress me by beating TCU. TCU deserves to be downgraded for how they looked in that game. The problem with that matchup is that we learned very little. Based on the regular season, I'd put Boise just slightly ahead of Oregon. Va Tech could be higher. Their 3 losses were to quality teams in close contests and they killed Miami and in their bowl. Top 3 looks good.

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chitownblue2

January 9th, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^

TCU should be top 7, IME, but being below BYU doesn't make an iota of sense to me - they shit-canned BYU @BYU by 31 points. I have a hard time justifying Georgia's existance on the ballot, much less #10 - they have 1 quality win, and lost to every other team of consequence they played - including LSU, who they're slotted ahead of, and lost 2 more games than. A 5 loss top-10 team with 1 quality win seems like insanity to me - especially when they're over 1-loss TCU, who beat 3 top-25 teams (Clemson, Utah, BYU), and 2 more bowl teams (Air Force, Wyoming). Georgia beat 1 top-25 team, and 3 bowl teams. They're just worse in every respect. Why did Nebraska drop for stomping a top-25 Pac 10 team? There are 5 teams I'd knock off the poll to make room for Wisconsin - UConn (they beat 2 winning teams all year), CMU (plays in the worst conference in FBS, narrowly beat the champion of the 2nd worst conference, and whose crowning achievement was a victory against a 6-7 Big-10 team), Stanford (5 losses in a completely exposed Pac-10, got smashed by Nebraska), Miami (worse record, lost to Wisconsin), and Navy (only win of consequence was in the bowl, and I guess a 1 point win at home against Air Force). Wisco has the best record of the crew, aside from CMU, and played one of the harder schedules.

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