Blogpoll Week 4
Michigan, unsurprisingly, slips as bit:
Results for Week 4
Analysis and extras over at SBN—thanks to Lane Kiffin's wacky ideas about two point conversions the CK Award is 3-0 so far. Tim's ballot after the jump.
MGoBlog Ballot - Week 4
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 3 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 4 | TCU Horned Frogs |  2 |
| 5 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 3 |
| 6 | Boise St. Broncos |  -1 |
| 7 | Oklahoma Sooners | -3 |
| 8 | Texas Longhorns | 1 |
| 9 | Wisconsin Badgers | 1 |
| 10 | Arizona Wildcats | 9 |
| 11 | Florida Gators | -- |
| 12 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 5 |
| 13 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 14 | Stanford Cardinal | 1 |
| 15 | LSU Tigers | 3 |
| 16 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -2 |
| 17 | Utah Utes | -5 |
| 18 | Miami Hurricanes | 3 |
| 19 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -12 |
| 20 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -- |
| 21 | Michigan Wolverines | -5 |
| 22 | Michigan St. Spartans | 3 |
| 23 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -1 |
| 24 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| 25 | Air Force Falcons | -- |
| Dropouts: Florida St. Seminoles, USC Trojans | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings »
Changes from draft:
- I moved Georgia Tech out of the poll, because the loss to Kansas is absolutely inexcusable at this point in the year. Replacing them is personal favorite Nevada (who I got blasted for including in the preseason).
- Florida moves down a couple spots, because the offense hasn't been impressive, and it seems like it's going to cost them a game sooner or later, when they play a team with an actual pulse (sorry Tennessee and USF).
- Moved TCU up and Boise down, as commenters pointed out that they are probably more deserving. The Broncos have a chance to earn some goodwill against Oregon state (a common opponent with TCU) this weekend.
- Stanford is bumped ahead of South Carolina, because they've been more dominant against comparable competition.
- Dropped Arkansas down a bit. A last-second victory over a Georgia team that is now 1-2 isn't as great a feat as I've credited them for. They'll have a chance to prove themselves coming up, either way.
- Dropped Arizona State for Air Force. Despite the close loss to Wisconsin, I like Oklahoma more (as the poll shows), and the only two Sun Devil wins are over FCS teams.
It's still not perfect, so if you have any suggestions, questions, or gripes, post them in the comments and I can use them in forming next week's ballots.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:25 PM ^
Quite the SD on the Arizona Wildcats. I for one wasn't thoroughly impressed by their win over Iowa considering A) it was at home, B) Iowa staged a semi-comeback, and C) I always felt Iowa was overrated to start the season. It appears that the camps are a bit split on what to make of the 'Cats.
Glad to see people aren't dinging us TOO much for our win/sorta win/some people still consider it a "losing win".
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:25 PM ^
Oklahoma and Stanford getting No. 1 votes? Viriginia Tech getting votes? I'm surprised, as I thought these bloggers would do a better job than the AP and Coaches.
September 22nd, 2010 at 8:13 PM ^
the resume folk. They ignore preseason projections entirely and base it all on "what have you done so far". The results will naturally look a bit odd when "NOM NOM CUPCAKE" is a large part of most teams' resumes at this point, but philosophically I like the approach.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:31 PM ^
surprised me that Wisconsin moved up after there close win this weekend
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:34 PM ^
mgoblog upvoted them, but the overall poll shows that Wisky moved down 4 spots.
Also, "their".
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^
I dropped Wisco on my ballot six slots, all the way down to 17.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:31 PM ^
And two people giving Oklahoma #1 votes? Come on.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:35 PM ^
It's just crazy to think about what Oregon is doing. I thought for sure this would be a questionable season for them. Goes to show you I don't know squat.
TCU over Boise? Interesting. I guess Oregon State is "better" than VT? I have a feeling VT rebounds this year. They won't win the ACC, but they're not as bad as advertised... are they?
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^
I'm having trouble finding the whole 'extracurriculars' section over at SB nation. it seems to end right after the Mr. Bold section. Am i stupid or is this a problem for other people as well?
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:46 PM ^
Same here, on both Firefox and IE (therefore I conclude it is not a browser thing.)
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:48 PM ^
Likewise on my end of the interwebs, on Safari and Chrome.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:00 PM ^
I let Brian know. He's working on the fix.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:43 PM ^
Stanford with a #1 vote? Really?
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
Already addressed, I'm just a slow typer.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
Tim and I differ in a lot of spots, but we have the same overall 25, save for two teams.
He has Penn State and Air Force on his ballot.
I dont, and instead have Pitt and Oregon State. The Beavers almost beat a consensus top-5 team in a road setting and Pitt lost at Utah, a consensus top-15 team, in OT. We'll see if I am keeping either as they both face stiff tests this week.
As for the poll at large, i dont have USC on my ballot
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
So Boise State is better than Nebraska, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, et. al.?
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
Well I don't know if you can definitively say they aren't better than any of those teams. For all the crap Boise gets about "only having to get up for one or two games a year" at least they blow those teams out. Florida didn't get triple digits in total offense on MIAMI(NTM) till the 4th quarter. They beat Wyoming by way more than Texas did and Oklahoma struggled against its not Fla St teams(although Air Force might be a little better than advertised). I still have yet to see Nebraska move the ball against a semi-competent defense so we'll see. It's too early in the season to decide but if you had Nebraska, Texas, Boise, and Oklahoma in any given order 3-6, I think it would be accurate.
Edit: Forgot about Oregon. I meant 4-7
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:59 PM ^
If we're looking at this season, they didn't blow out Virginia Tech by any stretch of the imagination. 33-30 with Va Tech being 20 yards short of a shot at overtime.
Hell, James Madison beat them more convincingly.
September 22nd, 2010 at 3:10 PM ^
I reread my post and I was unclear. Unlike most of the other schools you mentioned(Florida and Oklahoma being the primary culprits), Boise blows out the bad teams they play(and they beat the only common opponent from your group of teams by a lot more).
September 22nd, 2010 at 3:17 PM ^
The question comes down to, if they played on a neutral field, who would win?
All of the "experts" rank Boise in the top-5, but if those games were played,how many would take Boise over Texas, Florida, Oklahoma, Oregon, Nebraska?
September 22nd, 2010 at 3:22 PM ^
Well I would take Boise over(right now) Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma on that list and while I would probably take Oregon based on how the two have played so far this year, what happened the last two times the teams met up? Again I'm not trying to say Boise is definitively better than all those teams, but they definitely are in the conversation.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:22 PM ^
I just don't get why they're still ranked. They were atrocious at Ohio State.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:35 PM ^
But they lost by only 12 to #2 tOSU. I think Miami (YTM) is better than you may think. If Harris didn't throw 4 interceptions in that game, tOSU could have easily lost, IMO.
September 22nd, 2010 at 8:16 PM ^
DocSat and Nittany White Out have regularly belonged in the rundown (DocSat for the usual array of WHEE RESUME VOTER awards, NWO for the C-K Award) but not actually made it in. That makes me suspect their ballots are coming in late.
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