Final Blogpoll Ballot: v2.0
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama | |
| 2 | Texas | |
| 3 | Florida |  3 |
| 4 | Boise State | 1 |
| 5 | Ohio State | 4 |
| 6 | Iowa | 4 |
| 7 | Cincinnati |  4 |
| 8 | TCU | 4 |
| 9 | Oregon | 2 |
| 10 | Penn State | 2 |
| 11 | LSU | 2 |
| 12 | Brigham Young | 10 |
| 13 | Utah | |
| 14 | Nebraska | 5 |
| 15 | Wisconsin | |
| 16 | Georgia Tech | 8 |
| 17 | Virginia Tech | 6 |
| 18 | Southern Cal | |
| 19 | Pittsburgh | 5 |
| 20 | Stanford | 2 |
| 21 | Navy | |
| 22 | Central Michigan | 1 |
| 23 | Connecticut | |
| 24 | Oklahoma | |
| 25 | Arizona | 5 |
| Last week's ballot | ||
Dropped Out: Oregon State (#15), Oklahoma State (#16), Miami (Florida) (#17), Texas Tech (#23), Clemson (#24), North Carolina (#25).
I corrected some of the more obvious errors and oversights. This is more like what your standard draft ballot would look like. Comment away, the final is due tomorrow by 10.
January 10th, 2010 at 10:39 PM ^
I don't understand LSU moving up or VT moving down 6
January 10th, 2010 at 10:57 PM ^
BYU goes that high after beating an unranked 8-5 team?
Also, VT is way too low. Should at least be above Nebraska.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:11 PM ^
I'd disagree about VT, I think that they're about right. At the very least I don't think they should be above Nebraska as you suggest. Yes, they beat Nebraska but if a fluke-ish play goes the other way Nebraska wins that game.
Additionally, it seems that VT's best game were losing somewhat close to 'Bama, beating an overrated but still good Miami team, and a close loss to GT. I was extremely unimpressed with Tennessee so them handing Lane Kiffin his lunch isn't a big deal to me.
Nebraska's best games include just barely losing to VT, beating Oklahoma after they'd recovered from losing Bradford, taking Texas to within 1 second and curb stomping Arizona; to me that's the more impressive resume.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:29 AM ^
Why would just barely losing to the runners-up be more impressive than just barely losing to the champions? I realize the margins were wider, but still. Both beat Oklahoma close at home - that's a wash. And Nebraska has that ugly ISU loss too.
January 11th, 2010 at 8:38 AM ^
Suh is worth one spot in the rankings minimum.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:04 PM ^
I'd suggest flipping Boise and OSU. They both beat Oregon but OSU did it against probably a better Oregon team and one that was actually up to play rather than the Oregon that Boise played. Additionally, I think that OSU played the much harder schedule and should be rewarded for it. Boise didn't look good playing TCU (heck, they didn't look good playing Nevada).
I don't know if I'd consider moving Boise any further down than that, I want to put them below Iowa but I don't think that's as easily justified.
January 10th, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^
Boise also didn't lose to Purdue.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:03 AM ^
That's true, but I penalize Boise for not really playing a lot of "real" games; I think that going undefeated is nice but doesn't mean so much when outside of Oregon their hardest regular season games were Tulsa and Nevada.
I think the essential question is, do you think Boise would've had a better record than OSU if they'd played OSU's exact schedule? Since I think not, I rank them below OSU.
January 11th, 2010 at 9:32 AM ^
It's not a power poll. While Ohio State's schedule may have been tougher overall, Boise didn't lose two games, and certainly not to teams that ended the season barely- and un-ranked
January 11th, 2010 at 1:10 PM ^
I believe that OSU's much harder schedule is the reason that they should be above Boise, I'd rather reward a team with hard schedule that survived the hardest parts of it (although they did lose to USC which shouldn't have happened this year) than an undefeated regular season featuring one ranked team which OSU also beat (and as I've said before, I think the iteration or Oregon that OSU beat was tougher than the Boise beat).
I don't think of it as a power poll, I just simply think that OSU's resume is better than Boise's. But, that's just me.
January 11th, 2010 at 12:55 AM ^
Boise didn't have to play Purdue in the middle of a reasonably tough schedule. OSU beat good PSU, Iowa, Wisconsin and Navy teams. Boise has one win to hang its hat on, and OSU dominated the same team on a bigger stage.
January 11th, 2010 at 3:45 AM ^
I think "looking good" is vastly overrated in ranking teams. Remember how the consensus after the Notre Dame game was that both teams looked good and thus were probably both top 25 teams?
January 10th, 2010 at 11:29 PM ^
Why wouldn't the top 4 go:
1. Alabama
2. Boise State
3. Florida
4. Texas
That makes more sense. I don't know why people are still dissing Boise. 14-0? Cmon. That's quite impressive.
January 11th, 2010 at 7:32 AM ^
I don't get why UConn is bumped up in favor of a whole slew of better ACC teams, one of which beat them. You're rewarding UConn for beating 7-6 Sakerlina and punishing Clemson for beating 7-6 Kentucky and VT for beating 7-6 Tennessee. Clemson is borderline, UNC isn't worth it, but Miami drops all the way off the ballot for losing close to a good Wisconsin team and gets replaced by UConn? I don't see it.
January 11th, 2010 at 8:23 AM ^
drops out entirely? They did win their bowl game, coachless even.
January 11th, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
*signed* and Clemson won theirs as well against a middling SEC squad, but a better opponent than say USC.
January 11th, 2010 at 8:57 AM ^
It looks pretty good. My largest quibbles are with some of the Pac-10 teams.
USC was 9-4 and lost to Stanford and Arizona (both 8-5), both of whom are ranked lower, basically by virtue of USC playing a tomato can in the bowl game (and squeaking by them in mind-numbingly boring fashion) rather than the top-25 outfits Stanford and Arizona played.
Arizona beat Stanford, finished with the same record, and finishes lower.
I don't know - I'd be half-tempted to throw them all out.
I'd like to see Clemson on the poll, I'd like to see TTU on the poll, and I'd like to see Miami on the poll.
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