Postseason Blogpoll Comment Count

Brian

Avast, here it be:

Rank Team PPB StdDev Delta
1 Alabama (57) 25.0 0.1 --
2 Boise State (1) 23.1 1.0 3
3 Florida 22.9 0.8 3
4 Texas 22.8 0.9 2
5 Ohio State 20.3 1.0 3
6 TCU 19.9 1.6 3
7 Iowa 18.9 1.0 3
8 Cincinnati 17.8 2.0 4
9 Penn State 16.2 2.1 3
10 Oregon 15.6 1.8 3

Or, at least, there's the top 10, with the rest of it, as usual, at CBS Sports. For the record, your final CK Award record: 10-5 against the spread and 9-6 straight up. I'm also claiming CK victory for Nebraska's soul-crippling Big 12 championship game loss and their delayed action eight-turnover spectacular against Iowa State. Fear it.

I'd like to thank everyone who participated this year for their effort and their thought. This was a strange year in which three teams went almost totally unchallenged until a pair of not-so-titanic year-end matchups. The BlogPoll acquitted itself well by being the only poll out there willing to consider a team other than Florida at #1. Alabama moved into the spot a few weeks into the season, and though they traded the spot back and forth with the Gators all year, that flexibility speaks of a group of people paying closer attention than the folk actually charged with picking the two anointed teams.

Update:After the jump: Tim's even MORE updated final ballot.



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 Utah
12 Nebraska 7
13 Wisconsin
14 Georgia Tech 6
15 Virginia Tech 4
16 Brigham Young 6
17 LSU 4
18 Southern Cal
19 Pittsburgh 5
20 Stanford 2
21 Navy
22 Clemson 2
23 Central Michigan 2
24 Oklahoma
25 Arizona 5
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Oregon State (#15), Oklahoma State (#16), Miami (Florida) (#17), Texas Tech (#23), North Carolina (#25).

A couple final changes: Clemson is in, UConn is out, shifted LSU down a little lower.

I think there's justification for keeping VT where they are (namely, behind Nebraska), because most of their in-conference schedule was beaten up in the bowl season (Miami, Georgia Tech, Boston College), and Nebraska added a much more impressive win to their resume.

Any other quibbles were relatively minor, I'm totally fine with Boise finishing ahead of Ohio State despite overall schedule strength, because the Buckeyes dropped games to #18 USC at home, and an unranked (and fairly bad) Purdue team on the road. That is enough to keep them behind an undefeated team with a similarly-impressive win over Oregon, and a nice season-ender over #8 TCU.

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