Preseason Blogpoll Ballot

Yowsah. That seems high.

How dare you Brian, haven't you been paying attention to us at all!?!? WE ALL KNOW MICHIGAN IS GOING UNDEFEATED!!! Former walk-on QB: Check. Completely rebuilt offensive line: Check. New offensive scheme unlike anything we've ever run: Check. Oh yeah, we're goin' to the ship kids!

returning a decnt starter this year at QB? in the B10, no. rutgers, no. usc, no. just WV and OU i guess.... and white isn't exactly a great passer and OU guy is still young. tebow too, and that's about it.

Id have trouble putting Clemson ahead of Florida.  Id probably slide UGA and Florida ahead of USC in light of the Sanchez injury. Maybe slide Mizzou up and drop Clemson a bit.  Penn State is probably too high, but I'm having trouble with the 6-13 area, as its all really cloudy there.  I'm okay with the lack of ACC (being a UMD grad, I see enough terrible in the ACC to say that its warranted.)  You have Rutgers probably about 20 spots too high in my book: No Ray Rice to me means an epic fall.  CMU gets too much credit too, despite having poor man's Vince Young.  

The most egregious error here I think is not having Tennessee ranked.  A collection of freakish athletes on defense and the battering ram that is Arian Foster, to me at least, means that UT should probably be around 15.   

Rutgers, USF and 2-3 of your bottom 5 and replace them w/ SEC teams and/or USCs 2nd & 3rd teams.

so you really think PSU is better than LSU and texas?

Fire up Chips!

I know McCoy was dissapointing last year, but is Texas really considered a team with no QB? Plus, I think Rutgers is high at 16. They weren't that good last year, and they lost Rice who was clearly their best offensive player. Is there anyone there to provide offense?

Wow, CMU at 25. You must think they really are the best team in the state of Michigan. What, do you work for the Gaylord Herald Times now or something!?!?!

Yes Brian, any poll with 4 Big East teams in the Top 25 is mistaken.  They are barely a major conference, as any look at NFL draft picks over the last few years will show. The frustration for us Big East haters is that anytime the a team other than WVA has a good record, they are given the same credit as a second or third place team from a real conference

I thought the Irish would Return To Glory this year in the blog poll.  No?  Ok then.

I think Wisconsin is well placed as a middling sub-15 team.  Florida will probably be a top 5 team, but understandable not putting them ahead of USC, OSU, Georgia and Oklahoma.  I think that BYU will actually be good this year and climb up the rankings, a la Hawaii last year, but I see no problem starting them off at 23.

I just don't see it. Perhaps its my lack of faith in the name Bowden, but they always seem like a team that has a ceiling of the Chik-Fil-A Peach Bowl. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, but ranking them in the top 5 seems like a setup for disappointment.

I really think Wake deserves a spot in the top 25.  They are returning one of the top defenses in the nation and are pretty solid all around.  The ACC is tough to figure right now, but Wake will be able to shut people down all year long with that defense. 

Do you mean Oregon?

You gave them far more credit than I did. This team has the potential to be good, but they're still inexperienced in key areas. They should be lumped somewhere in that 30-40 "maybe, we'll see" range.

The Big East is looking very balanced this year, you can really make a case for any team not named Syracuse.

Also, anyone have a clue as to why I can't get the blogpoll arrows to display in this post?

i find it hard to believe that CMU is rated higher than us and MSU. I would be surprised if they were able to beat either team. also, i find it hard to believe that PSU is the 9th ranked team. last year they were ranked and ryan mallett somehow let us to victory. I'd have them 15-20 (leaning toward 20)