Blogpoll Ballot: Week 2
Just snuck this under the wire. Have to remember I'm actually voting now. My guideline early in the season is that I do use preseason expectations to guide my balloting until about week five, when the poll should be all results.
MGoBlog Ballot - Week 2
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 2 | Alabama Crimson Tide |  1 |
| 3 | Oklahoma Sooners |  -1 |
| 4 | LSU Tigers | 7 |
| 5 | Boise St. Broncos | 4 |
| 6 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 7 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 8 | Florida St. Seminoles | -3 |
| 9 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
| 10 | Texas A&M Aggies | 2 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 2 |
| 12 | Florida Gators | 8 |
| 13 | Oregon Ducks | -9 |
| 14 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 2 |
| 15 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | 9 |
| 16 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -2 |
| 17 | Baylor Bears | NR |
| 18 | South Florida Bulls | NR |
| 19 | Texas Longhorns | 3 |
| 20 | Michigan St. Spartans | -1 |
| 21 | Northwestern Wildcats | NR |
| 22 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -5 |
| 23 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -- |
| 24 | Houston Cougars | NR |
| 25 | Maryland Terrapins | NR |
| Dropouts: Georgia Bulldogs, TCU Horned Frogs, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, USC Trojans, San Diego St. Aztecs | ||
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Notes follow.
GEORGIA, I KILL YOU. This may be an overreaction to being so wrong about the Bulldogs but I booted them entirely. Their defeat was comprehensive. I was less violent towards Oregon since their problems were considerably more turnover-based and, honestly, because I wasn't way out there by thinking Oregon would be good this year.
LSU gets the obvious bump, as does Boise.
I AM VERY IMPRESSED BY VICTORIES OVER MEMPHIS. I don't look at my previous ballots when putting these together because it's not like they're precise enough to matter. Sometimes this has weird effects like a win over hapless Memphis warranting a nine-slot jump while beating Marshall comprehensively in a lightning storm gets you dinged two spots.
So I have no idea why I flipped Alabama and Oklahoma. Data is thin.
I DOUBT THE OBC. I did mean to knock South Carolina down several pegs after they struggled against ECU—I think it was @TeamSpeedKills who was so incensed that he called for Spurrier's suspension in retaliation for suspending Stephen Garcia. After the dust cleared from a nutty game featuring nine turnovers, Not That USC had outgained ECU by six yards.
It is likely too late for corrections; I'll do better next week.
September 6th, 2011 at 12:10 PM ^
LSU is my new #1 but I kept the Ducks at #10
I have Boise at #4, kept UGA in the poll at #25 for having the balls to play them. But, Boise beats UGA at least 8 times out of 10.
Baylor, USF and NW debuted in my rankings as well, but I couldnt pull the trigger on Maryland or Houston. A win over UCLA while giving up 34 points in the process does not get you on my ballot
September 6th, 2011 at 12:25 PM ^
but kudos to you Brian for not looking at your previous ballot. I've always hated the "you can't move them that much" argument.
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September 6th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
brian, you need to quit drinking the florida kool-aid, halfway through the season the team will die of starvation after charlie eats gainesville out of food
September 6th, 2011 at 12:29 PM ^
Your top 3 is in serious need of overhaul. Stanford has a new head coach. Alabama doesn't even know who their starting QB is yet. If this poll is supposedly not entirely results-based, then frankly I don't know how you can have Oklahoma below these two.
But I guess since it isn't results-based, and can't be for another few weeks, these ballots don't rally matter all that much right now anyway.
September 6th, 2011 at 12:31 PM ^
I think South Florida is too high. They gave up 500 yards to Notre Dame and only won because the Irish had 5 turnovers. It's always tough to say how many of those were good plays by the defense or bad plays by the offense, but at any rate I don't see South Florida staying that high for that long.
On another note, I never knew why people had Georgia so high to begin with. This was a team that was 6-7 last year and yet everyone still seemed to expect them to be a Top 25 team. Their coach is on the hot seat and that program hasn't done much of anything the last several years.
September 6th, 2011 at 12:54 PM ^
The Terps are a second division ACC team. Beating a decimated Miami team does not warrant a mention in the Top 25.
September 6th, 2011 at 1:58 PM ^
for or against your position but the terps lost double digit players for the entire season so its not like they came out at full power either and they had to overcome wearing those god awful uniforms.
September 6th, 2011 at 1:43 PM ^
Stanford will lose 4 games. It's all about coaching in college and Stanford lost their coach.
September 6th, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
That's why Larry Coker nearly won back-to-back national titles. That's why Charlie Weis went to two BCS bowls. That's why Pat Fitzgerald has never won a bowl game.
All about coaching.
September 6th, 2011 at 1:58 PM ^
I knew they should be ranked. There is too much preseason ranking that hangs on last year. The Longhorns are loaded. You can't go by last year. That's why I was not shocked by the TCU loss....they lost nearly half their starters from a year ago. I told my boss Baylor would cover the spread and he thought I was crazy....:O)
September 6th, 2011 at 4:17 PM ^
Come on man. Don't be one of the dull minded masses. Why does everyone give South Florida a free pass into the top 20? Why? Because they were handed a victory from a clearly overrated Notre Dame team? You drop Georgia out and put in South Florida at 18? Tell me, do you really believe South Florida would beat Georgia on the field?
September 6th, 2011 at 11:14 PM ^
Baylor
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