Preseason Blogpoll Draft Ballot
This is admittedly quite hasty. Please, please, please tear it apart so I have a decent entry for the final ballot. I haven't looked at any preseason magazines, and I threw this together in just a few minutes from memory. I'd run down a few of the things I'm not sure about... but there are too many of them.
MGoBlog Ballot - Week 1
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 2 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 3 | Florida Gators | -- |
| 4 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 5 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 6 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
| 7 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 8 | Texas Longhorns | -- |
| 9 | Florida St. Seminoles | -- |
| 10 | Virginia Tech Hokies | -- |
| 11 | Miami Hurricanes | -- |
| 12 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 13 | Georgia Bulldogs | -- |
| 14 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -- |
| 15 | North Carolina Tar Heels | -- |
| 16 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | -- |
| 17 | Pittsburgh Panthers | -- |
| 18 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 19 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| 20 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -- |
| 21 | Oregon St. Beavers | -- |
| 22 | Connecticut Huskies | -- |
| 23 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 24 | Washington Huskies | -- |
| 25 | Arizona Wildcats | -- |
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August 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 AM ^
Nebraska should be higher (returning a good number of offensive and defensive players) and Oklahoma should be lower (though I admittedly don't know what they are going to look like this year). Everything else seems fine for being the crapshoot a preseason ballot always is.
August 23rd, 2010 at 12:13 PM ^
1. Their defense blows.
2. They haven't won 10 games in almost a decade and somehow they're a top 10 team?
3. If you're basing this poll on potential, then I guess I see your point, but I still don't see how their defense doesn't lose them at least 4 games this year.
August 23rd, 2010 at 1:56 PM ^
Florida, Florida State, and Washington strike me as too high. Probably UGA too, but I'm waiting to get a sense of how panicked Doug at Hey Jenny Slater is before forming an opinion on them.
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 PM ^
Washington is probably too low. North Carolina, however... too high.
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:11 PM ^
Generally, the preseason poll is a crapshoot, so your guess is as good as anyones.
From top to bottom:
I think Wisconsin, Oregon, and FSU are too high. Wisconsin doesn't have Top 6 talent, and usually struggles against anyone good. Oregon's had a little bit too much drama, and I think improving teams at Stanford, Washington, and UCLA combined with a difficult PAC-10 slate are going to leave them at least two losses. FSU has been overrated for years, I'm not sure the transition to Jimbo Fisher is worth that.
I'd move Texas, Miami, and Georgia up some. They've got a ton of returning talent.
Penn State is going to have serious QB issues and loses a lot on defense. I'm not sure they're a Top 25 team.
Nevada seems like a fringe team at best.
Left out:
1. Georgia Tech(!)
2. LSU
3. West Virginia
I also think MSU could be a fringe team by the end of the season, should things fall right.
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^
Why does everyone have Boise State ranked so high? Because they beat on a schedule of baby seals every year and end up with a gaudy record?
If Boise played Texas, who would your money be on?
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:04 PM ^
This year? Boise State.
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:33 PM ^
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:08 PM ^
It's not like they beat the Pac10 champion, the #4 team in the country going into bowl season, and smoked just about every other team on their schedule, then return 20 of their starters or anything like that...
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:53 PM ^
Obviously Texas sucks compared to that resume of winning one regular season game of consequence and beating on San Jose State and Louisiana Tech.
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:09 PM ^
Colt McCoy was the Texas offense. Until they can prove they can replace him, I'll be betting against Texas, and that's not even taking into consideration their questionable offensive line.
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 PM ^
If Michigan played this schedule, what would you expect our record to be:
Oregon
Miami (OH)
Fresno State
Bowling Green
UC-Davis
Tulsa
Hawaii
San Jose State
Louisiana Tech
Idaho
Utah State
Nevada
New Mexico State
Boise played a one-game regular season. Put them in Michigan's schedule from last year. do you still think they go undefeated? Do they even have just one-loss?
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:32 PM ^
Either 12-2 or 11-3, but the games would have been much, much closer. Don't forget that Miami was almost held out of a NC game in 2000 due to SOS, then was almost held out in 2001 because of it and they ended up wrecking Nebraska. SOS is not everything.
August 24th, 2010 at 10:11 AM ^
You're bringing up schedules that contained numerous games against BCS competition. They were weak compared to the other candidates.
Boise played one BCS team. They played one team of any value. If Michigan would win 10 or 11 games with that schedule, what value is Boise State's 12-0?
If they play Michigan's schedule last year... even just ND, Penn State, Iowa, Ohio State, there's no chance they go undefeated, and in my opinion would likely have at least 2-3 losses. They're not the 4th best team in the country.
They went 12-0 against one team and a bunch of cannon fodder. We're obviously in the wrong conference.
(M can't go 12-2 or 11-3, that's a 12-game schedule)
August 24th, 2010 at 11:07 AM ^
Actually it's a 13 game schedule and you purposely left the bowl game against the #4 team in the country out, which would have made it 14 games, so I included that game for comparisons as well.
August 24th, 2010 at 11:33 AM ^
That #4 ranked team that played a schedule even weaker and whose best win was against Clemson...
August 24th, 2010 at 12:21 PM ^
Well, the reason they scheduled them to play each other is because they knew they had two potential upsets if they scheduled them to play any other teams.
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^
They return 10 starters on each side of the ball and, without starting an entirely seperate debate...think they deserved a shot at the tide last year. They were certainly the most complete team I saw last year outside of Bama. I don't see why they shouldn't be #2 preseason.
August 24th, 2010 at 12:03 PM ^
How in the world are they 12? I see them being ranked but I don't think they should be that high.
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