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BlogPoll: Week Two

I may be too late to get much feedback on this before the deadline tomorrow morning at 10:00, but here it is.

Rank Team Delta
1 Ohio State --
2 Southern Cal 2
3 Texas --
4 Auburn 1
5 Notre Dame 3
6 West Virginia --
7 Louisiana State 2
8 Florida State 2
9 Florida 2
10 Tennessee 10
11 Miami (Florida) --
12 Iowa 3
13 Georgia 1
14 Michigan 1
15 Louisville 3
16 Virginia Tech --
17 Clemson --
18 Nebraska 1
19 Penn State 1
20 Cal 12
21 Oregon --
22 Oklahoma --
23 Texas Tech 1
24 Arizona State 1
25 Minnesota 1

Dropped Out: Boston College (#23).

Not a whole lot has changed.  Notre Dame squeaked out a win against unranked Georgia Tech, so I dropped them a bit.  Southern Cal and Auburn filled the void, with Southern Cal jumping Texas because I think they beat a better team.  I dropped Florida behind LSU and Florida State because I think their wins were better, either more dominating (LSU) or against a better team (FSU).  Tennessee and Cal essentially traded places.  Louisville had an impressive win, but lost their Heisman-contender running back, so they lose a couple of spots for that.  Everything else just sort of settled a bit.

Let me know your thoughts, and if something's really wrong, I can change it in the morning.

UPDATE: Sorry, forgot. Games I watched: South Carolina - Mississippi State. Was on campus all day for the Tennessee-Cal game, so didn't catch any other Saturday games. Meant to catch FSU-Miami, but was sick, so had to settle for highlights. Grumble.

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UT and Cal's new rankings...
I keep wondering why, hearing people say Cal is such a fraud and Cal is really so bad and the pac-10 is so soft, the same people seem perfectly justified in giving UT a top 10 or near top 10 rankinng. If UT is  so good, should Cal really drop so far for losing to them on the road in the 1st game of the season? Or, should UT just move up a couple (and perhaps Cal even drops out)?

Which is it folks?

by AustinBear on Sep 6, 2006 10:49 AM EDT reply actions  

RE: UT and Cal's new rankings...
I think what you're seeing is a re-adjustment of expectations for both teams. The general consensus seems to be that UT should have been ranked in the 10-15 range to begin with and Cal should have been 20-25.

by CornFromAJar on Sep 6, 2006 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

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