BlogPoll draft ballot for final week

by Joel on Jan 9, 2009 12:00 PM EST in College Football Comment 7 comments

Draft BlogPoll ballot, without any computer assistance at this point because the stats aren't yet available for last week's games. I'll have the computer results Sunday. We'll then submit a final ballot on Monday.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Florida	--
2	Oklahoma	--
3	Texas	1
4	Southern Cal	4
5	Utah	4
6	Boise State	5
7	Alabama	4
8	Texas Tech	3
9	Penn State	2
10	TCU	3
11	Cincinnati	1
12	Georgia	--
13	Ohio State	7
14	Oregon	5
15	Missouri	8
16	Virginia Tech	8
17	Oklahoma State	3
18	Nebraska	8
19	Mississippi	7
20	Brigham Young	1
21	Oregon State	5
22	Rice	4
23	Florida State	3
24	Tulsa	2
25	Ball State	5

Dropped Out: Pittsburgh (#15), Georgia Tech (#16), Michigan State (#17), Northwestern (#18), Western Michigan (#22), Boston College (#25).

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O.o

I’ll be interested to see the computer results.

by Hooper on Jan 9, 2009 12:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Me, too

Some of that looks funky, and right now I don’t know if it’s the fact that I started with computer data that I knew was incomplete or because, in knowing that and knowing that I’d have to tweak it, I made it funky myself.

Stay tuned!

Go Vols!

by Joel on Jan 9, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I think if Ohio State drops 7 by narrowly losing to a higher ranked team,

Oklahoma has to drop at least 9.

by wvvol on Jan 9, 2009 1:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'll spare you the "Utah #1" argument...

But Boise State ranked higher than TCU?

by Will on Jan 9, 2009 1:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yep

Boise’s definitely a problem. How much further down should they be, do you think?

Go Vols!

by Joel on Jan 9, 2009 2:59 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah...

I think you bump Alabama up one because they have to go in that top tier of six teams who have an argument or played for an argument to win it all. Then it’s tough – do Boise and TCU go inbetween that group and the next one (Penn State/Texas Tech/etc) or within that next tier? Either way I’m a sucker for head-to-head, plus TCU’s losses were to Oklahoma and Utah, so they’ve gotta be above Boise to me.

by Will on Jan 9, 2009 3:18 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Dump Ball State

Hell… even as a Ball State blogger I’ll admit they aren’t one of the 25 best teams. Considering the gigantic turd the MAC dropped in the Bowl Punchbowl the regular season isn’t as impressive, their blowout to Tulsa is inexcusable, and the game against Buffalo was a highlight reel of how to fail on a national stage.

Teams that should be ranked ahead of them: Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech, Michigan State, Northwestern, Boston College, DeMatha High School, my fantasy football team, The Rock’s juvenile delinquents in Gridiron Gang, Jared Lorenzen’s left ass cheek, etc.

by OverThePylon on Jan 9, 2009 2:32 PM EST reply actions 0 recs