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BlogPoll Ballot Draft Week 5: Waiting on Colley

WARNING:  The ballot is not even a complete first draft yet: Colley has not updated his strength of schedules for the week (and is inordinately late so far); this is a metric that the computer needs, as it's the second most important criteria.  Here's the roughy-rough, but I will post a new draft as soon as I can.  A few changes to expect follow after the jump.

Star-divide

  • Iowa should drop, and probably quite significantly.  Right now, they're surviving off of a very high strength of schedule that doesn't know about Arkansas State.
  • Ditto for Penn State, as Illinois is a real anchor so far.
  • Miami should climb quite a ways, and Oklahoma should squeak back into the polls as well.  Both will see SoS bumps, and Oklahoma is on the outside at the moment.  Not that they have room to complain at 2-2.
  • Southern Cal will rise, but California won't make it.  Besides the two losses, they're crippled by lackluster defense.
  • Auburn should rise as their formerly horrid SoS metric (seriously) will likely rise with Tennessee.  It'll still be well below average, but they don't need much to climb a few spots where they should be.
  • I don't know about South Carolina.  Their SoS will nosedive after playing South Carolina State, but there is a gap between them and falling out of the polls.

Hopefully, the SoS will get included shortly and I can get a more workable draft out.  If not, we'll start from here and make massive overrides to cobble the ballot into something reasonable.  That's you, y'all.

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The program must favor teams from the plains (not including Auburn)… Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas

by golfballs03 on Oct 5, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions  

Look at cincy!

Tell ya what, the bearcats are forreal

by cincyvol6198 on Oct 5, 2009 5:25 PM EDT reply actions  

But they're still ranked too low.

Eric Berry for sending the guy who wins the Heisman spinning 720 degrees in the air at the podium - or for intercepting it and returning it to where it rightfully belongs

by Chris Pendley on Oct 5, 2009 6:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

Oh how the mighty have fallen

Lol, I think you finally figured out that UCLA isn’t that amazing

There's no one in the world that wants to beat UCLA more than _______.

by ucla13_usc9 on Oct 5, 2009 8:43 PM EDT reply actions  

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