Another week, another instance of little movement at the top and complete chaos down around 14 and below. I really should go back and figure out what the aggregate record of teams we rank 14-20 is, because I think about 90% of motion in our BlogPoll so far has been from teams in that area losing. We need stats to reach a reasonable enough amount, ...er, stat.
Rocky Top Talk Ballot - Week 4
Rank | Team | Delta |
---|---|---|
1 | LSU Tigers | -- |
2 | Oklahoma Sooners | 2 |
3 | Boise St. Broncos | -1 |
4 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -1 |
5 | Wisconsin Badgers | -- |
6 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
7 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 2 |
8 | Texas A&M Aggies | -1 |
9 | Oregon Ducks | 1 |
10 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
11 | Florida St. Seminoles | -3 |
12 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
13 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 2 |
14 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 11 |
15 | Florida Gators | -- |
16 | Texas Longhorns | 5 |
17 | South Florida Bulls | 3 |
18 | Baylor Bears | -1 |
19 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -1 |
20 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -6 |
21 | TCU Horned Frogs | 3 |
22 | Fla. International Golden Panthers | -- |
23 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
24 | Clemson Tigers | -- |
25 | Iowa St. Cyclones | -- |
Dropouts: Arizona St. Sun Devils, Ohio St. Buckeyes, Michigan St. Spartans, BYU Cougars, Central Florida Knights |
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Some notes below the jump.
- I'm still not sold on anything in the bottom five, but it's also the bottom five. I figure at this point we may as well reserve those for the honorary cute teams (in this case, FIU and Iowa State) until we get up and running.
- I can't believe Virginia Tech is at 13. Also, randomly spiking Arkansas looks weird but I think that was a long time coming, and is half the reason it looks weird that VT is at 13. The other half of the reason? I couldn't justify putting FSU below them, if only because it'd put VT at 12.
- Georgia Tech's jump of 11 "spots" was still less than their average yards per carry on Saturday.
- It looks weird to rank Michigan and not Ohio State, and how long has it been since anyone has said that sentence?
- I still have some unresolved issues in the SEC Power Poll. Help a brother out, please? I still don't know what to do with Vanderbilt; putting them at 10 doesn't seem right, but neither does putting them at 6. Then again, it doesn't look right to put Auburn at 6 after they lost.