BlogPoll Ballot Revised, Still Awful

by CornFromAJar on Aug 22, 2007 3:49 PM EDT in Tennessee Volunteer Football

The first BlogPoll ballot of the year, as it was actually submitted:

Rank	Team	Delta
1	Southern Cal	25
2	Michigan	24
3	LSU	23
4	Virginia Tech	22
5	Texas	21
6	West Virginia	20
7	Oklahoma	19
8	Louisville	18
9	Wisconsin	17
10	Penn State	16
11	Ohio State	15
12	Florida	14
13	California	13
14	Arkansas	12
15	Tennessee	11
16	Georgia	10
17	South Carolina	9
18	Auburn	8
19	UCLA	7
20	Oregon	6
21	Missouri	5
22	Nebraska	4
23	South Florida	3
24	TCU	2
25	Boise State	1

I had a pretty thorough explanation of why and how the ballot changed from the rough draft, and then Firefox crashed on me and I lost it. I'll get that redone soon and put it in the comments, but in the meantime check out the Preseason Blogpoll at MGo.

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Satisfied

As I said about your draft...it doesn't look any better or any worse than anybody elses. Pretty close to inline with the official Blogpoll.

by Aerobab on Aug 22, 2007 4:08 PM EDT reply actions

Splainin'

I moved Va. Tech up quite a bit. VT will be under incredible scrutiny this season as everywhere they go reporters will want to ask about the massacre. I think the emotional/psychological toll of carrying that around all year will wear on the Hokies and they'll falter around mid- to late-October (that's just a guess). However, there's probably not a more dangerous team to have to play early in the year because they will be so emotionally charged -- In fact, I nearly voted them #1, but talked myself down from that ledge.
(BTW, I know all this talk about emotion is a violation of Proposal #8 of the College Football Blogging Best Practice as set forth by the Swindle-Bean partnership, and I hereby fine myself ONE HUNDRED COCKTAILS for my transgression.)
In a compromise between the advice of Areobab and The Power T; Penn State stays in the top ten but just barely.
The thing I'm most unhappy with (for the record, I've never been really happy with any Blogpoll ballot I've submitted) is that I'm hedging my bets by lumping conference teams together and hiding SEC teams in the middle of the poll to hide my actual homerism. We've got one more vote before the season kicks off -- Brian wants to know who's overrated and who's underrated -- and I could use some help with separating the groups, especially the SEC and Big Ten ones.

by CornFromAJar on Aug 23, 2007 3:10 PM EDT reply actions