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Week Thirteen BlogPoll Ballot Draft
When compiling this week’s BlogPoll ballot, I paid no attention to last week’s top 25 (ergo, you should ignore the arrows) and I did not consult any other person’s or organization’s rankings, so the fault for what follows is mine and mine alone. I began by cobbling together a list of all BCS...
Week Two BlogPoll Ballot Draft
After a wild first couple of weekends of college football, I don’t know what to make of any of these teams. Clearly, there are not 25 teams deserving of a top 25 ranking, nor are there ten teams worthy of a top ten ranking, and, since no team has enough of a resume to go on yet, I’m forced to use...
Kyle Gets Conciliatory: An Encouraging Word About Boise State's Place at the Table
The recent Congressional hearings on the Bowl Championship Series are as unlikely to produce anything except talk as the Congressional hearings on steroid use in major league baseball, but give the grandstanding representatives their due: they did produce talk, at least. One of the more poignant...
Kyle Gets Contrary: Congress, the B.C.S., and the Virtue of Being Elitist
It is no secret to anyone that I am staunch in my opposition to a Division I-A college football playoff in any form whatsoever. It is, I hope, also no secret to anyone that I give mid-majors their due when casting my BlogPoll ballot and when welcoming our new Boise State blogger to SB Nation. In...
Golden Nugz for 3.17.09
Maybe it was a perceived threat of Tubby Smith leaving. Maybe it is because Williams Arena has been sold out and vibrant again and making the University money. Whatever the cause doesn't really matter, but Sid Hartman writes that Tubby Smith is going to get his wish of a spanking new practice...
Don't Bet On It!: Bowl Edition (Part VI)
We are getting deep into my bowl picks now, which probably just means this evening’s set of forecasts will be smothered in wrongness, sprinkled with incorrectness, and topped off with a great big dollop of error. In other words . . . Don’t Bet On It! We pick up with the afternoon of New Year’s...
Week Twelve BlogPoll Ballot Revised
As always, I posted my preliminary BlogPoll ballot on Sunday night, solicited reader feedback, and gave additional consideration to my rankings before making appropriate adjustments to produce this final version of my top 25: RankTeamDelta 1 Texas Tech 1 2 Alabama 1 3 Texas -- ...
Don't Bet On It!: National Games of Interest
I’ve already set forth this week’s S.E.C. picks, so it’s time now to turn to the national games of interest. Because last week’s national picks contained more rhyme than reason, my non-S.E.C. record for prognostications plummeted to a middling 16-10 after a dismal second straight 2-4 showing on my...
CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK: The Picks
ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: No. 9 Virginia Tech vs. No. 11 Boston College The ACC Championship Game has not really turned out the way the bigwigs intended it since the game began, though the Virginia Tech-FSU tilt a couple of years ago pretty well fit the bill. This is the first CG to sport two...
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