New Blog Poll Ballot for Week 6

by cocknfire on Oct 14, 2009 11:15 AM EDT in SEC Football

Having forced Year2 to concede to groupthink, we now present the new CBS Blog Poll ballot. This is final.

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama
2	Florida	1
3	Virginia Tech	1
4	Texas	1
5	Iowa	7
6	LSU
7	Oregon	4
8	Boise State
9	Southern Cal	5
10	Miami (Florida)	1
11	TCU	1
12	Ohio State	1
13	Nebraska	3
14	Cincinnati	10
15	Kansas	7
16	Auburn	9
17	Georgia Tech	6
18	Notre Dame
19	South Carolina	1
20	South Florida
21	Brigham Young
22	Houston	2
23	Oklahoma	2
24	Pittsburgh
25	Oklahoma State	8
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Georgia (#15), Stanford (#19), Michigan (#20), Penn State (#21).

The Republic has been saved!

Ties broken: Texas-Iowa; Boise State-Southern Cal; Georgia Tech-Notre Dame-South Carolina and BYU-Houston-Oklahoma.

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I understand that Texas hasn't looked great

but tied with Iowa?!?! Iowa might be the ugliest undefeated team ever, this late in the season. Texas would pound them. That, or as Orson predicts, Iowa would win by two points in a game so ugly you would wish that eye bleach was a real thing.

by Giant Catfish on Oct 14, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions

The latter.

Texas has been fortunate enough to play opponents who can’t keep up depth-wise for four quarters. Their first halves have looked really bad so far. It may be just a matter of not quite gelling together yet, but it’s a worrisome trend as the season progresses.

by David Hooper on Oct 14, 2009 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions

I thought Iowa has looked good

They beat a tough Penn St.

by Hook85 on Oct 14, 2009 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions

And that without their best defensive lineman.

by David Hooper on Oct 14, 2009 10:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I have to admit that,

second only to Charles “The Hammer” Martel turning back the Muslem army in the battle of Tours in 732, causing Year2 to change his week 6 ballot might prove to be the most influencial moment in written history.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." - Bear Bryant

by NJBammer on Oct 14, 2009 2:20 PM EDT reply actions

Groupthink?

Wow. Really? Lots of people objecting to a system that ranks a 5-1 team five spots HIGHER than the unbeaten 6-0 team they lost to – that’s groupthink? Wow. I just… wow.

Hey, what do you call someone who posts intentionally inflammatory content and then objects to the resultant uproar by calling it groupthink? Hint: they live under bridges and hate billy goats. Some websites like ‘em because they increase page hits. (I’m looking at you, Slashdot.)

by rco3 on Oct 14, 2009 2:37 PM EDT reply actions

Intentionally imflammatory?

I made a system, I said “here’s the results of my system,” and thought nothing more than that I was not out to get people’s goats by throwing something up for a reaction. I am reasonably convinced that Alabama will eventually pass up VT should both keep winning, so it’s a non-issue. In a poll that is 100% impervious to poll inertia, only the final vote truly matters.

And, as a long time Slashdotter, I object to being called a troll you insensitive clod!

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by Year2 on Oct 14, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Wow

People need to learn how to read an entire post before they jump to conclusions. I can understand if people are abshing your system. But calling you out, implying you are trying to stir things up is just ignorant.

by Hook85 on Oct 14, 2009 10:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I was joking

Most of the posts on this site have at least one sentence in them that is tongue in cheek. My apologies for trying to be humorous. Actually, scratch that; I don’t apologize for trying to be humorous.

Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.

by cocknfire on Oct 14, 2009 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, so we need a sarcasm tag here as well!

Perfectly fine, then. With the entirely reasonable and believable explanation of sarcasm, I hereby officially withdrawn any accusation, veiled or otherwise, of deliberate trolling. Apologies to both of you.

Now, you do have to admit that having a UF fan post a fairly out-there ballot with UF #1 and Alabama 7 spots down does leave you open to some questions about homerism… Me, I probably would have fine-tuned the system a bit before springing it on an unsuspecting world, but I’m an engineer and I hate to be wrong more than anything else – except maybe Tennessee. Which is why I wouldn’t have tried to develop my own ranking system at all, that’s the surest way to be wrong. Kudos to you for baring your efforts to the world.

Honestly, I don’t really care where you rank Bama. I don’t even care if you rank ‘em using a system riddled with selection bias. Yawn. Sounds like college football since… well, ever. You’ll note perhaps that I didn’t post this in the other thread in which you were excoriated – it was nothing more than the “groupthink” remark that elicited my response. And I’m all in favor of humor; I’m a bit of an after-dinner speaker myself, nudge nudge. I just couldn’t tell if that were or weren’t. And while I am a lifelong Bama fan – hence my immediate notice of what might be referred to as a ranking anomaly – I live in Gainesville and have a masters from UF, so my purposes are fairly well served if either team takes it all. I would disagree just as much if your system ranked Miami over Va. Tech as of today, but I probably wouldn’t care as much.

by rco3 on Oct 14, 2009 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions