One More Shot on Half of the BlogPoll Ballot
by Year2 on Aug 21, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
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Here's round one. I've changed a couple of things and am throwing it out for one last critique before it goes final. Also a reminder: cocknfire and I are tag-teaming the ballot, so neither of ours will be the actual TSK vote but rather an average of the two is what will be submitted to Brian.
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Hmm...
I think Bama, LSU, and Ole Miss are closer together (at least on paper) than you have them. I would swap LSU and Ole Miss if nothing else, but of course I would. We won’t really know what’s going on in the West until a few games have been played.
You have Cal ranked lower than a lot of folks, but I can’t argue too much with that. USC… they’re hard to rank because they lost a lot from last year but I can’t see them losing too many games in the Pac-10 – maybe one legitimate loss along with the usual inexplicable drop to Stanford or somebody as always seems to happen to them lately. Ohio State and Penn State both in the top 10… I’d probably have Penn State up there and drop OSU a few notches.
Past the top 15 or so it’s all such a crapshoot I just can’t muster the urge to even have an opinion. BYU? Houston? Nevada? Whatever. Sounds fine. No clue who I’d put in instead. Pre-season polls are dumb, but everybody (me included) sure loves to talk about them!
by OxfordAndrew on Aug 21, 2009 3:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Well...
I’ll keep things from getting crazy and won’t complain about the little things (like swapping USC and Alabama). I think the Big Ten is overrated throughout the poll, Cal and perhaps Oklahoma State seem significantly underrated and I question putting a team like Nevada up there right now. I think it’s a good effort that is surely better than most of the official ballot out there.
"A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word 'I' when you're in a group makes things complicated." ~ Wanderley Luxemburgo, 1999
by ejruiz on Aug 21, 2009 9:22 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I actually knocked USC down two, behind LSU as well. I’m just not sold on USC being an unstoppable force this season. There’s too much turnover on defense and too much uncertainty at QB. Even if Corp comes back healthy, do we even know if he can play well? He could be another John David Booty or worse.
As for the last three in the poll, I really don’t care much. Those spots will be constantly rotating all year so they’re not worth much of a thought.
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by Year2 on Aug 21, 2009 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
USC.
When guys like Mitch Mustain are battling for back-up spots on your roster, I trust your depth chart at QB (heck, everywhere, actually). They’ve had a wide array of guys back there during their recent run and it never made that much of a difference. They’re just too talent, have been too dominant, not to be on the annual shortlist for national title contenders. Bama’s not quite there yet for me and the Big Ten is going to have to proove it in a big game again before I seriously consider even their best.
"A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word 'I' when you're in a group makes things complicated." ~ Wanderley Luxemburgo, 1999
by ejruiz on Aug 22, 2009 2:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
To second ejrulz
Your skepticism for USC is not without merit, but I think there are more deserving targets in LSU and Ole Miss. Certainly both teams ought to be ranked, but Ole Miss’ recent history doesn’t suggest more than a 9 win regular season and LSU looked so bad at points last year (down 31-3 in Q4, to Troy!? Losing to Arkansas?!) that it’d be mistaken to read too much into their bowl performance. Doing so would succumb to the same fallacy that pollsters did in 2007 when ranking UCLA based solely on the merits of its victory in 2006 over previously MNC-bound USC and the number of returning starters.
Of course, who would I replace them with ? I think Virginia Tech and Oklahoma State probably deserve LSU and Ole Miss’ spots respectively. Then again, as long as you start the season in the rankings, it doesn’t really matter where you are because you’ll have plenty of chances to move up.
by Nashville on Aug 22, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
huh!!
Arkansas, Houston, and Nevada?? But no Utah.
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by Jeremy Mauss on Aug 23, 2009 1:39 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Had Utah in part one, took them off for round 2. They lost a lot and aren’t in shape for reloading just yet. Plus, I see them losing to Oregon, BYU and TCU, and that doesn’t really leave them with any notable wins to hang a ranking on.
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by Year2 on Aug 23, 2009 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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