Half the BlogPoll Ballot Draft, Week 2
by Year2 on Sep 13, 2009 7:00 PM EDT
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If this was the entire ballot and not just half it, I might win the Mr. Numb Existence award. Not many things went drastically against the way I thought they would, so the only in/out movement was dropping Air Force for Michigan. Internally, Houston and Oklahoma State were the only teams that moved dramatically.
1. Florida
2. Texas
3. Alabama
4. USC
5. Penn State
The defending champs won by 50 and put Troy away in the second quarter. If Alabama didn't struggle so much in the first half against FIU, I would have vaulted the Tide over Texas, who struggled for a half against Wyoming. USC was not the better team for 55 of the 60 minutes against Ohio State, so they don't move up on my ballot. Penn State slides up a spot because the Buckeyes lost.
6. BYU
7. Ohio State
8. Ole Miss
9. Oklahoma
10. Boise State
I thought BYU might struggle in Week 2 against Tulane after a big win like Alabama did last year, but that didn't happen. As I said, Ohio State was the better team for most of the game against USC, so I don't penalize them much for the loss. Ole Miss hangs around, assuming they can beat the swine flu. Oklahoma and Boise State blew out their overmatched opponents just as you'd want them to.
11. Virginia Tech
12. Cal
13. LSU
14. TCU
15. Houston
VT and Cal also dominated their body bag games. LSU had a Vandy game but still won nicely. TCU didn't beat Virginia as comfortably as I would have liked. Houston only moves up to the mid-teens because, unlike the mainstream polls, I had Oklahoma State only at 13 last week.
16. Nebraska
17. Georgia Tech
18. Texas Tech
19. Oklahoma State
20. Utah
Nebraska keeps rolling against bad teams. Georgia Tech slips some for a rough game against Clemson. Texas Tech pillaged Rice by about what I'd expect. Oklahoma State is better than they played against Houston, and I did have Houston ranked last week. Utah stays here because of a lackluster win over San Jose State.
21. Cincinnati
22. Georgia
23. Michigan
24. Arkansas
25. North Carolina
Cincinnati has impressed me. I know yesterday's game was against a cupcake, but Rutgers probably isn't one and only Florida (54.5) has a higher average margin of victory than UC does (49.5). Georgia hangs tight for hanging on against South Carolina. Call me crazy, but Michigan looks like the third best team in the Big Ten. Arkansas remains at 24 despite not playing. UNC is on thin ice with me; I think they're better than they played against UConn, but I had to drop them for it anyway.
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by the way, thanks for the feedback on my ballot.
I’ll be a little more coherent about it later on, I swear. But I do prefer to maek some extremely rough cuts on my drafts, especially early in the season. Your response was a big help.
And Michigan does appear pretty good so far. Thankfully, they may have killed Notre Dame’s BCS chances (assuming USC skewers them later in the year).
by Hooper on Sep 13, 2009 10:23 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
If neither
Ohio State nor Southern Cal looked like an elite team (according to the previous post), why do you have them ranked at 4 and 7? Those are pretty elite spots in the rankings.
by GwinnettGamecock on Sep 13, 2009 11:00 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Did you follow the scores yesterday? Lots of ugliness… no conference looks particularly strong at the moment, and not many teams. There might be only three elite teams, though it’s awfully early to say…
by peachy rex on Sep 13, 2009 11:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
If I could, I’d leave spots 3-9 blank and keep ranking from there, but I can’t.
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by Year2 on Sep 14, 2009 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
TCU was up 30-0 on the Hoos; how comfortably did you expect them to win?
by rtr on Sep 14, 2009 2:07 AM EDT via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, that was a deceptive score – UVa scored the last 14, with 4:14 and 1:48 remaining, both drives set up by good returns (prior to the first TD drive, they had something like 61 yards in the game.) Without having watched it, I’m willing to give TCU the benefit of the doubt, and assume the Frogs took their foot off the gas when things seemed to be in hand.
by peachy rex on Sep 14, 2009 3:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Virginia is a bad ACC team
So in arguably the worst (and inarguably at least the second-worst) Big Six conference in the country, they’re considered bad. I think putting them in the mid-teens is very defensible.
Team Speed Kills. All SEC, all the time.
by cocknfire on Sep 14, 2009 4:02 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I was expecting more because I think TCU is more than 30 points better than a sad sack ACC team that lost to William & Mary. They still have plenty of chances to impress with Clemson, Utah, and BYU still to go.
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by Year2 on Sep 14, 2009 8:58 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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