Half of the BlogPoll Ballot Revised
by Year2 on Sep 21, 2009 6:00 PM EDT
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PrintHaving taken into account some good comments, I have revised my madness poll:
- Florida
- Texas
- Alabama
- Cal
- Penn State
- Ole Miss
- Miami
- LSU
- Virginia Tech
- Boise State
- TCU
- Ohio State
- Oklahoma
- USC
- Cincinnati
- Florida State
- Nebraska
- Houston
- Washington
- Georgia
- Texas Tech
- Oklahoma State
- Michigan
- BYU
- UNC
The changes:
- As astutely pointed out by and kleph and "no brainer," Virginia Tech and Oklahoma were too high. That's been adjusted.
- I also think Nebraska and Houston were too high, so the slide too.
- Penn State and Ole Miss haven't done anything, so I move Cal up because at least a little bit, winning at Minnesota counts as something.
- I moved Washington up for now, because before I was putting too much weight on their not-big-enough win over Idaho and not on their play against LSU and USC. Please note that I don't think UW will stay there for long, but there they are for now.
- Not changed: Ohio State over USC. OSU has a better body of work and looked better than USC did in their game. For that reason, I have no qualms about having the Buckeyes slightly higher.
Barring any other serious objections, this will be the final version of my half of the ballot, which gets synthesized with cocknfire's for the final product.
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When has that ever stopped Frank Beamer from winning games? Besides, both Bama and Nebraska have what I think are pretty good defenses. VT gets graded on a different scale since they do things differently than most everyone else.
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well, just to clarify...
…i was only arguing for consistency in the logic for ranking the two teams. not necessarily for a bumping VT down in your poll.
True, but to match up my stronger of the two feelings, VT had to slide.
Team Speed Kills
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Initiating crusty sportswriter mode...
“Logical consistency?” What are you, some kind of blogger? You’d better watch your act, young man, or I’ll have you drummed out of the Brotherhood of Poll Voters. You’ll never vote in a poll in this town again!
/crusty sportswriter
I've reconsidered
You explained in the comment thread to the preceding post that you were not reversing the order of Texas and Alabama because Texas is better than Alabama. There is zero empirical evidence of that.
I now see, Gatorboy, that the reason you wouldn’t consider switching the two is that then you would have Alabama on the heels of the Gators. How could you then justify voting the Gators No. 1 over No. 2 Alabama. You couldn’t possibly after the Gators so dramatically underperformed against Tennessee.
As you said three days ago, in justifying the 30-point line,
“The point spread isn’t that far off, if at all.
The most recent point spreads are at 29.5 or 30 points, depending on your casino of choice. Is that really way too astronomically high?
Well, not exactly. The margin in last year’s game was 24. For now let’s assume the teams are equal to where they were last year, although that’s debateable on several levels. Anyway, Vegas considers home field advantage to be about three points. Take 24, add three for Tennessee not being at home again and add another three for Florida being the home team. That takes you too… 30."
Gators fail to cover by….20. No. 1? But you don’t resort to conference homerism – how about UF homerism, HOMER? I don’t care, move Ole Miss down a few more spots. Cal? You’re joking right?
Rebelkind will not only endure, it will prevail.
I haven’t switched to pure resume voting yet. There’s some in there, but it’s not full on. If it was solely about resume for me, then Alabama would be a clear and undisputed No. 1.
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