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Some AP Voters Laying Groundwork for Split National Title
Whichever team wins the BCS National Championship Game will win the BCS championship and the crystal football that goes with it. The winner technically is receiving the Coaches' Trophy, which goes along with finishing first in the Coaches' Poll. While individual coach voters have bucked the rule on...
PollGaze Week 6: Churn
The number for the week is six, as the SEC made it back up to having more than five teams ranked once again. In this week's BlogPoll, LSU and Alabama captured 93 of the 98 total first place votes between them, with the Tigers getting 60 of them. The next team doesn't clock in until No. 13 where...
PollGaze Week 4: Downsized to Five
The SEC has hit a new low when it comes to number of ranked teams. Up until last weekend, the conference had anywhere from six to eight teams in the polls, but this week, each ranking only has five SEC teams. The culprits were Auburn and Mississippi State, who were in the bottom of the polls and...
PollGaze Week 3: We All Agree on Seven
The two major polls disagreed on the right number of SEC teams in the top 25, but they agree this week that the number is seven. The teams stretch from No. 2 to No. 25 this time around. In the AP Poll, Alabama somehow jumped LSU for No. 2 despite having eight fewer first place votes. I guess the...
PollGaze Week 2: And Then There Were Six (or Seven)
After putting a remarkable (and absurd, really) eight teams in the preseason polls, the SEC's crop has been pared down to six in the AP Poll and seven in the Coaches Poll here in the Week 2. Georgia fell out of both after losing handily to Boise State, and Auburn fell out of the AP rankings after...
SEC Dominates Preseason AP Poll
The SEC landed eight teams in the preseason AP Poll, twice as many as any other conference. Alabama leads the conference pack with its standard No. 2 ranking, behind Oklahoma as in the Coaches' Poll. Oregon sits in third, a spot ahead of its Week 1 opponent LSU. Boise State rounds out the top five...
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