blogpoll-draft-ballot Stories - Team Speed Kills
Preparing for BlogPoll: What To Do With SEC Teams, and Spitballin' Half the Ballot
It's getting close. And as part of the season getting closer and closer, it's time to actually get serious about the BlogPoll. So this post has two purposes: First, to lay out my thinking about which SEC teams could or couldn't be ranked this year, and why. Second, to give you my preliminary first...
Some Portions of a BlogPoll Ballot and an SEC Power Poll Ballot
If Year2 doesn't come around shortly from his moving day, you're stuck with me for the BlogPoll ballot. We'll see if he gets back in time for the SEC Power Poll. BlogPoll first, SEC Power Poll post-jump. Explanations: 1 AlabamaDuh. 2 FloridaThe Cincinnati waxing showed Florida wasn't quite as...
Spitballing a BlogPoll Ballot Draft
This is a window into what I'm thinking before I actually sit down and craft a careful BlogPoll ballot. I probably won't be able to do that in time to get the full one up, and they're due on Monday, so I wanted to give you all a chance to see what I'm thinking. Here goes. 1 Alabama (-)2 Florida...
Half of the BlogPoll Ballot for Week 13
This was done hastily because I'm getting ready to travel today, so I welcome any suggestions. A few thoughts: Georgia Tech. It was a rivalry game and they do have 10 wins, so I'm giving them a little credit here. Oregon State, Stanford and Miami. None of them did anything particularly...
Combined BlogPoll Draft Ballot for Week 12
Sorry it's late. RankTeamDelta 1 Alabama 2 Florida 3 TCU 4 Texas 5 Cincinnati 6 Georgia Tech 7 Boise State 8 Oregon 9 Ohio State 10 Pittsburgh 11 Iowa 1 12 Oklahoma State 2 13 Virginia Tech...
Half of the BlogPoll Ballot for Week 12
I almost shifted the Top 8 around some this week but decided against it in the end. I'm thisclose to moving Oregon past Boise regardless of the head-to-head due to strength of schdule, but let's see how they do in the Civil War first. Ohio State and Pittsburgh swap, something that will be decided...
Sure to Be Quickly Corrected Combined BlogPoll Draft Ballot
RankTeamDelta 1 Alabama 2 Florida 1 3 TCU 1 4 Texas 2 5 Cincinnati 6 Georgia Tech 7 Boise State 8 Ohio State 7 9 Pittsburgh 2 10 LSU 11 Iowa 2 12 Stanford 9 13 Oklahoma State ...
Half of the BlogPoll Ballot for Week 11
There were a few corrections this week that made the ballot unusually fluid; I had some teams overvalued and undervalued and now is as good a time as any to fix that. So the direction of certain teams might not make a lot of sense. I know there are going to be some complaints, so let's get to...
Half of the BlogPoll Draft Ballot Now Open for Debate, Week 10
This might not have been the best week to move Texas to No. 1, but the slow start by Alabama gave me enough justification to move the two teams. Arguments accepted below. 1 Texas2 Alabama3 Florida4 TCU5 Cincinnati The other controversial move might be putting TCU ahead of Cincinnati. Those two...
Half of the BlogPoll Ballot for Week 9
I did something a bit different this week. I looked at my old ballot after I had compiled the new one and adjusted accordingly. Part of that was to avoid problems like last week, where I unknowingly dropped LSU, and part of it is to avoid giving too much credit or taking too much away from a team...
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