Blog Poll v.11.1
by GopherNation on Nov 10, 2008 11:00 AM CST
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The following is my Week 11 ballot. For me, this was the most difficult week. It was pretty easy to find the top 20 teams, but the specific order was a bit challenging. After that there are no teams who seem like they "want" to be ranked. You can make a strong argument against most of the teams I have in the 20-25 spots, but I have to rank SOMEBODY. I'm not going to rank BYU or Tulsa so don't even bother. If your strength of schedule is 100+ and you have a loss you don't belong in the top 25. Ball State is on notice (SOS of 118) but they are undefeated so they'll remain in my top 15 although top 10 will be a stretch for them even if they finish 12-0.
At the top I decided to catapult Texas Tech to the #1 spot. Alabama is good but they play to their opponents level every week. Texas Tech had one scare against Nebraska but has dominated everybody else not named Texas. They have a sexy offense with great skill position players but they also have a great offensive line and a good defense. I got chided with my pre season blog poll for putting TT in my top 10, but I think as it stands right now they are the team to beat.
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| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Tech |  3 |
| 2 | Alabama |  1 |
| 3 | Texas | 2 |
| 4 | Florida | 1 |
| 5 | Southern Cal | 2 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | -- |
| 7 | Penn State | 5 |
| 8 | Ohio State | 1 |
| 9 | Georgia | 1 |
| 10 | Oklahoma State | 2 |
| 11 | Missouri | -- |
| 12 | Utah | 3 |
| 13 | Boise State | -- |
| 14 | LSU | 2 |
| 15 | Michigan State | 2 |
| 16 | Ball State | -- |
| 17 | North Carolina | 1 |
| 18 | Pittsburgh | 3 |
| 19 | Florida State | 6 |
| 20 | California | 1 |
| 21 | TCU | 7 |
| 22 | Oregon State | 4 |
| 23 | Cincinnati | 3 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 2 |
| 25 | Virginia Tech | 1 |
I know this may fall on deaf keyboards as the Blog Poll was more fun when the Gophers were in the mix, but tell me what I'm missing here.
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I'm not sure why Texas gets bumped up 2 spots...
…while Florida drops one. They both beat similar opponents(Baylor and Vanderbilt), and both of the games had similar final scores. If you had Florida ahead of Texas last week, then they should be ahead of them this week, too.
I re-evaluated
Texas lost to Texas Tech on the road on essentially the last play of the game.
Texas has beaten Mizz, OK and OK State. Florida beats Georgia and LSU. Not a huge difference.
Biggest reason is Texas loss is to undefeated TT on the road, while Florida’s loss was at home to Mississippi.
You could also factor that Texas’ win over Arkansas was more dominant than Florida’s (albeit not by a lot)
A week ago I had to drop Texas and Florida’s win last week @Georgia was impressive. But like I said, I re-evaluated. I could even be convinced that USC should be ahead of Florida, but for now I’m OK with my top 5.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on Nov 10, 2008 12:32 PM CST up reply actions
Ah, I see
You’re taking the big picture, whole-season view of things as opposed to my short-sighted, week-to-week view.
by ReelBigChris on Nov 10, 2008 3:53 PM CST up reply actions
I am usually stubborn
if I rank them ahead of a certain team and they both win, I don’t usually make a move, but it was time to make sure I had things right.
Don’t tell anybody but I’m starting to not believe in the SEC. They are still the second best conference but I’m not sold that this is the best conference in the history of football. LSU = overrated, Georgia = overrated, Tenn = OVERRATED, Aub = overrated.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on Nov 10, 2008 4:37 PM CST up reply actions
Georgia top 10? LSU top 15?
LSU had its first mildly impressive performance of the year Saturday, one that I think says more about Alabama’s inability to put together a full game than about LSU (the only explanation for Jarrett Lee’s performance is that he must have a heretofore undiscovered and extremely rare purple-white colorblindness). Aside from that, they got humiliated by Georgia and Florida. What’s their best performance, a 7-point win over South Carolina? 5 over a horribly overrated Auburn team? I see no reason for LSU to be ranked at all, much less top 15.
Georgia isn’t much better, though they at least have the win over LSU. The only reason the Alabama game looked even close was that Alabama decided to sleepwalk through the second half; Florida had no such generosity. Their best wins (aside from over LSU itself) aren’t any more impressive than LSU’s: 7 over South Carolina, 4 over Kentucky.
I can understand Georgia being ranked around the 13-15 range, maybe. There really isn’t much in the group below that to warrant moving teams past them. LSU could maybe sneak in at the bottom, given how many teams are just flailing around down there (although there has to be a better choice than South Carolina at the bottom: two wins over BCS conference teams with winning records? I’d rather leave GT or West Virginia in), but top 15 is absolutely unjustifiable.
LSU
I could buy moving Mich St ahead of LSU. But LSU would beat Ball State 10 out of 10 times at Ball State. Head to head my money would be on LSU over North Carolina and Pitt (who lost to Bowling Green and then Rutgers by 20). They are far from perfect but there isn’t a team outside the top 5 that is.
I could possibly move Georgia down. But again I think Missouri is overrated and is no more deserving of top 10 than Georgia or OK State.
what you say here can, and will, be used against you
by GopherNation on Nov 10, 2008 2:56 PM CST up reply actions
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