Blog Poll v3.1

Ohio State was horrendus against Ohio University. They couldn’t move the ball. Todd Boeckman looked awful. If it wasn’t for a turnover deep in OU territory and a punt return, OSU might well have lost that game. Move OSU out of the top 10. They are going to get crushed this week at USC.

I think Wisconsin and Penn State are the conferences two best teams.

And Minnesota deserves a #25 vote!

and I believe OSU was playing as vanilla as possible. No Wells, limited playbook and looking ahead to USC. I don’t put too much stock into the near loss. They will fall much further should they lose than USC will should they come up short.

What’s the basis for your ballot? Are you adjusting your earlier polls, or are you making a list of the best 25 teams based on what you’ve seen to date throughout the season?

I am trying for it to be a power poll and kind of a who would beat whom on a neutral sight. I think Oklahoma has looked like the best team in the country. I think Alabama would beat everyone below them. I think Tennessee is still very good but couldn’t in good conscious rank them ahead of UCLA at this point.

It isn’t a straight power poll or resume poll or I’d be compelled to rank East Carolina as #1.

Part of my thought process is that it is really early still so some rankings are still based on how good teams “should” be. I can’t really argue against the “should” case because in many cases they just haven’t been tested.

does that help?

Although I still don’t understand why you need to be “inspired” to include BYU. What does it take to inspire you? A visit from the Pope? An archbishop maybe? I guess we will see exactly what BYU is made of this week when UCLA comes to town. I have to give you reps on your poll outside of your lack of inspiration. You do a nice job and I otherwise agree with your picks. I’ll be back next week to see where you have the Cougars ranked.

it’s that just because they are the preseason anointed BCS crasher doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for them. Maybe they are hurt by Hawaii being so terrible last year.

I just don’t seem them as any better than anybody I currently have ranked, you could easily argue Utah but their hold on 25 is tentative. For a non-BCS team to get some love I think they really need to earn it. Beating NIU wasn’t going to do it. Winning at Washington was solid but doesn’t scream to me that that they are a top 20 team. I didn’t see much of it but they appeared to be pretty even with the Huskies who are NOT a top 25 team. Beating UCLA, regardless of the score, would be much more impressive but my money is on the Bruins.

I don’t see how a team that beat Tulane on the strength of two special teams TDs and nothing else could possibly be top 10. Yes, they demolished Clemson, but Clemson is probably not that good (they never are any good when people expect them to be).

but what has anybody behind Alabama proven? My poll is still balanced between what they were expected to do and what they’ve actually done. Bama’s win over Clemson is as good of a win as there has been in college FB this year (outside of ECU).

By those standards, UCLA shouldn’t be ranked because Tennessee is probably overrated and Penn State shouldn’t be that high because Oregon State isn’t very good. Nobody has really shown much yet so it is really hard to gauge so far. And further, by that logic will USC not deserve to move up because Ohio State is overrated? Clemson is very talented so beating them in the manner by which they did is significant in my opinion.