Week 7 Preliminary Blogpoll

Posted by: Avinash on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	1
2	Texas	3
3	Penn State	1
4	Oklahoma	3
5	Utah	3
6	Florida	5
7	Southern Cal	2
8	Oklahoma State	7
9	Brigham Young	1
10	Texas Tech	3
11	Missouri	8
12	LSU	6
13	Georgia	1
14	Ohio State	1
15	Boise State	1
16	Kansas	2
17	South Florida	—
18	Ball State	1
19	Michigan State	4
20	North Carolina	6
21	Tulsa	—
22	Vanderbilt	10
23	California	3
24	Pittsburgh	—
25	Virginia Tech	—

Dropped Out: Northwestern (#20), Auburn (#22).

Please comment and correct if you see anything out of the ordinary.

Here are a few of the brilliant refutations I expect to hear about how these retarded opinions suck.

“Texas just won biggest game of year. You put them at #2 because you still hate Mack Brown you biased hippie.” Texas stumbled around for three quarters before laying the wood on Oklahoma, but it wasn’t like they dominated that game. They’re still picking up the bodies from the Black Out at Athens. Alabama has the most impressive win of the season, and they will stay right where they are until they are knocked out.

“WHY IS UTAH IN THE TOP 5. THEIR NOT IN BIG CONFENCE MORON.” Utah beating Michigan in the Big House to open the season, winning a close one with Air Force, and then coming back to beat Oregon State in the last two minutes represent three of the most impressive major wins of the season. Find another team with three quality wins like that below them and we’ll talk.

“You can’t be serious with this Tulsa/Ball State crap. MIDMAJORS R SUXORS.” Oh yes I can. Ball State is 7-0, Tulsa is 6-0. Tulsa has won their games by an average of 27 points. Ball State has throttled a decent Navy team and destroyed Indiana. Neither of these teams might have played terribly brilliant competition, but you can’t deny their denominance of crappy opponents. How is it much different from what Big 12 teams were doing up to this week?

“Why is Michigan State over Cal. HOW DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE???” Because although Cal enjoyed a great victory over the Spartans, (1) we won by seven, and (2) we were at home. Reverse the site, play on the same date, and the result is probably the opposite.

In other words, we didn’t convincingly beat them. And the Spartans have rolled the last six weeks and played two more games than us. They’ve earned this ranking. Note that Kansas is ranked over South Florida for similar reasons.

Speaking of the Golden Bears…

“Cal should be higher.” Not really. Nothing Cal has done in the past four weeks is enough to justify their inclusion here. Two bye weeks, a rout over Colorado State and hanging on against a tumbling Sun Devil team do not necessitate a meteoric rise (no offense to Brian, but he’s obviously never seen the Bears play if he’s putting them here). They are here by default, but it’s anyone’s guess if they’re sticking in the top 25 this time around. The Arizona game will tell us if they belong.

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Brian · 859 weeks ago

Can't say I agree with your negativity towards Cal. Sure, Cal hasn't done much in the last few weeks, but some of their competition has. Every week the win vs. Michigan St. looks better, and Maryland has at least shown it can play well and beat good teams on any given week (even if they can also lose to bad teams on any given week). Keep in mind the Sagarin computer rankings have Cal at #15, one spot ahead of Michigan St. Also, though Cal only beat Michigan St. by 7, once they scored the first TD with 7:32 left in the first quarter, Cal lead for every second of the rest of the game, so it's fair to say they controlled the game even if it was close in the end. I think Cal would have won it in East Lansing - other than the two terrible Longshore INT's, Cal was the better team. Wow, I did not mean to write a comment this long....

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bearswithfangs · 859 weeks ago

Hmm...not sure I agree with you on Utah. Don't get me wrong, I think they're a solid team. Definitely top 15 at this point.

However, their win over Michigan is looking less and less impressive with each Wolverine Loss, Air Force will most likely end up in the middle of the Mountain West pecking order this year, and their comeback over Oregon St. was impressive, but the keyword is "comeback." And while Oregon State is better than their record indicates, they're still an unranked team.

I can't fully agree with your statement that wins over 3 unranked teams with a combined 9-9 record results in 3 quality wins. Decent, but not quite quality.

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Avinash · 859 weeks ago

I agree with everything you say, but I'm not terribly high on Michigan State either (the Big Ten is very weak this year). My opinion of both teams will jump if they can win this weak. Right now there are too many flaws with both of them to rank them in the top 15.

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Avinash · 859 weeks ago

In context these wins seem bigger, because of when and where they played them (Michigan in the Big House to open the season, even if they stink now; Air Force at Air Force, and Oregon State after they upset the #1 team and playing completely on adrenaline, especially considering Utah was playing on four days rest).

Heh, anyway, it sounds better the way I say it.

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Reno Bear · 858 weeks ago

Texas and thar SNAKE of a coach should slither out of the top twenty five. He screwed CAL out of a Rose Bowl appearance a few years ago by his sneaky political campaigning. As everyone recalls we were ahead of Texas with one week to go. We WON our game in Louisiana and mysteriously dropped behind Texas. I hate that bastard Brown to this day

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Reno Bear · 858 weeks ago

Texas should slither out of the top 25. That SNAKE Mac Brown screwed Cal out of a Rose Bowl appearance a few years ago with his back door politics. As you recall we were ahead of Texas, won our final game on the road and mysteriously dropped in the polls. I will always hate that sneaky bastard for sneaky antics.

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