Week Three BlogPoll Ballot Revised

by T Kyle King on Sep 22, 2009 7:30 AM EDT

In response to some helpful reader comments, I have tweaked my BlogPoll ballot every which way, producing the following result:

Rank	Team	Delta

1	Alabama	4
2	Texas	2
3	Florida	2
4	Miami (Florida)
5	LSU	9
6	Boise State	2
7	Mississippi
8	California	5
9	Oklahoma	2
10	Southern Cal	8
11	Ohio State	5
12	UCLA	1
13	Virginia Tech	2
14	Penn State	4
15	Florida State
16	Cincinnati
17	Washington
18	TCU	6
19	Brigham Young	10
20	North Carolina
21	Oklahoma State
22	Georgia
23	Georgia Tech	5
24	Oregon
25	Michigan	2
Last week's ballot

Dropped Out: Nebraska (#17), Pittsburgh (#19), Houston (#20), West Virginia (#24), Wisconsin (#25).

I started out with the intention of moving four or five teams around, but I ended up tinkering with several teams, more out of a gut sense of how good they were than anything else. To repeat, I will begin the active application of the resume ranking method next week, when wholesale changes are likely to occur.

Once again, I am grateful to everyone who offered feedback and constructive criticism, which definitely helped.

Go 'Dawgs!

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Alabama and Florida

I’ll acknowledge that beating VaTech may be a better win than beating the East Tenn. Orange, but I think the time to promote AL has passed. Given the Gators history with unperforming in early games (a la Ole Miss 2008), I think an underwhelming victory is cause to keep ’em ranked high, not grounds for dropping them. A ten point win against a solid defense is okay with me. If that was Florida stumbling, I think the rest of the SEC is in trouble.

Of course, we also may have learned from Monte Kiffin how to slow down the Swamp Spread (which sounds like butter used in hell). We’ll know soon enough whether what we saw was UT exposing weaknesses or UF working out the kinks.

And what bizzare world is this where beating UT on the road by 10 is grounds for dropping the polls? The 1990’s just called and they want to up their meds…

by first and thom on Sep 22, 2009 12:53 PM EDT reply actions

UT / UF

The 10 point win was at home, so it’s a little less impressive than a road win.

Monte Kiffin may have uncovered some elements to slowing down the Gator spread. But I think the first and most important ingrediant in that formula is having Eric Berry leadng the defense. That kid is Palomalu-like. You’d swear there were 3 of him out there the way he seemed to be in on every play!

He’s a guy the Falcons could use.

by skigator93 on Sep 24, 2009 11:22 PM EDT reply actions