Final Week Four College Football BlogPoll Ballot Submitted
by T Kyle King on Sep 28, 2010 5:00 AM EDT
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PrintThanks to reader feedback, I have adjusted my initial BlogPoll ballot draft, and I am pleased to report that the Sunshine State Saurians dropped five spots in the rankings as a result! Here is the revised version of my top 25:
Dawg Sports Ballot - Week 5
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alabama Crimson Tide | -- |
| 2 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | -- |
| 3 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 4 | Boise St. Broncos |  11 |
| 5 | TCU Horned Frogs | -- |
| 6 | Stanford Cardinal | 7 |
| 7 | Auburn Tigers | 4 |
| 8 | Florida Gators | 11 |
| 9 | Utah Utes | 1 |
| 10 | Arizona Wildcats |  -1 |
| 11 | Oklahoma Sooners | -7 |
| 12 | Nevada Wolf Pack | -- |
| 13 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 3 |
| 14 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -7 |
| 15 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -9 |
| 16 | Wisconsin Badgers | 4 |
| 17 | Michigan St. Spartans | -- |
| 18 | N.C. State Wolfpack | -- |
| 19 | LSU Tigers | 2 |
| 20 | Iowa Hawkeyes | 4 |
| 21 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -7 |
| 22 | Michigan Wolverines | -- |
| 23 | Missouri Tigers | -- |
| 24 | Miami Hurricanes | -- |
| 25 | Texas Longhorns | -17 |
| Dropouts: Oklahoma St. Cowboys, Fresno St. Bulldogs, Air Force Falcons, Southern Miss. Golden Eagles | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Over the course of the weekend, I watched all or part of Thursday night’s Miami-Pittsburgh tilt, Friday night’s SMU-TCU showdown, and Saturday’s Georgia Tech-N.C. State, Tennessee-UAB, Alabama-Arkansas, and Georgia-Mississippi State outings.
My thanks go out to everyone who provided feedback.
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Auburn
Do you really believe they are the 7th best squad in the country, or are you giving the benefit of the doubt to South Carolina and adjusting AU’s ranking based on the win?
I’m interested in your take on the Tigers.
"The North isn't a place. It's just a direction out of the South."
--Roy Blount, Jr.
No argument from this Gator
I think you have us ranked properly in your adjusted ballot…for now anyway.
Scared of the Pac 10?
I see Georgia cancelled its home and home with Oregon that was scheduled for 2015 and 2016. Typical gutless SEC move, proving once again that the conference is overrated.
The SEC is pretty good, no doubt. But until they start playing quality OOC games on the road, as the Pac 10 routinely does, the conference has no legitimate claim to being the best, or even second best. And how about adding an extra conference game and dropping one of the cupcakes. The Pac 10 plays nine conference games even though that extra game guarantees five extra losses in the BCS picture.
You sir, are a troll. If this was an SEC post, you would say "typical SEC homer". Drop your jealousy, and check out UGAs OOC schedule vs the Pac 10 recently. Or Boise.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
And it was Oregon that took the lead on cancelling that game.
Guess what, the Pac 10 plays 9 conference games because it only has so many teams in the pack 10. The SEC plays 8 conference games with a game in Atlanta (a model the Pac 10 wants to follow mind you) for 9 games. Many teams in the SEC keep a historical (read, been playing games before most PAC 10 schools were built) OOC games. For Georgia, its GT, for Florida, its FSU. I guess a Pac 10 fan wouldnt understand a school that has been around since 1785 and playing football since 1892 though.
I am “nonplussed” about your ignorance.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Not so fast
Nonplussed by MY ignorance?
My school, Cal, has been playing football since 1886.
After the Pac 10 goes to 12 teams in two divisions it will still play 9 conference games.
The ESPN post that prompted me to post here does not agree that Oregon initiated the cancellation. Check it out: http://espn.go.com/blog/pac10/post/_/id/13689/georgia-cancels-game-with-oregon
Okay, what's the difference?
Not sure what distinction you are making… but I’m willing to be educated. I know the SEC in general has a weak OOC schedule but I don’t know Georgia’s specifically. What is it? When you throw Boise in there I assume you mean Georgia played them but I can’t remember such a game. If you are criticizing Boise you will get no argument from me.
I know the SEC in general has a weak OOC schedule but I don’t know Georgia’s specifically. What is it? When you throw Boise in there I assume you mean Georgia played them but I can’t remember such a game.
Thank you. I am done.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
I stand corrected
Okay, I see Georgia played Boise in 2005. Doesn’t change my argument. Boise is not a Pac-10 team and is overrated. They prove that anybody can get up for one or two games a year…
While Georgia initiated the conversation, . . .
. . . it was canceled by mutual agreement.
Personally, I oppose the move, as I indicated in this thread. However, Georgia played at Pac-10 member Arizona State in 2008 and at Pac-10 invitee Oklahoma State in 2009, and, next Saturday, the Bulldogs play at incoming Pac-10 member Colorado. We also have upcoming home-and-home series with BCS conference members Louisville and Clemson, a longstanding non-conference rival, in addition to playing a yearly out-of-conference game against Georgia Tech.
Boise State has never beaten an SEC opponent on the road. However, the Broncos have managed to defeat Pac-10 teams, both on the blue turf and off of it.
I wish the two schools had not agreed to cancel the series, as well, but Georgia has a new athletic director who hopes to arrange more home games for the financial windfall it creates, and Oregon was willing to agree to cancel the series, probably for reasons related to Pac-10 expansion.
I trust it did not escape your notice that, in the (unrelated) posting to which you affixed your comments, I ranked three current Pac-10 teams, and one incoming Pac-10 team, in my top ten. While I am not scared of the Pac-10, I do respect it.
I hope that clears up all of your misconceptions, and I wish the Ducks good luck.
Go 'Dawgs!
Let's not get carried away here
The PAC 10 is having a really good year thus far, with Oregon flying high, UCLA’s stomping of Texas in Austin, and the emergence of Stanford. But let’s not get carried away – the PAC 10 has been USC and the 9 dwarves for a while. You can bash the SEC all you want for its record of weak OOC opponents, but you’ve selected the wrong blog to do so. UGA has done a better job than the rest of the conference in scheduling tough OOC games.
The new UGA AD learned under Jeremy Foley at UF. He is smart enough to know that while some people may complain, it’s always nice to have a few million dollars more in the coffers each season. The SEC doesn’t need to prove anything to anyone until someone starts beating us in the BCSCG.
I'm Curious
I get it you don’t rank USC due to the ban. But if you did, where would they fit?
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"You can't sanction heart, and you can't sanction the will to win" - USC QB, Matt Barkley
The ban has nothing to do with why I'm not ranking Southern California.
The Trojans’ defense is horrid, they barely escaped at home against a bad Virginia team, they gave up 47 miles of total offense (slight exaggeration, but only slight) to Hawaii, they fiddled around with an atrocious Minnesota club, and all they’ve done this year is throttle Washington State, whom everyone throttles.
USC isn’t ranked at 4-0 for the same reason Kentucky wasn’t ranked at 3-0: they’ve done absolutely nothing against anyone to warrant placing them in the top 25. If and when they do something this season, I’ll rank them accordingly, but anyone who has the Men of Troy ranked at this point is either a Southern California fan or someone who’s paying more attention to name recognition than actual achievement.
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Sep 28, 2010 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions
No argument
they haven’t played well.
If you watched the Virginia game you might think a garbage time TD at the end against the 2nd string defense made the score look closer than the game was. But of course that’s my opinion, others may not agree.
With conference play under way we’ll know soon enough. Oregon, Stanford, and Arizona should provide some quality competition. And after last weekends beat-down of Texas fUCLA looks to be better this year.
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"You can't sanction heart, and you can't sanction the will to win" - USC QB, Matt Barkley
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