Final 2010 College Football BlogPoll Ballot: Auburn Tigers Win National Championship; I Want to Throw Up
by T Kyle King on Jan 11, 2011 12:55 AM EST
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PrintIt’s late. I’m sick. I’m snowed in by winter weather. I just watched the team I despise the most in all of sports win the national championship to cap off what already was a pretty crummy 2010 athletics year. While I won’t go as far as Will Muschamp and plead temporary insanity, I’ll admit to being mildly addled if any of the following does not make sense, but here is the preliminary draft of my final BlogPoll ballot:
Dawg Sports Ballot - Week 16
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 2 | TCU Horned Frogs |  1 |
| 3 | Oregon Ducks |  -1 |
| 4 | Ohio St. Buckeyes | 6 |
| 5 | Stanford Cardinal | 4 |
| 6 | Boise St. Broncos | 10 |
| 7 | Oklahoma Sooners | -1 |
| 8 | LSU Tigers | -- |
| 9 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 2 |
| 10 | Missouri Tigers | 2 |
| 11 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 3 |
| 12 | Arkansas Razorbacks | -7 |
| 13 | Nevada Wolf Pack | 2 |
| 14 | Michigan St. Spartans | -10 |
| 15 | Wisconsin Badgers | -8 |
| 16 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 1 |
| 17 | Texas A&M Aggies | -4 |
| 18 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | 1 |
| 19 | Florida St. Seminoles | 2 |
| 20 | N.C. State Wolfpack | -- |
| 21 | West Virginia Mountaineers | -3 |
| 22 | Maryland Terrapins | -- |
| 23 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | -- |
| 24 | Hawaii Warriors | -- |
| 25 | Utah Utes | -3 |
| Dropouts: South Carolina Gamecocks, Navy Midshipmen, Central Florida Knights, Connecticut Huskies | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
A full explanation will follow later, but, for now, your questions, suggestions, and constructive criticisms are welcome in the comments below.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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Stanford over OSU
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Why?
The Cardinal have the better loss (on the road to Oregon), but neither team’s lone loss was close. Meanwhile, the Buckeyes’ twelve wins came against a schedule that included no Division I-AA opponents and seven teams that finished the fall with winning records, including No. 12 Arkansas at a neutral site in SEC country and eight-win Iowa on the road.
Stanford, on the other hand, secured its dozen victories over Division I-AA Sacramento State and five Division I-A teams with winning records, including No. 16 Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl and eight-win Southern California at home. I’m not saying y’all are wrong, but I’m not seeing the rationale. Convince me.
Go 'Dawgs!
T-Pryor
They don’t deserve to be in the rankings because they used players that should been ineligible, same as AJ Green was. $$ talks!
For me, it's the eyeball test.
I just think that Stanford was a better team than the Bucks. Andrew Luck is better than Terrelle Pryor, and I think the Cardinal would defeat the Buckeyes if they were to play in a bowl game.
That’s not the most persuasive argument, I guess… but that’s why it’s called the “eyeball test.”
by vineyarddawg on Jan 11, 2011 1:44 AM EST up reply actions
I don't disagree with that, . . .
. . . but I am, after all, a resume ranker, and it appears to me that Ohio State did more on the field this season than Stanford did.
Go 'Dawgs!
Here's a question though...
When does Ohio State ever pass the eyeball test? Maybe that’s Tressel’s life goal, to provide empirical evidence against the eyeball test.
Dear Kyle
I know how much you dislike my alma mater, and you still came over and gave us congratulations. It takes a big man to do that, and I respect you immensely for that. I said it at TET, and I’ll say it again: thanks, and Georgia will be good again sooner before later. Best of luck next year, and thanks for the congrats through your gritted teeth :)
Do you remember that spelling bee you won in the first grade? Rock? "R-O-K"?
I appreciate it, jd is legend.
The results on the field speak for themselves. Once again, I congratulate you on the achievement of a very special season, and we’ll see y’all in Athens next November.
I would wish you a happy new year, but I know you already had one!
Go 'Dawgs!
Perhaps it was unintentional...
But it was perfect.
Congrats to the Tiglesmen… you have certainly earned your day in the sun.
by vineyarddawg on Jan 11, 2011 9:48 AM EST up reply actions
Is it possible to have a Freudian slip . . .
. . . in HTML? :)
Seriously, though, thanks.
Go 'Dawgs!
Ok you can stop going against the sterotype now
…seriously being annoyingly nice and courteous, will just give us cause even more vitriol to boil against you.
Congratulations Good luck holding on your BCS MNC.
Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.
I Corinthians 9:24
by Southern Dawg on Jan 11, 2011 11:25 AM EST up reply actions
To hell with goat sacrifices
they don’t work. I think the time has come to do hard drugs. Peyote, anyone?
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I prefer Thujone.
(Thujone is the name of the MS Paint-guru that posts at shaggybevo.com. Most of his works are NSFW, though, so I won’t link to them here. He’s the genius behind the MS Paint picture of Dan Hawkins prior to the season.)
by vineyarddawg on Jan 11, 2011 9:53 AM EST up reply actions
and the bag o'....
…well, you know.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Jan 11, 2011 10:55 AM EST up reply actions
In ten years....
last night night will be forgotten because they are going to have to give it back in four to five. As for your preliminary, I too would say Stanford over Ohio State and also Bama over Mizzou as the Tigers lost their bowl game to Iowa.
Grudging Congrats and the Curse
My congratulations to AU, too, but I’m not going to fake a “kumbaya, we’re all in the SEC” feeling. I’ve detested AU since at least their revenge game victory (and loutish fan behavior) of 1971 in Athens. And AU’s dark tradition did not disappear in this game (at least 2 awful personal fouls that should have resulted in ejections and which reminded me of the thuggish hits in the AU-UGA game) and will inevitably come back to haunt it.
And now, it seems as if all our enemies have claimed the crown since we did so in 1980. In fact, did Vince Dooley (or perhaps Lewis Grizzard) make some deal with the Devil in 1980 that included conceding that all of our most hated rivals must win national titles before we would do so again? If so, then do Clemson, GT, UF, UT and AU winning it end the curse? Surely to God So Carolina isn’t a heated enough rivalry that we have to wait for them to win one, too? Could be another hundred years of drought!
by Chickasaw on Jan 11, 2011 9:16 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
I realize that this post was from last night.
But I happened to see on the little ESPN ticker while I was at the gym a lined that appeared to say Todd Grantham had been named the new head coach of Pittsburgh.
I came on here to verify that, but since there is no post I will assume its not true.
Todd Graham from Tulsa was named the Pitt's new head coach.
That makes what would have been a very crappy morning a little bit better.
Can't see the Ducks
below #2 because can’t see the Horned Frogs playing Auburn as close as the peed on socks.
Don't feel bad, Kyle
In a few years, after the NCAA has slammed Auburn so hard it makes SMU boosters from the 80’s say “Damn, that was harsh”, we can look back on this post and laugh. Then we can go roll Toomer’s Corner with red and black toilet paper.
If you're correct, SG...
the NCAA might just build their Indianapolis Annex on Toomer’s Corner.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Jan 11, 2011 10:56 AM EST up reply actions
Auburn Annex, I meant...
…still on drugs!
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
by DavetheDawg on Jan 11, 2011 10:57 AM EST up reply actions
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