College Football BlogPoll Ballot (Week Ten): Well, We're Clear on No. 1, Anyway. . . .
by T Kyle King on Nov 7, 2011 8:20 PM EST
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PrintIt’s Hate Week. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for some of you, Hate Week was two weeks ago, but, for me, Hate Week is reserved for the team we’ve been playing the longest, the team we’ve played the most often, and the team that has beaten us more often than any other. I understand why some of you reserve your greatest hatred for the orange-and-blue-clad rival who has been in a thorn in our side since the early 1990s, but my highest disdain is reserved for the orange-and-blue-clad rival who has been a thorn in our side since the early 1890s.
Consequently, I have a lot on my plate this week, so I’m going to be a tad slack on this week’s BlogPoll ballot. Rather than starting with a clean white piece of paper, I took last week’s top 25 and moved teams according to how they fared. I’ll put forth more effort next week, but, this week, hating Auburn is job one, so my ballot looks like this:
Dawg Sports Ballot - Week 11
| Rank | Team | Delta |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LSU Tigers |  1 |
| 2 | Oklahoma St. Cowboys | 1 |
| 3 | Alabama Crimson Tide |  -2 |
| 4 | Stanford Cardinal | -- |
| 5 | Boise St. Broncos | -- |
| 6 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 1 |
| 7 | Clemson Tigers | -1 |
| 8 | Oregon Ducks | -- |
| 9 | Oklahoma Sooners | -- |
| 10 | Penn St. Nittany Lions | 1 |
| 11 | Virginia Tech Hokies | 2 |
| 12 | Kansas St. Wildcats | -- |
| 13 | Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets | 2 |
| 14 | Nebraska Cornhuskers | -4 |
| 15 | Michigan St. Spartans | -1 |
| 16 | Houston Cougars | 3 |
| 17 | South Carolina Gamecocks | -- |
| 18 | Texas Longhorns | 2 |
| 19 | Wisconsin Badgers | 2 |
| 20 | USC Trojans | 2 |
| 21 | Georgia Bulldogs | 3 |
| 22 | Michigan Wolverines | -6 |
| 23 | Auburn Tigers | -- |
| 24 | Cincinnati Bearcats | -- |
| 25 | Iowa Hawkeyes | -- |
| Dropouts: Arizona St. Sun Devils, Texas A&M Aggies, Washington Huskies | ||
SB Nation BlogPoll College Football Top 25 Rankings "
Louisiana State is No. 1 because duh! I considered leaving ‘Bama at No. 2, but I slipped the Tide below Oklahoma State because the Pokes beat a solid Kansas State team. The Hogs and the Jungaleers swapped spots, since Clemson was idle and Arkansas beat South Carolina.
The Cornhuskers dropped after losing to Northwestern, and the Spartans slipped slightly after a narrow win over woeful Minnesota, which allowed the Nittany Lions, the Hokies, and the Yellow Jackets to inch up in the rankings. The Wildcats stayed put at No. 12 on the strength of their narrow loss in Stillwater, and the Gamecocks remained at No. 17 following their setback in Fayetteville, though the latter was due mostly to the loss by Michigan that, together with defeats sustained by the Sun Devils and the Aggies, permitted Houston, Texas, Wisconsin, Southern California, and Georgia to advance.
The Plainsmen and the Hawkeyes slipped in as the nation’s top three-loss teams, and the Bearcats made the top 25 because, at some point, a 7-1 record in an automatically-qualifying BCS conference entitles a team to a ranking, I guess. The Southern Miss. Golden Eagles and the TCU Horned Frogs are knocking on the door.
That’s the short version, about which your understanding is appreciated. As always, your feedback is welcome.
Go ‘Dawgs! Auburna delenda est!
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something inside me
misses the Jeff Bower days of Southern Miss being perpetually in the 20-25 slot. Jeff Bower was my choice to replace Donnan. I’m shocked that he isn’t coaching somewhere else. I have to assume its by choice. If not, somebody’s missing out. Tulane get on the horn.
by Mark Mandingo on Nov 7, 2011 9:03 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Good point, Mark Mandingo.
Before Boise State, there was Utah, and, before Utah, there was Fresno State, and, before Fresno State, there was Southern Mississippi. Those were the days before the BCS, but, from about the mid- to late ’80s until the mid- to late ’90s, the Golden Eagles scored a bunch of upsets over the big boys.
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Is this the same Iowa...
…team that lost to Minn. and Iowa State?
All right, good point.
In retrospect, I probably should’ve gone with Southern Miss. My bad.
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To be honest...
…I think it’s absolutely impossible to rank Big 10 teams within the conference right now, let alone attempting to rank them relative to out-of-conference teams.
Completely agree...
This is hate week. I try in the name of not getting kicked off every site I go to to refrain from commenting at all on AU. I will leave it at this…Since I can’t say ANYTHING nice about them I simply won’t say anything about them.
You're a better person than I am, dawgfan17.
I hate Auburn. This week, I just stay away from places where folks are bothered by that fact.
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Not so much that I am better.
As I think I might be worse and so I don’t get started. I have zero use for AU or anything associated with them. Combine all of our other rivals and it does not compare to the hate I have for that school.
by dawgfan17 on Nov 8, 2011 11:01 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
No big issue with the poll this week...
However, do teams get more credit big wins vs. bad losses?
I see UGA, winners of seven in a row, at 20, since, I’m guessing their victories aren’t that impressive. Yet, you have GT at 13 based solely on on victory?! You can’t ignore the UVa and Miami games simply because the put it together for one night.
Also, Nebraska just lost, at home, to NW, yet they sit SEVEN spots ahead of UGA for their, I’m guessing, one victory over Michigan State and a mediocre Ohio State team.
UGA, while not getting the huge wins hasn’t suffered the horrible losses. Shouldn’t that count for something? Why are big wins weighted more than bad losses?
GT at #13? Really?
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
Sorry, UGA is actually at 21, not 20...
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
Here are the UGA votes in the BlogPoll for UGA
http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/rankings/college-football-blogpoll-top-25/votes/172/27
You have UGA at 21, which is 7 spots lower than where UGA is in the Blog Poll at 14. In fact, according to this chart, only three voters had UGA lower than you. Three.
I know it’s just a poll, but you don’t seem to value what we’ve done this season. For some reason, you love what GT and Nebraska have done because they beat Clemson and Wisconsin respectively.
Hopefully an Auburn victory can move us into the Top-20…
We need more Dawgs!
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
I apologize if I didn't make this clear above.
Ordinarily, I start with a plain piece of paper and review each team’s resume in its totality from a fresh perspective every week. This week is a busy week leading up to a big game, and I simply didn’t have the time, so I took last week’s top 25 and made incremental adjustments based solely on last weekend’s results, which I freely admitted (in the posting) was inadequate, and which I freely admitted (in the comments) had produced error. In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have submitted a ballot this week.
For the record, I don’t think we’ve done anything yet to warrant placing us in the top 15, but, due to time constraints, I can’t back that up adequately, so I will simply state that I did a bad job, albeit for reasons I think are valid, and for which I requested consideration, and that I will try to do a better job next week.
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For whatever it might be worth, . . .
. . . my ballot was not one of the most wildly divergent from the norm, nor was it one of the most punitive toward the voter’s own team, according to the BlogPoll breakdown.
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No worries...
Seriously.
I’ve hounded you all year about our rankings, I felt the need to do it again! Changing my pattern immediately before the Auburn game doesn’t make sense to me.
For what it’s worth, the BCS has us at 15, the Harris poll has us at 15, the Coaches have us at 16 and the computers have us at 17. In all four polls, UGA is ahead of both GT and Nebraska.
Thus, by my calculation, which admittedly I didn’t do extensive research, you have UGA lower than every Blog Poll voter but three, every “official” poll, and every computer except one.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
Thanks, Jman781.
I genuinely try to be a conscientious BlogPoll voter, and to explain my rationale so that others may understand it, even if they disagree with it. I just got into a rush this week, and it showed. My bad.
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Also, . . .
. . . I completely agree with, and support, your desire not to mess with the streak by breaking established patterns this week! :)
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I like driving in my truck...
And…
Auburn sucks!
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
And
Honestly, that’s why I started with “no big issue” and subsequently made it a big issue.
Truly, I don’t care where we rank, for this season isn’t about rankings…
It’s about beating Florida, Auburn, GT, etc.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
I could support any ranking between 15 and 20
We have a large quantity of wins, none of which come against teams currently ranked. Most of our FBS wins have been close. We make consistent mistakes.
Gotta show me a quality win or two to break that jam. Hard to rank a 2-loss team in the top 12 when we haven’t a ranked opponent on our trophy wall. And we should expect that Auburn and Tech both have possible-to-likely non-UGA losses on their schedules: Alabama and VPI, respectively. Even if we beat both, we still might not get that elusive quality victory.
That feeling of “but we’ve won our last 7, and that’s got to count for something” is exactly what Boise State has been yelling for 4 years. A weak schedule is great until it isn’t.
by first and thom on Nov 8, 2011 12:50 PM EST up reply actions
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